ABOUT BREATHWORKS

A systems powerhouse, rooted in fifteen years of compounded craft.

Breathworks Universal Systems Private Limited is a Bengaluru company being incorporated in April 2026 — through the formal succession of Idea Space Porto, the founder's prior vehicle that has carried active engagements and IP accumulation for years.

Chamundi Hill abstract — sun, ridge, and the brand's sacred geography
PHILOSOPHY

A small set of convictions that shape every engagement.

The brand whispers; it does not shout. What follows is structural, not aspirational — these are the operating posture of the company.

Open core, closed grit

We open-source the engines that spark inspiration, and keep the grit — production hardening, integration discipline, operational playbooks — proprietary.

Tiny team, silicon machines

Architected to do the work of fifty with three humans. The cost curve bends in our favour as AI pricing falls.

Sustainability is unshakable

Cash-flow positive from Day 1. External capital is an opportunity lever, not life support.

Human-first, AI-amplified

Every product, service, and engagement is designed around the human decision-maker. Mandatory human-in-the-loop on agentic deployments.

Warm relationships compound

We do not cold-sell. Fifteen years of warm referrals across ThoughtWorks, Swiggy, Gojek, and the IIM-A network do the work.

Sacred geography

Chamundi Hill is the brand's physical anchor — retreat venue, NGO mission base, and where senior clients meet the brand in person.

FOUNDER
Portrait — Nikhil Vallishayee
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Nikhil Vallishayee

Breathworks is the consolidation of fifteen years of engineering, AI, and product craft — Swiggy, ThoughtWorks, Helpshift, MavenHive, and a long line of DPIIT-recognised ventures — into a single multi-layer engine and a small team that operates it.

Engineering lineage

XP, Agile, TDD, continuous delivery — practiced and taught at scale across the Bengaluru tech tradition.

AI craft

Multi-layer engine architecture, harness optimisation, custom Claude Code extensions, and 10+ years of audio/music substrate work.

Sovereign IP

Pattern Space (open-source, 68+ stars) and the Sanskrit-to-application engine stack — Padacheda + Gajashastra.

Network

Warm referrals across ThoughtWorks, C42, Gojek, Swiggy, MavenHive, Vedantu, Navi, and the IIM-A cofounder funnel.

TECHNOLOGY BACKING

A multi-layer AI engine stack — operated as a single integrated system.

Most AI startups operate the application layer only. Breathworks ships the integration as the product — model layer, harness layer, application layer, and the operational discipline that binds them.

L A Y E R 1

Model layer

Multi-provider routing across foundation models — Anthropic, OpenAI, Sarvam, Krutrim. No single-provider lock-in.

L A Y E R 2

Harness layer

Custom Claude Code extensions, agentic harnesses, finite-memory tracks. The proprietary grit between models and product.

L A Y E R 3

Application layer

Cockpits — operational command surfaces with multimodal I/O, hand-coded customisable tracks, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.

S U B S T R A T E

Pattern Space

Open-source 6-layer × 59-skill reasoning substrate. Triple-Spirit licence — MIT + GPL + Freely-Shared.

S U B S T R A T E

Sanskrit engines

Padacheda Engine + Gajashastra. Sanskrit-to-application stack, sovereign-IP aligned with Gyan Bharatam Mission.

S U B S T R A T E

Federation

Multi-tenant deployment, per-partner data isolation, shared reasoning substrate. Built into the Cockpit line.

COMPANY

The structural facts.

Entity
Breathworks Universal Systems Private Limited — incorporation in progress under the Companies Act, 2013.
Registered office
WeWork Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Recognition
DPIIT Deep-Tech recognised, G.S.R. 108(E).
Posture
Pure B2B. No retail B2C product is housed inside Breathworks.
Sacred geography
Chamundi Hill, Mysore — ¼-acre founder-owned plot, NGO-operated retreat surface.
Personal brands
vallishayee.in and vallishayee.com route to Breathworks.