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AI Transformation for Global Capability Centres

The fuel exists.
We're the spark.

Your GCC has what almost no one else does: Volume, Talent and Mandate. Cobalt Orbit turns it into AI that ships: we diagnose where you stand, train your teams, and move you from pilots to production. Built by people who've run GCCs at Candescent, ANZ, Goldman Sachs, Intuit and Symphony Services.

Three decades inside the GCC system: Candescent · ANZ · Goldman Sachs · Intuit · Symphony Services

Practitioners, not theorists

Where our founders have built and led GCCs

Candescent ANZ Goldman Sachs Intuit Symphony Services
50+

yrs combined GCC leadership

20+

GCCs built & scaled

600+

engineers led

$30M+

budgets owned

The state of AI in GCCs

Most GCCs aren't behind on AI because they lack ambition or talent. They're measuring the wrong things.

Watchers · about half of GCCs

Aware, interested and preparing, but no one has made a committed first move on AI. There is a lot of activity and no decision. The waiting feels responsible. It isn't.

Experimenters · about a third of GCCs

Pilots run in pockets, with no strategy connecting them. They are doing AI, but with no direction for it. Movement that produces learning, not value.

Scalers · the top 15%

AI is embedded in how work actually gets done. Outcomes are tracked, and one person is accountable for them. They are not talking about AI. They are doing it.

"Every month a Watcher waits, a Scaler gets further ahead."

Which one is your centre? Take the 10-minute diagnostic →

Your structural advantage

Volume. Talent. Mandate.

No one else has all three.

Volume

Enough transactions, documents and workflows to make an AI result measurable in weeks, not years.

Talent

Specialists doing judgment-intensive work at a depth the parent often can't match at home.

Mandate

A parent already invested in your success. The sponsor exists. The outcome is shared.

A standalone business gets one. An HQ AI team gets two. Your centre can claim all three. The advantage is structural. You only have to decide to use it.

What we do

We make your centre AI-native, starting with your people.

Flagship

AI Enablement & Training

Make your teams AI-fluent. Role-based programmes for leaders, engineers and functions that turn the playbook into practice. Skills that stick, not slideware.

AI Advisory

Diagnose where you stand, choose your move, frame a one-page roadmap HQ can read in five minutes. From pilots to production, not a PoC graveyard.

AI-Accelerated Delivery

Bring AI into your go-to-market. Enhance Product and timelines without breaking what works.

AI as a Product

Help your Center build the AI the enterprise runs on. Create AI as an offering for your clients.

Our approach

Six moves, in order.

01

Diagnose

Where does your centre actually stand?

02

Clarify

Your real mandate, binding constraint, definition of a win.

03

Choose

Process, Talent or Platform. Which is yours?

04

Frame

Automate, augment, avoid-for-now. Sequence the work.

05

Defend

Close the gaps that kill AI programmes. None of them technical.

06

Move

A result in 90 days. Get Honest, Get Started, Get Traction.

"The fastest GCCs aren't doing the most. They're doing the least, with the most clarity."

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Leadership

Built by people who've sat in your chair.

Anshuman Vatsyayan, Co-Founder & CEO

Anshuman Vatsyayan

Co-Founder & CEO

25+ years building and scaling GCCs at ANZ, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Candescent. Author of Move Fast, Get It Right.

B-Tech IIT Kharagpur MBA IIM Calcutta PhD in AI (pursuing)
Sumanta Ranjan Das, Co-Founder & CTO

Sumanta Ranjan Das

Co-Founder & CTO

25+ years; former Director of Engineering at Intuit India; founding member of Symphony Services. Helped establish & grow 20+ GCCs. Co-author of Move Fast, Get It Right.

B-Tech IIT Kharagpur

An hour to answer. A year saved.

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