Larissa InfoTech · Mumbai, India

We build the hard software.

Larissa InfoTech is a small software company in Mumbai. We build products of our own, and every so often we take on someone else’s hard problem.

See what we’re building About the company
15+Years senior experience
50+Systems in production
6Industries worked in
01Product of our own, so far
The short version

We like hard problems. Software is how we solve them.

Sometimes the problem is ours, and it turns into a product. Sometimes it belongs to another team, and we help them solve it. Either way the habit underneath is the same, and it has not changed in fifteen years.

  1. 01

    Notice

    Most of what we build starts as an irritation: something people do by hand, badly, every single month.

  2. 02

    Understand

    Nothing is built before it is understood. How it should work is written down, with real numbers, before any code exists.

  3. 03

    Build

    Carefully, and all the way through. AI makes us faster; it does not make the decisions. Those come from years of watching software break.

  4. 04

    Use it

    We run what we ship, in production, with real people on it. Real use finds what no spec ever does.

  5. 05 ↺

    Again

    Then the next problem. That is the whole plan.

Our products

What we’re building.

Software we build, own and run ourselves. No client and no brief, just a problem we could not stop noticing. Ahead is the first. It will not be the last.

01  —  Personal finance · India Our product Live

Ahead — stay ahead of the month.

Envelope budgeting for an Indian household. Every rupee that arrives is given a job before it is spent, on one set of books that two people keep together. Money lent inside a family is tracked as a loan, not a memory.

The problem it answers: most money apps tell you what last month cost, and that changes nothing about this one. Ahead plans the month before it starts, and shows you where it gets tightest while there is still time to do something about it.

How it was built says a lot about how we work. The budget engine was specified before it was written. The maths lives in the documentation as worked examples, and those examples run as the test suite, so the arithmetic cannot drift without a test going red.

Visit budgetahead.app Built and run by Larissa InfoTech

What it does

  • Envelope budgetingEvery rupee that arrives gets a name before it is spent.
  • One set of booksTwo people keep the same accounts, with roles and a read-only view.
  • Loans between peopleMoney lent and repaid, tracked so both sides agree on the number.
  • Where it gets tightA forward look at the month that shows your lowest point before you reach it.
  • No bank linkingManual entry by choice. No banking credentials are held anywhere.
Why we built it

Almost every money app is built for people who are already good with money. Ahead is built for everyone else.

Engineering

Sometimes the hard problem is someone else’s.

Most of what we build now is our own. We still take on a small number of outside engineering problems each year, one at a time, when the problem is genuinely difficult and we are the right people for it.

Fifteen years of that work, in banks, exchanges, hospitals, logistics and SaaS, is where our judgement comes from. It is also why we are careful about what we say yes to.

How an engagement works Or describe the problem

Where we tend to be useful

  • Systems that hold or move money. Ledgers, payments, OTC desks, custody.
  • Software that keeps sensitive records, where access control and audit trails are the point.
  • Backends that have to keep running for years, not quarters.
  • Platforms that have outgrown how they were first built, and need understanding before they need changing.

What we don’t take on: staff augmentation, unpaid prototypes for unfunded ideas, or anything built to trick people. We will happily refer you to someone better.

The company

Deliberately small — not a stage we are waiting to leave, but the constraint that makes the rest possible.

Larissa InfoTech was incorporated in Mumbai in 2024, after fifteen years of building production systems for other people. It exists to build software of our own: products we use, own and keep running.

There is no growth target pushing us to say yes to work we cannot make excellent, and nobody standing between the people building a thing and the people using it. We work with modern, proven tools, and choose them once the problem is understood, never before.

We use every AI tool, heavily, every day. They make us faster. They do not make us shallower — the judgement, the system design, the security review and the taste still come from fifteen years of building things and watching them break.

How we’d rather work.

  • Growth targetsWork we can do properly
  • Ship it and move onRun what we ship
  • Features for a pitch deckFeatures someone needs
  • Several projects at onceOne outside engagement at a time
  • Code you inherit and dreadCode the next person can read
  • Monitoring added after an outageBackups and alerts before launch
Get in touch

If it’s hard, we’d like to hear about it.

About Ahead, about the company, or about a software problem that has outlasted the easy fixes. Email is best. An engineer reads it, and we reply within one business day.

Where to start

Where we are 302, Techno Park, Andheri East
Mumbai – 400069, Maharashtra
India · and remote, everywhere else