teiō

帝王

Pronounced “Tay-oh”

In Japanese, teiō (帝王) describes undisputed mastery. A builder who is untouchable in their craft. The Japanese equivalent of “the GOAT,” but with more weight, it implies not just talent but the discipline and continuous learning it took to get there.

Philosophy

Builders, not advisors.

01

Production-ready output.

Every engagement delivers working systems — not decks, not roadmaps. Code that runs your business from day one.

02

Forward-deployed, not remote.

Our engineers embed with your team. They learn your systems, your data, and your domain. Context isn't something we read in a brief — it's something we live.

03

Outcomes over hours.

We price on business output — discrete units of value — not time. You pay for what gets delivered, not how long someone sits in a chair.

Leadership

Built by builders

Not advisors. Not consultants who've never shipped. Engineers and operators who've built at the highest levels and know what it takes to deliver.

Tarush Aggarwal

Tarush Aggarwal

Founder & CEO

Founder of 5X (the #1 data platform on G2). First data engineer at Salesforce. Head of Data at WeWork. Columnist at Data Scientist Magazine and expert at the International Institute of Analytics (IIA).

Rick Dionisio

Rick Dionisio

Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer

Built deep enterprise distribution networks across insurance, healthcare, education, and agriculture. Leads teiō's promoter network and go-to-market — connecting AI capabilities directly to the mid-market executives who need them.

Ravi Deliwala

Ravi Deliwala

Chief Engineer

Former Chief Engineer at 5X, where he designed the platform to orchestrate 8 different open-source tools on a Kubernetes cluster — deployable as SaaS, private cloud, or on-prem. A full-stack engineer who operates at every level, from infrastructure to application. Now building teiō's AI accelerators.

Jidnesh Deshmukh

Jidnesh Deshmukh

VP of Delivery

Ran the largest enterprise AI and data engagements at 5X across insurance, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer products. Expert in scoping complex data programs and mapping engineer output to measurable business outcomes. Ensures every engagement ships on time.

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