Xebia Certified as a Best Firm for AI Professionals

Xebia, the global leader in IT consulting, software engineering, and AI-driven digital transformation, has been certified as a Best Firm for AI Professionals by Analytics India Magazine (AIM) through its Best Firm Certification programme. 

The Best Firm for AI Professionals certification surveys assess workplace culture, access to leadership, collaboration, learning opportunities, and the nature and depth of AI work delivered. AIM conducts an independent analysis of survey responses to understand how effectively organisations support AI teams in their day-to-day work.

Xebia’s certification is based on structured feedback from AI, machine learning, and data professionals within the organisation, and evaluates how companies enable technical teams to build, deploy, and scale AI solutions that deliver business value.

Xebia earned the certification with a 90% or above approval rating, which recognises a Data & AI practice where professionals are given the space to work on serious, high-quality AI problems at scale, engaging directly with enterprise clients across banking, healthcare, manufacturing, travel, and technology to accelerate digital transformation.

A Global AI Practice Built on Engineering Excellence

Founded in 2001, Xebia has grown from a Dutch agile-focused consultancy into a full-service global technology partner with over 5,500 professionals across 16 countries. Its Data & AI practice sits at the centre of this evolution, delivering end-to-end AI solutions from data engineering and cloud infrastructure to generative AI, intelligent automation, and agentic AI for some of the world’s leading enterprises.

Xebia’s AI credentials span a broad portfolio of global partnerships and recognitions, including AWS Premier Partner status, GitHub Global Partner of the Year (2024–2025), a Google Cloud Centre of Excellence, and recognition by Everest Group as a Leader in data, AI, and software engineering services. Its IntelliAgent solution earned the Appian Partner Impact and Excellence Award for Innovation in 2025, reflecting the depth of its engineering capability across intelligent automation.

In India, Xebia’s teams work on enterprise-scale AI engagements spanning generative AI, multi-agent AI systems, data pipelines, cloud modernisation, and AI-native software engineering, contributing directly to global delivery and innovation alongside clients undergoing large-scale transformation.

What the Certification Reflects

For Xebia’s Data & AI leadership, the AIM certification carries weight precisely because it is grounded in practitioners' on-the-ground experience. A 90% or above approval rating from AI professionals points to something more than a positive work environment. It signals that the organisation has created conditions for genuinely rigorous, impactful AI work.

“What makes this recognition meaningful for me is what it says about our craft. To be recognised as the best firm for AI professionals with a 90% plus approval rating tells us we are creating a place where people can do serious, high-quality work in AI; where you are not just delivering projects, but constantly learning, experimenting, solving real-world problems at scale, and pushing yourself alongside some incredibly talented people. That’s what we have been trying to build at Xebia. Thank you to the entire team for raising the bar every single day. We are in a space that’s evolving fast, and I think we are exactly where we need to be,”  Mayank Verma, Global Head, Data & AI, Xebia, reflected on the recognition.

Trust, Ownership, and a Culture That Invests in People

Employee feedback from Xebia’s AI professionals reflects a culture defined by trust and collaborative intent. Across teams, professionals describe an environment where they are genuinely encouraged to take initiative, test ideas, and grow—supported by leadership and colleagues who are invested in shared outcomes rather than individual metrics.

“This is such an exciting moment for me and for all of us at Xebia. Building the best firm for AI professionals reflects the culture I experience every day. There’s a strong sense of trust here. I’m encouraged to take ownership, try new ideas, and keep growing. And what stands out most to me is the people and the leadership. Everyone is supportive, collaborative, and genuinely invested in each other’s success. So yes, this award feels well-deserved, and I’m really proud to be a part of it,” Bhargav Kul Shaurya, Data & AI, Xebia, reflected on what the certification means.

This emphasis on trust and mutual investment is consistent with Xebia’s broader people philosophy. The organisation structures its AI teams around ‘chapters’, focused collectives with deep domain expertise, allowing AI professionals to develop both technical depth and broader consulting capability across client engagements, rather than being siloed into narrow delivery roles.

Certification and the AI Talent Landscape

As enterprises across sectors accelerate their adoption of AI, the demand for professionals who can operate across the full lifecycle of AI programmes from problem framing and model development to deployment and scale continues to grow sharply. Workplace certifications such as AIM’s Best Firm for AI Professionals help distinguish organisations that offer substantive technical environments from those presenting surface-level innovation narratives.

For Xebia, the certification reinforces its position as a destination for AI professionals who want to work on industry-defining problems, engage with global clients at scale, and operate within a culture that takes engineering craft seriously. With AI evolving rapidly across every sector it serves, Xebia’s Data & AI practice is well-placed to attract and retain the calibre of professionals needed to lead that work.

The Best Firm for AI Professionals certification by AIM is a benchmark for organisations building credible, high-performance AI teams. Companies participate in the programme to gather employee-led insights and review internal practices that support long-term technical capability development.