EXL has acquired data and AI consulting firm Aimpoint Digital to expand its enterprise AI capabilities and help clients move AI initiatives from pilot projects to production deployments. The acquisition adds expertise in AI engineering and data platforms, including Anthropic, Databricks and Snowflake, to EXL’s existing portfolio, and is aimed at strengthening EXL’s ability to support enterprises across the AI implementation lifecycle, from strategy and architecture to engineering, deployment, evaluation and ongoing operations. Aimpoint Digital brings approximately 250 professionals, including AI engineers, platform architects, analytics consultants, decision scientists and AI strategists, to EXL, which is expected to expand EXL’s forward-deployed engineering capabilities. EXL said the combined capabilities would help reduce handoffs between consulting, engineering and implementation teams while providing customers with more continuous engagement from AI planning through production and managed operations. The companies plan to combine Aimpoint Digital’s AI strategy and engineering capabilities with EXL’s industry knowledge, data infrastructure and agentic AI solutions, focusing on applying AI to business-critical workflows and supporting deployments at enterprise scale. Rohit Kapoor, chairman and chief executive officer of EXL, said the acquisition would bring together Aimpoint Digital’s engineering talent with EXL’s industry expertise and operational capabilities. The acquisition follows EXL’s recent acquisition of iMerit, which specialises in AI model training, evaluation and reinforcement learning.