Tanmai Gopal

Co-founder & CEO, PromptQL

Co-founder & CEO, PromptQL

Two-time category-defining founder bridging data, trust, and AI infrastructure. From scaling Hasura to 100M+ downloads to building PromptQL — the AI platform achieving 0% hallucinations for Fortune 500 enterprises.

About Tanmai

Tanmai Gopal is the Co-founder and CEO of PromptQL, the AI platform helping Fortune 500 companies build enterprise AI they can trust. PromptQL fixes the "confidently wrong" AI problem by ensuring 0% hallucinations — empowering domain experts to automate operations, pivot in real time, and make high-stakes decisions with certainty. Before PromptQL, Tanmai co-created Hasura GraphQL Engine, which scaled from 2 million to 100 million downloads in two years and now powers mission-critical applications worldwide.

Two-Time Unicorn Builder

Co-created Hasura GraphQL Engine (100M+ downloads, $1B+ valuation) and now PromptQL, growing 5X faster with Fortune 500 adoption.

Zero Hallucination AI

PromptQL achieves 0% hallucinations through deterministic mapping, enabling trusted AI for NASA, U.S. House of Representatives, and global enterprises.

Education & Impact

Taught India's largest MOOC on modern application development to 250,000+ students, democratizing data-driven decision-making globally.

Extended Biography

Tanmai Gopal is the Co-founder and CEO of PromptQL, a breakthrough AI platform that helps Fortune 500 companies deploy deterministic, business-specialized AI with zero hallucinations. PromptQL enables domain experts to automate decision-making, accelerate execution, and ensure AI outputs can be trusted in critical environments like finance, healthcare, and logistics. Prior to PromptQL, Tanmai co-created Hasura GraphQL Engine, which scaled from 2 million to over 100 million downloads in two years and became the invisible infrastructure powering the modern internet. He has helped enterprises modernize legacy systems, taught India's largest MOOC on modern application development to more than 250,000 students, and continues to champion the democratization of data-driven decision-making.

Why Tanmai Makes a Stellar Guest

A two-time category-defining founder with deep expertise in AI infrastructure, data systems, and enterprise innovation.

Artificial Intelligence

Zero-hallucination AI systems, deterministic mapping, enterprise AI adoption, and the future of trusted artificial intelligence in high-stakes environments.

Data & Technology

GraphQL infrastructure, API standards, modern application development, and building invisible layers that power the modern internet.

Business Innovation

Scaling from 2M to 100M+ downloads, achieving product-market fit twice, Fortune 500 transformation, and democratizing enterprise technology.

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You built Hasura into a billion-dollar company by simplifying GraphQL for developers. What specific pain point or 'aha' moment led you to create PromptQL — and how does it extend your original mission from Hasura?

Featured Media Appearances

Tanmai has been featured in leading technology and business publications, sharing insights on AI infrastructure and enterprise innovation.

AI Consulting Startups Transforming Enterprise AI

Business Insider

How PromptQL and other AI consulting startups are helping Fortune 500 companies deploy trusted AI systems.

MIT Says 95% of Enterprise AI Fails: Here's What the 5% Are Doing Right

Forbes

Tanmai Gopal shares insights on why most enterprise AI projects fail and what successful implementations have in common.

From Hasura to PromptQL: Building the Next Layer of AI Infrastructure

Code Story

Tanmai discusses his journey from creating Hasura GraphQL Engine to building PromptQL's deterministic AI platform.

Key Achievements & Impact

  • • Scaled from 2M to 100M+ downloads in two years
  • • Achieved $1B+ valuation as unicorn company
  • • Powers mission-critical applications worldwide
  • • Became invisible infrastructure for modern internet
  • • NASA and U.S. House of Representatives as customers
  • • Growing 5X faster than Hasura
  • • $10M+ per campaign savings for global fast food chain
  • • $50M annual savings for major diagnostics lab
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    There's a unicorn AI company that's been flying under the radar — despite counting NASA and the U.S. House of Representatives as customers.

    Hasura hit $1B+ status by becoming the invisible infrastructure for GraphQL, the API standard powering much of today's internet. Its next act, PromptQL, is growing 5X as fast. Across our portfolio of Founders Fund, a16z, and Sequoia-backed startups, PromptQL stands out for one reason: it's solving what may be AI's fatal flaw — hallucinations.

    Even GPT-5 still produces "confidently wrong" answers, making it unusable for high-stakes enterprise decisions. PromptQL fixes this by deterministically mapping every table, file, and microservice inside a company — no RAG guesswork, no embeddings — returning results with 0% hallucinations, full transparency, and self-correction.

    Traction Highlights:

  • • Global fast food giant: Reduced promotion analytics from weeks to hours, unlocking $10M per campaign
  • • Major diagnostics lab: Cut call times by 50%, saving $50M annually
  • • AngelList: Enabled instant access to private market trends, replacing months of data sprints
  • PromptQL is quietly becoming the accuracy layer Fortune 500s are building on. CEO Tanmai Gopal has achieved billion-dollar product-market fit twice in three years — first with Hasura's GraphQL engine, now with PromptQL — and can speak in detail about architecture, economics, and real-world enterprise impact.

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