It began with a real archive problem.
The team built against footage-licensing and research requests where transcription, face recognition, or generic search alone could not reconstruct the archive's people, places, events, and relationships.
CONTEXTFORMERS COMPANY
Built where domain reality meets technical execution.
ContextFormers builds multimodal AI applications that turn complex visual, spatial, and document sources into trusted operational intelligence. The founding team connects AI engineering, product and experience leadership, spatial systems, and lived archive expertise.
WHY CONTEXTFORMERS EXISTS
The hard part was never a single model.
The same gap appeared in the physical world.
Facility and infrastructure work required detections to be connected to rooms, assets, coordinates, network relationships, privacy controls, and operational systems.
The company formed around that connective layer.
ContextFormers extracts what matters, forms customer-specific context, validates the result, and delivers it into the work that comes next.
FOUNDING TEAM
Three complementary forms of expertise.
Engineering, product, and domain decisions stay connected from the first customer problem through production delivery.
01 · Engineering
Raja Srinivasan
Co-founder · CEO & CTOLicensed professional engineer and former Google technology architect leading the AI, cloud, spatial, and delivery architecture behind ContextFormers.
Raja turns difficult media and spatial problems into production systems, connecting models, data, infrastructure, validation, and customer integrations.
Selected experience
Read Raja's full profile - ContextFormers · Company strategy and technical architecture
- GeoIdentity · Founder
- Google · Technology architecture
- Media technology · Archive search and production workflows
02 · Product & Experience
Bala Kalyanasundaram
Co-founder · COO & CPOProduct design executive and former Google UX Director translating advanced AI capability into clear applications, customer workflows, and trusted operating experiences.
Bala keeps the company anchored in customer value, shaping product strategy, end-to-end experience, trust, and a consistent standard across all three applications.
Selected experience
Read Bala's full profile - ContextFormers · Product strategy and experience
- Google · Director of UX
- Salesforce · Director of Experience Design
- Vanguard · Head of User Experience Design
03 · Media & Industry Relations
Zoey Tur
Co-founder · President, Media Intelligence & Industry RelationsEmmy and Murrow award-winning broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker, commercial pilot, and archive operator bringing the domain reality behind Media Intelligence.
Zoey brings archive, editorial, and footage-licensing reality into the product, keeping Media Intelligence grounded in source judgment and real operating work.
Selected experience
Read Zoey's full profile - ContextFormers · Media-domain strategy
- Los Angeles News Service · Co-founder and archive operator
- Broadcast journalism · Reporter and aerial-news pioneer
- Documentary film · Filmmaker and source expert
TEAM
Carrying the work outward.
Alongside the founders, ContextFormers brings in senior operators who take the applications to market — through partners, systems integrators, and the enterprise buyers who run the work.
Growth & Partnerships
Venu Gopal
Chief Strategy & Growth OfficerBusiness development and alliance leader with more than twenty years spent scoping enterprise requirements, negotiating and closing contracts, and building the reseller and systems-integrator relationships that carry them.
Venu opens the commercial path for the three applications, working with the product team on what a customer actually needs and building the partner and integrator relationships that put ContextFormers where the work already happens.
Selected experience
Read Venu's full profile - ContextFormers · Growth strategy and partner alliances
- Infoways · Vice President, Strategy & Growth
- Allied Telesis · Director of Professional Services
- Cybertech Systems · Senior Vice President, Global Alliances
HOW THE TEAM WORKS
Keep product, domain, and engineering decisions connected.
Start with the operating problem
Define the source material, user, decision, review requirement, and downstream outcome before choosing the technical path.
Build against representative evidence
Use real archive, facility, or infrastructure material with the complexity and sensitivity the customer actually faces.
Carry the result into delivery
Connect technical output to validation, privacy, customer systems, and the operational workflow that creates value.
GET IN TOUCH
Bring us a difficult information problem.
Tell us what the source material contains, what the operating team needs, and what a trusted result must support.
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