Sypha AI, an India-based privacy-focused AI coding assistant, has entered into a strategic partnership with BLS International Services Ltd, which provides outsourced visa and consular services in more than 70 countries.  The two companies will work on building AI-first digital infrastructure for visa, consular and citizen service platforms globally.

Enterprise AI infrastructure has been widely discussed across policy and industry forums, including at the recently concluded India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. Sypha AI founder and CEO Shawn Chauhan was among AI start-up leaders who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Seva Teerth during the summit.

Under the partnership, Sypha AI will deploy its enterprise software engineering platform to modernise BLS-managed legacy stacks that support large government workflows. The focus will be on core systems rather than peripheral automation layers.

Commenting on the partnership, Shawn Chauhan, Founder and CEO of Sypha AI, said, “The partnership reflects how privacy-first AI platforms built in India can power mission-critical public infrastructure globally. He added that the combination of Sypha’s AI-led engineering capabilities and BLS International’s operational depth in government services creates a framework for building secure, scalable and future-ready systems.”

The  engagement combines engineering capability with on-ground experience in regulated service environments where compliance and operational continuity are critical.

Shikhar Aggarwal, Joint Managing Director, BLS International, said, “AI is redefining the visa and consular services landscape evolving from intelligent automation to advanced risk-based decision making and highly personalised citizen experiences. At BLS International, technology has always been core to how we scale and serve, and our collaboration with Sypha.ai marks the next transformative leap. With AI-driven engineering, we are building smarter, more secure and future-ready digital public infrastructure, and setting new benchmarks for our industry.”

Visa volumes have risen across several markets in recent years, even as screening norms have tightened. Governments are also under pressure to improve turnaround time and transparency. Sypha AI finds that  embedding AI directly into system architecture, instead of layering it later, will help improve processing timelines, strengthen fraud detection and support risk-based profiling.

Data localisation requirements and privacy standards are also becoming stricter across jurisdictions. According to the company, designing compliance into systems from the outset reduces long-term operational risk and improves interoperability with existing public infrastructure.

International mobility is recovering steadily. The global visa outsourcing market is expected to grow in the coming years, increasing the need for structural technology upgrades. Against this backdrop, the collaboration positions Sypha AI beyond its coding assistant origins and into a broader infrastructure engineering role within government-facing ecosystems.