New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- When most engineering-services bosses talk about artificial intelligence, they sound like executives preparing for disruption. Ajit Prabhu sounds like someone who has already factored it into the plan.

The founder and chairman of engineering services provider Quest Global has built one of the world's largest pure-play engineering, research and development (ER&D) firms. The company generated $1.1 billion in revenue in FY25, maintained Ebitda margins of nearly 20% and employed over 23,000 engineers across 20 countries.

It has compounded revenue at about 22% a year for two decades, with only two negative years in three. The question now is whether AI disrupts that model-or strengthens it.

Investors appear to be backin...