About Punch — AI Engineering Team | Florida & Global

What Punch is.

An AI and software engineering company — raw data to production.

We're engineers.

We make AI work in the real world.

Ex-Google leadership. Forty-one engineers. Four offices. Shipping since 2014. Bring us drone footage, market data, film — or just the problem — and we’ll bring back working software.

IN PRODUCTION ACROSS — ENERGY · FINANCE · MEDIA · HEALTHCARE · COMMERCE
THE STORY
AS MILESTONES

An AI and software engineering company, in production since 2014.

2014 — FOUNDED IN SAN FRANCISCO

Ex-Google engineers and four IKEA desks in Verdi’s apartment. The agency takes its first clients — apps, stores, brands, and the infrastructure underneath them.

2018 — ML IN PRODUCTION

Numin goes live — 8 terabytes, 78,531 trades. Production machine learning years before the wave had a name.

2019 — THE LEAGUE EXITS

Built end to end since 2014 — dating’s most selective club is acquired by Match Group. KonMari’s brand and two IPO builds (1-Page, then RedCloud) bookend the agency years.

Verdi takes the first-CTO chair at Skipify — $50M+ raised on that founding architecture. Software Motor Co. becomes TurnTide: $200M+ raised.

2022 — LAHORE OPENS

The sign goes up in Lahore — engineering, QA, and operations. Lagos follows with the largest bench and the labeling floor.

2025 — REDCLOUD RINGS THE BELL

The second IPO built on Punch engineering lists on Nasdaq — and the cluster down the hall starts training models we own end to end.

NOW — AI & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Forty-one engineers across four offices, our own training cluster and labeling floor — small senior teams taking companies from raw data to deployed, production-grade AI systems.

2014
ESTABLISHED · HQ FLORIDA
200+
CLIENTS ACROSS 11 YEARS
4
TIME ZONES · FLORIDA, LONDON, LAHORE, LAGOS
Google
WHERE THE FOUNDERS ENGINEERED
IN PRODUCTION FOR
FirmatekCASE STUDY ↗ NetflixCASE STUDY ↗ Google RedCloudCASE STUDY ↗ NuminCASE STUDY ↗ RecoveryTrekCASE STUDY ↗ ZwiltCASE STUDY ↗ PilotlyCASE STUDY ↗ TurnTide SkipifyCASE STUDY ↗ FinStrat Management Pro-Forma StretchLab CCTV Camera Pros Pocket GemsCASE STUDY ↗ KonMariCASE STUDY ↗ Vantage RoboticsCASE STUDY ↗ Slice Arts at Michigan Platphorm Ematic Scopely The LeagueCASE STUDY ↗ SoChatCASE STUDY ↗ InstoreCASE STUDY ↗ Foundersuite MedCertsCASE STUDY ↗ ChewyCASE STUDY ↗ CraftCASE STUDY ↗ DispatchrCASE STUDY ↗ 1-Page 2020 OnsiteCASE STUDY ↗ TwiceCASE STUDY ↗ WODCast Comcast Foghorn CapeCASE STUDY ↗ InsiktCASE STUDY ↗ Andy OS

Who answers when you call.

Verdi Ergün

Verdi Ergün

FOUNDER & CEO · FLORIDA GoogleENGINEERING @ GOOGLE · MOUNTAIN VIEW

Worked in engineering at Google in Mountain View. Founder and managing partner at Numin; Skipify's first CTO. Has been early for a living since 2014.

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Sheharyar Asif

Sheharyar Asif

MANAGING DIRECTOR · LAHORE

Runs delivery and operations across all three offices — the person who makes the cadence hold.

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Joshua Eseigbe

Joshua Eseigbe

MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER · LONDON

Engineering at the Lagos office — where a large share of Punch's production systems get built.

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One company. Four time zones.

The whole bench, face by face.

FLORIDA · 1LONDON · 1LAHORE · 6LAGOS · 24
Verdi Ergün Verdi Ergün FOUNDER & CEO Joshua Eseigbe Joshua Eseigbe ML ENGINEER Sheharyar Asif Sheharyar Asif MANAGING DIRECTOR Ammar Ahmad Ammar Ahmad Laiba Javed Laiba Javed Waleed Monim Waleed Monim Jahanzaib Qasim Jahanzaib Qasim Saim Baloch Saim Baloch Joseph Edet Joseph Edet Adeola Khalid Adeola Khalid Abubakar Musa Abubakar Musa Joshua Agbeja Joshua Agbeja Samuel Adekoya Samuel Adekoya Ayomide Ibiteye Ayomide Ibiteye Ayoola Ogunrekun Ayoola Ogunrekun Ben-Ibeh Samuel Ben-Ibeh Samuel Ubonisrael Akpanudoh Ubonisrael Akpanudoh Kelvin Anyigor Kelvin Anyigor Victor Odoh Victor Odoh Sommy Okpala Sommy Okpala Tamilore Tagbo Tamilore Tagbo Sylvester Sylvester Seyi Arowolo Seyi Arowolo Riliwan Ademola Riliwan Ademola Olusegun Joshua Sikiru Olusegun Joshua Sikiru Awe Olanrewaju Awe Olanrewaju Ayo Ashiru Ayo Ashiru Ayo Atunrase Ayo Atunrase David Val-Izevbigie David Val-Izevbigie Imoh Precious Imoh Precious Lawrence Sunday Ubom Lawrence Sunday Ubom Ogunyomi Gbenro Ogunyomi Gbenro

Four offices. One bench.

The people you'd actually work with — where they sit.

World map Verdi Ergün +2 Verdi Ergün FLORIDA · FOUNDER & CEO Joshua Eseigbe Joshua Eseigbe LONDON · ML ENGINEER Sheharyar Asif +5 Sheharyar Asif LAHORE · MANAGING DIRECTOR Joseph Edet +30 Lagos ENGINEERING & THE LABELING FLOOR
FLORIDA UTC−5 · LONDON UTC+0 · LAGOS UTC+1 · LAHORE UTC+5 +28 MEET THE WHOLE BENCH → SEE THE OFFICES FILM →
THE OFFICES, ON FILM

Lahore, Florida, Lagos, London — 30 seconds.

SEE OUR OFFICES CLICK TO PLAY · WITH SOUND
ON LOCATION Punch Lahore
0:00 LAHORE · 0:09 FLORIDA · 0:15 LAGOS · 0:25 LONDON
ON LOCATION · FLORIDA

Punch San Francisco, now Punch Florida.

Punch started out of Verdi's San Francisco apartment — four IKEA desks, two iMacs, no clients yet. The storefront studio came after. The flag has since moved east to Florida; the bench, the habits, and the sign came with it.

01 · 2014 — WHERE IT STARTED · THE APARTMENT
The first Punch office — IKEA desks and iMacs in a San Francisco apartment
DAY ONE — FOUR DESKS IN VERDI'S APARTMENT
Verdi at the first desk — an iMac on a side table in the apartment
THE FOUNDER'S DESK — NO SHOES REQUIRED
02 — THEN CAME THE STUDIO · THE STOREFRONT
The Punch San Francisco storefront studio — trestle desks, white brick, and the street through the glass
THE FIRST REAL STUDIO — TRESTLE DESKS, WHITE BRICK, THE STREET THROUGH THE GLASS
ON LOCATION · LAHORE

Punch Lahore.

The Punch Lahore studio — 'punch, dare to dream.' on the wall over the work tables
THE STUDIO — DARE TO DREAM, ON THE WALL
FLOOR ONE — THE WALKTHROUGH
AROUND THE STUDIO
AT THE DOOR — THE LAHORE PLAQUE
The punch sign going up on the Lahore office wall
FIT-OUT WEEK — THE SIGN GOES UP
The Punch sign lit at night on the Lahore building
LIGHTS ON — THE BUILDING AT NIGHT
Verdi Ergün with Sheharyar Asif and the Lahore team
VERDI + SHEHARYAR ASIF + THE LAHORE TEAM
The Punch building at night — the lit punch sign above and the glowing p. at the entrance
THE P. AT THE DOOR — LIGHTS ON AFTER HOURS
ON LOCATION · LAGOS

Punch Lagos.

Home of the engineering bench and the labeling floor — thirty-one people building, annotating, and QC'ing through the hours when the rest of the company sleeps.

THE SIGN GOES UP — LAGOS
THE OFFICE, TAKING SHAPE
Verdi Ergün with Sheharyar Asif and the Lagos team
VERDI + SHEHARYAR ASIF + THE LAGOS TEAM
Verdi with Sheharyar Asif and Seyi at a Lagos team dinner
TEAM DINNER — VERDI, SHEHARYAR + SEYI
Interview day in the Lagos conference room
INTERVIEW DAY — GROWING THE BENCH
The Lagos team working late at their desks
LATE SHIFT — THE FLOOR AFTER DARK
ON LOCATION · LONDON

Punch London.

The European bridge — engineering and client delivery on GMT, anchored by Joshua Eseigbe.

Verdi Ergün with Joshua Eseigbe in London
VERDI + JOSHUA ESEIGBE
Verdi with the London crew, evening catch-up
THE LONDON BENCH · AFTER HOURS