LeewayHertz
Enterprise agent and generative AI builds; owned by The Hackett Group since 2024
- HQ
- Gurugram, India
- Founded
- 2007
- Team
- 51-200
- Pricing
- $50-$99/hr (Clutch)
- Regions
- North America, Asia Pacific
- Stack
- GPT-5.2, Claude, Gemini, Llama 4, Mistral, crewAI, AutoGen Studio, ZBrain.ai, ZBrain (proprietary enterprise GenAI platform), ZBrain Builder
- Industries
- Financial Services, Healthcare, Ecommerce, Logistics, SaaS
About LeewayHertz
LeewayHertz publishes an unusually specific build stack: crewAI and AutoGen Studio for agent orchestration, GPT-5.2, Claude, Gemini, Llama 4 and Mistral across model families, and its own ZBrain enterprise generative AI platform with ZBrain Builder. Founded in 2007, its service list runs from AI strategy through data engineering, and it publishes an LLM-powered compliance and security access application built for Scrut, though its case study index carries no quantitative outcome metrics.
Two facts belong in any buying decision here. The firm is no longer independent: its own site and the copyright line on its privacy policy confirm that The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) acquired it in September 2024. And its two published ratings disagree sharply, 4.7 from 9 reviews on Clutch against 3.6 on DesignRush, where DesignRush labels its figure as derived from 65 Google reviews rather than native ones. We do not average external ratings, and a spread that wide is worth seeing rather than smoothing away. Clutch and DesignRush also disagree on team size and on pricing.
Ratings elsewhere
Our verdict
LeewayHertz is a reasonable pick for an enterprise that wants a checkable agent stack, crewAI and AutoGen Studio across five model families plus its own ZBrain platform, and that is comfortable buying from a subsidiary rather than an independent shop. That last point is material: The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) acquired the firm in September 2024, as its own site confirms, so the independent boutique its marketing implies no longer exists. The rating picture is unresolved too, 4.7 from 9 Clutch reviews against 3.6 on DesignRush, a figure DesignRush attributes to 65 Google reviews rather than its own, with the two sources further disagreeing on team size and pricing. Technical depth places it above the generalists below; the ownership change, the thin native review base and a service surface reaching into blockchain, Web3, IoT and metaverse keep it out of the top four.
Pros
- Names its agent orchestration frameworks, crewAI and AutoGen Studio, and five model families, so the build stack is checkable before signing
- Runs its own enterprise generative AI platform, ZBrain, with a builder layer, rather than assembling every engagement from scratch
- Publishes a named client build, an LLM-powered compliance and security access application for Scrut
Cons
- No longer independent: The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) acquired the firm in September 2024, so the counterparty is a subsidiary of a listed consulting group
- Its two published ratings disagree by more than a point, 4.7 from 9 Clutch reviews against 3.6 on DesignRush, which attributes its figure to 65 Google reviews rather than native ones
- Nine Clutch reviews is a small base for a firm of this size, and its cost and schedule sub-scores of 4.4 each trail the 4.7 quality score
- The service surface spans blockchain, Web3, IoT, metaverse and cybersecurity alongside AI, and its published case studies carry no quantitative outcomes
Where LeewayHertz ranks
- Ranked #4 in AI Agent Development
- Ranked #13 in AI Automation Agencies
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