3Pillar bets on agentic AI with new CEO and platform launch
VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES — 3Pillar, a Fairfax, Virginia-based software engineering and digital product development firm, has named Andres Angelani as Chief Executive Officer and simultaneously launched HelixAI, its open, composable AI transformation platform, the company announced in a press release.
Angelani joins from Wizeline, where he served as CEO, and previously led Softvision — bringing more than 25 years of executive leadership in technology services and digital engineering.
3Pillar serves clients in financial services, healthcare, media, and technology across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Angelani joins 3Pillar to lead its AI-era pivot
The dual announcement signals 3Pillar is repositioning from traditional digital engineering toward AI-native delivery, combining leadership change with a proprietary platform launch.
Angelani previously scaled Wizeline and Softvision as CEO at each firm — experience in building AI-powered delivery models at global technology services companies.
Naming an AI-specialist CEO the same day as a platform launch signals 3Pillar is making its technology architecture and executive identity simultaneously legible to the market.
“The window for enterprises to secure a competitive advantage in the AI era is short, and winning requires doing two things at once: you have to transform while you perform,” said Andres Angelani, CEO, 3Pillar.
HelixAI embeds agentic pods directly into client delivery
HelixAI is an open, composable platform providing agentic tools, governance, and infrastructure — enabling enterprises to realize AI value across software development, legacy modernization, and operations at scale.
The platform deploys via Helix Pods — agentic units embedded into client teams to accelerate AI-native development and scale AI-driven operations within governed environments.
Claiming 2-5x delivery speed improvements while citing a year of production testing rather than a roadmap gives HelixAI unusual credibility at launch compared with typical AI platform announcements.
“What we are launching today has been tested in production across 3Pillar client engagements for the past year,” said Pankaj Chawla, Chief Innovation Officer, 3Pillar.
The market for enterprise AI transformation services has intensified as software engineering firms compete to offer proprietary AI-acceleration platforms alongside traditional delivery — differentiating on speed, governance, and embedded agentic tooling.
Competitors including Thoughtworks, EPAM, and Globant have each introduced AI-led delivery frameworks in the past 12 months, with agentic workflows becoming a standard pitch element for next-generation technology services contracts.
For 3Pillar, the simultaneous CEO and platform launch compresses what typically requires a two-phase announcement into a single market signal — tying new leadership credibility directly to a verifiable AI delivery asset.
