HumanTronik, an AI startup co-founded by Icertis co-founder Monish Darda, has acquired CloudMoyo, the Bellevue tech services firm that Darda helped spin out of Icertis in 2015.

The deal keeps two of CloudMoyo’s co-founders in charge: Darda, as CEO of its new parent company, and Manish Kedia, who continues to run CloudMoyo day to day. The family of the late Samir Bodas, CloudMoyo’s other co-founder and the longtime CEO of Icertis, sold its stake in CloudMoyo as part of the transaction, Kedia said.

Darda co-founded HumanTronik earlier this year with Singapore-based investor and early Icertis backer Kabir Narang. The company is developing what it calls “human language models,” its phrase for AI that learns how specific executives make decisions and work with others. Those models power AI agents inside Microsoft Outlook, Teams and other workplace software.

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. CloudMoyo, as part of HumanTronik, will keep its name and existing customer contracts, and will sell and implement HumanTronik’s technology in addition to its existing lines of business.

The business model: Kedia calls the approach “Service as Software.” Customers pay for software, he said, with ongoing support from CloudMoyo built into the subscription. Pricing is shifting from per-user fees toward fees based on results.

It’s part of a broader blurring of the lines between software and services across the industry, including the rise of forward-deployed engineers who work inside customers’ businesses to put AI to use.

CloudMoyo has more than 300 consultants. Over the past two years, its work has expanded from mostly implementing Icertis contract software to building AI tools on Microsoft’s Fabric data platform, for customers including Seattle-based Expeditors and Mexican railroad Ferromex.

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