Make automation accessible to every Indian factory
63 million Indian SMEs form the backbone of Indian manufacturing. They employ tens of millions of workers, produce everything from electronics to medicine to clothing. And they're being strangled by a structural labor crisis that has no current solution.
Existing industrial automation was built for large enterprises in developed markets — expensive, inflexible, requiring clean controlled environments and months of custom integration. It's completely inaccessible to an SME doing ₹2 crore a year in revenue.
Jñāna is building from the ground up for Indian conditions. Our robot will be affordable, adaptable, edge-ready, and deployable in the actual cluttered, dusty, variable conditions of an Indian SME factory floor.
The labor crisis is at an inflection point. The gig economy is permanently pulling workers away from manufacturing. Factory owners who don't automate now will fall behind permanently.
63 million SMEs. 20% of GDP. No competitor is building general-purpose automation at this price point for this market. The opportunity is wide open.
Proprietary training data from real Indian factory workflows. Edge-first architecture. A team that has spoken to dozens of factory owners and understands the problem from the ground up.
Built by people who understand both robots and Indian factories
Leads robot hardware and data systems development. Responsible for the edge-first architecture, the wearable data collection device, and the AI training pipeline that powers the robot's workflow understanding.
Leads customer discovery and business development. Has conducted direct interviews with factory owners across India's manufacturing clusters — electronics, pharma, textiles, plastics. Responsible for the design partner program and go-to-market strategy.
The moat is the data no one else has
Our wearable data collection program generates video training data from real Indian factory workflows — the only dataset of its kind. This trains a robot AI specifically calibrated to Indian SME conditions, not generic warehouse environments.
Most AI systems require reliable cloud connectivity. Our architecture runs the critical inference pipeline on-device. Full operation on mobile data or restricted Wi-Fi — built for India's actual factory connectivity reality.
No company is building a general-purpose robot for Indian SME factories at an accessible price point. Industrial robot companies target large enterprise; we're targeting the 63 million SMEs they ignore.
We're building our first cohort of 10 design partners. This generates the training data, the proof-of-concept, and the foundation for our seed funding round.
Principles that guide Jñāna
Every decision starts with what factory owners actually need — not what's technically impressive. We run discovery interviews constantly and build based on real pain.
We build for Indian conditions first — dusty floors, variable power, patchy connectivity, tight budgets. Not for Western factory standards adapted to India.
We put performance guarantees in writing. If we promise the robot will do X, that commitment is contractual. We back our technology with real consequences.
Pre-seed startups die from moving too slowly or too carelessly. We move fast on validation, slow on technical architecture decisions that are hard to reverse.
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