✓ Q1 2026 — Validation
Customer discovery interviews in Indore. Pitch + lifecycle PDFs published. Mock dashboard built end-to-end.
India runs $450B+ of exports a year on Excel sheets, WhatsApp messages, and overworked DGFT executives. We think the 80,000 SME exporters who power most of that flow deserve the same regulatory-tech infrastructure Fortune 500 companies take for granted.
In late 2025 we started talking to exporters in Indore — pharma, engineering, agri — asking how they handled the documentation cycle. The answer was the same every time: a part-time DGFT executive on Excel, a CA who only shows up at quarter-end, a CHA who charges per shipping bill, and a bank that emails IRM PDFs.
Each of these people knows their own piece. None of them sees the whole picture. So when DGFT, ICEGATE, EDPMS and the bank disagree about the FOB value of one shipment — which they do, often — wrongful Show-Cause Notices follow. Refunds get stuck. RoDTEP claims get rejected on HSN reclassifications nobody warned the exporter about.
The cost is hidden because it shows up as working capital tied up, not as a P&L line. The exporter knows things are inefficient but accepts it as the cost of doing business in India. We don't think they should have to.
A NIRYAT-shaped product was technically not buildable 18 months ago. Three things changed:
For the first time in DGFT's history, third-party SaaS can call DGFT APIs on behalf of customers. This is the substrate for everything else.
CGST Instruction 6/2025 mandates 90% release within 7 days. Speed is the new moat — but only if data is clean.
Every eBRC must now link to the GST invoice. A brand-new reconciliation surface no incumbent has shipped automation for.
Pile on GST 2.0 (rate cuts to tyres/spares/CV in Sep 2025), GSTAT becoming operational (Sep 2025), the new RBI EXIM Regulations 2026 effective 1 Oct 2026 — and the regulatory ground has shifted under every Indian exporter's feet 11+ times in 12 months. We exist to make sense of all of it for them.
Read the gazette so India's exporters don't have to. If we do our job, the part-time DGFT executive becomes a 30-minute-a-week reviewer. The CA spends time on strategy, not chasing eBRCs. The owner sees their working capital come back 60 days faster.
We measure success in lakhs of rupees recovered, weeks of working capital freed, and Show-Cause Notices that never arrived because we caught the mismatch first.
We're a small team building this in public. Here's where we are and what's next.
Customer discovery interviews in Indore. Pitch + lifecycle PDFs published. Mock dashboard built end-to-end.
Move to Tirupur. 25 customer interviews with TEA members. First 3 design partners signed. v0.5 with eBRC self-cert + reconciliation engine.
10 paying customers in Tirupur. ₹6L ARR run-rate. TEA partnership. ₹2-4 cr pre-seed raise.
Coimbatore + Ludhiana expansion. EPCG/AA tracker live. Full DGFT + ICEGATE write integrations.
50+ paying customers. ₹3 cr ARR. Series A. Engineering and chemicals clusters added.
500+ paying customers. ₹25-30 cr ARR. Pan-India coverage. Sector verticals (textile, engineering, chem, pharma).
If you export ₹5 cr–₹500 cr / year and any of this resonates, we'd love to hear from you.