Bill Gates came to Odisha to see it. We built an AI to serve 1 Crore farmers. But before the success, we failed, glamorously. I spent 3 days sleeping in the office and a week in the villages of Eastern UP to figure out why our 'perfect' technology was useless on the ground. From RAG models to rural trust, here is the unvarnished story of how we pivoted to build a lifeline for the Indian farmer.

If you work in tech, I am 100% sure you have stared at a government portal and screamed, 'Why doesn't this just work like the apps on my phone?' I had the same question. So, I left the startup world to actually build those systems. From 'moving fast and breaking things' to realizing that a 1% error rate means chaos for 3.5 lakh people. Here is the unvarnished story of my transition from startups to building for Bharat.