AI that ships in India.
We build AI systems that survive procurement committees, regulatory reviews, and the people who actually have to use them.
Healthcare. Government. Enterprise. We have been in the rooms where AI projects die. Ours do not.
From insight to implementation.
The terrain knowledge your AI project needs.
Sectors
3
Healthcare, Government, and Enterprise—deep expertise in each.
Build, not just consult
Every recommendation comes from people who have shipped production systems—not advisors who have only read about them.
The Problem We Solve
Why most AI projects fail in India
It is rarely the technology. It is almost always the terrain.
Procurement Politics
Your pilot works. Your demo impresses. Then it enters the procurement system and vanishes for 18 months. Technical excellence means nothing if you cannot navigate the committee structure, the sign-off chains, the budget cycles.
Regulatory Uncertainty
Healthcare data laws are evolving. Government digitisation standards keep shifting. Most AI vendors build first and ask questions later. Their clients end up rebuilding from scratch when regulations clarify.
Stakeholder Misalignment
The CTO loves your solution. The CFO is sceptical. The department heads feel threatened. The actual users were not consulted. Six months later, your 'successful deployment' has 12% adoption.
Integration Blindness
That beautiful AI system needs to talk to a 15-year-old legacy system that nobody wants to touch. The vendor who built it left no documentation. Half the staff worked around it for years.
Outsiders Building for Insiders
Solutions designed by people who have never spent a day in an Indian government office. Who do not know why the chai break matters. Who think 'stakeholder alignment' means sending an email.
"We have watched hundreds of AI projects fail for these reasons. Not because the technology was wrong—because the approach was."
How We Work
We are not vendors. We are partners who happen to build software.
Landscape Mapping
Before we write a line of code, we understand your terrain. Who are the decision-makers? What are the unwritten rules? Where have previous initiatives stalled? What does success actually look like to each stakeholder? This is not a checkbox discovery phase—it is how we ensure what we build will actually ship.
Aligned Architecture
We design systems that fit your reality: your existing infrastructure, your compliance requirements, your team's capabilities, your budget cycles. No gold-plated solutions that look great in demos but collapse at scale. No dependencies on technology your team cannot maintain.
Embedded Delivery
We do not throw code over the wall. We work embedded with your team, navigating blockers in real-time, building internal capabilities, ensuring adoption from day one. When we leave, you are not dependent on us.
Sectors
Healthcare AI
EMR integration that works with the systems hospitals actually use, not the ones they should use. Diagnostic support that fits into existing clinical workflows. Operations AI that respects the complexity of Indian hospital administration—OPD queues, inventory chaos, insurance tangles. We have walked the wards. We know why the night shift workarounds exist.
Government & Public Sector AI
Citizen service systems that work on Jio phones. Digitisation that does not require retraining a 10,000-person workforce overnight. Compliance automation that actually complies—built with regulatory evolution in mind. We understand the political sensitivities, the file movement patterns, the real power structures behind org charts.
EdTech & Learning AI
Adaptive systems that work on intermittent connectivity. Assessment AI that understands Indian curriculum realities. Engagement mechanics that do not require expensive hardware. We are building our own platform in this space—we practise what we preach.
Enterprise AI
Custom solutions for companies operating in Indian market conditions. Supply chain intelligence that accounts for festival seasons and monsoon disruptions. Customer service AI that handles code-switching across languages. ERP augmentation that does not require ripping out what works.
Ready to explore what is possible?
Every transformation starts with a conversation. No pressure, no pitch—just understanding.
Why Us
We have been in the rooms where it happens
Technical excellence is table stakes. What we bring is terrain knowledge.
Hospital Boardrooms
We have sat in hospital boardrooms during IT committee meetings. We know why the radiology AI that worked in trials failed in deployment—and it was not the algorithm.
Government Procurement
We have navigated government procurement cycles. We understand why the brilliant NLP system died in noting files—and how to write specs that survive interdepartmental review.
Supply Chain Operations
We have debugged supply chain models that broke during Navratri. We know which festivals affect which inventory patterns in which regions.
Indian Enterprise Budgets
We understand Indian enterprise budget cycles—why March is different, how to structure proposals that survive finance review, when to push and when to wait.
Stakeholder Navigation
This is not Silicon Valley consulting dressed in Indian packaging. This is ground-up experience with the specific friction points of Indian institutional AI adoption.
Relationship-Driven Delivery
Our value is not just in what we build. It is in our ability to ensure what we build survives its first encounter with your organisation's reality.
Ground-up experience, not imported frameworks
This is not Silicon Valley consulting dressed in Indian packaging. This is ground-up experience with the specific friction points of Indian institutional AI adoption. Our value is not just in what we build. It is in our ability to ensure what we build survives its first encounter with your organisation's reality.
What We Believe
Principles, not platitudes
These are not marketing statements. They are the operational principles that govern how we work, who we work with, and what we recommend.
AI should augment human judgment, not replace it
Especially in high-stakes domains like healthcare and governance, the goal is better-informed human decisions—not automated ones.
Context beats capability
A technically inferior solution that fits your organisation will outperform a superior solution that does not. We optimise for deployment, not demos.
Sustainable beats spectacular
We would rather build something your team can maintain and evolve than something that requires our constant involvement. Dependency is not a business model we respect.
Transparency builds trust
We explain trade-offs clearly. We do not hide behind technical jargon. If we do not know something, we say so.
Indian institutions deserve Indian-context solutions
Not adapted global frameworks, not localised Silicon Valley playbooks—solutions designed from the ground up for how things actually work here.
Ethics are operational, not aspirational
We build bias audits into our process. We consider downstream effects. We have walked away from projects that did not meet our standards.
Long-term relationships over short-term revenue
We would rather have fewer clients who trust us completely than many clients who see us as vendors. Our best referrals come from people we have said "not yet" to.
Expertise without ornamentation. Results without fanfare.
Proof, Not Promises
Evidence of impact, not just intent
Anonymised for confidentiality, but representative of our work.
Multi-Specialty Hospital Chain: Clinical Documentation AI
The Challenge
350-bed hospital struggling with clinical documentation backlogs. Doctors spending 3+ hours daily on paperwork. Previous vendor's solution rejected by medical staff within weeks.
Our Approach
Spent two weeks shadowing doctors across departments before writing a single line of code. Discovered the issue was not documentation—it was the EMR's voice interface that did not understand Indian English medical terminology and the workflow that required switching between five screens.
The Outcome
Built a custom voice-to-documentation system trained on Indian medical speech patterns. Integrated directly into existing EMR. Reduced documentation time by 60%. Adoption rate: 89% within first month.
60%
Time Reduced
89%
Adoption Rate
State Government: Citizen Grievance Intelligence
The Challenge
Chief Minister's Office receiving 10,000+ grievances daily across multiple channels. No way to identify patterns, prioritise urgent issues, or track resolution effectiveness. Previous digitisation attempt created data silos instead of solving them.
Our Approach
Mapped the actual grievance flow—not the official process, but how things really moved through the system. Identified that 40% of "new" grievances were follow-ups on existing issues. Built categorisation that matched how district collectors actually thought about problems, not how the manual prescribed.
The Outcome
Pattern identification system now surfaces emerging issues before they become crises. Average resolution time reduced by 45%. The system has identified and flagged three potential administrative failures before they escalated.
45%
Faster Resolution
3
Crises Prevented
FMCG Distributor Network: Demand Forecasting
The Challenge
Pan-India FMCG distributor with 2,000+ retail touchpoints. Existing demand forecasting consistently wrong during festival seasons and regional events. Inventory costs eating into thin margins.
Our Approach
Standard ML models do not understand that Onam affects Kerala demand differently than Durga Puja affects Bengal demand. Built region-specific models that incorporated local festival calendars, wedding season patterns, and even monsoon progression data. Key insight: the distributor's own sales team had tacit knowledge that had never been systematised.
The Outcome
Forecast accuracy improved from 62% to 84% during peak seasons. Inventory carrying costs reduced by 23%. The model now flags unusual patterns for human review rather than auto-correcting—because sometimes unusual is correct.
84%
Forecast Accuracy
23%
Cost Reduction
Looking for something specific?
We have case studies across multiple sectors and use cases. Let us discuss what is relevant to your context.
Who We Work With
Honest fit assessment
We do not take every project. Here is how to know if we are right for each other.
We are a good fit if...
- You have a real problem that might benefit from AI—not a mandate to "do something with AI"
- You have organisational patience for proper discovery and iteration
- You can provide access to the people who actually do the work, not just the people who manage them
- You are willing to hear "this is not an AI problem" if that is our honest assessment
- You value long-term capability building over quick fixes
We are probably not a fit if...
- You need AI for an RFP response or board presentation by next week
- You want us to validate a solution you have already decided on
- You expect AI to solve problems that are fundamentally organisational or political
- You are looking for the cheapest option (we are not it, though we are fairly priced)
- You want a vendor you can blame if things go wrong (we are partners, not scapegoats)
Not sure which category you fall into? That is exactly what the initial conversation is for. We have told more prospects "not yet" than "let us start tomorrow"—and many of them have come back when the timing was right.
About Us
Built by practitioners, not just consultants
Who We Are
The Yaan was founded by people who have actually shipped AI systems in Indian institutions—not observed from the outside, not advised from a distance, but been in the rooms where decisions get made and implementations get stuck.
We have written code that runs in hospital EMRs. We have sat through procurement committee meetings that lasted longer than some of our projects. We have debugged models that broke because someone in the field found a creative workaround no one anticipated.
This experience taught us that AI success in India requires a different playbook—one that respects institutional complexity, accounts for infrastructure reality, and prioritises sustainable adoption over impressive demos.
Our Philosophy
We exist to help Indian institutions—public and private—adopt AI in ways that actually work. Not AI for the sake of AI. Not AI that looks good in annual reports but gathers dust in production.
AI that solves real problems, respects real constraints, and creates real value.
Why "Yaan"?
"Yaan" (यान) means "vehicle" in Sanskrit—something that takes you from where you are to where you need to be.
We are not the destination. We are the means of getting there. Our success is measured not by the sophistication of our solutions, but by how effectively they transport your organisation to its goals.
Our Values
- •Quiet confidence over loud promises
- •Institutional credibility over startup hustle
- •Expertise without ornamentation
- •Results without fanfare
Let's Talk
Every good engagement starts with a conversation
No sales pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation about what you are trying to achieve and whether we might be the right partners to help.
Email Us Directly
For quick questions or initial outreach
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What to Expect
- • A real person will read your message
- • No automated responses
- • If we are not the right fit, we will tell you honestly
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