Artificial Intelligence

From one-click AI deployment to anti-fragile workforces — explore ideas democratizing intelligence and reshaping the future of work, code, and decision-making.

AI Powered rewards management

We receive a lot of rewards from apps such as Zomato, CRED, ixigo and 1000s of more such apps. These are cupons and discounts are rewarded as a part of transactions made on the apps. However, when it comes to actually using the coupons, we often lose the track of what coupons we have and where is that coupon and how long it is valid. If only there was an app that curated all the rewards in one place and help me use them when I am making my next purchase.

AI as the Great Equalizer: Universal Access to Expertise

The next wave of founders has an unprecedented opportunity to democratize access to essential human services—education, healthcare, coaching, and financial planning—by harnessing AI. I believe we are heading towards a world where everyone can have a near-free tutor, a near-free doctor, a near-free coach, and a near-free financial advisor, available at all times. At Healthify, we are already building AI-powered nutritionists and metabolic health coaches, blending AI with human expertise to make high-quality health and wellness advice accessible to millions. But this opportunity extends far beyond health—founders today can create AI-human hybrid solutions that provide universal access to expert guidance, ensuring that education, healthcare, financial advice, and coaching become basic rights, not privileges. With generative AI, these companies can be global from day one, transcending language and infrastructure barriers. Whether it's an AI-driven tutor empowering students in rural India and Silicon Valley alike, or an AI-assisted financial planner helping people worldwide secure their future, the potential is immense. The convergence of AI and human wisdom will be one of the defining shifts of this era, and I hope the next generation of entrepreneurs seizes this moment to build globally impactful solutions.

AI-Powered Cross-Border B2B Commerce: Enabling Indian Exporters for the Global Stage

India’s $770 billion export market remains fragmented, slow, and opaque, limiting Indian manufacturers' ability to compete globally. AI can revolutionize B2B trade by enhancing discovery, trust-building, and trade financing, making exports more efficient and scalable. With the China+1 strategy shifting global supply chains, India has a unique opportunity. The missing piece? An AI-first Alibaba for Indian exporters, bridging the gap between domestic manufacturers and global buyers.

AI Agents for India’s SMBs & Enterprises

India’s 60 million SMBs contribute 30% of GDP, yet their digital adoption remains fragmented. The next big AI opportunity lies in industry-specific autonomous agents—AI-powered co-pilots that can manage sales, customer support, operations, and compliance. Why now? Generative AI penetration in enterprises is still below 10%, but Indian businesses are actively seeking tangible productivity gains. The challenge? Fine-tuning AI models for Indian languages and industry-specific nuances to ensure seamless adoption.

One-Click AI: Connecting Business Systems to Cutting-Edge Models.

One opportunity I’m excited about is building a Zapier equivalent for an AI-first world—a repository of one-click deployable integrations that seamlessly connect internal business systems with the latest AI models. This would allow companies to easily experiment with AI, evaluate performance improvements, and unlock AI-enabled efficiencies by integrating cutting-edge models with their proprietary data.

Building Smart Startups: AI-Powered Productivity for Founders

Another idea that excites me is a suite of AI-powered tools designed specifically for founders—a founder productivity suite that streamlines critical yet time-consuming functions like customer service, talent acquisition, and user interviews. While most founders would love to handle these tasks themselves, they often become tedious and inefficient. AI agents, integrated with internal systems, can now take over these functions, allowing founders to focus on higher-impact decisions.

AI for Smarter Buying, Not Just Selling

AI-driven sales outreach is overwhelming buyers with calls and emails. A major opportunity lies in creating a buyer-side AI assistant that filters and prioritizes outreach based on real needs—bringing efficiency to the buying process.

AI-Powered Document Management: Simplifying Bureaucracy for Everyone

UPI revolutionized payments, and initiatives like DigiYatra and TTP streamlined airport ID verification. Yet, across many other sectors—banking, taxes, real estate, and even something as straightforward as becoming a startup director—managing, verifying, and submitting documents remains a tedious process. A potential solution could be an AI-powered virtual assistant that tracks all essential documents, keeps them updated, and seamlessly assists with retrieval, submission, and follow-ups. By reducing paperwork and automating these processes, we could make bureaucratic interactions as effortless as digital payments—bringing true ease of access to vital services.

AI-Powered Personalization: Giving Every Product a Human Touch

The internet transformed commerce by enabling centralization, frictionless pricing, seamless discovery, and viral product distribution. However, it failed to create hyper-contextual product purchase and post-purchase experiences for customers. Today, the typical online purchase happens on a marketplace where the seller has little connection to the customer, and the product is far removed from the brand or manufacturer. As a result, users are disconnected from the people who designed and built what they buy. E-commerce has always involved a trade-off between scale and experience. But with the advent of Agent AI, we are entering a new era—one where every product will have a dedicated AI agent acting as a personalized guide. Instead of static product pages, customers will interact with intelligent, human-like AI representatives that onboard, support, and assist them throughout the entire lifecycle of a product. This shift will fundamentally change e-commerce. Imagine an artificial representative for every brand—designed to build trust, answer questions, and provide a level of personalization that has never existed at scale. This isn’t just another chatbot—it’s the digital equivalent of a knowledgeable salesperson, bringing back the human touch to online commerce. AI won’t just sell products; it will give them a soul.

Next-Gen IT Services: Full-Stack Cloud, Data & AI Solutions for Enterprises

The Indian IT services sector is at an inflection point as enterprises globally shift from fragmented technology adoption to integrated, full-stack solutions that combine cloud, data, and agentic AI. This next wave of IT services will not just enhance productivity but fundamentally reshape enterprise software spend and commercial models. Agentic AI solutions will replace traditional software licenses with dynamic, outcome-driven AI services. Instead of buying software and hiring teams to manage it, enterprises will increasingly pay for intelligence—AI that autonomously analyses data, makes decisions, and optimises workflows. This shift threatens legacy IT service models but creates a massive opportunity for firms that can embed AI deeply within industry-specific workflows. Winning in this landscape will require more than just technical expertise. It will demand deep sector knowledge and a customer-first approach to designing AI-native solutions that deliver measurable business impact. India’s engineering talent, cost advantages, and execution capabilities position it uniquely to lead this transition. The firms that master full-stack AI service delivery—combining cloud, proprietary data, and AI agents—will redefine IT services, transforming them from cost centres into strategic drivers of enterprise growth.

AI-Powered Innovation: Unlocking Niche Market Opportunities

Really excited about teams solving problems in niche areas with large market potential. When founders apply AI effectively and move fast, they’re achieving greater impact while extending their financial runway like never before. This has opened up opportunities that previously seemed out of reach. Some sectors where we’ve seen significant traction include fintech, healthtech, and proptech.

AI for Founders: Cutting Through the Noise, Amplifying Impact

A startup designed to help founders overcome decision fatigue. Imagine a personal AI chief-of-staff that cuts through the noise, organizes priorities, and nudges you toward high-impact actions—so you can stay focused on what truly matters. Too many brilliant founders burn out making countless small but exhausting decisions daily. It’s time for a smarter solution.

AI for social media unity

An AI solution merging all social media conversations and bringing them in one place.

Building an Anti-Fragile Workforce

Organizations never had the chance to truly personalize skilling, motivation, or engagement to the unique context, emotions, and needs of each employee. Most solutions have relied on one-size-fits-all approaches, which may not be very effective. But with AI, we now have the opportunity to change this. AI makes it possible to create hyper-personalized experiences—tailored learning paths, real-time nudges, and emotional support—that truly engage employees and help them perform better. A startup that uses AI to solve this problem could completely transform how organizations manage and grow their people, unlocking massive potential at scale.

Cursor for ComfyUI

Cursor for ComfyUI ComfyUI is a powerful, open-source node-based interface for Diffusion & LLM models, enabling users to create images, text, videos, and audio through customizable workflows. Its flexibility lies in its modular design, where each node represents a function, and workflows are built by connecting these nodes. However, this level of customization comes with a steep learning curve, requiring users to understand complex workflows and dependencies. Building and deploying projects in ComfyUI involves creating intricate workflows, often requiring manual configuration and testing. While this approach offers unparalleled control, it can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for beginners. ComfyUI’s potential is immense, but its complexity limits its accessibility to a broader audience. Enter Windsurf and Cursor, two AI-powered coding assistants that are transforming the way developers work. Windsurf excels in automation and context-aware coding, while Cursor focuses on precise control and Git integration. Both tools are redefining productivity by integrating AI into the coding process, making it faster and more intuitive. For ComfyUI to truly democratize AI-driven creativity, it needs an abstraction layer and an intelligent copilot. This layer would automate the creation and deployment of nodes, simplifying workflows and reducing manual effort. Imagine a Windsurf-like assistant for ComfyUI, capable of generating workflows from prompts, optimizing node connections, and suggesting improvements in real-time. Such a tool would not only accelerate development but also make ComfyUI accessible to a wider audience, bridging the gap between creativity and technical expertise. By integrating AI-driven intelligence, ComfyUI could become the ultimate platform for AI-powered creativity, empowering users to build and deploy complex workflows effortlessly. "

AI for All: India's SME Tech Leap

Development of AI-powered tools tailored for the informal economy and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). These sectors remain underserved by technology, particularly in areas like financial planning, customer management, and operations. A startup could focus on building an AI platform that simplifies tasks like bookkeeping, inventory management, digital marketing, and customer retention for micro-businesses, such as kirana stores, small manufacturers, and local service providers. The platform could use regional languages, voice interfaces, and intuitive design to cater to India's diverse user base. Integration with popular platforms like WhatsApp and UPI could drive adoption while enabling these businesses to scale digitally. Additionally, providing insights and predictions based on local market trends could be a game-changer.

AI and the Future of Seamless Software Creation

With AI, everyone can code. But today, we're only using AI to generate code to build apps. This is monolithic thinking - applying new tech to old mental models. To keep building applications in this world would be a failure of imagination. We need to reimagine the application paradigm. What will new coding environment look like? How can coding complex workflows be as simple as editing a word doc? When the cost of generating code falls to zero, how do humans interact with it? This is the missing piece today.

Bridging the AI Deployment Gap: A Massive Opportunity for Technical Teams

There’s a growing need for technical teams to help companies transition AI solutions from proof-of-concept to full-scale production. Traditional IT teams and system integrators often lack hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI models—whether it's building guardrails, running evaluations, or optimizing deployment. This creates a major market opportunity for AI-fluent technical talent to step in and bridge the gap, enabling businesses to harness AI effectively.

New Jobs, New Skills: AI's Promise for India's Youth

Our biggest opportunity - and challenge - as an economy is 'harvesting' the demographic dividend driving the India story. ~25 Million people turn 18 every year and we are not creating enough knowledge work jobs that can supercharge our 'emerging middle class'. Skilled unemployment or underemployment can set us back several years as it diminishes the perceived value of investing in up-skilling, especially in segments that have traditionally relied on informal labour. Our biggest opportunity could look like our biggest crisis if this is not addressed especially with key outsourcing industries employing millions of people likely to see increasing automation. But AI will also create a new set of jobs - evaluation, fine tuning, quality control, and roles we can't even imagine right now. I'm looking for entrepreneurs who can leverage and keep pace with this rapidly evolving AI wave and help India digitally service the new opportunities that get created. While the early movers in this space are already generating hundreds of millions in revenue, there's still enough and growing opportunity for new players here. Pick a high skill niche - healthcare, law, recruiting, game testing - and build enablement services or AI enabled co-pilots to offer the full proposition 'work' from India. We have the benefit of a young, hungry and talented workforce in stark contrast to most developed markets, now it's on the entrepreneurs to help them harness this energy for productive work.

AI's Transformational Impact on User Interfaces As We Know It

GenAI, with its remarkable speech understanding and generation capabilities, has the potential to transform the mobile app UI we’ve relied on for the past 15 years—one that was originally built on the web’s point-click-type interface from the Xerox era of the 80s. This shift opens up opportunities for entrepreneurs to rethink existing apps—imagine “calling” a cab through an AI-powered app, where your landmark, GPS coordinates, and destination are seamlessly processed through voice commands. It also enables the creation of entirely new applications for users who find current interfaces too complex. Consider essential SME tasks like inventory management or invoicing—these could be handled effortlessly through voice instructions and a few photo clicks, much like how people interact with human assistants today. The possibilities are vast—unlocking them will require bold imagination and a thoughtful approach to identifying the right problems to solve first.