How I Built a Bilingual AI-Powered Business Manager for Street Vendors in Jamshedpur
The Problem
Walk through any street in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, and you'll find hundreds of small shop owners and hawkers running their entire business from memory — stock levels, daily sales, employee wages, profit margins. They have no tools. Notebooks get lost. Mental math fails. And at the end of the day, most don't even know if they made a profit.
These vendors are not tech-illiterate. They have smartphones. They use WhatsApp. But every existing business app is either too complex, too expensive, or only available in English.
I wanted to solve that.
