Building Mathondu: How We Built an Autonomous AI Merchant & Store Factory with Google ADK, Gemini 3.5, and Cloud Run

Disclosure: I created this piece of content for the purposes of entering the Google All Things Agentic Hackathon on Devpost.

Millions of small merchants, home bakers, and neighbourhood store owners across India run their daily business through WhatsApp and UPI.

While messaging works for basic conversations, scaling a business through chat breaks down quickly:

Manually typing 50+ catalog items with prices, variants, and descriptions can take hours.

Regional shop signs and informal receipts in languages like Kannada and Hindi are poorly supported by many standard SaaS tools.