We grew up on site, not in a software lab.

Our co-founder ran his family's contracting business for eight years before he ever wrote a line of code. The first version of Kaarya was a spreadsheet that reconciled vendor bills against site receipts on Sunday afternoons — because that was the only way it ever got done.

When his crew of foremen started using it, then a partner firm, then a friend's site office in Pune, it became obvious: the problem wasn't the spreadsheet. The problem was the gap between the site and the office that every construction business runs across, and nobody had built a tool that crossed it without making one side feel like second-class citizens.

Kaarya is for the foreman and the accountant. Same record. Same source of truth. Different views, both made for the people actually using them.