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Biggest takeaway? Deploying AI in the wild, especially in price-sensitive, multilingual markets, requires practical rigor, not just clever prompts. If you're building at the intersection of commerce and AI, especially in emerging markets, let’s talk. Happy to exchange notes.
🚨 Built India’s first two-wheeler auction platform on WhatsApp, powered by Agentic AI.
Not just a novel interface, it’s a radically simple way to run complex auctions where users already chat daily.
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Unique constraints
💬 WhatsApp UX is minimal. We had to rethink what an auction “interface” even means
🪙 Users often use shorthand like “130 L” for 1.3 lakhs or just “50” to mean ��50,000—we trained the system to understand these formats.
“Take Heroic Action Or Be Quiet” - ancient SQS proverb, which is itself a hypocrisy that torments them because they are incapable of both heroism and silence
As a child, I always wondered why Indian words like राम always got written as "Rama" in English. To me "Ram" seemed like a much better fit for the pronunciation. I thought it was because of British arbitrariness.
Only recently I learnt the real reason for this. /1