01
We started Drishti because no AI tool respected what a brand actually ships.
Pebblely changed our friend’s logo color on the way to 8,000 inboxes. Photoroom rebuilt a Devanagari label as visual noise. Botika handed back a model when the founder needed a product on a surface. Each tool optimised for the wrong frame of the job. We wanted to build the one that optimised for what a packaging designer would notice — the logo, the label, the proportions, the colour. The one that refuses to ship a frame that drifts.
02
We chose India first because Indian D2C is the highest-velocity market in the world and the most under-served by Silicon Valley AI tools.
An Indian D2C founder ships a Diwali catalogue, a Karva Chauth campaign, a Holi drop, and a Pongal hero — in the same quarter, in three languages, across eight marketplaces with eight different listing rules. The Bay Area tools cannot read देवनागरी. They invoice in dollars. They have never heard of FSSAI Rule 6(10A). Drishti was built on the other side of that bolt. INR billing, GST on the invoice, ap-south-1 by default.
03
Premium pricing on purpose: we’d rather have 100 brands using us seriously than 10,000 abusing free credits.
The verifier is GPU-expensive and our refund policy is real — a free tier would tax the brands who pay to subsidise the brands who don’t. We run a paid pilot week instead, capped at 100 founding-member workspaces, and we close the cohort when it’s full. The math: ship a non-drifted hero for a serious team, and the team renews. We don’t need a million users. We need the right hundred. After that, we earn the next hundred.