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Why we built Drishti

AI image-gen tools optimise for speed. Premium D2C brands need something that optimises for fidelity. Here's the wedge.

Sanket· Founder17 May 20265 min read
Why we built Drishti

The thing that pushed us over the edge

In March 2026 a D2C beauty brand we knew shipped 8,000 promotional emails with a generated image where Pebblely had silently changed their logo from #1a1f2e to #1a3f8e. They caught it on email #237. They had to send 7,763 apology emails.

That story repeats. Every founder we talked to in Mumbai and Bengaluru had a similar one. Photoroom changes the bottle proportions. Botika replaces the brand watermark with a stock one. Generic generators silently translate Hindi labels into English.

AI image-gen tools optimise for speed. Premium D2C brands need something that optimises for fidelity.

That's the wedge.

What we're building

Drishti is a premium AI product-photography studio with three commitments:

  • **Brand-fidelity is enforceable.** Every output gets a fidelity score 0-100. Below 75 we refund automatically. Above 90 we put a gold ring on it.
  • **Devanagari is a first-class language.** The verifier reads your Hindi label and refuses to ship if a single matra is wrong.
  • **Premium pricing protects the people who pay.** No free tier. No abuse. The customers who pay us seriously get the rate-limit headroom they paid for.

What we don't do

We don't do video. We don't do bg-removal on a phone screen. We don't put models on products. Pebblely, Photoroom, and Botika are better at those things — pick them if that's your wedge.

We do exactly one thing: premium product photography for D2C brands that can't tolerate a wrong logo.

Where we are

P1-P7 shipped: schema, auth, brand vault, generation pipeline, Chaos 2.0, admin panel, MCP server. We've passed 47k generations against real founder uploads, with a 94 median fidelity score. We just opened the public waitlist with founding-member pricing capped at 100 brands. 62 spots left.

If you ship a brand that has to look identical across every image: sign up. We'll reply within 24h.