2001 / Labs
One founder  —  many bets

2001LABS

Consumer AI, built for Bharat.

भारत के लिए बना

A small lab in Mumbai  ·  public about the work
Our thesis

In 2001, India's IT story began.
We believe the next chapter belongs to Bharat
and that it gets built in chai shops,
not conference rooms.

— Dawn over old Bombay · generated in 2001 Studio —
The manifesto

The global AI stack wasn't built with Bharat in mind.
These are the four things we refuse to get wrong.

01

Forms are for filing cabinets. People talk — in Hindi, English, and everything in between. Our products listen first.

02

The app store is not how India reaches its tools. WhatsApp is. We build where the next billion already live.

03

Not a bug. Not a hack. A native input, with full respect for how India actually speaks, types, and thinks.

04

Cards are a rounding error. UPI is the register. Every product we build treats it as the default, not an afterthought.

— intermission —

Now
what we've built.

The roster

One flagship.
a few side bets.

All built for the same India.
All public about the work.

No. 01  —  Flagship
Live
Bha₹ Do

“Kaam karo. Paisa lo.”

Chat-first invoicing for India's solo professionals. Tell it what you did — in plain English, Hinglish, or a voice note — and get a WhatsApp-ready invoice in seconds, complete with your UPI QR.

Built for tutors, trainers, therapists and coaches who never wanted to become accountants.

Visit Bhar Dobhardo.com
Bha₹ Do
typing…
live
Taught Riya maths, 2 hours
✓ Logged. Riya owes ₹1,200. Send invoice on WhatsApp?
Haan bhejo 📲
Sent. I'll ping you when she opens it.
INV / 2026-27 / 000₹ sent ✓
bhardo.comkaam karo · paisa lo
The side bets
No. 02
Building
समझ लो
Samaj lo.

Samaj Lo

Apni bhasha, apne log

“AI seekho, apni bhasha mein.”

Prompt engineering for the people the global stack keeps forgetting. 8-round lessons that teach by doing — write prompts, get scored, level up. Hindi, English, and the languages that actually get spoken at home.

Samaj Lo · Lesson 3

Apni dukaan ke liye AI se marketing help chahiye.
Kaunsa prompt better hai?

A

“Kuch marketing ideas de do”

B

“Meri chai dukaan ke liye 3 Diwali offers suggest karo, budget ₹5,000”

B mein context hai, count hai, budget hai — AI ko sab samajh aa gaya ek baar mein.

No. 03
Early

Thefamilyledger,toldbacktoyouasastorynotaspreadsheet.

Codename  —  name tbd

Project Kharcha खर्चा

Ghar ka hisaab, asaan

Speak your expenses the way you already do. Get the month told back to you like a story, with the moments that mattered highlighted — not a pivot table.

Voice · Hinglish
listening…
Your month, as a storyApril 2026

Your chai habit this month:

0tallying…

That's 0 cups — your heaviest week was April 7–13.

→ matches Mar · ← ₹400 less than Feb

No. 04
Experiment

Ab Kidhar?

हम बताते हैं।
A Mumbai concierge that actually knows the city — in Hinglish, without the tourist-trap noise.

No. 05  —  Internal
Internal

2001 Studio

Our creative workbench.

A brand-aware image and video studio we built to move fast. Not public — for now. Think of it as the engine that keeps the roster shipping beautiful things.

2001-studio — session
A note from the founder
SS
Sohil Shah
Founder · Mumbai

Irun 2001 Labs out of Mumbai. One founder, many bets, all focused on the same question: what does AI look like when it's built for the India that the global stack keeps forgetting?

The tools out there are in English. They live in browsers. They expect credit cards. India runs on Hindi, WhatsApp, and UPI. So we build for that India — slowly, publicly, and with a bias for things that actually ship.

If you're building toward the same future, or you want to try what we've made, or you want to work together — I'm reachable below. Reply-all friendly.

— Sohil