NariBot as Digital Public Infrastructure
Built to serve the public interest at population scale - not locked into a platform, not extractive. Designed to be owned by no one and useful to everyone.
Every decision is a design decision.
NariBot's DPG principles aren't values on a wall - they're constraints that shape every line of code.
Accessible by design
Feature phones, zero literacy, zero internet - designed in from the start, not retrofitted.
Interoperable
Connects to BHASHINI, NRLM, India Stack without rebuilding from scratch.
Vernacular-first
Trained on Indic dialects, not translated from English. Language is a design constraint, not a feature.
Built for 100M, not 1,000
Serverless, scalable, near-zero marginal cost per user. Population-scale architecture from day one.
Data sovereignty
DPDP Act 2023 compliant. Consent in every channel. Data in India. No monetisation of user data.
Public-interest stewardship
Open source. DPGA-aligned. No single entity controls the codebase long-term.
Lean. Modern. Built for the last mile.
Each layer chosen for accessibility, cost efficiency, and the ability to scale without re-architecture.
🧠 LLM — Gemini 2.5 Flash
Fast, multilingual, cost-efficient. Handles complex livelihood queries in Indic languages in under 3 seconds.
🔊 Voice — Samora AI
Hindi and North Indian dialect-first. IVR and SMS. Built for impact contexts, not enterprise call centres.
🌐 STT/TTS — BHASHINI
India's national language AI platform. ASR, NMT, TTS, and NER for Indic languages.
☁️ Cloud — GCP + Firebase
Node.js backend, Firebase Firestore, GCP VM. Migrating to asia-south1 post-pilot.
💬 Multi-channel Delivery
WhatsApp, IVR, SMS. Feature phone first. Her preference, her channel.
🔐 Compliance — DPDP Act 2023
Consent in every channel. DLT-registered SMS. Meta Business verified.
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The decisions, the failures, the field learnings — all in public. The ecosystem builds better when it builds together.
📝 Strategy Sunday · Substack
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💼 BossMa Bulletin · LinkedIn
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