A short note on why we're doing this.

We are two lawyers from Gurugram and Delhi. We first spoke about Brivo in January 2025. We started building it in October. The nine months in between were spent convincing ourselves we were not crazy — and, in the end, deciding we did not particularly care if we were.

Brivo did not begin as Brivo. It began as a KYC tool. We were trying to make onboarding less painful, the way everyone tries to make onboarding less painful. The deeper we dug into the pipes, the more we realised the problem was not onboarding. The problem was that the underlying Indian data streams — the courts, the registries, the regulators, the watchlists, the gazettes — were everywhere and nowhere. They existed. They were public. And they were almost impossible to use as evidence, because nothing about them was standardised, indexed, or cross-referenced in any way an honest person could rely on.

We had both spent years doing diligence the slow way. We had both, separately, tried to use the new AI tools that promised to make the work fast. The fast tools could not reliably attribute a case. We mean this literally: ask one to find a judgment and it would invent a citation, or confidently surface the wrong case, or quietly drop the critical procedural history. A fabricated citation in a brief is not a smaller version of a real citation. It is a different kind of object. It is the kind of object that ends careers.

So the market, as we found it, offered two choices. Pay for legacy databases that were thin, expensive, and built for a generation of users who left the firm a decade ago. Or pay for AI tools that were fast and cheap and could not be trusted with anything that mattered. The middle — serious software, defensible by default, priced like software and not like a privilege — was empty.

We are building the middle.

The first thing we decided was that every claim our products make has to point back to a document. Not a summary. Not a confident-sounding paraphrase. The actual document — the order, the filing, the registry entry, the page number. If a Brivo report tells you a director sat on three other boards, you can click each board and read the filing. If a Brivo report tells you a company has been sued eleven times, you can open each writ. This sounds obvious. In our industry, in this country, it is not. The reason it is not is that doing it correctly is expensive, and most of the companies in this space have decided their margin is more important than your defensibility.

The second thing we decided was that we would only ship workflows we had already done by hand. Not as a matter of humility — as a matter of competence. You cannot automate work you do not understand, and the way to understand this work is to have done it the long way for years. So we built the company that way. One of us codes. The other supports, sells, and keeps the work honest. Around us, a team of five or six dedicated people, and a wider circle of specialist friends who show up when a particular kind of problem needs a particular kind of brain. The team is small. We intend to keep it that way for as long as the work allows.

The third thing we decided was the hardest. We decided to price like software. Most of what we compete with in the Indian market is priced for the firms that can afford a six-figure annual contract and a six-month procurement cycle. We do not think that is the right ceiling. The boutique law office in Indore should have access to the same evidence-grade research as the top firm in Mumbai. The compliance officer at a regional NBFC should not have to choose between accuracy and her department's budget. The public record belongs to the public; the work of making it usable should not sit behind a wall most firms cannot climb.

We are aware this is an ambitious set of commitments. Cited, defensible, fast, affordable — pick three, the industry told us for many years. We picked four. We are aware that choosing four has consequences. It means the roadmap is shorter than it would otherwise be. It means there are features we will not ship until we can ship them defensibly. It means we say no to some kinds of work that other companies would happily take.

We are fine with that.The work is unfashionable. The standard is unreasonable. The team is small. If any part of this description sounds like something you have been waiting to find, we would like to hear from you — either as a customer or as a colleague.

There is more to say. There always is. But this is the part that matters: we started Brivo because the middle was empty, and we are building it the way it should have been built the first time — slowly, by hand, and in full view.