The AI toolkit for Indian businesses.
Every tool below is one we actually use or teach. Organised by the job it does, with what it replaces and where it breaks. Nothing here is affiliate-linked and nothing is sponsored.
Last reviewed September 2026. Print this page to keep a copy.
DPRs, tenders, proposals and quotations
Claude (Projects)
Load your last ten approved DPRs and tender responses into one Project. It then drafts new ones in your own house format and vocabulary instead of generic consultant English. This is the single highest-return thing most Indian SMEs can do with AI in week one.
ChatGPT (Custom GPT)
Good for tender and RFP comprehension: paste a 60-page government tender and have it extract eligibility criteria, EMD, timelines, and the exact annexures you must attach. Ask it to list what would disqualify your bid.
Where it breaks
It will invent clause numbers, scheme names and subsidy percentages with total confidence. Never submit a figure, a statutory reference or a deadline that a human has not checked against the source document.
Excel, Sheets, MIS and month-end
Claude or ChatGPT with your file attached
Upload the messy workbook. Ask for the formula, the pivot, or the cleaned sheet. You describe the outcome in plain Hindi or English; it writes the formula. Most people never need to learn INDEX/MATCH again.
Gemini in Google Sheets
Best when the data already lives in Sheets and several people edit it. Useful for recurring branch-level or plant-level rollups where the format never changes but the numbers do.
Where it breaks
Reconciliation. If GST returns, bank statements and your books disagree, AI will produce a confident summary that hides the disagreement. Use it to prepare and explain the reconciliation, never to conclude it.
Operations that already run on WhatsApp
WhatsApp Business API plus an agent
Most Indian operations already run on WhatsApp groups. The win is not moving people off WhatsApp, it is reading what is already there: order confirmations, site updates, complaints, and turning them into structured records automatically.
Voice notes as input
Transcription now handles Indian English, Hindi and code-switching well enough to be useful. A supervisor sends a voice note from the site; the system files it, routes the task, and chases completion. Nobody has to type.
Where it breaks
Regional language accuracy drops sharply outside Hindi and English, and proper nouns (village names, part numbers, people) get mangled. Keep a managed glossary and a human correction step, or your records quietly fill with wrong names.
Anything you have to present
Gamma
Fastest route from a rough outline to a presentable deck. Good enough for internal reviews and investor updates; you will still restyle it if it is going to a client who knows your brand.
Copilot in PowerPoint, Gemini in Slides
Worth it only if your organisation already pays for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. If you are choosing fresh, the standalone tools are better than the built-ins today.
Video: script, voice, subtitles
A training video or a product explainer can now be made in an afternoon: AI writes the script, generates the voiceover, cuts the silences and burns in subtitles. Subtitles matter more than the voice in India, because most of your audience watches on mute.
The four questions
- Is it documented? If nobody can write the steps down, an agent cannot run it. Document first.
- How often does it run? Twice a year is not worth automating, however annoying it is.
- What does a mistake cost? High-cost mistakes need a human approval gate, not more automation.
- Who owns it after we leave? An automation only one person understands is a new dependency, not a saving.
If a workflow passes all four, it is worth building. If it fails the first, the work is documentation, not AI. We would rather tell you that early than sell you a pilot.
Want this applied to your actual business?
That is what the consulting sessions are. You bring the workflow, we bring the toolkit.