JanAI Technology launches with a plan to take AI to 100 million Bharat households

AI wants to reach the front door of Bharat.

JanAI Technology Private Limited, an impact enterprise under the JanAI movement, has launched with a goal of bringing artificial intelligence-powered services to 100 million households across Bharat over the next three years.

The company will deliver these services through a network of 10,000 JanAI Cafes, which will be run by trained local entrepreneurs. The first version of the platform has gone live across nine JanAI Cafes, including seven launched in Mysuru and Prayagraj districts.

Vishwesh Pai, a product leader and investor with more than two decades of experience across companies including Atlassian, ServiceNow, Amazon and Samsung, has joined JanAI Technology as Co-Founder and CEO. JanAI founder Madan Padaki will serve as Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist, while Head Held High Foundation will be the Community Capability and Resilience Partner.

Taking AI beyond the smartphone

JanAI Technology is not building its own foundation models. Instead, it plans to use open-source and Indic speech models and build technology around the specific needs of communities.

Its platform includes a voice pipeline designed for Indian dialects and noisy rural environments, AI agent orchestration and a consent architecture designed around India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

The company is also building services around public digital infrastructure and aims to make government schemes, jobs, finance and other services easier to access through voice.

One of its products, JanAI Asha, is a voice-first assistant that can be accessed through a phone call or two-way app communication in Indian languages. It is designed to work without typing or requiring English.

JanAI Adopt will provide the platform layer for AI agents, knowledge, scheme eligibility and data privacy, while JanAI Bazaar will bring services across finance, health, agriculture, education, jobs, MSMEs and government schemes into one marketplace.

JanAI Cafes bring AI to the last mile

The physical part of the model is the JanAI Cafe.

These cafes will be staffed by trained entrepreneurs from local communities, who will help residents access AI-enabled services and earn a share from the outcomes they facilitate.

The company aims to onboard 100,000 citizens by March 2027. Over three years, it plans to establish cafes across every taluk and build a network of 10,000 cafes.

Madan Padaki said the aim is for each cafe to become an enterprise owned by the community it serves.

“I visualise a JanAI Cafe as an enterprise owned by the village it stands in,” Padaki said. “When a tangible outcome is delivered, the entrepreneur who facilitates it also earns the income.”

The initial services include access to social security benefits, job discovery through the Bluedots model in partnership with EkStep Foundation, and finance through integrations with solutions such as Whatsloan.

Building AI around local needs

Pai said his previous work involved building products for people who already had internet access. JanAI, he said, presents a different challenge.

“I have spent twenty years building products for people who already had the internet,” Pai said. “The harder and more consequential problem will be the next billion who have the connection and still do not have the answer.”

Head Held High Foundation will support the initiative by training local youth as solution creators and helping local entrepreneurs establish and operate JanAI Cafes.

The foundation says it has worked across more than 150 districts over the past 15 years, impacting more than 500,000 households, transforming over 50,000 rural youth and supporting 3,000+ women entrepreneurs.

JanAI Technology’s challenge now is to turn its ambitious target into a sustainable last-mile model. Its approach puts local entrepreneurs between AI and the people it wants to serve, with the company betting that access, language and trust will be as important as the technology itself.