ಅಯಸ್ಕಾಂತ · ayaskānta — lodestone; the stone that draws iron

Practical, private AI for India.

AI-skantha builds small, offline-first models for problems that matter here — privacy, message fraud, bank documents, farm advisory in Indian languages — and Chukki, a desktop app that puts frontier AI behind a prepaid UPI wallet.

Open models, free on Hugging Face · Chukki in private beta

Open models · free on Hugging Face

Built small. Runs where the data lives.

Each model is tuned for one Indian problem and ships in GGUF or ONNX — small enough to run fully on-device, so the data never leaves the machine.

How we work

Three rules we don't break.

They're why the models are small, the languages are local, and the billing is prepaid.

1

On-device by default

Aadhaar numbers, bank statements, medical papers — data like this should never need a cloud. If it can run locally, it ships locally.

2

Indian languages first

Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi — trained on real Indian data like Kisan Call Centre logs, not translated afterthoughts.

3

Prepaid, not subscribed

India runs on UPI and prepaid balance. Usage is metered in rupees against a hard-capped wallet — no cards, no surprise bills.

Chukki · private beta

Frontier AI, on prepaid.

A desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that gives you Claude and leading open models with your files kept on your own machine — funded by UPI top-ups, spent rupee by rupee.

  • Top up with UPI. ₹100 buys real work. The balance is a hard cap, not a suggestion.
  • Files stay local. Only your prompt travels — projects never leave your disk.
  • Every model, one wallet. Budget open models to premium Claude, chosen per task.