Bharath Jairam

Bharath grew up around small businesses in Karnataka — not tech companies, just people running shops and workshops and small manufacturing units, most of them keeping their entire operation in a notebook. He noticed early that the gap between those businesses and the software that could help them wasn't cost or willingness. It was that nobody would sit with them long enough to understand what they actually did.

He was two years into an electrical and electronics degree when he and his schoolmate Shreevallabha started taking on work together. The first projects were small and the deadlines were self-imposed, but the pattern that still runs the company showed up immediately: go and look at how the work is really done, then build for that, not for the version described in a meeting.

By the time the LLP was formalised in 2021 there were real clients, real invoices, and the first genuinely hard decisions — which work to take, which to turn down, and how to say no to a project that would have paid well and gone badly. Bharath still writes the scoping documents himself, on the theory that the person who promises the thing should be the person answerable for it.

What he wants from the company is less about the company. The stated ambition is engineering work distributed across India rather than concentrated in two or three cities, and the jobs that come with it — the reason the Iotreeminds Foundation, focused on education, health, and shelter, is the part of the business he talks about most readily.