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Real-world problems first
Most software is built for software people. We build for the landlord, the corner-shop owner, the family CA: the 99% that English-first SaaS keeps missing.
AI-Native Product Lab · Noida, India
We build software for the parts of India that software forgot.
Cedr is a young product lab. Two of us, one room in Noida. We have a product, many ideas, a manifesto, and a stubborn opinion about how the next decade of software for India gets built.
Founded
May 2026
Noida · Sector 137
Team
2 people
One room · no managers
Currently shipping
1 product
2 more in the lab
Stack
AI-native
Day-zero, not bolted on
What we believe
Three commitments we've made to ourselves.
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AI-native from day zero
AI is not a feature we add. It is the foundation we build on. Our products know what to do because they were architected to know, not because a chat box was bolted on at the end.
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Indian-rooted, not Indian-flavoured
Every number is in lakhs. Every reminder lands on WhatsApp first. Every tax form fits the actual IT code. We don't localise from a Western default. We start here.
The lab · May 2026
One shipped. Two in the lab. From health to enterprise.
Live · in production
RentCare
India ka Property Manager. The landlord OS for rent collection over UPI, GST-ready receipts on WhatsApp, and a Schedule HP report your CA can actually use.
Visit rentcare.app ↗
In the lab · scoping
Product 02
Health
An AI-native product in Indian health.
In scoping. The same lens we used on rent (quietly do the boring work, ground in the actual Indian context) pointed at a problem the Indian patient, family, or clinic hits every week. Name when it's ready.
For · Indian families & clinics
In the lab · scoping
Product 03
Enterprise
An AI-native product for the Indian enterprise.
In scoping. A workflow product where the AI is the spine, not a chat box bolted onto an existing dashboard. We're talking to enterprise teams in Noida and Bengaluru about which workflow goes first.
For · Indian enterprise teams
The story so far
Two people. One room in Noida. A long horizon.
We started Cedr in May 2026 because the gap between "AI will change everything" and "anything has actually changed for the people who run India" is still absurd.
We have a product, many ideas (open to more), a manifesto, and a stubborn opinion about how the next decade of AI-native software gets built: slowly, locally, by small teams that talk to one real user a day.
Read the full story →The manifesto
Seven things we believe about software, India, and the next decade.
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India-first. Not India-included.
02
AI from day zero, not bolted on.
03
The boring work, done quietly.
If you've read this far
We don't have a sales team. We have a lab.
Use the product, read the manifesto, judge us by what we ship. If you're an Indian SMB owner with a problem that feels like ours (the chase, the form, the midnight call), we've probably already started on it.