Build AI · MSMEs

Step-by-step guide for small businesses: use AI tools for inventory, invoicing, WhatsApp automation, and customer support: no coding needed.

NASSCOM's vetted catalogue of affordable AI tools for Indian SMEs: accounting, CRM, operations, and marketing automation.

Step-by-step guide to adding AI to your WhatsApp Business account. 90% of Indian SME customers prefer WhatsApp over email. Integrating AI (via Twilio/Gupshup + OpenAI) lets you automate order confirmations, FAQs, and lead qualification in English, Hindi, and regional languages.

Google AppSheet (free tier available) lets non-technical Indian business owners build AI-powered apps without coding: inventory prediction, customer churn models, and automated reporting from Google Sheets data. Integrates with Google Workspace which many Indian businesses already use.

Google Colab gives you a free NVIDIA T4 GPU in the browser. No setup, no hardware. Perfect for running ML models, Jupyter notebooks, and fine-tuning experiments from any Indian city. Works on 4G.

Hugging Face Spaces lets you host any ML model as a web app for free. 100,000+ open models including Llama, Mistral, and Whisper. India's AI builders use it for rapid prototyping without cloud bills.

Krutrim Cloud provides Indian-sovereign GPU inference for Llama, Mistral, and Krutrim's own models. Data stays in India. Competitive pricing vs AWS/Azure. Built by Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal.

Bhashini is India's national language AI platform: free APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation across 22 official Indian languages. Built by MeitY, free for Indian developers.

IIT Madras's AI4Bharat provides free open-source models: IndicBERT (text), IndicTrans2 (translation), Dhruva (speech), and Sarvam (voice). All trained on Indian language data. API access is free.

LangChain is the standard framework for building LLM-powered applications: chatbots, RAG systems, agents, and pipelines. Free, open-source, extensive docs. Start with the Python quickstart.

Vercel's free AI SDK connects Next.js or React apps to any LLM (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Groq) in minutes. Handles streaming, tool calls, and multi-step agents. Indian developers use it with Krutrim too.

E2E Networks is India's GPU cloud provider: A100, H100, and RTX 4090s at 40–60% lower cost than AWS/Azure. Ideal for Indian startups and researchers who need training compute inside India.

Replicate hosts 10,000+ open-source models as APIs. Run Stable Diffusion, Llama, Whisper, and more with a single API call. Pay-per-use, no server management. Good for Indian developers testing ideas.

Kaggle gives 30 hours/week of free GPU (P100/T4) with 100GB storage. India has one of Kaggle's largest user bases. Use it for competitions, learning, and running ML experiments.