Building AI for Odisha, in the open

We build intelligence for
your business.

RAG systems, fine-tuned models, AI applications, chatbots, and automation — crafted for enterprises, Govt & NGOs in Odisha.

What we're building

Products in progress

Projects we're building — some live, some in progress, some in the dream stage. Built in the open.

01Yojana

Government scheme RAG assistant

02Roaster

Cold email roaster & improver

03PhytoAI

Morphology extractor

04Spampilot

Email deliverability monitor

05Shiva-Alpha

Dream model with DKS reasoning & Odia tokenizer

About Kortiv

Built in Odisha, for problems Odisha actually has

Not another AI wrapper — we start from Odia language, regional context, and the institutions that don't get built for first.

Kortiv is an AI application development company — building software, datasets, and products that put AI to practical use for Odisha's people and institutions. Unlike pure AI research labs, Kortiv focuses on real-world application development that directly benefits the state.

The work sits across multiple domains: RAG systems for government schemes, AI-powered tools for cold emailing, plant morphology extraction for botany students, email deliverability monitoring, and a planned Odia-first reasoning model. Each product is built with a practical problem in mind, grounded in the needs of Odisha's enterprises, government bodies, and NGOs.

01

Odia-first, not Odia-translated

Models and pipelines built to reason in and about the local language and context, not retrofitted from English.

02

Verifiable reasoning (DKS framework)

A Nyaya-logic-inspired verification layer that checks model outputs, aimed at reducing confident-but-wrong answers in high-stakes use cases like government scheme guidance.

03

Domain-literate AI

A botany and life-sciences background feeds into how we build focused AI applications — not just general-purpose chat.

Details

The full picture

May 3

Built solo, in the open

One-person studio, documenting its build process publicly. Every component, model, and pipeline is developed transparently — from first principles, for Odisha's specific needs.

SK
Sumesh K.
Apr 28

A solo studio with a growing network

Led by Sumesh, Kortiv AI collaborates with domain experts, researchers, and engineers across Odisha — building solutions grounded in local context rather than repackaged from global templates.

SK
Sumesh K.
Jun 2

Yojana — Government Scheme Assistant

A RAG-based assistant built at yojana.kortivai.in — indexing over 35 Odisha government scheme PDFs to answer eligibility and process questions, addressing the struggle of finding accurate scheme details online.

SK
Sumesh K.
May 20

Roaster

A cold email analysis tool that roasts your draft for mistakes and suggests improvements — turning the boring task of email writing into something fun and productive.

SK
Sumesh K.
Apr 18

PhytoAI

A morphology extractor — input a scientific plant name to get detailed morphology and key diagnostic characteristics, or describe a plant's morphology to identify its scientific name.

SK
Sumesh K.
Apr 30

Spampilot

Monitors inbox placement across major email providers — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Zoho — and alerts your team before deliverability issues can result in lost revenue.

SK
Sumesh K.
May 12

Shiva-Alpha

Our dream product — not currently being built, but envisioned with our own DKS reasoning engine, trained on Odisha data, and an improved tokenizer for fluent Odia language understanding.

SK
Sumesh K.
May 15

DKS Verification Framework

A reasoning-layer approach grounded in Nyaya logic that checks model outputs against verifiable sources — reducing confident-but-wrong answers in high-stakes government guidance scenarios.

SK
Sumesh K.
May 8

Odia-first NLP Pipeline

Building toward native Odia language understanding and generation — not as a translation layer on top of English models, but as a first-class NLP pipeline built for the language's structure and script.

SK
Sumesh K.
Apr 25

Open-source Infrastructure

Open-sourcing components of our stack as we build — datasets, model adapters, evaluation harnesses — contributing to the AI ecosystem in Odisha and beyond.

SK
Sumesh K.
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Whether it's a RAG system for your documents, a fine-tuned model for your domain, or a chatbot for your organization — we'll respond within 24 hours.

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— Sumesh Ku. Pradhan, founder of Kortiv

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