mirai gadget lab

a software lab in ahmedabad, india.

We build software — usually for founders who want something real in front of users in weeks rather than quarters.

We’ve built with AI every day for three years, and it’s the most fun software has been in a decade. The ceiling moved: things we’d have quoted six months for are a fortnight now. Bring us something hard — we’ll tell you how far it can actually go, then build that version.

We started the lab to make our own products, and we still intend to. Client work is how we fund it — which means we’re picking projects we actually want to build, not filling a roster.

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patrapidocument in, api out.

Upload a sample, name the fields you need, test them on real files, publish an endpoint. It reads PAN cards, sanction letters and light bills — English, Hindi, Gujarati — so your software doesn’t have to.

Every field shows its work: the value as printed, the page, and the text it came from. When something isn’t on the document, it says so instead of making it up.

POST /v1/extractions   sanction-letter.pdf

{ "status": "completed",
  "pages": 20,
  "fields": {
    "loan_amount": { "normalized": 4850000, "page": 1 },
    "borrower":    { "status": "present", … },
    "guarantor":   { "status": "not_present" } } }

try it at patrapi.com →api docs

what we’re for

ship an mvpsix weeks, real users, a product — not a prototype you have to apologise for.

restart a stalled buildeight months in and nobody wants to open the repo. usually four bad decisions, not four hundred.

think the problem througha week arguing about what you actually need beats three months building the wrong thing well.

forward-deployed aiwe embed with your team and your actual data until the ai part holds up in production. the model was never the hard part; reliable, cheap and invisible is.

built

2026patrapiour own. document in, api out — name the fields, test on real files, publish an endpoint. every value shows where it came from.2026potionpapersinvoicing fast enough that people actually do it. invoices from telegram; slack and anticipatory drafts next.2026blisttreconciles both sides of a steel trade automatically, works out brokerage party-wise and keeps it traceable.2025zoperrturned a chemical broker's whatsapp inbox into a billing system. messages, photos and pdfs in; gst-ready bills out.wip45local-first workout tracker for people who already train. set logging that stays out of the way, a coach, a watch app.ossextract labopen-source workbench for making document extraction reliable — prompts, schemas and models compared on real files.

Small, finished things — not the ceiling of what we build. Write-ups are coming; ask and we’ll walk you through any of them today.

how we work

worldline β — the one where it ships

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You email a paragraphAbout the hard part, not the requirements doc. One of us replies the same day.

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We talk once, for half an hourYou leave with a scope, a date and a number, whether or not you hire us. Wrong fit? You hear it here.

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We start within a weekIn your repo from day one. Something to look at every weekday: no status meetings, no fortnight of silence.

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It ships on the date we gave youThen we stay on, forward-deployed, monthly — or hand it over clean enough that your next engineer doesn't curse us.

α — the worldline where it quietly slips two quarters

Fixed fee for a six-week build, or monthly if you’d rather we stayed. Either way you own the repo from day one and can stop at the end of any month.

the lab

swipe →

Where the work happens. Drag things around — they stay where you leave them.Still drying — swipe along the line.

the desk

somewhere, 6am

“the model was never the hard part”

shipped 04:41

git push origin main
+ 2,104 −318

something we shipped

ideas we killed
this month: 6

el psy kongroo

shipped, not perfect

notes

2026-10-29we built an api for indian paperwork

2026-09-20how much work can a loading indicator possibly be?

2026-09-15from billing to blistt

all notestwitter instagram linkedin

What broke, what we were wrong about, and what these tools can genuinely do this month.

elsewhere

We keep the project list short, so each one gets our full attention. Whoever you email is who builds it — there’s no account manager between you and the work. Say hello at hello@miraigadgetlab.com, or find us on twitter, instagram and linkedin.