We started Blistt because one steel broker was spending hours every week on repetitive billing work.
But once we started building, we realised the problem was bigger than billing.
The way a broker works doesn’t neatly fit into a conventional software workflow.
A deal might start with a call or a WhatsApp message. From there, the broker has to keep track of the buyer, seller, quantity, rate, GST, brokerage and payments.
So we kept going back to the actual workflow and asking:
What can we remove?What can we simplify? What can AI take care of?
That’s how Blistt evolved.
The workflow is simple:
- Make the deal.
- Upload the document.
- Blistt extracts and fills in the details automatically.
- Review and track the transaction in one place.
- Generate invoices and outstanding bills in a click.
The goal wasn’t to add another software layer to their work.
It was to make the work itself simpler.
What started as a conversation about billing became our first real experience of building a product around a specific industry.
And perhaps the biggest thing we learned:
AI isn’t the starting point.The problem is.
