Karya field notes
Karya is an AI operating system for construction. We ship weekly. These posts are what we learned along the way — from choosing Emergent as our build platform, to why the primary interface is Telegram, to how we compute budget-vs-actual across three ledgers in real time.
How a small team of construction operators shipped a production-grade AI platform without hiring a full engineering staff — using Emergent.sh to scaffold React, FastAPI, and MongoDB in days, not months.
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How Karya replaces spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, and paper site diaries with a single AI that runs workers, payroll, compliance and daily reports — in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi.
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Why Karya put the primary interface on messengers your workers already use — not on a mobile app they'll never install. A field guide to Telegram-first site operations.
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A deep dive into how Karya rolls up expenses, labour wages, and subcontractor payments into a single month-over-month view — and how the budget overlay flags projects heading over-budget before they blow up.
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