A unified AI-native platform for every BITSian.
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The brief
BITSAA, the alumni body of BITS Pilani, issued an RFP for a unified app for every BITSian — alumni, students, faculty, parents, staff, admins. Six stakeholder groups, one product. The incumbent (AlmaConnect) had drifted into a feed-first social app; the institution needed something deeper: an institutional graph with conversational AI as the primary interface.
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The studio's response
We didn't write a deck. We shipped the proposal as a deployed Next.js application — a scrollable, sectioned document anchored by a fully clickable 82-screen prototype. By the time the BITSAA committee opened the proposal, every uncertainty had already been turned into a decision. PRD: complete. Architecture: published. Prototype: live. Commercials: milestone-gated. Risks: identified, mitigated.
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What we shipped (with the proposal)
A 35,000-word PRD covering all flows, schemas, and edge cases. An 82-screen interactive prototype with light-mode, custom SVG iconography, and complete golden paths. The full system architecture — voice-powered navigation, intent router, embedding strategy, multi-tenant data model. A 22-week milestone-gated build plan. Five-gate fixed-fee commercials at ₹3 Crore total, with 20% held back for Year 1 of iterative partnership. A risk register with mitigations. All deployed, all clickable, all reviewable before signature.
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Why the studio model worked here
A traditional agency would have charged for three months of discovery before producing any of this. We compressed discovery, design, architecture, and proposal-writing into three weeks because the studio is the pipeline: senior architects authored the PRD, AI agents rendered the prototype directly from those flows, the architecture was stress-tested before commercials were drafted, and every output was deployed continuously. The BITSAA committee opened a working product, not a slide deck.
Seven more products, no extra cost.
The RFP asked for an alumni portal and a student app. We're shipping that — plus seven new surfaces that turn the app into a daily-use community utility. Bundled into the same fixed fee, as a goodwill contribution to the BITSian community.
BITSian Effect
A live institutional impact engine — companies founded, capital raised, BITSians-hired-by-BITSians — embeddable on bits.ac.in.
Discover Map
World map of every BITSian's location, zoomable by campus, batch, company. Geographic spread as institutional proof.
BITSian Marketplace
Services and offers from BITSians, for BITSians. Native commerce, not a directory.
Life Event Graph + Wrapped
Structured capture of meaningful BITSian-to-BITSian interactions. Year-end keepsake render.
Twelve AI Moments
Voice-driven micro-interactions — Ice Breakers, Networking Nudges, Career Pathfinder, Profile Coach, Meeting Prep, and seven more.
Tell us what you’re building.
We work with a small number of teams at a time. If you have a thesis, a constraint, and a deadline that legacy partners are quoting in quarters — we want to hear about it.
We respond within one working day.