// our story
Two boys. One jewellery shop. A chaotic floor upstairs.
This is where AI meets India.
Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu, India
We're Navaratan Singh (navaratan.ai) and Sujal — two 22-year-old boys from a small town in Tamil Nadu.
Downstairs is our family jewellery shop — Maruthi Jewellers. Upstairs is our lab, where we build AI agents, WhatsApp automation systems, and Instagram DM bots.
We started with Stashed — a Made-in-India bag brand built entirely with AI tools. From product photography using Nano Banana 2 prompts, to social media automation, to WhatsApp lead qualification bots. Every workflow we teach at 2BFT Academy is a workflow we actually use.
We are not AI influencers or "growth hackers." We are two underqualified founders who refuse to sit in the same chair for 40 years.
No rounding up. No flexing.
We test every major AI model release on day one.
GPT-5.6, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.1, Nano Banana 2 Lite — if it ships, we test it. Same five prompts. Real Stashed and Maruthi Jewellers shoots. We publish what actually wins for Indian-context use cases.
That's why our Academy content updates within days of every major release — and why our Agents Setup engagements ship on the runtime that's actually working in production, not the one we taught six months ago.
// what we're testing this month
July 2026: GPT-5.6 vs Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.5 Pro for Indian-language content.
- → Tamil, Hindi, Hinglish captions from the same prompt
- → Translation fidelity + voice preservation
- → Per-token cost at Indian price points
- → Results published by end of month
Workshops. Hackathons. Real institutions.
We don't just teach online. We've walked into schools, colleges, government institutes, and one very large software company's HQ in Chennai.
Zoho Community
The Vibe Coding Hackathon finale took place June 21, 2026 at Zoho in Chennai. The official recap lists 12 teams and 12 builds.
EDII Tamil Nadu
Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute. AI Skills Workshop for early-stage entrepreneurs — Claude, Gemini, Nano Banana for business operations, content, market research.
St. Paul's Matric Hr Sec School, Vaniyambadi
Where Nav and Sujal did their 12th standard in 2021. A free workshop introduced teachers to AI-assisted lesson planning, worksheets, and visual aids.
We failed at 4 AI businesses before this worked.
Each one taught us what people actually want. Your first AI project will suck. Your tenth might work. Volume beats perfection.
- 01AI resume builder — no one paid
- 02AI copywriting tool — too generic
- 03AI consulting — couldn't scale
- 04AI newsletter — saturated
Lesson: build what people ask for, not what you think they need.
Maruthi Jewellers — the family shop.
Two generations of gold work. The same building that's been the family's for decades is now where we ship AI products. The lab upstairs isn't a co-working space — it's our house.
That's the unfair advantage most "AI from a small town" stories leave out. We had manufacturing relationships through SN Bags, we had a roof to work under, and we had no choice but to figure it out.
Maruthi Jewellers, Vaniyambadi
6 cohorts is just the start.
The next chapter is bigger.
We're not sitting still. New learning formats. New ways to ship. A bigger Vaniyambadi. Email us if you want to be in the loop.
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