our story
Two boys. One jewellery shop. A chaotic floor upstairs.
Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu. This is where AI meets a small town.
in the silkscreen poster style, one of 66 →We are Navaratan Singh and Sujal, two 22-year-olds from a small town in Tamil Nadu.
Downstairs is our family jewellery shop, Maruthi Jewellers. Upstairs is our lab, where we draw films in code, run the Lab on a webcam, and build the WhatsApp and Instagram systems we teach.
We started with Stashed, a made-in-India bag brand built with AI tools: product photography from prompts, social media on autopilot, WhatsApp lead qualification. Every workflow we teach is one we 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.
more on Navaratan at @navaratan.ai and Let Nav Live on Instagram, and on YouTube
By the numbers. No rounding up.
How we work
We test every model on day one
Same prompts, real Stashed and Maruthi Jewellers shoots, and we publish what wins for Indian-language work. The films on this site are drawn by Claude Fable 5.1 and Sonnet 5.5 writing code.
We show our numbers, up or down
Our own page is grown in public and its numbers are read out every Sunday in the Lab. In 7 days, as of 7 Nov 2026, @_navaratan_ reached 70,000 followers and its reels crossed 24 million views; Sunil’s stand-up set, animated by us, hit 2.5 million in a week. Most reels do not travel, and we say so. Writers: the press kit is at 2bft.in/press.
We teach what we ship
No lesson exists without a film, a page or a system behind it that we made ourselves first.
Rooms we have walked into
Zoho, Chennai
The Vibe Coding Hackathon finale on 21 June 2026 at Zoho's Chennai office. The official recap lists 12 teams and 12 builds. What attendees wrote.
Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute
An AI skills workshop for early-stage entrepreneurs: Claude, Gemini and image tools for operations, content and market research.
Where we did our 12th standard in 2021
A free workshop for teachers on lesson planning, worksheets and visual aids with AI. Zero budget required.
The honest part: four AI businesses failed first.
- 1
An AI resume builder. No one paid.
- 2
An AI copywriting tool. Too generic.
- 3
AI consulting. Could not scale.
- 4
An AI newsletter. Saturated.
Lesson: build what people ask for, not what you think they need. Your first AI project will be bad. Your tenth might work.
Below us: Maruthi Jewellers.
Two generations of gold work. The building that has been the family's for decades is where we now ship films and systems. The lab upstairs is not a co-working space. It is our house.
That is the unfair advantage most "AI from a small town" stories leave out: manufacturing relationships through SN Bags, a roof to work under, and no choice but to figure it out.
The timeline
- 2021
12th standard at St. Paul's, Vaniyambadi
Two boys finish school in the town where the family shop stands.
- 2024
2BFT becomes a name
Two Boys From Town. The lab above Maruthi Jewellers starts shipping.
- 2025
Stashed, cohorts, the first workshops
A bag brand built with AI tools, eight cohorts, 250+ builders trained free.
- 2026
Films drawn in code
A hackathon finale at Zoho Chennai, 36 anime episodes, two reels past 4 lakh views, and the Lab.
Eight cohorts were just the start.
We are not sitting still. New learning formats, new ways to ship, a bigger Vaniyambadi. The Lab is the next chapter: a new film every Monday, live every Sunday, and our own page grown in public with its numbers read out.
the Lab, ₹999 a month, from the floor above the shop.