How we earn.
Stated as intent, because it is still being validated, not proven — and stated publicly now, so it can be held against us later. Individuals and families use Sathi free today, and individuals are not the product: no advertising, no engagement optimization, and personal data is never sold. That is architecture, not policy, and it does not change with a pricing page.
IntentThree lines of revenue
Physical interfaces
Devices people choose to buy — a speaker first. Nothing is manufactured or sold today; the first unit is a working rehearsal on open hardware.
Sovereign infrastructure for organizations
A company or institution running its own node — paying for deployment, integration, migration and operation, never for the impossibility of leaving. Engagements today are conversations and pilots.
Transparent referral partnerships
When Sathi refers a person to a real-world service their life actually needs — sending money home, for example — and we earn a commission for it. Governed by the pledge below. No such partnership is live today; the first candidates are being explored, and none is announced until it is signed.
The pledgeWhat makes a commission acceptable
- Never advertising. No placement, no targeting, no engagement machinery.
- Announced publicly, by name. Every partnership is a named public statement — who the partner is, what we are paid, per what. Users can see exactly how we earn from them.
- Reviews published unedited. User reviews of a partner service stand as written — praise and complaints together.
- The commission never reorders advice. A recommendation is made only where the service is genuinely what Sathi would suggest anyway. Where the two ever conflict, the commission loses — in public.
This page is deliberately the same statement the product makes at sathi.ai/about, in longer form. If the two pages ever disagree, that is a defect — tell us.