Ostronaut

Company

Built by operators, for operators.

Ostronaut turns customer-facing floor interactions into evidence-linked business events, built in India for the noisy, code-mixed reality global vendors can’t handle.

A store associate helping customers on a retail showroom floor
The floor we’re built for

Mission

Read the floor.

Every customer-facing team has thousands of human-to-human interactions every week that never become operating data. We turn the business moments inside them into the intelligence the company currently goes without.

We are a small team. The ambition is not. India runs on customer conversations in Marathi, Hindi, Hinglish, and mid-sentence code-switching that global vendors cannot handle. That is the market we built for.

Team

The humans behind the platform.

Meera Khokhani

Co-founder & CEO

Meera is co-founder and CEO of Ostronaut. She has spent her career on one question: how do you make a workforce measurably better at its work, at the scale of a country?

She was on the core team that operationalised the National Skill Development Corporation’s Skill India Mission, standing up international skill centres and overseas workforce-mobility programmes and measuring their impact alongside state governments and large employers. She then co-founded Pragmatic Leaders, the Y Combinator-backed academy that trained more than 10,000 product professionals across India, a faster and far cheaper path to capability than an MBA.

Ostronaut points that same mission at the frontline: turning the conversations that happen every day on pharmacy floors, sales desks, and service counters into coaching that lands with the people who live them. She holds a master’s from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

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Talvinder Singh

Co-founder & CPTO

Talvinder is co-founder and CPTO of Ostronaut, leading product and the intelligence behind it. He previously co-founded Pragmatic Leaders, a practice and readiness platform that worked with thousands of professionals across the region.

The evidence base from Pragmatic Leaders, what actually moves capability in human-to-human selling, sits underneath Ostronaut’s coaching layer.

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Beyond the founders: engineering, design, product, and customer success, based in India, working with customers across multi-site retail, B2B sales, and D2C.

Backers

Ostronaut is a product of Ankai Inc.

  • Y Combinator
  • Goodwater Capital
  • Harvard Management Company

Careers

We’re not actively hiring.

We are a small team and we hire deliberately. If you’re a retail ops veteran who has run a fleet of stores, or a founding ML engineer who has shipped Indian-language, speaker-aware audio systems into production, we want to know you exist.

Email founders@ostronaut.ai directly. Short note, what you’ve built, what you’d want to build here.

Press & news

In the news.

Clipping of The Times of India feature, ‘Now, Indians are getting paid to teach robots how to cook, clean and stitch’, which quotes Ostronaut co-founder Talvinder Singh

The Times of India

“The idea is not to replace humans, but to use AI to capture the moments that coach humans to perform better.”

Talvinder Singh, co-founder of Ostronaut

Read the full feature →On The Times of India, subscriber-only

Mumbai Tech Week 2026

A live showcase of conversation intelligence.

We showed a room of operators and investors what Ostronaut hears on the floor, then handed them a QR code that replayed it back, transcribed and labelled, every speaker turn tagged.

For press kit, podcast bookings, and analyst inquiries, email press@ostronaut.ai.

Privacy & security

DPDP-aligned. India-resident.

Ostronaut is built and operated under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP). Every capture surface (fixed counter hardware, wearable, software upload) has a documented consent flow. Customer audio data stays in India; storage region is pinned at contract signing.

Retention is yours to configure, with full purge available on request. PII redaction is context-configured per customer (prescription data, patient names, staff names, payment information). End-consumer deletion requests route through the customer and are honoured within the contracted timeframe.

SOC2 and ISO 27001 are on our roadmap. We do not operate covertly: no hidden microphones, no invisible consent flows. We’ll politely turn down a customer who wants us to.