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What we're building right now.

Updated weekly. The honest version of our progress — what we shipped, what we're working on, and what's next. No vanity metrics.

Last updated: May 17, 2026

This week

Signing the first 25 anchor speakers — AI futurists, workforce psychologists, and diverse Global South voices
Publishing 2 SEO articles per week on speaker discovery + AI keynote topics
Testing the full booking → payment → confirmation flow end-to-end
Building speaker profiles for the founding roster (headshots, bios, demo videos)
Outreach to 30 enterprise L&D and conference organizer contacts for early discovery calls
Submitting to Google Search Console + requesting first indexing crawl

Phase 1A milestones

Soft public launch at ishruti.org

Aug 2, 2026

100 speakers verified on the roster

Aug 9, 2026

Day 90 kill-criteria check (≥1 paid booking, >50 speakers)

Aug 7, 2026

Hire first booking operations associate

Sep 1, 2026

$200K commission revenue (2026 target)

Dec 31, 2026

Speaker-side native mobile app

Q2–Q3 2027

Why this page exists

We're building iShruti in public. This page updates every Friday with what we shipped, what we're working on, and what's next. No fundraising theater, no manufactured momentum. Just the real picture of a marketplace being built from zero.

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