Kunal Jhaveri
Fifteen years ago Kunal set up on his own in Surat with one stubborn idea: a client should be told the price before the build, not after it. Six hundred and fifty clients later, he has not let go of it.
He grew Softieons the slow way — one project, one industry, one client who stayed, at a time — until the studio had five products of its own and a team that counts its tenure in years rather than months. He still reads every brief that comes through the door. If you send an enquiry he is the one who decides who is right for it, and then he stays on the project; he has never been the kind of founder who signs the contract and disappears.
Ask what he is building towards and he will not answer with revenue. He will say the thing he has been after since 2011 — software out of Surat that a business runs on for a decade and never once thinks about replacing.
- Vision
- To take a studio out of Surat to the point where its own products are the reason people call — not the services wrapped around them. The peak is not a longer client list; it is software of ours a business would refuse to give up.
- Mission
- Price it before we build it. Build it so the owner can run it without us. Hand over the code, and support it with the people who wrote it.
