Press & media

Merdot in the press

Merdot is an Ahmedabad-based AI company building an India-first product suite on Merdot 1.0 — its own model, fine-tuned in-house. Everything below is for journalists and is free to use.

About Merdot

Merdot (MERDOT PRIVATE LIMITED) is an Ahmedabad-based AI and software company building a practical, India-first suite of products for students, founders and small businesses. At its core is Merdot 1.0, Merdot’s own AI model, fine-tuned in-house for Indian languages and everyday tasks and orchestrated for speed, cost and reliability across the company’s product suite. Merdot is recognised under the Government of India’s DPIIT Startup India programme and is a member of the NVIDIA Inception programme.

Fast facts

Founder & CEO
Rajat Jangid
Headquarters
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Legal entity
MERDOT PRIVATE LIMITED
CIN
U62010GJ2026PTC182689 · RoC Ahmedabad
Recognition
DPIIT Startup India (DIPP279446) · NVIDIA Inception member
Web
merdotai.com · merdot.com

The suite

Merdot AI
Everyday AI assistant, in Indian languages
Merdot Mail
Free personal & business email, hosted in India
Merdot Docs
Documents, sheets & slides
Merdot Studio
Design & video studio
Merdot Connect
One API for email, SMS, WhatsApp & voice
Merdot Guardian
Website security
Navo
A free, zero-ads privacy browser
Yupzap
A privacy-first social app for close circles

Merdot 1.0 — the engine

At the core of everything Merdot builds is Merdot 1.0 — its own model, fine-tuned in-house for Indian languages and everyday tasks. It handles requests first, inside an orchestration layer that keeps responses fast, affordable and available at scale, falling back to additional engines only when needed for reliability. The result is an AI stack Merdot controls end-to-end — which is how one small Ahmedabad team ships an entire suite on one consistent intelligence layer.

“We built our own model, Merdot 1.0, because India’s AI shouldn’t just be rented from abroad. It’s tuned for our languages and our costs, it runs our whole product suite, and it puts real AI within reach of students and founders here.”

— Rajat Jangid, Founder, Merdot

Media contact & assets

Logos (dark + light), founder headshot, product screenshots and a live demo are available on request.