Manifesto

India deserves first-party data infrastructure built by people who live here, governed by Indian law, on Indian substrate.

What we believe

• Bharat is not an edge case. It is the world's largest dataset of urbanisation in motion. Western APIs treat it as a footnote; we treat it as the homepage.
• Agents are first-class users. Most "agent-friendly" APIs are humans-with-extra-steps. Ours assume an LLM with a tool-call budget — every response carries an envelope an LLM can act on.
• Cost discipline is ethics. We publish per-endpoint token cost so you (or your model) know what each call burns. No surprises, no black-box billing.
• Cache aggressively, ship cheaply. Free tier exists because a young engineer in Coimbatore should be able to ship a production app on a student's stipend.
• Attribution, not lock-in. If we vanish tomorrow, your code keeps working — every endpoint is plain HTTP and every dataset is exportable.

What we refuse to do

• Pretend India looks like the US.
• Charge by the seat for things that scale by the call.
• Hide rate limits in fine print.
• Lock customers in via SDK tricks.
• Ship logos we don't have signed permission for.

Bharat will not be embarrassed by its own data API.