A human-first
AI founder
from Odisha.

I’m Satyabrat Rauto. I build quiet software for loud, messy work — and I’ve been doing it for a decade, one honest company at a time.

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Satyabrat Rauto — Founder portrait
Currently building Lopaa & Hirepool
Role Founder & CEOSulopa Technologies
Base BangaloreKarnataka, India
Building Five productsSince 2011
Posture AI-nativeHuman-first by design
A line I live by

Busy without work.
I know many ways
how not to fail —
because I have failed
the most.

— Satyabrat Rauto Founder & CEO, Sulopa Technologies
Satyabrat reading
01
About

A founder who builds quiet software for loud, messy work.

Satyabrat off-duty, reading

I have spent the last decade inside the day-to-day chaos of campus life, hostels, kitchens, factory floors and hiring rooms. The companies I’ve built start from the same instinct: get close, listen long, then design something that disappears into the work.

Sulopa Technologies is the studio that holds this practice today — an AI-native venture lab building Lopaa, Hirepool, ManuAdda and QRcodx. We are small, deliberate and stubborn. AI is not a feature we add at the end; it is the posture we take from the first line of code.

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02
Products

Five products. One thesis: intelligence belongs near the work.

01 · Flagship2024 — Now
Sulopa
Technologies
Sulopa

An AI-native venture studio. Half product company, half quiet research lab — designing the operating layer for the next decade of ordinary work.

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02 · AI WorkspacePrivate beta
Lopaa

A conscious AI workspace. Lopaa learns the rhythm of a small team and removes the work that should not have existed.

03 · Hiring AIEarly
Hirepool

A pre-vetted talent pool, matched by intent — not keywords. Built for founders tired of resumes that lie.

04 · B2BLive
ManuAdda

A modern manufacturer’s network for India’s small & medium industries. Discovery, quotes, trust.

05 · HospitalityLive · 200+
QRcodx

A pandemic-born platform that grew up. QR-first ordering, menus & guest experience for hotels.

03
Journey

From a small town in Odisha to an AI-native studio — the long way around.

’11
SuOdisha

Started my first venture with my best friend, which was a great learning experience.

’14
atCampus

First company. Four friends. One borrowed laptop. The school I paid tuition to in years.

’18
ManuAdda

Months inside industrial estates. Learning that software has to earn its seat at the table.

’20
QRcodx

COVID rewrote the brief. Nine days from phone call to shipped product. Hospitality, in earnest.

’24
Lopaa.io

Decided to build something that would change the way people work, and this is how it started.

’26
Hirepool.ai

Started Hirepool.ai to change the way people find jobs, and this is how it started.

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04
AI Vision

We were promised flying cars. We built impatient chatbots. I want to fix that.

The most exciting frontier in AI is not the model. It is the thousand small, deeply human moments software has been too lazy to enter — the kirana ledger, the midnight check-in, the placement cell, the founder writing her first job description at 2 a.m.

AI, done with care, is a quiet companion. It learns your context. It protects your attention. It returns time to the human, instead of harvesting it. That is the company I want to leave behind.

05
Writing

Notes from the workshop floor.

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Let’s build something honest.