Billing by voice, in Odia
She speaks the sale; the bill is generated. Literacy and typing are not requirements at a crowded counter.
ExhibitionSaarthi
RISO Intelligence · Bhubaneswar
Voice-first AI commerce for India’s SHG women
Self-help groups earn most at government melas — and run that season on paper. ExhibitionSaarthi turns the stall counter into a digital till she can operate by speaking, in her own language.
Deployed with Government of Odisha departments — ORMAS and the Subhadra Shakti programme
The moment we digitize
The mela is where she earns. It still runs on paper.
At Baliyatra in Cuttack and at Saras and district melas across Odisha, lakhs of customers walk past SHG stalls. Behind those counters, the peak earning season is recorded in a register and a cash box.
So the cashflow that could prove her income never exists. She cannot show a bank what she sold, cannot keep a customer once the mela ends, and cannot tell which products actually moved.
We digitize the transaction at the exact moment it happens — at the exact place SHGs earn most.
The platform
A till she can use, an event they can see
A catalogue that builds itself
AI-assisted onboarding maps her stock against a four-tier taxonomy of rural produce, so a stall is ready in minutes.
Mela operations, end to end
Registration, stall allotment, entry and exit, and a live view of the ground for the organising department.
A customer who can come back
Every buyer leaves with a digital invoice and a link to the stall, turning one fortnight into a lasting customer list.
From the ground
Every deployment leaves a published record
After each exhibition we produce a full report for the organising department — stories, photographs and analytics from the ground. These are published documents, not case studies we wrote about ourselves.
The opportunity
One mela circuit. Then the country.
The format we already serve in Odisha — the government-organised mela — repeats in every state.
~6 lakh
SHGs in Odisha
Mission Shakti
~70 lakh
women in the Odisha SHG network
Mission Shakti
~90 lakh
SHGs nationally
DAY-NRLM
Figures describe the ecosystem we operate in, published by Mission Shakti (Government of Odisha) and DAY-NRLM. They are not platform metrics.
Who builds it
RISO Intelligence
An Odisha-based AI company building for the last mile. ExhibitionSaarthi was built on exhibition grounds and refined there across three mela seasons, delivered for Government of Odisha departments.
- ISO 9001
- ISO 27001
- CMMI Level 3
- DPIIT recognised
- Startup Odisha
Work with us
For departments running melas, and for banks and programmes building for SHG livelihoods.
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