We make digital tools that fit the way modern manufacturers work. Practical, configurable, and grounded in the shop floor.
That turned out to matter less than we expected, and differently.
Facto started in February 2025 with a question rather than a product. Rohan had spent three years building software for car dealership service departments in California, an industry that runs on physical work, tribal knowledge and people with every reason to distrust a new screen. Darshan had spent seven years across payments and mobility, on systems where being wrong was expensive.
Neither of us had run a factory, so before writing much code we went and sat in them. On the floor next to the supervisor, not in the owner's office, watching what got written in the register and what got remembered instead.
Most of those factories had already tried software and it had not stuck. The licence was bought, the modules were never opened, everyone went back to the diary. The failure was almost never the features.
It was that nobody stayed after go-live.
So we built the company around the part everyone else outsources. Our engineers deploy Facto themselves, on site, and stay until the floor is actually using it. There is no implementation partner. If the rollout fails, it is our failure and we are standing there when it happens.
Rohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Guwahati and an MBA in Operations & Technology Management from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He spent three years at myKaarma in California building product for automotive dealership service operations, a business that looks more like a shop floor than like software. Earlier he co-founded Alternate Spacez and worked in product at Flipspaces. He splits his time between India and the US.
Darshan holds a B.E. in Computer Science from VIT. He started as an engineer, not a manager, and still writes code. He spent four years at Zoomcar, first building the dynamic pricing systems behind its rental business and later running product for its B2B vertical, then led UPI and payment rail product at Rapipay and growth product at Plivo across India and France. He is based in Bengaluru.
Driving the future of manufacturing through innovation and purpose, for the true industrialist.
To give every manufacturing owner easy, affordable digital tools that transform operations and drive sustainable growth.
A one-stop digital home for every manufacturer, no matter the size, sector, or ambition, building a connected manufacturing ecosystem.
Reliable, secure systems manufacturing owners can depend on every single day.
Making complex manufacturing processes easy to understand and manage for everyone.
Adapting to the unique workflows and changing needs of every factory we serve.
Giving manufacturers the tools and insight they need to grow and succeed.
