AI intelligence built for India's jewellery manufacturers.
India's jewellery manufacturing industry runs on WhatsApp threads, handwritten job cards, and gut-feel metal accounting. AurumOS replaces all of it with one AI-native platform designed specifically for karigar-based production.
FEATURES
Digital attendance, daily task assignment, piece-rate wage calculation, and performance tracking. Every karigar's output is measured and recorded, no more end-of-month disputes.
Orders flow into digital job cards. Each card tracks metal issued, work-in-progress status, estimated vs. actual completion time, and karigar assignment, from order to delivery.
Every gram of metal in is tracked. Every gram out is accounted for. AI surfaces anomalies, flags unexplained losses, and produces weekly loss-per-karigar reports.
Digital product catalog with weights, purity, making charges, and images. Customers browse and order directly. Sales team has instant, accurate pricing at their fingertips.
Wholesale order management with production status tracking. Clients see their order progress in real time. Payment milestones and dispatch schedules managed in one view.
One screen shows the entire factory floor: active job cards, metal inventory, karigar status, pending orders. Built for the owner who wants answers at a glance.
HOW IT WORKS
Add your karigar roster, metal stock levels, and design catalog. AurumOS connects to your existing WhatsApp workflows during transition, no hard cutover on day one.
Karigar scan QR codes on job cards via a simple mobile app. Metal issuances and returns are logged in real time. The chaos of handwritten slips ends here.
Every gram issued to a karigar is tracked against output. AurumOS's loss analytics AI benchmarks normal loss ranges by job type and flags outliers automatically.
Every Monday, AurumOS delivers a production summary: top-performing karigars, loss hotspots, order delays, and upcoming capacity pressure. No manual reporting required.
Case Study · Jewellery Manufacturer · Mumbai
A Mumbai-based manufacturer processing approximately 50 kg of gold per month had been running the same manual reconciliation process for eleven years. The owner estimated his loss at 1.2%, within industry tolerance. AurumOS showed the actual figure was 3.5%. The delta was concentrated in three specific job types and two karigars. Within 60 days of targeted process changes, loss came down to 1.8%. Annual savings: approximately ₹8.2 lakh, without changing the karigar team or the product mix.
I had been losing money for years and calling it normal. AurumOS showed me exactly where and why.Owner, Jewellery Manufacturing House, Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai
THE FULL STORY
India's jewellery manufacturing backbone, tens of thousands of karigar-based workshops, runs on WhatsApp threads, handwritten job cards, and gut-feel metal accounting. Gold loss hides inside "normal." Wage disputes arrive every month. The owner of a ₹50-crore-a-year operation often cannot answer a simple question: where did the metal go?
We spent time on factory floors around Zaveri Bazaar before designing anything. Owners estimated their loss rates by instinct, and were consistently wrong on the high side. Karigars, paid piece-rate across multiple workshops, had no records to defend their own work. Both sides were losing to the same missing ledger.
The wedge was metal accounting, the single largest controllable cost on the floor. One number to move: unexplained loss percentage. Workforce management, job cards, and cataloging followed only because they feed that ledger.
Factory-floor clarity over dashboard theatre. Karigars scan a QR code on a shared Android device, no personal smartphone required. The owner gets one screen with the whole floor on it: active jobs, metal out, metal due, anomalies flagged in red.
A gram-in, gram-out ledger underneath everything. The AI layer benchmarks normal loss ranges by job type and karigar, flags statistical outliers before month-end, and writes the Monday production summary nobody had time to compile by hand.
At a Mumbai manufacturer processing ~50 kg of gold a month, measured loss turned out to be 3.5% against an assumed 1.2%. Sixty days of targeted changes brought it to 1.8%, roughly ₹8.2 lakh a year recovered, with 40% fewer payment disputes and three hours of daily reconciliation gone.
MSMEs don't buy software, they buy visibility. The karigar-facing surface must be nearly invisible or it won't be used. And in trust-poor industries, the system that treats both sides fairly is the one that survives.
INSIGHTS
India is the world's second-largest jewellery market. Yet the manufacturing backbone, tens of thousands of small workshops, runs almost entirely on handwritten records and WhatsApp.
Metal loss is the single largest controllable cost in jewellery manufacturing. Most factories have no idea what their actual loss rate is. AurumOS makes it visible, and visible means fixable.
India has over 4 million karigar workers in jewellery manufacturing alone. Most are paid piece-rate, work across multiple workshops, and have zero digital footprint. AurumOS creates that footprint, fairly and transparently.
FAQ
AurumOS is built specifically for manufacturers, karigars, job cards, metal tracking. Retailers have different needs that AurumOS is not designed for. If you're a manufacturer who also retails, the manufacturing module is what will deliver value.
When metal is issued to a karigar for a job, AurumOS records the weight and purity. When the finished piece is returned, it records the output weight. The difference is logged as loss. AI establishes normal loss ranges and flags statistical outliers before they become a monthly problem.
Yes, the karigar-facing interface is intentionally simple: scan a QR code, confirm the task, mark it done. Karigars do not need smartphones; a basic Android device shared at the workstation is sufficient.
AurumOS has export compatibility with Tally for financial reconciliation. Full bidirectional integration is on the roadmap. The onboarding team will assess integration requirements during setup.
All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. AurumOS is hosted on Indian cloud infrastructure. Factory data is logically isolated, your production data is never visible to any other AurumOS customer.
Most manufacturers see measurable gold loss reduction within 30–45 days. Karigar dispute reduction is typically visible within the first payroll cycle. The onboarding team tracks these metrics with you.
SITIO LABS
Sitio Labs understands the Indian manufacturing floor. If you're building in this space or have a distribution network in MSME markets, we should talk.