A TRUE STORY, ILLUSTRATED
We were friends first.
The founders came much later.
Before the product. Before the plan.
There were just the three of us.

01MAHENDERGARH, HARYANA
The first thing we built
was a friendship.
Different beginnings. Same school.
Eventually, the same classroom.
- Nursery
Pardhum
The story begins.
- 3rd class
Vivek
Another seat, another friend.
- 7th class
Kuldeep
Now there were three.

Same benches.
Same goal.
No separate coaching. No grand plan. Just school, notebooks, and the three of us figuring out what came next.
When one of us got stuck,
the other two were there.

02DECEMBER 2020 · NIT KURUKSHETRA
College happened.
Just… through a screen.
For the first year and a half, COVID kept campus out of reach.
Somehow, we still made it feel like college.
Vivek
Pardhum
KuldeepCollege arrived. Campus would have to wait.
Different rooms. Same friendship.Illustrated memories, not original screenshots.

03CAMPUS, AT LAST
One scooter.
Three friends.
No destination.
When campus opened, college finally felt real. After every exam, we'd head out on Vivek's scooter—past the gates, towards the fields and the sunset.
Very Three Idiots. Very us.Those rides had nothing to do with building a company.
That's exactly why they belong in this story.
JUNE 2024 · A CHANGE OF SCENE
Three different jobs.
Still the same address.
We graduated, joined three different companies, and somehow landed in the same city. So, of course, we ended up living together again.
04THE UNEXPECTED BEGINNING
A CCTV camera.
A strange little trend.
A much bigger idea.
Vivek's brother runs a CCTV business. He saw products turning into talking characters on Instagram and said:
“I want something like this
for my business.”
So Vivek stitched together a few AI tools. A camera became a cartoon security guard, walking through a warehouse, talking about the product.
It was weird. It was specific.
It worked better than anything else on the page.

Main character.
And the way we always do,
we figured it out together — for every business.
AND THEN, NARRIVA
One experiment.
A platform taking shape.
We built the first version together. Tested it on our own account and Vivek's brother's. Kept making it better.
Then we saw it: the same system that helped one business could help one person manage many.
A little nostalgia.
A lot of you.

The product we're building.
Current app preview · illustrative business data
05THE PEOPLE BEHIND NARRIVA
No fixed roles.
Just one team.
No mystery team behind a logo. We all build it, ship it, and talk
to the people who use it — no one sticks to just one thing.
01Vivek
Co-founderBuilding, writing, and talking to the people who use it.
02Pardhum
Co-founderShipping whatever the product needs that week.
03Kuldeep
Co-founderIn on every part of it, like all of us.
Illustrated from our photographs. Still very much us.

ONE VIDEO. ONE IDEA. THREE FRIENDS.
Never a boardroom.
Always a friendship.
For the business doing it all themselves.
For the agency doing it for everyone else.
We're building Narriva for you. Together.