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Notes on India's financial infrastructure.

Plain-English explainers on payments, identity, lending and fraud, written for people building in Indian BFSI.

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ENGINEERING · VOICE AI

How to build an AI calling agent (and when to buy one instead).

Telephony, ASR, LLM, tools and TTS: the architecture, latency budget, Indian-language pitfalls and build vs buy.

GUIDE · VOICE AI

AI call centers in India: what changes when an AI answers the phone.

IVR vs AI, which inbound calls to automate, human handover, and the metrics that matter.

GUIDE · ENGAGEMENT

WhatsApp AI agent for business in India: how it works, what it costs, what Meta allows.

WhatsApp Business Platform, per-message pricing, the 24-hour window, Meta’s AI rules and BFSI use cases.

GUIDE · VOICE AI

AI calling agent in India: how it works, what it costs, where it fits.

How AI voice agents actually work on Indian phone calls, how they are priced, and where they pay back first.

GUIDE · BANKING AI

AI agents in banking: real use cases, team by team.

Collections, KYC, service, fraud, lending ops and payments: where AI agents help, and where they should not.

GUIDE · VOICE AI

AI telecaller vs human telecaller: an honest comparison.

Cost, scale, quality and compliance side by side, and which calls should stay with people.

GUIDE · VOICE AI

Hindi AI voice agents: what it takes to sound right on real Indian calls.

Hinglish, accents, numbers and noisy lines: what makes a Hindi AI calling agent work, and how to test one.

COMPLIANCE · COLLECTIONS

RBI rules on loan recovery calls: timing, harassment and your rights.

Call timing, banned practices, phone-locking limits and how to complain. For borrowers and lenders.

COLLECTIONS

AI voice agents for loan collections in India: what works, what RBI requires, how to choose.

DPD buckets, RBI calling rules (recording from 2027), pricing, and a checklist for choosing a vendor.

COMPLIANCE · VOICE AI

Is AI cold calling legal in India? The rules, in plain English.

TRAI number series, consent, DND, RBI calling hours and DPDP: what an AI caller in India must follow.

PRODUCT

Why we built Ziya for the whole loan, not just collections.

Notes from building: why collections-only voice AI is backwards, and a live demo to prove it.

COMPLIANCE

Speech analytics for BFSI compliance: why sampling fails.

1–2% QA sampling vs 100% coverage. Disclosures, prohibited language, sentiment.

ENGAGEMENT

WhatsApp banking in India: what actually works.

High-volume journeys, platform rules, and the bot-plus-human pattern.

PAYMENTS

How UPI actually works — a plain-English guide.

NPCI, PSPs, TPAPs, and what happens in the seconds between tapping "pay" and money moving.

IDENTITY

KYC in India: the types, and when each applies.

Full KYC, eKYC, V-CIP, CKYC and DigiLocker flows, plus why onboarding funnels leak.