We ship products,
not pitch decks.
Make powerful Ai useful and affordable for everyone — not just the funded few.
We design, build, and ship our own Ai.
26io Techlab is an independent Ai product studio. We design, build, and ship our own Ai products end to end — from a personal assistant for everyday use, to revenue intelligence for founders, to APIs that put production Ai in reach of every student and developer.
Capable Ai is here — but it's priced for the few.
The most capable Ai tools today are expensive, gated, and built for funded companies — not for the student or independent developer paying out of pocket. We started 26io Techlab to close that gap: production-grade Ai that's fast, trustworthy, and genuinely affordable.
How we build
We build full products, not demos — every one is live or in active build, run on infrastructure we operate ourselves. Owning the whole stack is what keeps our costs down, so we can ship capable Ai at prices the incumbents can't match, and we design for trust: answers you can verify, data you control.
We ship products, not demos
Every product is live or in active build, running on infrastructure we operate ourselves — Evi and Kus are in users' hands today.
Affordable by design
We own the whole stack and run it ourselves, so there's no reseller margin — capable Ai at prices the big providers can't match, and more people can actually use it.
Built for trust
Grounded answers, citations, and document understanding — we design so you can verify what the Ai tells you and keep control of your data.
Building our own lightweight model
We're researching our own lightweight language model — small and cheap enough to run almost anywhere, yet tuned to punch above its weight. It's early-stage R&D, and it's where 26io is headed: an efficient model we'll offer through an affordable API, so students and developers get frontier-grade capability without frontier prices.
It's early — we're in the research and benchmarking phase, not shipping a model yet. But it's the core bet behind 26io: owning an efficient model end to end is how we keep Ai both genuinely capable and genuinely affordable.
Small team, real products.
We're a small, independent team. Evi and Kus are live because we build, ship, and run every product ourselves — not because we outsourced the hard parts. We care about putting genuinely useful Ai in the hands of people the industry tends to price out.
Applications, infrastructure, and the research underneath both
Evi and Revmosys are what people and businesses use directly. Kus and the Evi API are the infrastructure that runs underneath — retrieval and model access other things can be built on. Our lightweight-model research is what both eventually run on.
Gokulakannan R
Founder
I design, build and run every 26io Techlab product end to end — Evi, a personal Ai assistant that plans its answer before writing it, and Kus, a retrieval API that makes small models answer reliably with citations. That means the model pipeline, the product, and the infrastructure it runs on. I'm currently researching a lightweight language model small enough to run almost anywhere and cheap enough for students and independent developers.
26io Techlab is an independent venture operated by Gokulakannan R from India. It is run and funded independently, with no outside investors, and is registered under India's MSME (Udyam) scheme, registration number UDYAM-TN-02-0498096. For anything relating to the business, write to [email protected].
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