Eight questions before we draft

Annexures 2, 3, 4A and 4B need a few things your website and deck don’t say. Answer what you can. Skip the rest and the draft leaves a highlighted gap exactly there, never a guess.

1Who are the directors, and what does each person hold after the March 2026 round? Do you want to claim the enhanced rate for a woman founder holding at least 50%?

Annexure-2 asks for every director’s gender and shareholding, and the enhanced ₹22,000 / ₹16 lakh rates apply only where women (or the other listed categories) hold at least 50% of the equity.

Sasmita and Rohan are the only two directors. After the March 2026 round Sasmita holds 55%, Rohan 33% and the angel fund 12%. Sasmita is a woman and yes, we want the enhanced rate; we can upload proof. Rohan is a man.

2What will you build with the product-development part of the assistance, in what stages, and roughly what does each stage cost?

Annexure-4 (B) asks for a stage-by-stage development plan with the cost heads at each stage, and the assistance is for taking the product to market.

Three software pieces over about 12 months: (1) a double-ikat module, where warp and weft are both resist-dyed and the marks must line up on the loom; (2) loom and yarn-count profiles for the ikat clusters in Telangana and Gujarat; (3) a simple weaver-side mobile app so a group can see its guides, order status and payments. That needs two contract developers for 8 months at about ₹40,000 a month each, ₹6,40,000. Then field trials with six new weaver groups, four in western Odisha and two in Telangana: printed guide strips, sample yarn and dye for test pieces, and travel to the clusters, about ₹2,60,000. Rohan leads the software, Sasmita runs the trials. Founders’ salaries are not in this budget.

3How would you spend the marketing and publicity part: which media, for how long, and how much on each?

Annexure-4 (A) lists every media line with its type, publisher, duration, amount and objective, and only media purchase or media development counts as marketing expense.

Online ads on social media and search aimed at boutique and online handloom retailers, for 6 months, about ₹1,20,000. Print ads in a regional Odia daily to reach weaver groups and cooperatives in western Odisha, about 8 insertions over 4 months, ₹60,000. A buyer catalogue of new designs, brochures in Odia and English for weaver groups, and a short demo video, about ₹70,000. No discounts.

4Which exhibitions or trade fairs do you plan to take a stall at, where and when, what will each cost, and which two people would go?

The exhibitions table in Annexure-4 (A) needs the event, city, stall, dates, amount and objective, and names at most two people who have worked with you for at least three months.

Three, each with a stall. A national handloom expo in New Delhi, about 5 days in early 2027: ₹1,90,000 for the stall, economy travel and a three-star hotel for two. A state handloom and craft fair in Bhubaneswar, about 10 days; it runs every winter, so whichever edition falls after approval: ₹80,000 for the stall, no travel. A textile sourcing fair for retailers and buyers in Mumbai, about 3 days in mid-2027: ₹1,80,000 for the stall, travel and hotel for two. Sasmita would go, with our weaver-relations coordinator, who has worked with us since August 2024.

5Have you applied for or received any Startup Odisha benefit before, or any government grant or sanction letter?

Annexure-3 asks whether each benefit was availed earlier, and the monthly allowance can be taken only once.

No. We have not applied for or received any Startup Odisha benefit, and no government grant of any kind.

6How much time does BunaLab save on a new design, and what can the software handle today?

The expert committee reviews innovativeness; a concrete before-and-after makes the product and innovation answers credible.

Hand graphing takes a master weaver two to four weeks for a new design. With BunaLab the guide is generated in under an hour and printed the same day; the tying and dyeing then go on as normal. Today it handles single ikat on the frame looms used in western Odisha, at the yarn counts those groups use. Double ikat is not supported yet.

7How many guides have you delivered, how many orders have gone through the order desk, and what was your monthly revenue over the last six months?

Paying customers are part of the policy’s definition of innovation, and recent numbers strengthen the merit review of a monetary application.

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8Do you have quotations or rate cards for the stalls, travel, advertising and printing in your plan?

Annexure-4 is reviewed line by line and the assistance is reimbursed against bills, so quotations make each amount easier to accept.

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