Live in Harnaut block · Nalanda, Bihar
A district is a market.It has never had the roads.
Every village wants what the block market sells. Every block market wants customers. What has never existed is the fifteen kilometres between them — reliable enough that a shopkeeper will promise it, cheap enough that a household will use it. We were already driving those kilometres.
↑ drawn live from the production database — not an illustration
The missing middle
Never short of demand. Short of the distance.
A shop fifteen kilometres away may as well be in another state if getting there costs half a day's wage and the trip back is uncertain. So villages buy less, worse, and dearer — and the shopkeeper who could have served them never finds out they exist.
Every attempt to fix this has tried to build the market first and hope the logistics follow. We had the logistics already: an electric fleet, drivers on a battery subscription, running those exact roads every day. Metagaon is what happens when you put the market on top of a network that is already moving.
Five services, one network
What a village can actually do
One account, one fleet, one driver at the door. The services differ because the trades differ — a grocer prices as they weigh, a kitchen prices from a menu, an artisan prices their own work — and the system was built to respect that rather than flatten it.
Why this is hard to copy
The fleet came first. That is the whole moat.
A marketplace can be built in a quarter. What cannot be assembled quickly is a fleet of electric vehicles already running a district's roads on a battery subscription, driven by people who live in the villages being served.
The drivers already had a reason to be there
Every agent is an e-rickshaw driver on DeepValley's battery service. They were driving those roads before Metagaon existed, and they are paid for deliveries that fit around the trade they already run — not recruited into a gig economy that has to subsidise them into existence.
The roads measure themselves
Every trip returns vehicle dynamics, energy draw and motion data. 510 km of road across 1,897 segments now carries a condition rating built from 12,833 of our own passes. Routing, delivery promises and vehicle choice all read from it.
One order, one network, five trades
Groceries, a kitchen meal, a craft order, a vegetable subscription and a ride to the block hospital are the same dispatch problem with different vendors attached. Building them as one system — rather than five apps sharing a logo — is why a fifth service costs a router, not a company.
Where we actually are
One block, live. A district, mapped.
It would be easy to write this page as though the network already covers Bihar. It does not, and a page that pretended otherwise would be the wrong first impression to give anyone who might back it.
- Delivering today
- Harnaut block, Nalanda district
- Households
- Beta — onboarding by hand, village by village
- District enumerated
- 20 blocks · 229 panchayats · 284 nodes placed
- Road network held
- 3,146 segments · 900 km
- Measured by our own fleet
- 1,897 segments · 510 km
- Services built and running
- All five, plus wholesale and showrooms
What we are not claiming
Metagaon is early. The five services are built, verified end to end and running on real infrastructure — but the traffic on them is a pilot's worth, in one block, onboarded by people who drove there. The numbers worth trusting on this page are the ones about the district and the fleet, because those were earned before the marketplace existed.
Measured, not surveyed
Every village has a page, and it keeps its own score
A household opens Metagaon and sees their own village rather than a shop: which services reach it, whether a driver covers it, whether anyone here earns from the network yet. The same page is what a block development officer sees.
The milestones are scored against things the system already counts — not a survey that goes stale between rounds and not a household answering questions about itself. They are tagged to the Localised SDG themes a BDO already works in, and the page is explicit about which themes we can say nothing about.
A village page, as it reads
- ✓A driver serves this villageSelf-sufficient infrastructure
- ✓Shops deliver hereSelf-sufficient infrastructure
- ✓Households are using it
- A driver from this villagePoverty-free & enhanced livelihoods
- Services running here
We cannot see whether a house has piped water or an LPG connection, so no milestone here claims to. What the network can see is whether a village is connected to a market, whether somebody in it earns from that, and whether the delivery arrived on an electric vehicle.
Get it, or ask for it
If your district isn't covered, say so — it is how we choose the next one.
Install the app anywhere in India and register your village. Interest is recorded by block, and the block with the most households asking is the block that opens next. That is not a waiting list gesture; it is the actual input to the decision.