Karigar Workforce Intelligence
Digital attendance, daily task assignment, piece-rate wage calculation, and performance tracking. Every karigar's output is measured and recorded, no more end-of-month disputes.
AI intelligence built for India's jewellery manufacturers.
AurumOS
AurumOS at a glance
- What it is
- AurumOS is an end-to-end AI intelligence platform for jewellery manufacturers, from karigar workforce management and job card tracking to gold loss analytics, design cataloging, and B2B order management.
- Category
- Jewellery · AI Intelligence · MSME
- Status
- Invite Only · Request Access
- Built by
- Sitio Labs, Mumbai
2.3%Avg. gold loss reductionin first 90 days
40%Fewer karigarpayment disputes
3 hrsSaved dailyon manual reconciliation
₹8L+Annual savingsfor a 50kg/month factory
Features
Everything AurumOS does, in one platform.
Job Card Management
Orders flow into digital job cards. Each card tracks metal issued, work-in-progress status, estimated vs. actual completion time, and karigar assignment, from order to delivery.
Gold & Metal Loss Analytics
Every gram of metal in is tracked. Every gram out is accounted for. AI surfaces anomalies, flags unexplained losses, and produces weekly loss-per-karigar reports.
Design Catalog
Digital product catalog with weights, purity, making charges, and images. Customers browse and order directly. Sales team has instant, accurate pricing at their fingertips.
B2B Order Pipeline
Wholesale order management with production status tracking. Clients see their order progress in real time. Payment milestones and dispatch schedules managed in one view.
Production Dashboard
One screen shows the entire factory floor: active job cards, metal inventory, karigar status, pending orders. Built for the owner who wants answers at a glance.
How it works
Up and running faster than you expect.
- 01
Onboard your factory in one afternoon
Add your karigar roster, metal stock levels, and design catalog. AurumOS connects to your existing WhatsApp workflows during transition, no hard cutover on day one.
- 02
Go digital on the production floor
Karigar scan QR codes on job cards via a simple mobile app. Metal issuances and returns are logged in real time. The chaos of handwritten slips ends here.
- 03
AI watches your metal
Every gram issued to a karigar is tracked against output. AurumOS's loss analytics AI benchmarks normal loss ranges by job type and flags outliers automatically.
- 04
Insights surface weekly, automatically
Every Monday, AurumOS delivers a production summary: top-performing karigars, loss hotspots, order delays, and upcoming capacity pressure. No manual reporting required.
Case Study · Jewellery Manufacturer · Mumbai
Finding ₹8 lakh in annual gold loss, hidden in plain sight.
A Mumbai-based manufacturer processing approximately 50 kg of gold per month had been running the same manual reconciliation process for eleven years. The owner estimated his loss at 1.2%, within industry tolerance. AurumOS showed the actual figure was 3.5%. The delta was concentrated in three specific job types and two karigars. Within 60 days of targeted process changes, loss came down to 1.8%. Annual savings: approximately ₹8.2 lakh, without changing the karigar team or the product mix.
“I had been losing money for years and calling it normal. AurumOS showed me exactly where and why.Owner, Jewellery Manufacturing House, Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai
3.5%→1.8%Gold loss rate
₹8.2LAnnual savings recovered
60 daysTo see measurable results
The full story
How AurumOS was built, chapter by chapter.
- I
The problem
India's jewellery manufacturing backbone, tens of thousands of karigar-based workshops, runs on WhatsApp threads, handwritten job cards, and gut-feel metal accounting. Gold loss hides inside "normal." Wage disputes arrive every month. The owner of a ₹50-crore-a-year operation often cannot answer a simple question: where did the metal go?
- II
The research
We spent time on factory floors around Zaveri Bazaar before designing anything. Owners estimated their loss rates by instinct, and were consistently wrong on the high side. Karigars, paid piece-rate across multiple workshops, had no records to defend their own work. Both sides were losing to the same missing ledger.
- III
The strategy
The wedge was metal accounting, the single largest controllable cost on the floor. One number to move: unexplained loss percentage. Workforce management, job cards, and cataloging followed only because they feed that ledger.
- IV
The design
Factory-floor clarity over dashboard theatre. Karigars scan a QR code on a shared Android device, no personal smartphone required. The owner gets one screen with the whole floor on it: active jobs, metal out, metal due, anomalies flagged in red.
- V
The engineering
A gram-in, gram-out ledger underneath everything. The AI layer benchmarks normal loss ranges by job type and karigar, flags statistical outliers before month-end, and writes the Monday production summary nobody had time to compile by hand.
- VI
The results
At a Mumbai manufacturer processing ~50 kg of gold a month, measured loss turned out to be 3.5% against an assumed 1.2%. Sixty days of targeted changes brought it to 1.8%, roughly ₹8.2 lakh a year recovered, with 40% fewer payment disputes and three hours of daily reconciliation gone.
- VII
What we learned
MSMEs don't buy software, they buy visibility. The karigar-facing surface must be nearly invisible or it won't be used. And in trust-poor industries, the system that treats both sides fairly is the one that survives.
Insights
Thinking behind the product.
Why jewellery manufacturing is India's most data-poor industry
India is the world's second-largest jewellery market. Yet the manufacturing backbone, tens of thousands of small workshops, runs almost entirely on handwritten records and WhatsApp.
Gold loss analytics: the metric that changes everything
Metal loss is the single largest controllable cost in jewellery manufacturing. Most factories have no idea what their actual loss rate is. AurumOS makes it visible, and visible means fixable.
The karigar economy: workforce management in Indian craft manufacturing
India has over 4 million karigar workers in jewellery manufacturing alone. Most are paid piece-rate, work across multiple workshops, and have zero digital footprint. AurumOS creates that footprint, fairly and transparently.
FAQ/ 06
Common questions answered honestly.
Still unsure?
Write to us with what you are working on. You will hear back within 24 hours.
Start a conversationAurumOS is built specifically for manufacturers, karigars, job cards, metal tracking. Retailers have different needs that AurumOS is not designed for. If you're a manufacturer who also retails, the manufacturing module is what will deliver value.
When metal is issued to a karigar for a job, AurumOS records the weight and purity. When the finished piece is returned, it records the output weight. The difference is logged as loss. AI establishes normal loss ranges and flags statistical outliers before they become a monthly problem.
Yes, the karigar-facing interface is intentionally simple: scan a QR code, confirm the task, mark it done. Karigars do not need smartphones; a basic Android device shared at the workstation is sufficient.
AurumOS has export compatibility with Tally for financial reconciliation. Full bidirectional integration is on the roadmap. The onboarding team will assess integration requirements during setup.
All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. AurumOS is hosted on Indian cloud infrastructure. Factory data is logically isolated, your production data is never visible to any other AurumOS customer.
Most manufacturers see measurable gold loss reduction within 30–45 days. Karigar dispute reduction is typically visible within the first payroll cycle. The onboarding team tracks these metrics with you.