pykih is a 6 year old information design studio that is trusted by 90+ brands across 7 countries. We make your data and content human.

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Life as a series of bets

Brick by brick, we're bootstrapping our way towards an Information Products R&D Lab. Every 1-2 years, we make one big bet on a new approach or a problem. If the bet works, we hive it off and then restart. Often we make the bet with a larger partner that has funds, domain knowledge and access to market.

Life as a series of bets

Bet 1 (Sep13 — Jun14)

While India has many creative UI-heavy design studios, there are not enough who are attempting to mix analytics and design. Hence, the first bet was — can we bootstrap an Information Design Studio from India?

Bet 2 (Jul14 — Apr15)

Next, we wanted to reduce cost yet increase reliability. Hence, the next bet was — can we invest in break information design into building blocks (like Lego)? During this period, we built PykQuery.js, PykCharts.js and Rumi Data Engine (GitHub for Data).

Standard Dashboards

less than 1 min

Responsible Biz 2016

Oxfam India

Feb 22, 2016

Calculators

less than 1 min

Lead scoring with Machine Learning

Wise.io

Dec 22, 2019

Standard Dashboards

less than 1 min

IVRS Dashboard

Akshara Foundation

May 23, 2014

Calculators

less than 1 min

Microsite for startups to rent space in NY city

JLL

Dec 22, 2019

Presentation Aids

less than 1 min

I’ve got 60 seconds to get attention of policy makers

Pykih

Oct 22, 2014

Custom Visualizations

less than 1 min

Showcase portfolio of projects on map

UNDP India

Jan 22, 2017

Calculators

less than 1 min

Debias perceptions

huffingtonpost.in

Nov 22, 2016

Calculators

less than 1 min

Book skiing based on weather

Snow.com

Dec 22, 2019

Data-driven Sites

less than 1 min

Create a trip advisor like tool for hospital visits

ICICI Lombard

Dec 22, 2019

Custom Visualizations

2 min

Study changes to the Constitution of India within minutes

thehindu.com

Jun 05, 2015

Visual Essays

less than 1 min

Responsible Biz 2017 (Explain)

Oxfam India

Feb 14, 2017

Custom Visualizations

less than 1 min

Responsible Biz 2017 (Explore)

Oxfam India

Feb 14, 2017

Data-driven Sites

less than 1 min

Keep stakeholders updated with automated reported

Europeana.eu

Sep 23, 2015

Presentation Aids

less than 1 min

SPADE newsroom

ICFJ.org

Dec 23, 2019

Bet 3 (May15 — Apr16)

Can visual analytics on TimesSeries data be brought to business managers at 1/10th the cost? (for FusionCharts.com)

Bet 4 (May16 — Dec17)

Can visual analytics be brought to SMEs at 1/10th the cost?

Bet 5 (Sep15 — Feb17)

Can visual analytics be brought to Doctors for every day decisions (with Pulse Infoframe)?

Visual Analytics

less than 1 min

Business Intelligence Tool

Pulse Infoframe

Dec 23, 2019

Bet 6 (Mar17 — Jul18)

Can newsrooms launch single topic sites in a sustainable way (with Washington DC based International Center for Journalists)?

[Update: September 2018] After completion of this engagement, ICFJ Knight Fellow Nasr ul Hadi and our co-founder Ritvvij Parrikh co-founded PROTO. With this formation, we relocated to New Delhi and majority of our team moved to PROTO. Now, pykih restarts for the 5th time.