Own the whole stack
Sign-in, sync and the design system are ours. When the layer underneath an app belongs to someone else, so do its rules, its prices and its data. We would rather build the layer.
സ്വീയംस्वीयम्said swee-yam · one's own
Our story.
Sweyam builds sovereign technology in India: software that is designed, built, owned and run here, for people who should own what is theirs.
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The name
In Sanskrit, svīya means “one's own” — the thing that belongs to you rather than to someone who lets you use it. We spell it Sweyam and say it swee-yam.
It is a small word for a large idea. Most of the software people depend on is rented: their money sits in apps paid for by advertising, their logins live with platforms they never chose, their photos and films sit on someone else's servers under someone else's terms. The name is a promise to do it the other way round.
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How it started
Sweyam didn't start with a market study. It started with what one household needed, and couldn't find without strings attached.
- A ledger for the family's money that didn't sell the family's spending to advertisers. That became Kasho.
- One safe sign-in across every app, with passkeys instead of passwords. That became Sweyam Auth.
- A home for years of saved films, on the household's own disks. That became ReelStash.
Each one needed the same things underneath — accounts, sync, a consistent way to build screens — so we built those once and properly: Sweyam Core and Spatika UI. That is how a handful of tools turned into a stack.
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What sovereign means here
For us, sovereign technology is a practical idea, not a slogan. It means the important layers are ours, so the apps on top answer to the people who use them. This is the whole stack, and we build every part of it.
AppsWhat people use every day.
PlatformWhat every app stands on.
FoundationHow every screen is built.
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What we believe
Your data is not the product
We don't run advertising and we don't sell what you do in our apps. A finance app should not have a credit-card offer between your transactions.
No lock-in, even to us
Sovereignty has to apply to our users too. Sweyam Auth speaks standard OpenID Connect, and ReelStash runs on your own machine. Choosing us should never trap you.
Open where it helps
Not everything we make is open source, but the pieces other builders can use are. Spatika UI is on npm and ReelStash is open for anyone to run and improve.
Built for how India lives
Salaries in rupees, rent on the fifth, a shared trip to settle, a film in your own language. We design from the way people here actually live, not from a template made elsewhere.
Say plainly what isn't ready
Commerce and CRM are not shipped, and the site says so. Everything we call live is in daily use by the people who built it.
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Where we're going
Next are the tools small businesses run on. Commerce will let a shop sell directly over ONDC and UPI, without a marketplace in the middle. CRM will keep a team's customers and deals private. Both will stand on the same Auth, Core and Spatika as everything else.
We will keep building the way we started: one real need at a time, on a stack we own, and honest about what is finished.
Build it with us
Whether you want to use what we make, work on it, or partner with us — we'd like to hear from you.