Daksh Bathla.
Daksh Bathla is an 18-year-old founder from Delhi who runs Navital Labs, an AI lab building Navital Gym, and makes Itiner and Odd Bits.
Studying computer applications. Deep into tech and AI because solving problems is the only thing that’s ever made sense to me. My own first, then the ones I noticed other people stuck on too.
Navital Labs is that instinct turned into a parent company. One person, no handoffs. The same hands that scope the problem write the fix and ship it.
Real friction, not a feature idea.
Itiner came from travel agents redrafting the same itinerary by hand every time a client changed their mind.
It did not come from a whiteboard session. It came from watching someone lose hours to work software should’ve already handled, then building the thing that removes it.
Built around how agencies work
Itiner is shaped by how travel agencies actually plan and sell trips, not by a survey.
Building in public
Traffic, revenue, code architecture, and the pivots that didn't work, shared as they happen, not cleaned up after the fact.
Find the problem, build the fix, ship it, improve it on what real use shows. That’s the whole strategy, for the company, and for how I work.
Got into web development
End of class 11. Learning by shipping instead of by tutorial.
Started building sites
After finishing 12th, started actually building and shipping, not just learning.
Founded Navital Labs
The company the serious products ship under.
Nucleus CSS
A lightweight, accessible CSS framework, released as open source, the first thing built for other developers, not just for myself.
Last Minute AI
AI study help for students working under exam pressure. Built. Launch is planned for mid-2027.
TripLens, a hackathon prototype
AI-drafted travel itineraries, built for a hackathon. No client portal yet, just the first version of the idea.
TripLens becomes Itiner
The hackathon prototype rebuilt for actual use, a client portal and branded PDF export added for real agencies.
Accepted into Anthropic's Claude for Startups program
August 2026. Anthropic's program for early-stage companies building with Claude.
Received AWS Activate credits
August 2026. Amazon Web Services' startup program, with credits for infrastructure.
Approved for the Sarvam Startup Program
September 2026. Sarvam AI's program, with credits for Itiner's work with Indian-language travel agencies.
Odd Bits
October 2026. Small tools that run in the browser and plain-file kits for people building with AI, released with 14 products at once.
Building, writing, calling users
Two live products, Itiner and Odd Bits, plus Nucleus CSS (open source). Navital Gym, a set of agent environments, is live on GitHub. Notes from the build are in the journal.
No interviews or talks yet. When there are, they’ll be here.