Daksh Bathla.
Eighteen. 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.
LeadScrapper Pro came from watching freelancers and agencies burn weeks on cold-lead research that should’ve taken minutes. Itiner came from travel agents redrafting the same itinerary by hand every time a client changed their mind.
Neither came from a whiteboard session. Both came from watching someone lose hours to work software should’ve already handled, then building the thing that removes it.
LeadScrapper Pro, in five days
Discovery, digital-presence audits, and AI-drafted outreach, built and shipped as a working pipeline, not a prototype, in five days.
150+ agencies, called directly
Itiner's product-market fit didn't come from a survey. It came from personally reaching out to 150+ regional travel agencies to hear what broke in their itinerary workflow.
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, no edit persistence yet, just the first version of the idea.
LeadScrapper Pro
Started when freelancing was the plan. Shipped as a working pipeline in five days.
TripLens becomes Itiner
The hackathon prototype rebuilt for actual use, a client portal, branded PDF export, and edit persistence added for real agencies.
Selected for Claude for Startups
Navital Labs chosen for Anthropic's Claude for Startups program, whose credits go into how the software gets built.
Selected for AWS Activate
Navital Labs selected for AWS Activate, with AWS credits covering the background jobs behind LeadScrapper Pro.
Building, writing, calling users
Two live products, one open-source framework, and the journal entries below.
Selected for Anthropic’s Claude for Startups program in August 2026, and for AWS Activate, with AWS credits, later the same month.
Notes from the build, published in the Journal.
No interviews or talks yet. When there are, they’ll be here.