On-device AI · Swachh Bharat aligned

Know where it
belongs.

Ab safai aapke haath.

On-device AI identifies any waste item in a second and tells you the exact bin it belongs in, fully offline. Then Sutham maps the nearest one, so you always bin it right.

On-device AI, no cloud Works without internet Building India's bin map
0B
people in India, one shared cleanliness problem
United Nations, 2023
0
statutory towns under the Swachh Bharat Mission
MoHUA, SBM-U
~0M t
municipal waste India generates every year
CPCB, 2021-22
0%
of that waste is actually treated today
CPCB, 2021-22

Sources: United Nations population data (2023); Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Swachh Bharat Mission Urban; Central Pollution Control Board Annual Report 2021-22 (~1,70,339 tonnes/day generated, 54% treated).

The problem

India built the bins.
Nobody mapped them.

Crores were spent installing public bins under Swachh Bharat. Yet finding the right one, or any one, is still a guessing game. So waste lands on the street, or in the wrong bin.

01
No bin database exists
There is no public map of where India's bins are. The infrastructure is invisible the moment you need it.
02
People guess, then give up
Without the nearest bin a tap away, the easy choice becomes the wrong one: litter, not landfill.
03
Segregation fails at the source
Wet, dry and hazardous waste get mixed because nobody knows which bin is which, or what goes where.
04
No data, no accountability
Cities can't see how bins are used, so they can't fix placement, collection or coverage. The loop never closes.
How it works

Scan it. Know it. Bin it.

Point your camera and let on-device AI do the thinking. From scan to the nearest bin, the whole flow takes under thirty seconds.

Step 01
Scan
Point your camera at any item. An on-device AI model classifies it in under a second, with no internet and no API cost.
Step 02
Know the bin
Sutham names the correct bin (blue, green or red), shows its confidence, and tells you how to prep the item.
Step 03
Find & log
See the nearest matching bin on the map, drop your waste, and watch your city climb the leaderboard.
The app

Three screens.
One clean journey.

A friendly, tactile interface that anyone can use, from a student in Indore to a sanitation worker in Surat.

First, scan
AI names the bin
Point your camera at any item and on-device AI tells you the exact bin it belongs in, with its confidence, in a second.
Then, find
Nearest bin on the map
A live map of every nearby bin, colour-coded by type, points you to the closest correct one to drop it.
Then, compete
City leaderboards
Cities race to log the most bins. Civic pride turns into coverage, and free word of mouth.
Why it spreads

Cleaning up,
made competitive.

Sutham turns a civic chore into a game cities want to win. The result is a self-growing map that costs nothing to market.

City leaderboards
Cities compete monthly on bins logged. Indore vs. Pune does the marketing for us.
Streaks & badges
Daily streaks and milestone badges keep individuals coming back, day after day.
"Be first" gaps
Empty neighbourhoods invite the first mapper, crowdsourcing coverage block by block.
The national mission

Built for Swachh Bharat.

Sutham isn't a side project to the mission. It's the missing layer that makes its infrastructure actually usable.

Maps the missing layer
Turns crores of already-installed bins into a living, searchable map that anyone can use today.
Drives source segregation
Guides every citizen to the correct bin, the mission's hardest and most important goal.
Creates open civic data
Gives urban local bodies real usage data to optimise where bins go and when they're collected.
Swachh Bharat built the infrastructure.
Sutham makes it findable.
A natural fit for civic-tech grants, ULB pilots and CSR partnerships.
Build timeline

Six months.
Start to launch.

A focused plan for a first-time founder learning Flutter alongside building the product, one clear goal per phase.

1
Month 01
Foundations
Lock the name, set up Flutter, ship the live map and a manual "add a bin" flow.
2
Month 02
On-device AI
Integrate a TFLite waste classifier: scan an item, get a bin suggestion, fully offline.
3
Month 03
Community
Crowdsourced bin adds, edits, verification and lightweight moderation.
4
Month 04
Gamification
Leaderboards, streaks, badges and shareable city pages to drive growth.
5
Month 05
Pilot city
Partner with one urban local body, seed real bin data, and gather feedback.
6
Month 06
Launch
Public release, local press, and live grant applications.
Funding roadmap

Build first.
Fund what works.

Grants need no payback and no equity, so every rupee stays yours. Sutham starts non-dilutive and only raises once a city proves it works.

Stage 01
Grants
Civic-tech, climate and Swachh Bharat grants fund the build with zero equity and zero payback. Two applications can go out this week.
Start here · ₹0 equity
Stage 02
Pre-seed
After the pilot city shows real usage, raise a small angel round to go full-time and expand to a second and third city.
Post-pilot
Stage 03
Seed
An institutional round to scale across states and build the open civic-data business on top of the map.
Year 2
Intellectual property

Protect your Brand Sutham from day one.

Before a single city goes live, lock down the name, the idea and the work, so nobody can take what you build.

Trademark the name
Register "Sutham" and the logo as a trademark before launch, so the brand is yours to grow and defend.
Protect the code
Keep the classifier and codebase private. Copyright is automatic, so document ownership and licences clearly.
Keep a paper trail
Date-stamp designs, commits and key decisions to prove, beyond doubt, that you built it first.
The team

A founder on a mission.

Founder of Sutham
Ankit Kumar Surana
Founder & Engineer
A first-time founder building Sutham end to end (design, on-device AI and community) while learning Flutter along the way. Driven by one simple belief: India already paid for the bins. It just needs a way to find them.
Solo founder Flutter + TFLite Design-led Swachh Bharat focus

India built the bins.
Help us put them on the map.

Sutham is pre-launch and raising its first non-dilutive grants. Get the deck, or talk to the founder directly.