We build the products that should exist.
Foways is an AI product studio. We develop and support seven products: Setu, Foways Office, Foways Notebook and Foways Workers for Indian government, plus Tasks, worldgovdata and 1:1. From government portals and documents to research and desktop work, our own team takes responsibility for the complete product experience.
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Four products for Indian government.
Four ways to support the work of government: publish with Setu, create documents with Foways Office, research with Foways Notebook and organise desktop tasks with Foways Workers. Explore the product that fits your department.
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The rest of what we ship
Three studio products for everyday tasks, country-data research and meaningful introductions. Developed and supported by Foways.
Seven products in all — four for government, three from the studio.
We also take custom briefs →See all products →// the_studio
Who actually builds it.
No agency layer, no subcontractors, no offshore pool. The people who design our products are the people who write them.
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A studio you can actually trust to ship.
Products come first, but we still take a small number of custom briefs each year — and they run on the same terms our own work does. No surprises, no lock-in.
- Built in-house by our own team — never outsourced
- What we ship, we keep running
- Two free iterations on every feature
- 50/50 split — the balance is due only when it works
- You own the source and the IP outright
- Running costs are transparent, never marked up
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Foways build?
- Foways is an AI product studio. We build and run our own software: Setu, Foways Office, Foways Notebook and Foways Workers for Indian government, plus Tasks, worldgovdata and 1:1 for everyone else. AI films are a second production line, and a small number of custom builds run alongside — all engineered in-house.
- Does Foways work with Indian government?
- Yes. Four products serve Indian government: Setu for portals, Foways Office for documents, Foways Notebook for research and Foways Workers for desktop tasks. Talk to us about your department’s workflow and the product you want to evaluate.
- What is Setu?
- Setu is a Government-of-India-compliant CMS framework for departments and urban local bodies. A new portal is compliant the moment it exists: GIGW page furniture, an accessibility gate on every publish, maker–checker approvals and a hash-chained audit trail are all on from the start. Developers extend it in TypeScript.
- What is Foways Office?
- Foways Office is an AI-native office suite — documents, spreadsheets, slides, PDF and Markdown — for Windows, Linux and macOS. Every generative feature runs on an Indian-government-approved AI stack, so nothing has to be switched off for residency. It also does real PDF editing: text retyped in place with the original fonts preserved.
- Does Foways still take custom projects?
- We take a small number of custom briefs each year alongside the products. They are scoped up front, engineered by the same in-house team, and delivered against a real deadline — fixed price, split 50/50, source and IP handed over, 30 days of support included. The services page lists what that covers.
- Who is my contact at Foways?
- Founder Sandeep Bali is your direct contact for product demos and project inquiries. Email [email protected] or use the contact form. The legal entity is Merieu Private Limited.
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Bring us the hard part.
Setu, Foways Office, Foways Notebook, Foways Workers, or a build of your own — the goal, the rough scope and the timeline are enough to start. We'll come back with a plan, a fixed price, and a real date.