Dheya · Kaaryam
Work First, Learn Always — India's hyperlocal livelihood platform.
India doesn't have a livelihood-discovery problem because opportunities don't exist — it has one because opportunities aren't visible, verified, or local enough. Rural and informal-economy work seekers migrate to cities chasing jobs that may already exist within commuting distance of home. Kaaryam removes the false choice between 'a job now' and 'a course first'. Start with verified local work; keep Dheya's mentoring economy available for the rest of a working life — on one continuous person_id.
Who this is for
- Rural and informal-economy work seekers looking for verified work close to home
- Local MSMEs and employers who need pre-verified, matched candidates — not junk applicants
- CSR foundations, multilaterals and impact investors backing livelihood outcomes
- State governments, skill missions and district administrations with existing cadres
- NGOs and community organisations running last-mile livelihood programmes
- Prospective Career Sakhis, Career Mitras and Career Sanyojaks joining the field force
What it is
Two engines, one graph — earn, stabilise, grow, lead.
Kaaryam is the livelihood engine; Dheya is the mentoring and development engine. A single person_id follows someone from their first verified local job through every mentoring milestone after — one graph, one trust record, one growing story. Marathwada, anchored on Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, is unit one of a national platform, not a regional pilot.
- Career Sakhis and Career Mitras — village-resident agents doing face-to-face outreach, profiling and verification
- Career Sanyojaks — employer aggregators driving verified local job supply
- QMR (Quick Match and Respond) engine — an AI layer matching seekers across 15,000+ mapped job roles
- Zero-junk guarantee — sub-threshold matches never surface, on any channel, including paid placements
- Verified Lifecycle OTP System (VLOS) — dual-party OTP-confirmed joining and exit, so every lifecycle change is provably real
- Employer-safe by design — raw psychometric and RAPD scores are never exposed; employers see fit and verification only
How it works
A calm, sequenced method — not another platform.
Register & verify
Seekers are profiled and verified face-to-face by a Career Sakhi or Mitra. Employers are onboarded and verified by a Sanyojak. Nothing enters the match graph until both sides are real.
Match & place
The QMR engine matches on fit and readiness, not just keywords. Sub-threshold matches never surface. Joining and exit are confirmed by dual-party OTP, so placement data is auditable.
Sustain & grow
Post-placement check-ins hold retention. Once someone is earning, Dheya's 7D mentoring — Discover, Destination, Direction, Desire, Drive, Dream, Design, Develop — becomes available across their working life, on the same person_id.
Outcomes we design for
Tangible movement — measured, not promised.
Ballarpur/Chandrapur pilot (180 days, UNDP + IKEA Foundation): 10,118 registered, 6,030 guided, 1,881 placed, 599 employers connected
300+ agents trained in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar; long-term partnership with the Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission (UMED)
Institutional trust: World Bank, UNDP, NSDC, Indian Army and multiple state governments
Profitable in FY2025-26 on zero grants to date — a livelihood engine that pays for itself
A continuous career graph — earn, stabilise, grow, lead — on one person_id
Livelihood inside the platform itself: Sakhis, Mitras and Sanyojaks earn as they build the network
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