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Jitesh
Co-founder · Drumworks Ventures
Bengaluru
Jitesh co-founded Drumworks Ventures and runs Traviq from Bengaluru. He picks up the WhatsApp messages that come in between 7am and 9pm IST.
LEG 01 · WHY FOUNDERS PICK TRAVIQ
Your team books their own trips. You see the exceptions.
Corporate travel for Indian startups that have outgrown a WhatsApp travel agent but haven't grown into an enterprise contract. Your team self-serves within the policy you set in one sentence. Only the 5% that needs you actually reaches you.
Tickets issued by TravClan & Tripjack (IATA)·Payments via Razorpay (RBI-PA licensed)·GSTIN 27AASFD4920E1ZE
Bookings · This week
Live
BLR → DXB · 14 MarAuto · in policy
Arjun · 6E 1471 · ₹18,420
Booked 04:12 IST · without you
BOM → SFO · 22 MarNeeds you
Priya · UA 868 · ₹1,42,300 — business
Above ₹1L · CFO approval routed
Miles earnedFY26 · YTD
₹3.4L equivalent · corporate wallet
Inbox to founder1 · this week
LEG 02 · WHY NOW
Sunday-night WhatsApp is not a travel program
Every Indian founder running a 50-300 person company hits the same wall. By trip 200, the agent is the bottleneck for every BLR→DXB business-class exception, quotes come back “a bit higher today,” and GST invoices arrive in February for January trips. The enterprise tools want a year-long contract and a six-figure floor. The agent wants another Sunday-night WhatsApp.
Traviq is the in-between. Every flight on every airline, priced against MakeMyTrip and Cleartrip — not against a GDS quote your agent marks up. Tickets issued by TravClan and Tripjack (IATA-accredited); payments via Razorpay (RBI-PA licensed). The fare on screen is the fare your team pays.
LEG 03 · WHAT CHANGES
What your team gets, and what you stop seeing
The policy is a sentence. “Economy under four hours, premium over. Hotel cap ₹8,500 — ₹12,000 in BLR, BOM, DEL. Auto-approve under ₹40,000.” Traviq parses it. Bookings under that line go through one-click; exceptions route to you with the trade-off explained in plain English. You stop being copied on every routine BLR→DXB and start seeing only the trips that actually need a decision.
Your team gets the cheapest in-policy fare first, every airline searched in one place, the GST invoice in their inbox before they board. No more “did you get the receipt?” on the Monday after a Friday flight.
The miles belong to you. Every flight earns to your company’s corporate wallet — Emirates Skywards Business, IndiGo 6E Corporate, Air India Maharaja Corporate. A 50-person team flying ₹50 lakh a year typically earns ₹3-5 lakh in business-class redemptions when miles flow to one account. With most agents, those miles never reach you.
LEG 04 · THE 5%
The 5% that still needs a human
Software handles 95%. The other 5% is what your old agent was actually for — the JFK flight that pushed back four hours, the visa-on-arrival that wasn’t, the BOM-BLR that needs to be BOM-HYD by 11pm tonight.
We don’t pretend software replaces that. So we split the day between Bengaluru and Dubai — whichever timezone is awake. WhatsApp goes to the founders’ phones after signup, not a ticketing queue. The first message you send goes to Jitesh in Bengaluru or Nameet in Dubai. Not support@. Not a chatbot. The two of us.
LEG 05 · WHAT CHANGES DAY ONE
Three rows founders ask about first
The fuller comparison is on the home page. These three rows are the ones founders ask about first — miles, availability, and where the money goes.
Your current setup
Traviq
Loyalty miles
Agent keeps them, or scattered across employee accounts
Your company keeps them. Traveller flies on them.
Available at 2am
Only if he's awake
Self-serve in policy · founders on call for the 5%
Commission baked in
4-8% of every ticket, hidden in the fare
Zero. Transparent platform fee on the invoice.
See the full comparison on the home page.
LEG 06 · FROM US
A note from Jitesh and Nameet
We built this because we were the ones running the WhatsApp thread, at two different companies. One of us was the founder writing “can you book this for tomorrow morning” at 11pm. The other was the finance person finding out in February that January’s invoices never reached the GST portal.
We’re not building a TMC. We’re building the tool we wished existed in 2022 — when the company was 60 people, travelling weekly, and the agent on WhatsApp had become the third co-founder we didn’t ask for.
Jitesh runs Bengaluru. Nameet runs Dubai. Drumworks Ventures, our parent firm, is registered in Mumbai (Chembur, 400089), GSTIN 27AASFD4920E1ZE. We’re in private pilot with three Indian teams. If you book a call, one of us picks up the Zoom.
Who’s actually picking up the Zoom
Two co-founders. Two timezones. No SDR layer.
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Nameet
Co-founder · Drumworks Ventures
Dubai
Nameet co-founded Drumworks Ventures and runs Traviq from Dubai. Previously, he led merchant payments at PayU India, where he helped onboard over 5 million Indian SMBs onto digital finance. He has spent the past five years building across payments, fintech infrastructure, and digital finance in India and the GCC.
Drumworks Ventures is our parent firm — Partnership Firm, registered in Mumbai (Chembur, 400089), GSTIN 27AASFD4920E1ZE. The same two people answer support, demo calls, and the 5% that needs a human.
Cross-role hand-off
If you're evaluating this, three other people should see it
One click, mailto pre-filled. The forward goes to the colleague's inbox with the subject and body ready to send.
Forward to your CFO
Travel rebuild — Traviq
Looked at Traviq. Their CFO page lays out where the ₹4.2L leak is in our current setup — commission, ITC slippage, invoice timing. If we move, books close Tuesday instead of Thursday. Want to take a look before we renew the agent? — [name]
Forward to your travel admin
The booking tool I want us to try
Have a look at the Traviq admin dashboard. One screen for every trip, GST invoice attached same-day, employee profiles saved so you stop re-typing passport numbers. They have a 2-min walkthrough on the page. — [name]
Forward to your CA
Sanity-check Traviq's GST handling
We're evaluating Traviq for corporate travel. Their CA page covers GSTR-2B matching, ITC on flight tickets, and Tally imports. Can you take a quick look and tell me if the reconciliation story holds up? — [name]
LEG 07 · FAQ
The questions founders ask before they switch
The questions a finance head, founder, admin, or CA actually asks before they recommend a change to corporate travel. Direct answers, no marketing voice.
How is Traviq different from MakeMyTrip Business or Cleartrip Business?
MakeMyTrip Business and Cleartrip Business are self-serve booking tools on top of a B2C engine — fare display, payment, basic GST. Traviq is built for the operating reality of an Indian startup: policy parsed from a sentence, approvals routed automatically, GST invoice with IRN attached same-day, loyalty miles to your corporate wallet, real humans on WhatsApp for the 5% that breaks. Same airlines, same routes — minus the commission baked into your current agent's quote.
Do we have to switch our existing travel agent on day one?
No. Most pilots run Traviq alongside the existing agent for the first 30 days. New bookings go to Traviq; the agent stays for in-flight changes on old tickets. By day 30 you've seen the close-week difference and the loyalty-miles accrual. Switching after that is a decision, not a leap.
What does Traviq actually cost?
A transparent platform fee per booking, listed on the invoice — no markup on the fare. For a 50-person team booking ₹50 lakh a year, the platform fee is materially less than the 4-8% commission your current agent bakes in. The net delta usually pays for the platform inside the first quarter.
How does the founder WhatsApp line actually work?
After signup, you get a WhatsApp thread directly with Jitesh (Bengaluru) and Nameet (Dubai). For the first six months, it's the two of us answering — that's not a sales pitch, it's how we run the company. As we hire, we add named operators with handoff visible to you. No support@ queue.
Can our team book international travel through Traviq, including USA and UAE?
Yes. Domestic India, UAE (BLR↔DXB↔AUH), USA (BLR↔SFO, BOM↔EWR), Singapore, EU. Every airline our IATA partners ticket — essentially every airline in operation. Multi-city and round-the-world fares supported; the policy parser handles per-region cabin rules.
What about traveller safety and duty of care for international trips?
Live disruption tracking on every booked itinerary — schedule changes, gate changes, delays, cancellations. WhatsApp ping to traveller and the on-call founder for any disruption affecting same-day departure. The on-call number routes to whichever timezone is awake.
Who's behind Traviq?
Drumworks Ventures (Partnership Firm, Mumbai, GSTIN 27AASFD4920E1ZE). Co-founded by Jitesh (Bengaluru) and Nameet (Dubai). Tickets issued by TravClan and Tripjack (IATA-accredited); payments via Razorpay (RBI-PA licensed). We're in private pilot with three Indian teams.
How long does onboarding take for a 60-person team?
Eight working days, kickoff to first live booking. Day 1-2: traveller list import. Day 3: policy parsed and reviewed. Day 4-5: GL codes and cost-centers mapped. Day 6-7: Tally / Zoho import preview with your accountant. Day 8: first live booking.
The 20-min call is with one of us. Not an SDR. Not a generic demo.
Bring last quarter's travel spend if you have it. We'll walk through what the same trips would have cost on Traviq, what the GST close would have looked like, and what the loyalty miles would have earned.