# Michi Studios

> Michi Studios is an AI product engineering studio in Chennai, India (a Kosal IT Solutions LLP company). A senior team designs, builds and runs AI agents, voice and WhatsApp automation, SaaS platforms and mobile apps that reach production, for founders and operators worldwide.

## Facts
- Location: Arumbakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Works with clients worldwide.
- Contact: info@michistudios.com · +91 63834 37327 · https://michistudios.com/#contact
- Founder: Manoj Prabhakar
- Products built and run by the team: MMS (the operations platform that runs Manju Groups, a real estate developer: 30+ modules covering leads, WhatsApp follow-ups and telecalling, marketing budgets and cost per lead, land procurement, projects and BOQ, procurement, finance, payroll, HR and attendance, approvals, GeoTrack field-staff GPS tracking with tamper detection on native Android and iOS apps, and live camera monitoring; 1.9M+ leads managed, follow-ups cut from 30-60 minutes to about 5), Airix (telecalling and dialer platform, about 12,000 calls, 100+ telecallers), Astromila (astrology and matchmaking web app and API engine, 1,000+ reports generated; mobile app in development), Ladder Academy (AI coding academy, https://michistudios.com/ladder-academy/).
- Across its platforms: 4 live products, thousands of users, 100K+ AI-assisted calls, chats or reports.
- Typical time from kickoff to first release: 2 to 4 weeks.
- Languages for voice and chat agents: English, Tamil, Hindi and more.
- Model-agnostic: Claude, GPT, Gemini or open-source models, chosen per task on cost, privacy and quality.
- Clients own the code, data and infrastructure. Client data is never used to train shared models.

## Services
- AI agents that do real work: tool use, retrieval over your documents, approval steps, logs of every action.
- Voice and calling agents: inbound and outbound calling, call summaries, CRM updates, live hand-off.
- WhatsApp and chat automation: WhatsApp Business Platform flows, templates, lead routing, analytics.
- AI-native SaaS and MVPs: product design, Next.js web, React Native mobile, billing, analytics.
- Pilot to production: code review, evaluation suite, observability, cost controls, deployment.
- Dedicated product team: a senior pod (lead, engineers, design, QA) with weekly demos.

## Pricing (fixed scope, fixed price)
- Discovery Sprint: from $1,500, 1 to 2 weeks. Feasibility on your data, architecture, spec, success metrics, fixed build quote.
- Production Build: from $8,000, first release 2 to 4 weeks after kickoff. Full build, integrations, deployment, monitoring, 30 days of support.
- Dedicated Team: from $4,000 per month, ongoing.
- Prices in INR available for Indian clients.

## How engagements run
1. Discovery call (30 minutes, free)
2. Discovery sprint (1 to 2 weeks, fixed fee)
3. Build (2 to 4 weeks to first release, a demo every week)
4. Launch and handover (you own the code and infrastructure)
5. Run and improve (optional, monthly)

## Guides
- [AI agents for business: what they actually do, and where they pay off](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-agents-for-business/): A practical guide to AI agents for business: what an agent is, the five jobs they do well today, where they fail, what they cost, and how to pick your first one.
- [WhatsApp automation for sales teams: how to automate messages without losing the human touch](https://michistudios.com/blog/whatsapp-automation-for-sales/): How to automate WhatsApp messages the right way: the Business app vs the API, templates, CRM sync and follow-up timing, with numbers from a real estate team that cut follow-up time to five minutes.
- [AI calling agents for telecalling teams: what works, what doesn't, and how to start](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-calling-agents/): A field guide to AI calling agents and voice AI for business in India: inbound vs outbound, Indian languages, dialer and CRM groundwork, compliance, and lessons from about 12,000 calls on Airix.
- [AI proof of concept: what it should prove before you fund the build](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-proof-of-concept/): Most AI proofs of concept prove the wrong thing. What an AI PoC should test, an AI readiness checklist, a two-week plan on real data, and how to decide whether to build.
- [AI agent examples: 15 real workflows businesses run today](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-agent-examples/): Fifteen concrete AI agent examples across sales, support, operations, finance and product: what each agent reads, what it does, and where a person stays in the loop.
- [AI chatbot development: what a production chatbot actually needs](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-chatbot-development/): A buyer's guide to AI chatbot development: how RAG chatbots answer from your own documents, what separates production from a demo, which channel to start on, and what to ask a development company.
- [AI app development cost in 2026: a real breakdown](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-app-development-cost/): What it really costs to build an AI app or MVP: the four things that drive the price, our fixed starting prices, the running costs nobody quotes, and how to keep both under control.
- [Custom AI development or off-the-shelf tools? How to decide](https://michistudios.com/blog/custom-ai-development/): When an off-the-shelf AI tool is enough, when custom AI development pays back, why AI integration is often the best middle path, and what to demand from a development partner.
- [AI MVP development: how to launch a useful first version in weeks](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-mvp-development/): How to scope and build an AI MVP that real users rely on: what to cut, what never to cut, a week-by-week plan, the stack that keeps you fast, and what to measure after launch.
- [AI automation: 12 business workflows worth automating first](https://michistudios.com/blog/ai-automation-services/): Twelve business workflows where AI automation pays back quickly, from instant lead replies to invoice checks, how to choose your first, and what good AI automation services should include.
- [Real estate CRM software: what Indian sales teams actually need](https://michistudios.com/blog/real-estate-crm/): The features a real estate CRM must have in India, from portal lead capture and WhatsApp follow-ups to telecalling and site-visit tracking, with lessons from MMS, the platform we built that manages 1.9M+ leads.
- [Real estate ERP: what we learned building one system from land to handover](https://michistudios.com/blog/real-estate-erp/): What a real estate ERP needs to cover, from land procurement and marketing budgets to sales, construction, finance, HR and field teams, with lessons from MMS, the 30+ module platform we built for Manju Groups.
- [Field staff tracking app: GPS that's accurate, fair and hard to fake](https://michistudios.com/blog/field-staff-tracking-app/): How a field staff GPS tracking app should work: background location that spares the battery, movement and stop detection, tamper alerts for mock GPS and airplane mode, and the rules that keep it fair. From GeoTrack, the system we built.

## Pages
- [Home](https://michistudios.com/): services, work, process, pricing, FAQ and contact
- [Blog](https://michistudios.com/blog/)
- [Ladder Academy](https://michistudios.com/ladder-academy/)
- [Privacy policy](https://michistudios.com/privacy/)
- [Terms of use](https://michistudios.com/terms/)
- [Full text of every guide](https://michistudios.com/llms-full.txt)