?an — the flip side
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?an — back home
tracking: 🧾 every rupee, on purpose

the flip side

Every answer owes something back.

3causes, split evenly
0pooled or hidden funds
100%of premium proceeds, after costs

how it actually works

Not a "portion of proceeds."
An actual receipt.

No pledge language, no fine print. Here's the literal path a rupee takes.

?1

You buy something premium

A tool, a doodle, a book — anything marked premium anywhere on this site.

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It's logged, not pooled

That purchase is tagged to its own line item — it never disappears into one big fund.

?3

Split three ways

After basic costs, what's left is divided evenly across all three causes below.

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Published, every quarter

The running total and where it went — posted here, not just promised.

where it goes

Three causes.
No fourth option.

Chosen on purpose, kept small on purpose — easier to actually track, easier to actually trust.

Parents starting over

Grants and re-skilling support for middle-aged parents who've lost work and are rebuilding a livelihood from scratch — no severance, no safety net, just a gap year they didn't choose.

this quarter33%
Updated the first week of every quarter.

Cancer research

Direct contributions to research grants — specifically the early, unglamorous questions that are too unproven for big funding but too important to skip.

this quarter34%
Split is never far from even — this one just rounds up.

Gen Z, building

Micro-grants and mentorship for young founders and makers who have the idea but not yet the runway — the boring, unfundable, pre-pitch-deck stage.

this quarter33%
Applications open quietly — no big launch, just steady support.

why these three

very list of causes I could have picked was long, and most of them would have made this page feel like every other "giving back" page — vague, well-meaning, unaccountable. I picked these three because I've stood close enough to each of them to know exactly what a rupee well-placed can do.

I've watched a parent's entire identity get tied to a job that no longer exists, at exactly the age when starting over feels impossible. I've spent a career around the kind of research that never makes a headline but quietly changes what's survivable a decade later. And I've watched brilliant twenty-somethings get stuck not for lack of ideas, but for lack of the boring runway nobody wants to fund.

Three causes, kept deliberately small, so I can actually stand behind every number on this page — not just the sentiment behind it.

Tapan Shah, Founder

Quarterly reports, published here. Every total on this page updates on the same schedule — no waiting for an annual summary, no PR spin.

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Buying something premium is the easiest way in.

Every tool, doodle and book marked premium runs straight through the split above — no extra steps, no separate donation needed.

You actually did the thing. Respect. 🎉

That's the whole philosophy of this place, honestly — poke around, try the thing nobody tells you to try.