About SareeXchange

Reimagining a 5,000-Year
Tradition with AI

We build tools that help saree lovers, collectors, and boutiques bring their collections online, try on new looks before they buy, and participate in a living community marketplace โ€” all powered by Google Cloud.

Our Mission

Tradition Deserves Better Technology

The saree is one of the world's oldest continuously worn garments โ€” nine yards of unstitched fabric that has been draped, layered, and reinvented across generations. And yet, for most of its history, the experience of owning, shopping for, and wearing sarees has stayed almost entirely offline.

Collections live in trunks and wardrobes with no way to search them. Shopping online means squinting at a flat product photo and hoping the drape will work for you. Small boutiques and individual collectors have no practical way to reach a global audience.

SareeXchange exists to change that. We combine modern generative AI โ€” image understanding, virtual try-on, and video generation โ€” with a simple marketplace and seller dashboard, so every saree can be catalogued, styled, and shared with the care it deserves.

Our Vision

A Frictionless, Community-Driven Marketplace

Build a frictionless, AI-powered marketplace where every saree lover gets a best-in-class experience on their own time โ€” able to virtually try a saree on before committing to a purchase, inside a community of saree lovers vouching for each other's finds.

Frictionless

Browse, try on, and buy in minutes โ€” no appointments, no guesswork.

Try Before You Buy

See any saree on yourself โ€” image and HD video โ€” before you commit.

Vouched by the Community

Reviews and word-of-mouth from fellow saree lovers you can trust.

Market Opportunity

A $12 Billion Market, Still Largely Unorganized

The Indian saree industry is one of the world's largest apparel categories โ€” yet most of its supply chain remains offline, fragmented, and underserved by modern commerce tooling.

$12B+

Indian saree market
(2024โ€“2025) ยท โ‚น90,000+ Cr

33%

of India's
women's wear segment

60โ€“65%

of the market is
unbranded / unorganized

$300M+

in annual
Indian saree exports

Diversity AI is built for

The category spans 75+ fabric types and 70+ print types โ€” exactly the kind of long-tail complexity that modern generative AI understands far better than rigid product catalogs.

72% man-made / blended 26% cotton 2% silk

Where SareeXchange wins

A handful of organized players โ€” Pothys, Nalli, RS Brothers, Kalyan Silks โ€” each do โ‚น1,000+ Cr a year, but that's the tip of the iceberg. The bulk of the market is small boutiques, regional weavers, and individual collectors with no practical way to digitize their inventory, let customers try looks on, or reach a global audience. That is our wedge.

Sources: Redseer Strategy Consultants, Shiprocket, ExportImportData.in, The Hindu & industry reports (2024โ€“2025).

What We've Built

A Full Stack for the Saree Experience

Live today on the web, iOS App Store, and Google Play โ€” powering personal collections and independent boutiques around the world.

AI Cataloging

Snap a photo and get fabric, weave, color palette, occasion, and styling tags inferred automatically.

Virtual Try-On

Upload a photo of yourself and preview how any saree in the marketplace would look on you โ€” in under a minute.

HD Drape Videos

Generate a short fashion-showcase video of the saree draped and flowing on the shopper โ€” with natural narration in the language of your choice.

Marketplace & Boutiques

Community Warehouse for browsing and visual search, plus branded seller boutiques with rental, sales, and return management.

Our Technology

Built on Google Cloud, End to End

Every part of SareeXchange โ€” authentication, data, generative AI, payments โ€” runs on Google's infrastructure.

Vertex AI โ€” Generative Models

  • Veo 3.1 โ€” HD fashion-showcase video generation with narration
  • Virtual Try-On (VTO) โ€” photorealistic saree preview on user photo
  • Imagen 3 โ€” drape correction and refinement after try-on
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash โ€” saree metadata extraction, chat agent, intent routing
  • Gemini Embeddings โ€” visual and semantic search across the Warehouse

Firebase โ€” Application Platform

  • Authentication โ€” email, phone OTP, Apple & Google sign-in
  • Firestore โ€” user data, sarees, stores, orders, messaging
  • Cloud Functions (Gen 2) โ€” secure server logic for AI, payments, IAP receipts
  • Cloud Storage โ€” saree photos, generated try-on images & videos
  • Firebase Hosting โ€” this site and the web app

Cloud Run & Scheduler

  • 2nd-gen functions served from Cloud Run containers
  • Secret Manager for Apple, Stripe, and Plaid credentials
  • Scheduled tasks for reminders, cleanup, and notifications

Clients & Commerce

  • Web โ€” React + Vite progressive web app
  • iOS & Android โ€” Capacitor native shells, live on the App Store and Google Play
  • Payments โ€” Stripe for web; Apple & Google in-app purchases for subscriptions

The Team

Behind SareeXchange

SG

Suriya Gurumurthy

Founder, SareeXchange

San Ramon, California

Results-driven executive with 25+ years leading enterprise application transformations. Proven success implementing innovative solutions to enhance business performance, with deep expertise in digital transformation, enterprise architecture, and data strategy. SareeXchange applies that experience to a new canvas โ€” bringing data cloud platforms and generative AI to one of the world's most beloved garments.

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SareeXchange is a product of Savaitr Corporation.