Built inside real driving schools.
We spent six months sitting on the same plastic stools as receptionists, watching cash being counted, attendance dhaddas filled, and trial-day rushes. Then we wrote the software they actually needed.
It started in a small office in Butwal.
In late 2024, our founder walked into a friend's driving school to register a relative for a scooter class. The owner was busy counting cash, the receptionist was hunting for a student's dhadda across three notebooks, and an instructor was on the phone trying to figure out whose vehicle was free at 7 AM.
He stayed. For six months, we visited forty-three driving schools across Kathmandu, Pokhara, Butwal, Biratnagar, and Birgunj — not to sell anything, but to watch. We sat with reception, with owners after closing, with instructors during lunch. We listened to what slowed them down.
The pattern was the same everywhere: paper registers, mental math, missed payments, and a vehicle servicing somewhere nobody had recorded. There was software for hospitals, for banks, for schools. There was nothing built for the way Nepal's driving schools actually operate.
So we built it. Not the generic kind. The kind that knows about category K (scooter), about Yatayat office issuer dates, about how owners want to see today's cash before going home, about how WhatsApp is the only reliable way to chase a payment, and about how ZKTeco terminals already sit on every front desk.
That's Driving Sathi. Built inside the schools it now runs.
From a notebook in Butwal to fifty schools across Nepal
The milestones that shaped Driving Sathi — and the lessons we learned at every step.
The principles we build by
These aren't slogans on a wall. They're the rules we use when we make a product decision.
A small team, in Kathmandu
Engineers, designers, and operators — all who have sat behind a driving-school front desk for at least a day.