We process millions of customer conversations, AI helps us hear what humans never could: Vivek Agarwal, Co-founder & CTO, Square Yards

When Square Yards began operations in 2014, Indian real estate was still dominated by roadside brokers, classified listings, and a deep deficit of trust. Technology existed largely at the margins, useful for discovery, but irrelevant once the real transaction began. Buying a home remained an opaque, deeply human, and often anxiety-ridden process.

Eleven years later, Square Yards has quietly built what few thought possible: a full-stack, transaction-led proptech platform operating across nine countries, employing over 7,000 people, and touching nearly every layer of the real estate value chain. Last year, the company closed close to ₹1,400 crore in revenue. This year, it is chasing ₹2,000 crore. Growth remains a steady 40–50 per cent year-on-year.

But numbers, insists Vivek Agarwal, Co-founder and CTO, tell only part of the story.

“Real estate is probably the last large sector where technology hasn’t penetrated the way ...