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Shruti means knowledge passed down through speech. That ancient idea, built for the AI era.
The word Shruti comes from Sanskrit, and it means sacred knowledge passed down through speech — through voice, through direct transmission from teacher to student. It is one of the oldest ideas in human civilization: that expertise is not only stored in books. It lives in people, and it travels through a room.
That idea is the whole company. The speaker bureau business drifted a long way from it — toward relationships, retainers, and rosters of recycled names that get recommended because they are easy to book rather than because they will change how a room thinks. Meanwhile, the people actually building AI are largely absent from those rosters.
iShruti was built to close that gap: a curated, individually-verified bureau for the AI era, with the commission printed on the wall and half the roster drawn from outside the usual circuit. It is founder-led, early, and honest about being early — built by an immigrant founder, nights and weekends, earned rather than given.
A bureau for the people building it.
Not a rolodex of recycled names. A curated, individually-verified roster for the AI era — with the commission printed on the wall and half the voices from outside the usual circuit.
Shruti: sacred knowledge passed down through speech. Expertise isn't only stored in books — it lives in people, and it travels through a room.
Legacy bureaus recommend who's easy to book. We look for who will change how the room thinks.
The people actually building AI are largely absent from the incumbent rosters. That's the gap.
Founder-led, early, and honest about being early — earned rather than given.
Publish the commission instead of burying it
Verify every speaker individually
Refuse pay-to-play placement
Print fees before anyone commits
Curate a small roster, not a big directory
Source at least 40% diverse and Global-South voices
Guarantee the room's rating, not just delivery
Answer email as a person, not a sequence
Say when a product isn't live yet
Cap travel at cost, agreed upfront
Stay non-exclusive for our speakers
Build slowly enough to keep all of the above
Need a different angle? Every talk is customized to your audience.
Get a shortlistPublished, printed inside every quote, charged only on booked engagements.
Of verified speakers are women, people of color, or from the Global South.
Questions about booking get a human answer within one business day.
One price, our 17.5% printed inside it. Travel at cost, capped. No surprise line-items — ask any bureau to show you theirs. We're early and say so. What's live today is the marketplace; anything on the roadmap is labelled as roadmap.
2 minutes, no account
verified speakers, real prices, in 24 hours
contracts, payment, and logistics handled
Five questions every organizer asks — tap one.
Shruti is Sanskrit for sacred knowledge passed down through speech — expertise transmitted person to person rather than only written down. It's an ancient idea with a very current application: the right voice in the room still changes what an organization does next.
Because the incumbents are selling the 2010s innovation circuit to organizations facing 2026 problems. Their rosters reward relationships and repeat bookability; ours rewards people who have actually built, researched, or led AI work — and we publish our commission instead of burying it.
It's founder-led by Brijesh Patel, an immigrant founder building the company deliberately rather than raising first and figuring it out later. You'll often be corresponding with the founder directly — that's a feature of this stage, not an accident.
Early. We're building the founding roster and being candid about that everywhere on the site rather than implying scale we don't have. What already holds is the model: individual verification, published fees, and the 8/10 guarantee.
A founding commitment that at least 40% of verified speakers are women, people of color, or from the Global South — built into how we source and screen from day one, not added later as a category page.
Rather we just figure it out for you?
Get a shortlistThe company is US-registered and founder-led, working with speakers and organizations internationally.
No. iShruti is being built deliberately and self-funded at this stage, which is why we can publish our economics.
Yes — that's the default. Questions about booking a speaker get a human reply within one business day.
We individually check identity, real work, and stage skill. Every speaker. No exceptions.
If your audience rates it below 8/10, our commission is refunded. Full terms are on the guarantee page.
Not formally yet. If you're exceptional and believe in what we're building, write to us anyway — we read everything.