- a cord, a rope;
- the tie that fastens the yoke of a plough to the neck of the ox.
From the root yu, to join. Hindi still has it as jot, the rope of a harness.
For dynamic teams who strive to keep every promise
The cord that ties work together. Everything in one place so nothing slips, nobody chases blind, and every request hears back on time.
Email, requests, tasks, deadlines and meetings, with Sakha to answer and act.
The word
From the root yu, to join. Hindi still has it as jot, the rope of a harness.
In a field, the strength is in the oxen.
Whether the furrow runs straight depends on a length of rope.
The yotra is that rope. It ties the yoke to the plough, so every pull goes the same way.
Most teams have strength to spare. What's missing is the cord.
Why we're building it
Each one is kept somewhere. A shared inbox, an Excel tracker, a WhatsApp group, a manager's diary, a junior's memory. None of those talk to each other, so a team spends its best people checking on its own work.
Yotra is where those promises meet, so they can be kept.
The problem
Whether you serve clients or the rest of your company, these will sound familiar.
The shared inbox
A client writes to the team's shared mailbox. Three people open it. Each one assumes someone else has replied. By Thursday the client is calling the person in charge.
The tracker
Due dates live in an Excel sheet that travels by email. Changes arrive as a WhatsApp forward and get typed in by hand. Whoever has the latest copy is right.
Waiting on someone else
Half the delay in any piece of work is waiting on someone else: a client's signed agreement, another team's numbers, a yes on the draft. The reminders live in someone's phone, so nobody can see how long it has really been, or who asked last.
Work the agreement never covered
One more round of revisions. A quick call with their investor. A market study for their board. None of it is in the agreement. Over a year it can add up to weeks of unbilled work, because no one saw it happening.
The question from the top
To know where one piece of work stands, the person in charge asks the manager, who asks the junior, who goes looking in the shared drive. The answer comes back an hour later, and it is already a guess.
Yotra ties each one to the client or team, the person and the date it belongs to.
What it does
Mail, requests, tasks, deadlines, meetings and pages, each tied to the client or team it belongs to. Here it is, page by page, the way it sits in the app.
A steady week: 86% of work finished on time, up from 71%, and 3 tasks are overdue.
Agree who drafts the answers today, and send a holding note.
A quick call about the missing data, and whether phase 2 needs a new quote.
Agree new dates for the 3 late tasks. Sneha has the lightest load and could take 2.
A quick look at the Kaveri email waiting on Meera.
Good morning, Rohini. Start with the 2 overdue tasks.
Asks from clients, meetings and colleagues, waiting for a decision.
Every task in the firm. Filter by label, client or owner, or search by name.
Dear Prashant,
Thanks for this. We've revised clause 7 to cap liability at the fees paid in the previous twelve months. The draft is attached, ahead of Monday's call.
Regards,
Aditya Kulkarni
Manager, Sutra & Co. · www.sutraco.in
What your note-taker recorded. Say which client a meeting was with and it becomes a notes page under that client. Its action items come filled in: check them once and they're made as tasks when you file.
Orbit Labs wants the new site live before their funding announcement in December. Their team owns copy; we own design and build.Meera
Send the revised scopeDoneRD
Design review with their teamIn progressMI on Thursday.
Home page wireframesIn reviewKR
Do they need the Hindi version at launch, or after?Aditya
Select any line and choose Create task to add more.
Private limitedAKAditya Kulkarni, engagement managerReporting · Contracts · Investor relations · Strategy
The usual date for each return and payment. When a date is extended, add an extension for that period: every open task that uses the rule moves to the new date.
How the firm is layered and who reports to whom. Pulse uses it: everyone sees the work of the people under them.
Meet Sakha
Sakha means a friend, the one who walks beside you. It reads the same tasks, email and deadlines your team does. Ask it anything in plain words, or tell it what to change, and it's done without hunting for the right screen.
How a client stands, what a colleague has on, how the week is going: from the real tasks, email and dates, in a few lines.
Close, move or hand over work in plain words. It checks before it acts, and every change can be undone.
Who's waiting for a reply and for how long, and a draft in your words. Nothing goes to a client unless you send it.
What clients and colleagues ask for becomes tasks with an owner and a date, all at once.
Next steps, notes and checklists straight onto the page you're on, from what you tell it.
What clients said they'd send, and by when. It keeps the list, and you tell it when something arrives.
Ask
“Where are we on Mehta Retail?”
“What did I promise clients for this week?”
“Who has the most on their plate?”
The answer in seconds, from the real tasks, mail and dates. No more asking around to find out where something stands.
Act
“Move my overdue work to Friday.”
“Give this email to Rahul.”
“Turn the urgent requests into tasks.”
Changes go through the same checks as your own clicks: work that needs a reviewer still goes to the reviewer. Every change to your work can be undone.
Write
“Add the next steps to this page.”
“Draft a reply to Neha about the timeline.”
“Make a checklist for the launch.”
Notes and checklists land on the page. Replies come as drafts: nothing goes to a client unless you send it.
On every screen
The round button sits on every screen. Open it on a client and “this” means that client; on an email, that conversation; on a page, that page. It acts right there, and the screen changes in front of you. Ask about anything else and it answers that too.
Voice Premium
Tap the mic and talk to Sakha in English, हिन्दी, मराठी, ગુજરાતી, தமிழ் and more, wherever your browser understands them. It can read its answers out loud. Between meetings, dictate the notes straight into the page, and ask Sakha to turn them into tasks.
“आज क्या बाकी है?”“उद्याचं काम दाखव.”“Make a task to call Arjun at four.”
From India, for the world
Early access
We're opening Yotra to a small group of teams first. Tell us a little about yours and we'll be in touch.