What if accessing a government welfare scheme was as simple as sending a WhatsApp message? Samadhaan Saathi brings AI-powered, multilingual assistance for welfare schemes directly to citizens across Rajasthan.

Most AI WhatsApp bots fail because they are slow to build, expensive to run, or unreliable in real-world use. In this blog, we share 5 practical design principles from a real implementation that helped us build a bot that is fast, affordable, and reliable. From prototyping without APIs to reducing AI dependency and designing for WhatsApp constraints, this is a grounded look at what actually works.