Journal · five essays · since December 2025
The Journal.
Long-form notes on how Karuneya works — trade choices, field notes from cluster visits, and the small product decisions that shape what shows up at your door. Roughly one essay a month, never a marketing carpet.
Trade · April 2026 · 6 min read
On the three-way split, and why it stays public.
Every other artisan marketplace buries the percentages in 14 pages of ToS. Ours sit on the product page, in plain rupees. Here's why we made that choice and how the math actually flows.
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Editorial · March 2026 · 8 min read
Why we name the maker — and what it changes.
Anonymity is what enables underpayment. The day we put the maker's name on the product is the day pricing stopped being a negotiation. A field note from Kutch.
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Field notes · February 2026 · 11 min read
Six months in Mithila, Kutch, and Channapatna.
The trip that became Karuneya. Two hundred and twelve workshops, fourteen cluster facilitators, one founder asking the same three questions until something shifted.
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Operations · January 2026 · 4 min read
The monsoon pause: why we say "out of season" not "sold out."
Indigo doesn't set in 90% humidity. Block-print pigment runs. The kiln won't fire. We pause categories instead of pretending. Customers prefer it.
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Trust · December 2025 · 5 min read
Why our auto-translation chip says 'auto-translated' even when it's perfect.
There is no version of fake-real artisan language that ages well. We chose the honest UI even though the honest UI is uglier. A small product-decision essay.
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