We built KutumbMap because a household is a fragile thing, and the records that hold it together — names, gotras, the dates of births and marriages, the hours one relative kept for another — are scattered across phones, envelopes and elders' memories that do not survive every generation.
We wanted a quieter, more careful place. Not a network — relatives are not audience. Not an album — the work of a family is not a feed. We wanted what our grandparents kept: a folio, in a known hand, witnessed by a Pandit Ji, held within the house and read only at the house's invitation.
KutumbMap holds three things on a family's behalf, and refuses the rest. The vanshavali — a verified record of who came before. The household calendar — births, anniversaries, ceremonies, the karta's reminders, read against the panchang. And the bahi khata — the hours, rupees and items kept in common between relatives. These are things that already happen inside every household. We only keep them properly.
Why a tree. For each household admitted to KutumbMap, Aarush Eco Tech plants and maintains a tree in the family's name, in partnership with the local gram panchayat. The digital vanshavali holds memory; the planted tree holds presence. One belongs to the household; the other belongs to the land. Both are kept for the same reason — for the generations that follow.
We do not run a public network. Sign-up is through a family referral; your household — not us — is the authority that accepts a new member. Each person sets the visibility of their own node. We do not collect official identity documents to onboard a relative; the family confirms its own. Data is held on servers in India, governed by Indian law, and used only to keep the platform working and improve within what Indian law allows.
