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Pururva Agarwal

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Founder, GoDavaii - Advanced Health AI. Multilingual health AI app for the next billion. Drug-interaction graph, lab-report decoder, medication safety in 22 Indian languages. Voice-first mobile app. Top 14 Vietnam 2025. godavaii.com

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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ashwagandha + thyroxine interaction? Frontier AI models miss it, but our Desi Ilaaj graph flags it. We built GoDavaii's drug-interaction graph to cover traditional + modern meds, crucial for medication safety. Built from India, 22 languages live. This matters.
Ashwagandha + thyroxine interaction? Frontier AI models miss it, but our Desi Ilaaj graph flags it. We built GoDavaii's drug-interaction graph to cover traditional + modern meds, crucial for medication safety. Built from India, 22 languages live. This matters.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Large frontier labs have anglophone feedback loops. They can't ship Marathi medical reasoning. We built GoDavaii from India, launching 22 Indian languages live, including voice-first Marathi medication safety. Our org design ensures we solve for the next billion. That's a moat.
Large frontier labs have anglophone feedback loops. They can't ship Marathi medical reasoning. We built GoDavaii from India, launching 22 Indian languages live, including voice-first Marathi medication safety. Our org design ensures we solve for the next billion. That's a moat.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
22 Indian languages live in GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app, proving a contrarian truth building from India: a bootstrapped, smaller team actually wins on language coverage. Our feedback loops are just tighter than large orgs.
22 Indian languages live in GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app, proving a contrarian truth building from India: a bootstrapped, smaller team actually wins on language coverage. Our feedback loops are just tighter than large orgs.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why does World Heart Day mean little if you can't understand your own cardiac report? GoDavaii's Health AI decodes complex cardiac jargon into 22 Indian languages, ensuring a patient truly understands their heart, not just a doctor.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How many Indian families miss early Alzheimer's warnings because lab reports use jargon, not their mother tongue? On #WorldAlzheimersDay, GoDavaii's Advanced Health AI decodes complex lab reports, explaining terms in 22 Indian languages for a worried maa.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most 'multilingual' benchmarks test health AI on English-translated prompts. We ran an audit with 22 Indian languages, using *native* vernacular medical queries. Models struggle without localized fine-tuning.
Most 'multilingual' benchmarks test health AI on English-translated prompts. We ran an audit with 22 Indian languages, using *native* vernacular medical queries. Models struggle without localized fine-tuning.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My team found GPT/Claude in Hindi confidently hallucinated a drug name. This isn't a tuning error; it's structural due to limited Indian language data in base models. Our GoDavaii app, with 22 Indian languages live, tackles this daily.
My team found GPT/Claude in Hindi confidently hallucinated a drug name. This isn't a tuning error; it's structural due to limited Indian language data in base models. Our GoDavaii app, with 22 Indian languages live, tackles this daily.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mizoram's Saitual district achieved 'Surakshit' HIV status. It's a benchmark. But for most Indians, health insights don't speak their language. GoDavaii addresses this, offering 22 Indian languages voice so every patient understands their health data.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our multilingual GoDavaii app (22 Indian languages!) gives you a drug-interaction graph & lab-report decoder. We're an AI app for medication safety, NOT a doctor or AI. NMC Act & ASCI guidelines are specific: AI doesn't diagnose or treat. Clarity builds trust.
Our multilingual GoDavaii app (22 Indian languages!) gives you a drug-interaction graph & lab-report decoder. We're an AI app for medication safety, NOT a doctor or AI. NMC Act & ASCI guidelines are specific: AI doesn't diagnose or treat. Clarity builds trust.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICMR: H1N1 accounts for 98% of India's Influenza A. Yet, how many flu patients truly understand their symptoms and care in their mother tongue?
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We built GoDavaii's multilingual health AI supporting 22 Indian languages because models fail here. Asked Claude in Hindi for \"cold medicine,\" it hallucinated a non-existent drug.
We built GoDavaii's multilingual health AI supporting 22 Indian languages because models fail here. Asked Claude in Hindi for \"cold medicine,\" it hallucinated a non-existent drug.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Asked GPT-4 (Hindi) for a common painkiller. Got 'गोदावरी टैबलेट' - a phantom drug. This isn't just a tuning miss; it's a structural limitation of foundation models on Indian languages. Our 22-language health AI app, GoDavaii, tackles this daily.
Asked GPT-4 (Hindi) for a common painkiller. Got 'गोदावरी टैबलेट' - a phantom drug. This isn't just a tuning miss; it's a structural limitation of foundation models on Indian languages. Our 22-language health AI app, GoDavaii, tackles this daily.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A frontier LLM asked in Hindi for cold medicine invented 'अमृत संजीवनी.' This isn't a bug. It's structural: models lack Indian health data. Our multilingual health AI app, GoDavaii, supports 22 Indian languages. Medication safety requires local context.
A frontier LLM asked in Hindi for cold medicine invented 'अमृत संजीवनी.' This isn't a bug. It's structural: models lack Indian health data. Our multilingual health AI app, GoDavaii, supports 22 Indian languages. Medication safety requires local context.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lilly's Mounjaro launch is big for India's diabetes/obesity fight. The key challenge ahead is effective patient education and adherence support across our diverse population, especially for such a potent drug.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
H1N1 cases are rising in Delhi. How many truly understand the symptoms in their mother tongue? GoDavaii's Advanced Health AI translates urgent H1N1 info into 22 Indian languages live, so every family understands quickly. Health clarity in your language isn't a luxury.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is huge. The cultural shift needed to move away from deeply ingrained staples like ghee and coconut oil across India will be the biggest hurdle. Communicating why in a sensitive way, in all local languages (our 22 Indian languages voice), will be critical for adoption.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
GPT/Claude hallucinated 'Dard-Nivarak' (Pain-Reliever) in a Hindi prompt for medication. This isn't a tuning bug; frontier models lack structural understanding of Indic pharma. Our voice-first multilingual health AI app, GoDavaii, tackles this with 22 Indian languages.
GPT/Claude hallucinated 'Dard-Nivarak' (Pain-Reliever) in a Hindi prompt for medication. This isn't a tuning bug; frontier models lack structural understanding of Indic pharma. Our voice-first multilingual health AI app, GoDavaii, tackles this with 22 Indian languages.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Absolutely. The challenge often isn't just knowing these links exist, but getting the broader healthcare ecosystem to act on them proactively. Integrating oral health data with systemic patient records to surface these risks early is vital.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Asked a frontier LLM for 'Dard Ki Dawa' (pain med) in Hindi. It confidently hallucinated 'Anagesic-XT' - a non-existent drug. This isn't a fine-tuning bug; it's structural. Global models lack deep, reliable Indic health data.
Asked a frontier LLM for 'Dard Ki Dawa' (pain med) in Hindi. It confidently hallucinated 'Anagesic-XT' - a non-existent drug. This isn't a fine-tuning bug; it's structural. Global models lack deep, reliable Indic health data.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Raksha Bandhan is about protection. Why do we still let language barriers dilute the gift of health understanding? GoDavaii's 22 Indian languages voice translates complex health insights, ensuring your Tamil-speaking sibling truly understands their reports.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This week, we shipped GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app with 22 Indian languages live. Users love the Desi Ilaaj drug-interaction graph. Learned: real value is context-specific safety. Next: expand medication safety features for voice-first experience.
This week, we shipped GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app with 22 Indian languages live. Users love the Desi Ilaaj drug-interaction graph. Learned: real value is context-specific safety. Next: expand medication safety features for voice-first experience.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Top 14 Global Finalist in Vietnam taught me: outside India, good investors don't ask about our multilingual health AI app or Desi Ilaaj drug-interaction graph. They dig deep into distribution. Tech is table stakes; reach is the game.
Top 14 Global Finalist in Vietnam taught me: outside India, good investors don't ask about our multilingual health AI app or Desi Ilaaj drug-interaction graph. They dig deep into distribution. Tech is table stakes; reach is the game.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ashwagandha + thyroxine interaction? Frontier models miss these crucial desi ilaaj safety gaps. Built from India, our multilingual health AI app's drug-interaction graph flags vital traditional+modern remedy overlaps. Medication safety demands this deep understanding.
Ashwagandha + thyroxine interaction? Frontier models miss these crucial desi ilaaj safety gaps. Built from India, our multilingual health AI app's drug-interaction graph flags vital traditional+modern remedy overlaps. Medication safety demands this deep understanding.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
22 Indian languages are live in GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app. Frontier labs' anglophone feedback loops structurally cannot ship Marathi medical reasoning. We're built from India to bridge this gap. Org design is our real moat, not just another feature.
22 Indian languages are live in GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app. Frontier labs' anglophone feedback loops structurally cannot ship Marathi medical reasoning. We're built from India to bridge this gap. Org design is our real moat, not just another feature.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The silent crisis of widespread sleep loss from rising temperatures in India will manifest as complex, interconnected health issues, not just isolated conditions. Diagnosing these insidious, compounding effects early will be crucial.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
GoDavaii supports 22 Indian languages live. Contrarian truth from bootstrapping our health AI: A smaller team actually *wins* on language coverage. Tighter feedback loops enable faster, higher quality iteration than large orgs. Bootstrapped agility beats big budgets.
GoDavaii supports 22 Indian languages live. Contrarian truth from bootstrapping our health AI: A smaller team actually *wins* on language coverage. Tighter feedback loops enable faster, higher quality iteration than large orgs. Bootstrapped agility beats big budgets.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
India's generic production is strong, but many critical APIs are still imported, creating a different kind of interdependency. A global supply chain shock would affect our domestic supply too, not just export markets, so we do \"give a damn\".
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You've articulated a critical challenge. This narrative push makes it harder to objectively integrate and validate diverse medical knowledge systems. For health AI, merging historical texts with clinical evidence for patient safety demands a fact-checked approach.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My grandma gave it to me too. It was a rare treat, not a daily staple. The 'diabetes' fear often misses that traditional 'sweet' items were occasional, unlike today's pervasive sugar. It's about overall dietary patterns, not just one ingredient.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Only 2 of 22 multilingual health AI benchmarks test native vernacular medical queries. The rest use English-translated prompts. At GoDavaii, our real-world audit of 22 Indian languages showed up to 40% accuracy drop. We're building for next-billion needs, voice-first.
Only 2 of 22 multilingual health AI benchmarks test native vernacular medical queries. The rest use English-translated prompts. At GoDavaii, our real-world audit of 22 Indian languages showed up to 40% accuracy drop. We're building for next-billion needs, voice-first.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Absolutely, this scale means huge challenges in medication adherence and preventing adverse drug interactions. With so many chronic conditions, patients often take multiple drugs. Ensuring safety at this volume is paramount. Our drug-interaction graph layer helps identify risks.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
3 years in, we reject 'AI as a doctor' framing. Why? India's NMC Act & ASCI guidelines are clear: an AI app with a drug-interaction graph & lab-report decoder isn't a doctor. We build tools for informed choices, not replacements. Trust is paramount.
3 years in, we reject 'AI as a doctor' framing. Why? India's NMC Act & ASCI guidelines are clear: an AI app with a drug-interaction graph & lab-report decoder isn't a doctor. We build tools for informed choices, not replacements. Trust is paramount.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Asked GPT-4 in Hindi for cold meds, it hallucinated a drug. Not a tuning bug, but structural: frontier models lack Indian language data. GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app (22 languages, drug-interaction graph) bridges this. We build from India.
Asked GPT-4 in Hindi for cold meds, it hallucinated a drug. Not a tuning bug, but structural: frontier models lack Indian language data. GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app (22 languages, drug-interaction graph) bridges this. We build from India.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Why does no major health AI talk to a Bhojpuri-speaking patient in Bhojpuri? GoDavaii's AI understands and translates complex medical advice into 22 Indian languages, helping a maa understand her child's lab report. Every Indian deserves health answers in their own language.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Asked GPT/Claude in Hindi for a common cough syrup. It hallucinated a non-existent drug. This isn't a tuning bug; it's structural: tokenizers & pre-training data scarcity for Indic languages. GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app, with 22 Indian languages, tackles this.
Asked GPT/Claude in Hindi for a common cough syrup. It hallucinated a non-existent drug. This isn't a tuning bug; it's structural: tokenizers & pre-training data scarcity for Indic languages. GoDavaii's multilingual health AI app, with 22 Indian languages, tackles this.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Asked GPT/Claude for a common Hindi medication, it hallucinates fake drug names. This isn't a tuning bug; it's a structural gap in frontier models' understanding of localized knowledge. Our GoDavaii app supports 22 Indian languages because this problem runs deep.
Asked GPT/Claude for a common Hindi medication, it hallucinates fake drug names. This isn't a tuning bug; it's a structural gap in frontier models' understanding of localized knowledge. Our GoDavaii app supports 22 Indian languages because this problem runs deep.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Karnataka's HIV spike highlights a core issue: why expect a Kannada-speaking family to understand critical health alerts in English? GoDavaii's AI speaks 22 Indian languages live, ensuring every person understands vital health info in their own tongue.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Unsafe food causes 866M illnesses annually. Vital health information still doesn't speak the language 1.4 billion Indians think in. GoDavaii's 22 Indian languages voice translates crucial health warnings, empowering parents to ensure food safety for their children.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Serum Institute leads global vaccine efforts. But for millions, understanding their own health remains trapped behind language barriers. GoDavaii's Advanced Health AI solves this by speaking live in 22 Indian languages, translating complex reports for a patient's clarity.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Serum Institute's global vaccine win is huge. But will its impact reach every Indian in their own language? At GoDavaii, our Advanced Health AI speaks 22 Indian languages, translating critical info.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
GPT or Claude, asked in Hindi for a common medication, hallucinated a name. This isn't a tuning bug; it's structural. Frontier models often lack native grounding for Indian languages.
GPT or Claude, asked in Hindi for a common medication, hallucinated a name. This isn't a tuning bug; it's structural. Frontier models often lack native grounding for Indian languages.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Mpox news broke. Did a billion Indians get it clearly? GoDavaii's 22 Indian language AI translates vital updates for a parent. Local language health clarity? Fundamental.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ebola cases climb globally. Why does critical health information often fail to reach Indian homes in their native language? GoDavaii's 22 Indian languages voice translates crucial public health warnings, ensuring a Telugu-speaking patient's family understands immediately.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Amla's high Vitamin C is certainly noteworthy, but its deeper Ayurvedic value as a 'rasayana' - a rejuvenator that balances all three doshas - is its true distinction. Our AYUSH harm-reduction layer helps us understand these broad traditional applications responsibly.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Congo Ebola news. Is vital health info accessible for every Indian? GoDavaii's AI gives '22 Indian languages voice' to crucial alerts for a parent. Language is no health barrier.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Building Health AI for India taught me: language is the hardest bug. GoDavaii's 22 Indian languages voice translates outbreak updates, so families grasp risk. True health AI speaks your tongue.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
India's fight against tobacco has a hidden enemy: the language barrier. GoDavaii's Advanced Health AI speaks 22 Indian languages, ensuring critical warnings are clearly understood. True health literacy is the foundation of prevention.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Spot on. The 'Ayurvedic Kripa' example perfectly highlights the deep need for validated Indian pharmacopoeia data. Generic models just don't have the grounded knowledge to prevent such plausible-sounding hallucinations.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The DRC Ebola outbreak highlights a stark truth: health information inaccessibility cripples communities. GoDavaii bridges this by making advanced Health AI speak 22 Indian languages live, ensuring vital information reaches everyone.
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Pururva Agarwal @pururva.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
World No Tobacco Day reminds us of India's tragic 1.3 million annual tobacco-related deaths. It's a crisis of information. GoDavaii's 22 Indian languages voice ensures vital health advice penetrates language barriers for effective prevention.
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