When Anand Rajan began building Apurva AI, his question wasn’t “How smart can AI get?” but “How deeply can it understand communities?” In this episode, he reflects on what it means to listen at scale, learn, and act with technology in service of collective change. And how agency, curiosity, and reflection can reshape the way we design for complexity. This is a story of emergence that asks: What if the future with AI is more human than we imagined?

About Apurva AI: Apurva AI is a unique platform leveraging exponential technologies to help social change leaders solve large, complex societal problems with the power of collective wisdom to create impact at scale. Deeply rooted in Trust, Inclusion and Emergence, it helps amplify the voice of communities, the power of conversations, and institutional knowledge across various domains and geographies through multiple languages.

About the speaker: Passionate about innovation, Anand thrives at the intersection of problems, solutions, technology, and society, where scale meets purpose. He loves reimagining and envisioning new ways to solve existing challenges. Inspired by the concept of Collective Wisdom as a Sense-Making Infrastructure—rooted in the voices of communities and representing the ecosystem—he founded Apurva.ai. Beyond Apurva.ai, he has a deep passion for farming, a pursuit that humbles him with its immense opportunities and challenges, instilling profound respect for farmers worldwide and the obstacles they face. (Source: Apurva AI website)

Additional resources:Learn more about Apurva AI website: https://apurva.ai/

Learn more about Societal Thinking: https://societalthinking.org/

Bell Curve: https://taggd.in/hr-glossary/bell-curve/