India already wrote down who its 11.7 million companies are.
We just made them findable.

You found a supplier. Can you trust them?

So you do the work yourself. You call to check the number is real. You ask for the GST certificate. You look up the company. You ask someone who's dealt with them. Days pass before you place an order — and you still aren't sure.

That caution is rational. In PwC's Global Economic Crime Survey 2024, 59% of Indian organisations reported fraud in the previous two years, and procurement fraud was the single biggest threat — about 21 points above the global average.

So everyone verifies twice, and trusts nothing.

You were never the customer.

On the directories you already use, the supplier pays to appear. One enquiry you send is sold to several suppliers at once. “Verified” is a tier a company buys, not a fact someone checked. India's largest B2B platform earns almost all of its revenue from suppliers — and a 2025 Delhi High Court ruling treated such a platform as “just a directory,” not answerable for what's listed on it.

When the supplier pays and the buyer doesn't, the product gets built for the supplier. Results rank by who spent the most, not who you can trust. The person carrying the risk — you — was never the one being served.

Public, but invisible.

Here is the part nobody fixed: every registered Indian company is already on the public record. The MCA21 register and the Udyam MSME registry hold the most accurate business data in the country. It is public — and unusable. You can look a company up only if you already know its number. There is no search by what a company makes, no way to see two registries together, a captcha on every lookup.

The paid data services that sit on this record turned it into per-company financial reports for lenders and analysts — priced per company, built to answer “is this one safe to lend to?”, not “who can make this, near me, and are they real?” The record existed the whole time. The door was just locked.

So we built the buyer's side.

BharatSeal indexes the public record — 11,746,316 companies — and makes it searchable by what a company makes and where it is. It is free for buyers. Every result is ranked by a confidence score built from government data alone. No one can buy a higher position. There is no higher to buy.

Not a directory you pay into. Not a marketplace that takes a cut. A public record, made usable for the side that was never the customer — the way open company data became public infrastructure everywhere else in the world.

Two government registries. One search.

Every profile goes through four stages before it reaches you. No intermediaries, no resellers, no self-reported truth.

Four rules we can't break.

These aren't aspirations. They're constraints baked into how the product is built.

Built in India, for the buyer.

We are a small team that spent years working where Indian government data meets commercial reality, and watched supplier verification stay broken because the people fixing it were paid by suppliers.

BharatSeal is the answer we wanted to exist: the public record, made usable — verifiable, auditable, and free for the side that does the verifying.