Letter from our CEO
The personal story behind why Proma exists
From: Shishir Bashyal
Subject: Regarding the future of composability
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025
Dear Business Leader,
Today, I want to share something personal with you—the real reason I built Proma.ai. Remember 2006? Like most people my age, I was carrying multiple devices. Nokia for calls, iPod for music, Garmin for navigation, digital camera for photos. The experts called it "best of breed." Then Steve Jobs walked on stage and showed us a better way. One device. Everything unified. The experts ridiculed it as master of none and predicted it would fail. But we all lived through what happened next.
Fast forward to 2019 when I was running my first startup. I found myself juggling again—this time browser tabs instead of devices. Salesforce, Asana, Slack, Stripe, QuickBooks, DocuSign, plus several more—and countless spreadsheets. My browser had become my old cargo pants, stuffed with "best of breed" tools that exist side-by-side yet incapable of talking to each other.
My team was wasting their time just managing the gaps between our tools. Copy-pasting. Syncing. Searching. Updating the same information in three places. Monday mornings often started with fixing whatever broke over the weekend. The tools that were supposed to make work easier had colonized our lives—the same fragmentation from 2006 had now infected my business in 2019.
The experts are right about Composable Enterprise—businesses need to build systems from flexible, powerful components. But today's version is just vendor lock-in with extra steps. You're not composing—you're collecting. Dozens of 'best of breed' products, dozens of vendor relationships, dozens of APIs to manage. That's not composability. That's complexity.
So I decided to build the composable enterprise platform I desperately needed—one that works like your smartphone. Where you compose your business systems from powerful building blocks, all in one place. Where adding payments is as simple as adding a column. Where everything connects naturally because it was designed to. Where Mondays actually feel like fresh starts, not damage control.
You have a choice. Continue juggling tools, or join us in building systems that just work—that don't break when you don't tend them for 2 days.
So I ask you directly: unification vs. fragmentation—which side are you on? Will your future Mondays be different?
With deep respect for your journey,
Shishir Bashyal
Founder & CEO, Proma.ai
The Problem We Solve
Tool Sprawl
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15+ monthly subscriptions - Hours spent copying data between tools
- Integrations break over weekends
- Jumping between 20+ browser tabs
- Forcing processes into wrong tools
- Waiting months for IT to build things
- Learning curve for every new tool
- Data scattered across systems
Proma
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One platform, everything included - Data flows automatically
- Everything works together natively
- One workspace for everything
- Build exactly what you need
- Business teams build in minutes
- Learn once, use everywhere
- All your data in one place
Our Approach: The Three Pillars
True Unification
Not just connected—unified. Every component works together by design, not through brittle APIs. One workspace for all your business processes.
AI-First
Intelligence woven in, not bolted on. From generating your initial system to powering smart automations, AI helps you build faster and work smarter.
Composable
Build exactly what your business needs. Combine powerful building blocks to create custom solutions in minutes, not months. Adapt as quickly as your business changes.