Anjali Sardana and Pronto entered India’s domestic services market in 2025 to solve a familiar urban problem: finding reliable house help on demand. The result was a quick commerce-style home services platform, combining technology-led recruitment, standardised training and a hyperlocal network of professionals.
Pronto, which competes with Snabbit and Urban Company, says it has served more than half a million households across 11 cities. But the real story of Pronto is being developed far away from the homes and houses that its professionals visit.
Footage recorded by professionals working in thousands of homes every day is helping shape the next generation of robots.
The first signs of this ambition emerged in May 2026, when Pronto was reported to be exploring ways to generate physical AI training data using footage captured during household chores. And since then Sardana and Pronto’s ambitions have solidified.
In July, Pronto formalised the experiment through Verified, an opt-in premium service in which housekeepers and cleaners wear head-mounted or body-mounted cameras during visits.
In October 2026, Sardana set up Provision Labs, a physical AI venture based in San Francisco, which will collect data to train and test AI systems designed to perform real-world tasks using robots and other machines. It will work with developers building physical AI models.
A few days later, Provision Labs announced that it is acquiring Mumbai-based Basilisk Industries, a 2023-founded company focused on perception technologies, which help machines interpret their surroundings.
Basilisk founder Shourya Watwani will lead Provision’s hardware efforts and work on its in-house post-processing models.
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