A solo automation studio for systems that need to run without you.

Who's behind this

Joy Jacob has spent five years — and counting — at Oizom Instruments building data pipelines and IoT systems for industrial air quality monitoring. The work is unglamorous: ESP32 boards, MQTT brokers, factory floors, environmental data feeds that have to keep running whether anyone is watching or not. That's where the design taste comes from — systems that survive without supervision.

Dhumketu is the concurrent technical practice. Same engineering bias, applied to AI automation for a different class of problem: n8n workflows, RAG pipelines, agent systems, scraping infrastructure.

What "Dhumketu" means

Dhumketu (ધૂમકેતુ) is the Sanskrit and Gujarati word for a comet — an astronomical event that moves through systems and leaves a trace. The name is intentional. We don't sell consulting hours or framework opinions. We build something that runs, leave a trace in your stack, and let you keep going without us.

We build systems, not scripts. Every workflow we ship is documented, versioned, and designed to run without human intervention. If it needs babysitting, we didn't finish the job.

Who we work with

Two kinds of clients, mostly:

— Overseas SaaS founders with manual ops processes that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't justify a full engineering hire. Engagement scope: $299–$999 per workflow.

— Indian SME operators in industrial, legal, real estate, or media verticals who need data intelligence pipelines (ePaper, court records, factory data) that nobody else is building.

Where we are

Based in Ahmedabad, India. Working globally, async-first. No standing meetings, no Calendly forcing your timezone, no retainer model. Send us the problem; we'll tell you if it's a fit.

Background

— 5+ years, Oizom Instruments — air quality monitoring, IoT, industrial data systems (current role)
— Concurrent: Dhumketu AI Labs — AI automation infrastructure
— Stack of choice: n8n, Gemini, Supabase, Cloudflare