We delivered a 40,000 sq ft project with zero cost overruns

27 May 2026 CW Team

Sripad Nandiraj, Founder & CEO, WeHouse, outlines the challenges within India’s fragmented construction ecosystem and the company’s technology-led approach to addressing them. By tackling the industry’s ‘trust deficit’ and delivering measurable outcomes such as reduced wastage and zero cost overruns, WeHouse is enabling a more transparent, predictable and scalable construction model.

What specific gaps in India’s fragmented construction ecosystem were you solving first, and what still remain unresolved today?

We didn’t start WeHouse to just ‘build houses’; we started it to solve the trust deficit. In India, home construction has historically been a black box. You hand over your life savings to a contractor and then spend the next 18 months praying the budget doesn’t double and the roof doesn’t leak..

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