"We believe in a future where privacy is not seen as an extra legal burden for businesses or an already-lost cause for consumers, but rather a benefit to both sides."
When Jay Pavagadhi moved to another place, he found himself facing a time-consuming task which seemed trivial yet exhausting: He had to contact tens of different organizations such as real estate companies, car rental businesses, hospitals, doctors, banks, and tax authorities to update his address details.
“While the first one or two data-entry tasks may be a fun experience, you start to feel quite annoyed as this repetitive process consumes all the little energy that you are left with after a busy day,” Jay says.
This inconvenience of manual data entry was what led Jay to look for more effective solutions for people to enter their details. His starting point was simple: Instead of people visiting different websites and doing the laborious work of data entry repetitively, they should have a platform to send their details from a single location without much effort and move on with their daily lives.
This is how OLAK was founded in 2018.
A Painful Start
OLAK provides individuals a single location to upload, share, and update their details. This platform is called Personal Data Stores.