About Us

Software that does the work.

Mantra AI Ltd is an independent company registered at the Dubai International Financial Centre. We build AI agents for every stage of the revenue lifecycle — marketing, sales development, CRM, conversion, and support — on one shared platform.

Our Mission

Enterprise-grade tools, without enterprise budgets.

The best go-to-market software has always been priced for the teams that need it least. We build the opposite: AI agents that take on the work a growing business can't afford to staff for, charged by what you use rather than how many people you employ.

How We Build

AI at the core, not bolted on.

Every product starts with an agent that can reason, act, and learn — the interface wraps around it. Auth, billing, AI, scraping, and browser automation are shared across the stack, so each product ships faster than the last and works with the others out of the box.

The Founder

Fifteen years, one question.

Manohar Chapalamadugu

Manohar Chapalamadugu

Founder & CEO LinkedIn

How do you give a small business the tools only the biggest budgets can buy?

That question has driven fifteen years of building. Manohar founded ClickDesk in 2011 and Agile CRM in 2015, then brought the portfolio together as 500apps — every product a different answer to it, and every one built on the belief that powerful tools shouldn't be reserved for the teams with the deepest pockets.

Mantra AI is that belief rebuilt for the AI era. The products his teams shipped served 800,000+ businesses across 185+ countries and sent over a billion emails — the lessons from all of it now sit underneath an AI-native revenue stack.

M.S. · State University of New York B.E. · BITS Pilani Founder since 2011
The Legacy

The products that got us here.

Four generations of software, each one teaching the next. These are the companies Manohar founded before Mantra AI — several still serving customers today.

2011
ClickDesk
Pioneered live chat and voice chat for websites. Grew to hundreds of thousands of businesses across 185+ countries. One of the first to put real-time customer conversations on the web.
2015
Agile CRM
Built the all-in-one CRM for small businesses — sales, marketing, and service in a single platform. Trusted by 100K+ companies. Sent over a billion emails. Proved that SMBs deserve enterprise-grade tools at accessible pricing.
2020
500apps
Launched a suite of 50+ business applications — from CRM and project management to email marketing and HR. Explored the breadth of what a single team could build for the modern workplace.
2025
Mantra AI
The next chapter. Everything learned across 15 years and 800K+ businesses, rebuilt as an AI-native revenue stack — every product with an AI agent at its core, from awareness to post-sales.
Consumer Ventures

Alongside the B2B products, two consumer marketplaces applying the same product thinking to connect people directly.

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GharPe

A real estate marketplace connecting home buyers with builders and projects. Listings, virtual tours, and lead generation for residential properties.

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JobPe

A job portal matching candidates with employers through AI-powered resume screening and job recommendations.

See what the agents can do.

Five products, one platform, every stage of the revenue lifecycle.