The business app that starts before the business does

What the app does

Junto is one app covering four things that are usually four different problems: finding the people, agreeing the ownership, doing the paperwork, and running the money.

You start either from scratch or from a playbook — a proven structure for a specific kind of business, with the roles that business needs, a verified cost estimate, default splits and a step-by-step launch checklist. Thirty of them exist, from a café or cloud kitchen to a design studio, an academy, a photo studio or a mobile store.

The launch checklist is the product

Once a team signs its agreement, the workspace fills with the actual steps for that business, in order. Not generic advice — the real sequence: register the entity, get the PAN and TAN, register for GST, open a current account, get the FSSAI licence if you serve food, set up the POS.

Each step explains why it matters and what happens if you skip it. And any step that is really paperwork has a button that hands it to the Junto concierge: you pay a fixed price, someone files it, and the documents land in your vault. That is the difference between a checklist and a business app.

• Company registration — name approval, incorporation, DIN, DSC, PAN, TAN.
• GST registration and the filing rhythm that follows.
• Current account setup, including the board resolution.
• Licences specific to your business, like FSSAI for food.

Running it once it is open

The workspace carries the team thread, the milestones, the file vault and the money. Contributions are logged, so who did what is a record rather than a memory. The treasury guards pooled funds behind proposals and votes.

When a venture goes live it gets a permanent public page — its story, its founding team, and what it offers. Live ventures can also list what they need and what they can offer other ventures, and request introductions to each other. A café that needs packaging and a D2C brand that makes it are both on the same platform.

Mentors

Every venture can book a mentor who has run that kind of business before, matched to its domain. Some hold free office hours; others charge a session fee, paid through the app.

This exists because the checklist tells you what to do and a mentor tells you what the checklist cannot: which of these steps you can defer, which supplier will actually deliver, and what the first three months really look like.