# Sarathi

> Independent Bengaluru public-transport companion for BMTC buses, Namma Metro and walking. English and Kannada. Not an official BMTC, BMRCL or government app.

## Entity

- Product: Sarathi / ಸಾರಥಿ
- Publisher / owner: AUMLayer Cloud Labs LLP
- Product site: https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/
- Publisher website: https://aumlayer.com
- Email: info@aumlayer.com
- Phone: +91 81510 39365
- Registered address, statutory grievance officer and governing-law venue are not yet published.

## Product and status

- Plans door-to-door journeys across BMTC, Namma Metro and walking access.
- Keeps five planner views visible: Fastest, Shortest route, Likely cheapest, Fewest changes, Direct bus.
- Does not hide a useful direct bus behind a slightly faster transfer option.
- Labels times as Scheduled, Typical, Cached, Live or Unavailable. Timetable data is not called live.
- Does not sell tickets or display fare amounts. Likely cheapest is a ranking only.
- Android app: in preparation; no verified public Play Store listing yet.
- iOS: not offered.
- Production public OTP delivery is not enabled yet.
- Live arrivals are not shown as Live until a fresh, authorised realtime feed is connected.

## Geography and current dataset

- City: Bengaluru / Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Languages: English and Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)
- BMTC: 4,381 route patterns in the current static dataset
- Namma Metro: 85 stations in the current public count
- Walking access: Bengaluru OpenStreetMap-derived graph prepared for OpenTripPlanner
- Source provenance and limitations: https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/sources.html

## Primary pages

- [Bengaluru public transport](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/bengaluru-public-transport.html): How BMTC buses, Namma Metro and walking fit into one door-to-door Bengaluru journey.
- [BMTC bus journey planner](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/bmtc-bus-journey-planner.html): Route direction, stop order, direct-bus trade-offs and Scheduled versus Live bus information.
- [Namma Metro journey planner](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/namma-metro-journey-planner.html): Station access, interchange walking and limits of the current Metro dataset.
- [Bus, Metro and walking journey planner](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/bus-metro-walking-journey-planner.html): Multimodal comparison across Fastest, Shortest route, Likely cheapest, Fewest changes and Direct bus.
- [Data freshness and time labels](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/data-freshness.html): Methodology for Scheduled, Typical, Cached, Live and Unavailable information.
- [Data labels](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/labels.html): Short reference for the five evidence states shown by Sarathi.
- [Data sources and attributions](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/sources.html): BMTC, BMRCL/Namma Metro, OpenStreetMap and Google-related provenance and limitations.
- [About Sarathi](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/about.html): Product, publisher, independence, launch status and contact.
- [How to use Sarathi](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/usage.html): Journey planning, labels, offline limits and support.

## Legal and technical pages

- [Privacy Policy](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/privacy.html)
- [Terms and Conditions](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/terms.html)
- [API guide](https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/api.html)

## Machine-readable discovery

- Sitemap: https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://sarathi.aumlayer.com/robots.txt
- This llms.txt file is an auxiliary discovery summary. Canonical public HTML pages remain the source of truth.

## Contact

- Publisher: AUMLayer Cloud Labs LLP
- Website: https://aumlayer.com
- Email: info@aumlayer.com
- Phone: +91 81510 39365