FOB Digital Labs

Technology for Bangladesh, built to last.

FOB Digital Labs designs and builds software, AI systems and data for Bangladesh and the Bangla-speaking world. Our work spans voice and language, law, media and everyday commerce.

Since 2026 · Bangladesh

FOB Digital Labs

FOB Digital Labs is the software and applications company of FOB (Future of Bangladesh). FOB is a long-term initiative, planned on a horizon of more than ten years, to build institutions and technology that serve Bangladesh. FOB Digital Labs is where that technology is designed, built and run.

We start from Bangla, not from translation. Our products are made for the way people in Bangladesh speak, work, buy and seek justice, and are built to work beyond it too.

Visible work began in 2026. Some of our products are already running; others are in research or design. Each one is labelled below with where it actually stands.

Founded by Suman Ashraphi · LinkedIn

Where we focus

Bangla Language and Voice Data, measurement and protection for the Bangla language and the people who speak it. Legal Intelligence Faster, source-backed legal research for Bangladesh. Media and Content Tools that take an idea to finished audio and video, with a person in charge. Commerce and Everyday Life Software for small businesses and daily needs.

Products

Bangla Language and Voice

Mukhor মুখর

full of voice

Design

Your voice, protected and yours to license.

Anyone can register their voice on Mukhor and declare that it may not be cloned with AI without their consent. We do not let a registered voice be cloned on our platform. If an imitation appears elsewhere, Mukhor helps prepare, send and follow up a takedown request. Protection is free for individuals. Voice owners who choose to can license an AI version of their voice and earn from it, on terms they approve.

Kanthokosh কণ্ঠকোষ

a treasury of voices

In preparation

Studio-grade Bangla speech, with consent at every step.

A Bangla speech corpus recorded by professional voice artists: recitation, narration and drama, across ages and speaking styles. Every recording will carry the artist's written consent before it is offered to anyone. Kanthokosh will be offered under licence to teams building Bangla speech technology, and it is the foundation of our own voice research.

Chhakni ছাঁকনি

a strainer

Research

A Bangla decision layer between AI and action.

Chhakni sits between a language model and the real actions it triggers. It reads Bangla text and returns a typed decision, such as yes or no, a choice or a score, with a confidence level. Systems then act only on what passes through. First components are built.

Nikti নিক্তি

a goldsmith's precision scale

Research

A benchmark for AI decisions in Bangla.

An open benchmark that measures how well AI systems make decisions in Bangla, including how far their confidence can be trusted. Every question is checked by three people. The first public version is planned for 21 February 2027, International Mother Language Day.

FOB Legal AI

Planning

Legal research for Bangladesh, with every answer traced to its source.

A research platform for law students and legal professionals in Bangladesh. Every answer points to the statute or judgment it rests on, so it can be checked. A free tier gives the public plain-language legal information.

FOB Legal AI provides legal information, not legal advice.

Media and Content

Charka চরকা

a spinning wheel

Running

One instruction. A video, checked by you before it goes out.

Describe what a video should be about. Charka writes the script, speaks it, finds the pictures, adds subtitles and renders the video, then waits for a person to review it. Only approved videos are published. Version 1.0 is built and in private use. Made for Bangla first, works in English too.

AI Creative Suite

Planning

Professional audio and video, made with AI.

A production suite for studios and creators, from the first idea to the final mix, with AI used at whichever stage the work needs it.

Commerce and Everyday Life

Posra পসরা

a vendor's display of goods

In development

A complete store for small businesses.

Storefront and back office in one system: products, stock, orders, invoices, delivery and reports. It works in any language, including right-to-left scripts, and in any currency, and it can run on the shop's own server. The core is built.

Jhuri ঝুড়ি

a basket

Planning

One grocery basket, planned around nutrition and priced across online stores.

Say how many people, for how long and on what budget. A nutrition assistant drafts the grocery plan and shows what it adds up to in nutrition. A procurement agent then compares products across online grocery stores and prices the whole basket, delivery included. Nothing is bought until you approve it, and every price shows where it came from and how recent it is. Starting in Bangladesh.

Our principles

  1. Bangla first. We design for Bangla from the start, then make it work in other languages.
  2. Consent before data. No voice, text or personal record enters our systems without the permission of the person it belongs to.
  3. People stay in charge. Where AI acts on someone's behalf, a person reviews the result before it goes out.
  4. Your data stays yours. Our products can run on our users' own servers, and what they put in can be taken out or deleted.

Milestones

  1. 2026 Work on FOB Digital Labs began
  2. October 2026 Charka 1.0 built and in private use
  3. 21 February 2027 · planned Nikti 0.5, the first public release, on International Mother Language Day
  4. 14 April 2027 · planned Nikti 1.0, the full benchmark, on Pohela Boishakh

Talk to us

Questions about a product, research, licensing or working together: write to us and we will reply.

hello@fobdigitallabs.com

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