We're two brothers who got tired of managing a building with Excel and WhatsApp — so we built a platform for communities everywhere.

My name is Neeraj, and I'm the founder of Nizam. Before any of this was a company, it was just a problem I couldn't stop running into.

I live in City Residency East Garden, a 124-flat building in Karachi. A few years ago, I volunteered to take on the role of accountant and treasurer for our building's management — no salary, no software, just a sense of responsibility and a lot of spare evenings. For about a year, I ran everything on Excel: maintenance dues, expenses, who'd paid and who hadn't, all in spreadsheet tabs I maintained myself.

It worked, in the way that duct tape works. But the cracks showed up fast. Outstanding dues were a nightmare to track properly — I'd lose time each month just reconciling who actually owed what. Residents had no real visibility into where their money was going, which meant every decision I made was one more thing I had to explain and defend, even when I'd done nothing wrong. And without a transparent, shared system, small misunderstandings kept turning into trust issues between residents and management — issues that had nothing to do with anyone being dishonest, and everything to do with nobody having a clear, shared record to point to.

I'm a software engineer by profession — I've spent 5+ years building software, including at Bykea. So somewhere in the middle of another frustrating month of manual reconciliation, the obvious question hit me: I build software for a living. Why am I doing this by hand?

That question became Nizam. I started building it to solve my own building's problem first — real accounting instead of spreadsheet guesswork, dues that residents could actually see, and a system that didn't depend on residents just trusting me because I said so.

My younger brother Sundesh, also a software engineer, joined me to help build it properly. In May 2026, we launched Nizam. Today, it's managing 500+ units across 2 societies — still early, still growing, but already doing exactly what we set out to do: replace guesswork with a system every resident and every committee can actually trust.

We built Nizam around our own building because that's the problem we knew firsthand — but the underlying problem isn't a Karachi problem, it's a global one. So from early on, we built Nizam to work for any residential community, anywhere: 170+ currencies, terminology that adapts automatically whether you'd call it an "HOA," a "Strata," or a "Housing Society," and support for multiple languages. Where we happen to be based has never been the point — what the product does for the community running it is.

— Neeraj Batheja, Founder