Naman and Aman studied engineering together at NIT Jaipur. After graduation, they moved in different directions.
Naman moved through Samsung into a Chief of Staff role at a gaming company, working on user acquisition. That world runs on attribution, scoring, and the discipline of not spending a rupee without being able to explain what it bought. He got comfortable asking: can this decision be justified structurally?
Aman moved from SocGen into building a retail advertising venture, working directly inside the supply-side economics of physical advertising. He spent years watching how inventory gets assembled and how fragmented the infrastructure becomes when you're inside it. He got comfortable asking: why doesn't any of this have a standard?
They arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions.
Outdoor advertising had no evaluation standard. No way to score a location independently of who was selling it. No logic that separated a good plan from an available one.
From a user acquisition background, this looked like a budget accountability failure. From a retail platform background, it looked like an infrastructure failure. From both angles, it looked like something software engineers might be able to fix.
That was the beginning of Adnoxy.