Agaram Solutions

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One connected platform for a growing entrepreneurs' community

How Agaram built YES Connect — the platform that runs day-to-day life across a 4,200-member, multi-chapter entrepreneurs' community.

The challenge

The Young Entrepreneur School (YES) — the entrepreneur-development forum of the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry — isn't one office with one workflow. It's a community of 4,200+ members across roughly 35 chapters, each with its own leadership, meetings, programmes and networking. Members meet, refer business to one another, attend large events and exhibitions, and take part in learning and leadership activities. Running all of that on separate tools — one for membership, another for events, a spreadsheet for approvals — meant scattered information, repeated work, and a different experience in every chapter. YES needed one place that could hold its whole operation and keep growing with it.

What Agaram built

One platform, organised around what the community actually does — not a list of screens.

  • Community

    Member profiles, chapter organisation, leadership roles and member discovery — with access set by role.

  • Engagement

    Meeting schedules, programme information, attendance, participation tracking and business spotlights.

  • Networking & marketplace

    Connection requests, referrals, business opportunities, and a member-to-member buy-and-sell marketplace.

  • Events

    Registration, verification, QR and facial-recognition check-in tied to member profiles, and exhibitor and stall operations with on-ground lead capture.

  • Administration & governance

    Expense submissions, budget controls, and multi-level verification and approval workflows, visible to authorised leadership.

How Agaram approached it

Agaram didn’t start from a fixed package or a feature list. The team first understood how chapters operate, how members take part, how leadership reviews activity, and how a large event runs on the ground. Those realities were mapped into structured workflows, then built on a shared foundation of chapters, members, roles and events — so new programmes could be added later without building a separate app each time.

The impact

YES Connect brought workflows that once lived in separate tools into one place. Member and chapter information became more structured, meeting and event details easier to reach, event check-in faster through QR and facial recognition, and participation and approvals easier to see.

Most importantly, it gave YES a foundation new initiatives can be built on — today it runs end to end across membership, engagement, networking, a marketplace, and large-event and conference management for a 4,200+ member community that keeps growing.

Built around how you work, not the other way

Some organisations run on operations no off-the-shelf product fully fits. YES Connect shows Agaram can understand that complexity, design workflows across many roles, support real-world and large-event operations, and keep evolving a platform as needs grow — then keep running it. Built and operated by Agaram.