If you own a well-kept commercial vehicle sitting idle half the week, partner it with Unlyra. We bring the bookings, the brand and the standard — with your driver at the wheel and a sarathi of the house beside him, or with our sarathi driving, as you prefer. You are paid a fixed figure for every journey — agreed before the car moves, paid the same day it ends.
We hire your car — with or without your driver — for the journey at a figure agreed in writing before it moves. No commission, no percentage, no deductions. What the guest pays is our concern, not yours — our guests settle with the house before they travel, so if a fare is disputed or a guest cancels late, your figure does not move.
Not in thirty days, not at the end of the week — the same day the journey ends. Late payment is the single loudest complaint of every car owner in this city, and we have built the house so that it cannot happen here.
Pre-booked, premium, respectful guests — airport transfers, corporate travel, weddings and celebrations. No street hails, no haggling, no waiting at a stand.
Umbrella, towels, fragrance, cables, décor for celebration journeys, and a day with the house before your first guest — for your driver too, if he comes with the car — all provided by us, at no cost to you.
Keep your existing work. Take Unlyra bookings when they suit you. We would rather have your best days than all of your days.
No call centre, no ticket number, no app shouting at you. You reach a person who knows your name and your car, on the first ring.
In the old stories the sarathi drove the ratha — the chariot. That is what your car becomes here: inspected once, fitted with the house kit, and carried to the house standard — by your driver, briefed and dressed by us, with a sarathi of ours riding beside him and answerable for the guest; or by our sarathi alone. A partnered car is never “attached”; it joins the house as a ratha.
Yellow board, valid permit for the areas we serve, current commercial insurance, fitness certificate and PUC. A private white-board car cannot lawfully carry a paying guest, and we will never ask you to.
Clean inside and out, working air conditioning, sound tyres, no smoking odour. We will inspect the car once, personally, before your first guest.
Innova Crysta and Hycross, Fortuner, Carnival and the marques — the classes we run. Tell us the make, model, year and registration, and where you are based.
A few details about your vehicle, and we will come back to you with the arrangement in writing.
We will review them and come back to you with the arrangement in writing. If it is a fit, we will come to see the car in person — and meet your driver, if he comes with it — and it joins the house as a ratha.
HOW THE ARRANGEMENT WORKS
This is the part that makes us different from every aggregator that has called you. There are two ways a car joins the house, and you choose.
Your driver knows the car, and you would rather keep him working. So he drives. We dress him — dark suit, white shirt, the house standard of silence and the phone out of sight — and a sarathi of the house rides in the front seat beside him: the one who greets the guest by name, opens the door, holds the umbrella, sets the cabin, and is answerable to the guest and to us for everything that happens inside the car. Your driver drives; our sarathi hosts. The figure we agree with you covers the car and your driver together — his day, his allowance, his meals — so there is nothing to settle at midnight.
You supply the car alone; we supply everything that happens inside it. Our sarathis are our own — trained to our standard, in our uniform, and the reason our guests book us rather than an app. The price we agree is for the car alone — no driver cost, no driver allowance, no bata to argue about.
Either way, we do not take your driver. He remains yours, on your terms, and we will not approach him — not now, not when we are larger.
We pay after the journey, never before it — the same day it ends, under a written agreement, without an invoice to chase. No advance, no deposit, no money moving on the strength of a promise. Our guests settle with the house before they travel, which is exactly why you are paid without fail the day the journey ends: a house that is paid before the journey and pays on completion does not run out of air.
Yellow-board commercial registration. A valid contract carriage or tourist permit. Commercial insurance that answers for the car whoever is at the wheel, your driver or ours, confirmed to us in writing — the cover travels with the car, not with the house. Fitness certificate, PUC, road tax, all current. If your driver comes with the car: a commercial licence and badge, police verification, and a day with the house before his first guest. Nothing exotic; simply everything that ought to be there.
Rate cards, documents and questions to [email protected], or on WhatsApp to +91 81202 86868. A person reads both, and answers the same day. Once your car travels with the house, the partner’s room is where you mark its free days and add the next one.
These are not preferences. A partner who works with the house works to them on every journey, and a journey that falls short of them is not paid for.
The car that was named is the car that comes — its registration reaches us the day before; a substitute is agreed in writing before it moves, never at the kerb.
Clean inside and out, every time — washed the same day, vacuumed, no smell of smoke, incense or food; the air conditioning running before the guest is reached; the fuel tank never below a quarter.
Photographs before the car leaves — the outside, the middle row and the boot, sent to the house on WhatsApp; a car that cannot be photographed does not go.
Thirty minutes early, and not a minute late — at an airport, parked and in position before the flight lands; a car that reaches the guest late forfeits its fee for that journey, and the house makes it right with the guest from its own pocket.
The driver, on the house's terms — a commercial licence and badge, police verification, a plain dark shirt and trousers, closed shoes, no tobacco, no phone in hand while the car moves, no music unless the guest asks, no personal calls, no conversation unless the guest begins it.
The sarathi leads — when the house sends its sarathi, the driver takes his direction from the sarathi on the route, the stops, the pace and the cabin, without discussion in front of the guest. The sarathi hosts; the driver drives.
Never a word about money — no fare, no tip, no toll, no parking is ever mentioned to a guest; nothing is collected from a guest; a card or a number is never handed to a guest. Everything settles with the house, the same day.
The guest's number is the house's — a guest is not called, messaged, saved or approached afterwards, by the driver or the operator, for any reason. A guest who was reached directly ends the arrangement.
The road is the sarathi's, the safety is yours — no overtaking on the Sea Link or the expressway for the sake of time, no speed above the limit, seat belts for the driver, and a rest of twenty minutes in every three hours on a long road.
A no-show costs the partner — a car that does not come after confirming, or comes in a different class, pays the house the difference it has to find elsewhere, and is not sent a second journey.
A short written agreement carries all of this, signed once. Payment the same day the journey ends, under that agreement, remains ours to keep.
The registration number of the car reaches us the day before, and that car is the one that arrives. Our guests are told which vehicle is coming before they travel. If a car cannot travel, we must hear it the night before — not at the kerb. We would rather you told us at ten at night than at six in the morning.
We are building this slowly, for a long time. The operators who join us properly will still be with us in five years.
QUESTIONS AN OPERATOR ACTUALLY ASKS
You have been called by aggregators before. Here is what is different, stated plainly enough that you can hold us to it.
No. Most owners of a Fortuner, a Carnival or a marque would rather their own man drove it, and we understand that. He drives, dressed and briefed to the house standard, and our sarathi rides beside him to host the guest. If you would rather release the car alone, we bring the sarathi who drives it — and the rate reflects that you are paid for the asset, not the labour.
The car, its papers and its driver stay yours throughout, and so does the cover: your commercial policy answers for the vehicle on every journey, whoever is at the wheel, and we confirm that in writing before the first guest. When your own driver drives, whatever happens on the road is between you, your driver and your insurer — the house carries no liability for the vehicle, for third parties, or for the driver's conduct. When our sarathi drives your car alone and a surveyor we both accept finds the loss was caused by his fault, we pay your policy's excess, up to ₹25,000 on a journey, and nothing beyond it; ordinary wear, tyres, glass, mechanical failure and anything uninsured or under-insured remain yours. The house is never liable for loss of use, loss of earnings or consequential loss. Marque and luxury cars are hired only on a separate written agreement, with the cover confirmed before the car moves.
The same day the journey ends, under a written agreement, without you having to ask and without an invoice to chase. The law would allow us forty-five days; most of this city takes thirty. We take none of them. If we are ever late, the interest the MSMED Act gives you is yours by right and we will pay it unasked.
None. What you quote is what you are paid. We make our money from our guest, not from your rate — which is why we would rather you quoted honestly the first time than left room to haggle.
No. Your driver drives your car for our guest, and that is all. He is not offered work by us, not asked for his number, and not approached — not now, not when we are larger. Our own sarathis are our own; yours are yours.
No exclusivity, ever. Your car is yours and other work is your business. We would rather earn next month’s booking than hold you to a clause.