Three Brothers Build India's First Scripture-Verified Vedic Astrology AI
NEW DELHI, INDIA — June 2026 — Three brothers — Ankur, Achal and Ankit Pal — have spent the last eighteen months building ShukrAI, a Vedic astrology app on a simple, stubborn premise: every prediction must trace back to a real verse in the classical scriptures, the birth chart must be computed with astronomical precision, and the app must never predict death or doom.
For years, Indian astrology apps have been either accurate but built like a spreadsheet, or beautiful but quietly Western, with no real birth data behind them. ShukrAI was built to be both accurate and beautiful, with a real verse behind every line.
"619 rules, every one with a verse behind it," says Ankit Pal, who led ShukrAI's scripture research.
ShukrAI reads the classical texts in full — Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Phaladeepika, Jaimini Sutras, Brihat Samhita and Saravali — and distils them into 619 interpretation rules, each carrying a real chapter-and-verse citation. Along the way it filters out 35 well-known colonial-era mistranslations that turned guidance into doom.
The astronomy is computed, not guessed. ShukrAI calculates the full birth chart (D1 and D9), the Vimshottari Dasha, Sade Sati and the daily panchang using astronomical algorithms, and has verified its output against established services such as AstroSage and ProKerala. Only the words are written by AI — Google's Gemini, via Vertex AI — and only after the math has supplied the facts. "We compute your chart," Pal says. "The AI only writes the words."
The result is honest astrology in four languages — English, Hindi, Hinglish and Tamil — for 6,957 Indian cities and international locations, with DST-aware timezones. ShukrAI will never predict death, never tell a user they cannot have children or will never marry, and always pairs sensitive mental-health content with helplines.
The free tier gives every user a complete birth chart and a daily reading at no cost; deeper readings are unlocked through an in-app currency. ShukrAI is live now on Google Play as "ShukrAI: Vedic Astrology AI."
"Real Vedic astrology, made beautiful, in your language. That's the whole idea."
About ShukrAI
ShukrAI is India's first scripture-verified Vedic astrology AI, built by the Pal family in New Delhi. It combines astronomically-computed birth charts with 619 citation-backed interpretation rules and large-language-model writing to deliver accurate, anti-fatalistic readings in four languages.
Media Contact
Ankur Pal, Founder — press@shukrai.com — shukrai.com
