About Workigai
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About The Founder
Akanksha Mittal
Founder & CEO, Workigai
Akanksha is a mechanical engineer who spent her early career cutting costs on factory floors — and eventually decided she couldn't keep building someone else's thing. She left a corporate career to make something of her own, not yet knowing what it would be. It turned out to be a desk.
Manufacturing runs in her family, so when the idea grew past a few samples she brought production in-house rather than farming it out — cut, assembled and inspected by her own team. It's the part she's proudest of.
"I wanted a desk worth showing up to. So did a lot of other people, it turned out."
WHY WORKIGAI
It started with an empty desk.
"I didn't go looking for demand — it walked into my cabin."- Akanksha
Setting up my own cabin in the family office, I went looking for a few nice things to put on my desk — and found nothing worth buying. So I asked one of our wooden vendors to make a handful of samples, promising a bulk order later.
Then people who came into my cabin kept asking the same thing: where did you get these? Enough of them that I stopped and paid attention.
It turned out I wasn't the only one who wanted a desk that felt like mine — and there was no brand that made one. That's Workigai: desk essentials in warm vegan leather, in colours you'd actually pick, curated together so a whole workspace feels considered rather than collected. Not office supplies. The joy of working.
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