At BrilliantRead Media, we always strive to bring meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world to empower and motivate our growing community. As part of this endeavour, we invited Yashpal Baviskar for an exclusive interview with us. Yashpal is an Entrepreneur and Founder & CEO at DigiNotice. Let’s learn more about his background, journey and his advice for our community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Yashpal:
Could you please tell us about your background and your journey?
I come from a modest Maharashtrian background and built my path through Mechanical Engineering, an MBA, and a business program at Cornell University. My real-world experience comes from over a decade in real estate—land transactions, redevelopment, documentation, banking processes, and operations.
The turning point came when our real estate firm faced a litigation issue where a piece of land was sold to multiple buyers simultaneously. Despite having documents in place, we had missed the most important clue—the public notices published across different publications.
That moment revealed a deep truth: Public notices are the earliest warning signals in property transactions, yet almost no one tracks them. The issue wasn’t a lack of information, but a lack of access. That realisation became the foundation of DigiNotice.
What is a public notice, and why should one track it?
A public notice is the first official step before any major property transaction happens. It contains crucial details such as who is selling the property, who is claiming rights, objections, inheritance claims, auctions, and legal announcements. Public notices are the earliest sign that a transaction or dispute may be underway.
If someone attempts to sell your land or property without your knowledge, the first sign will appear in a public notice. Tracking them is therefore essential. DigiNotice makes these notices accessible, searchable and trackable in real time.
What is the history of notices in India — and how does DigiNotice represent the future?
Public notices have been central to Indian legal communication for over a century—inheritance, auctions, objections, mortgage announcements and more. While India modernised, notices remained scattered across various publications, inaccessible to the common citizen.
People were making life-changing decisions without visibility into critical legal information. DigiNotice transforms this outdated system into an intelligent, digital, searchable, nationwide transparency platform.
How does the property market actually work today?
The market operates on three layers:
> The Visible Layer – Brochures, listings, site visits.
> The Document Layer – Title deeds, agreements, legal opinions.
> The Hidden Legal Layer – Objections, disputes, auctions, and inheritance claims published across publications.
Most rely only on the first two layers. The real danger lies in the hidden third layer. DigiNotice reveals that hidden layer.
What is DigiNotice, and why does India need it now?
DigiNotice is India’s first Legal PropTech platform that digitises and structures property-related legal notices and alerts users instantly.
Key traction:
– 15,00,000+ notices digitised
– 700+ publications monitored
– 75,000+ active users nationwide
India needs DigiNotice because real estate is becoming more complex, and transparency must evolve with it.
What was the biggest challenge in building DigiNotice?
Changing entrenched habits. Real estate has relied on manual methods for decades. Trust-building and demonstrating clarity, speed, and transparency helped overcome resistance. Today, the early sceptics are strong supporters.
How did your personal experience with litigation inspire DigiNotice?
Our firm’s experience with land sold to multiple buyers made us realise public notices carry invaluable early-warning information.
The problem was not information, but accessibility. DigiNotice was born to ensure no stakeholder walks blindfolded into risk again.
How does DigiNotice collect and digitise thousands of notices daily?
We use a human + AI hybrid:
– Human monitoring of publications
– AI interpretation and extraction
– Human validation for accuracy
This lets us process 4,000+ notices daily with high reliability.
What role does AI play?
AI helps scale nationwide—pattern recognition, extraction, risk analysis, and forecasting. Human judgment ensures accuracy. Together, they create India’s largest litigation intelligence system.
How has the Maharashtra Government supported DigiNotice?
We were awarded twice by the Government of Maharashtra and recognised for creating a transparency-focused ecosystem. This affirms DigiNotice as public infrastructure, not just a startup.
Which user group surprised you most?
Individual land and flat owners. Their emotional responses—“I feel safe now,” “I finally understand what’s happening”—showed DigiNotice is as much a citizen empowerment platform as a tech innovation.
Where is DigiNotice traction now?
– 15,00,000+ notices digitised
– 700+ publications monitored
– 25,000+ active users
– Adoption from banks, NBFCs, developers, societies, and legal firms
– Expanding coverage across major states
DigiNotice is becoming India’s largest property-litigation intelligence network.
Where do you see DigiNotice in the next 3 years?
We aim to build India’s Legal Real Estate Infrastructure Layer—national notice coverage, legal risk scores, real-time alerts, integrations with banks and fintechs, and litigation prediction engines. By 2030: No property transaction in India should happen without a DigiNotice check.
How do you ensure user data remains secure?
Bank-grade security: encryption, secure cloud, strict access control, tamper-proof logs, and a zero data-sharing policy.
Is there a success story that touched your heart?
Yes, a farmer from Bhagur village near Nashik contacted us during a dispute. Our team helped register his land in Asset Manager. Days later, DigiNotice flagged a critical legal notice, allowing him to act in time and save his land.
Weeks later, he visited us with a sack of freshly harvested नागली (ragi) as a gesture of gratitude.
He said: “This is from my farm—the land I protected because of DigiNotice.”
That moment reinforced our mission: we aren’t just digitising notices—we are protecting livelihoods and legacies.
What message do you give to those still using traditional systems?
Traditional methods are slow and risky. One unnoticed notice can cause years of damage. Digitisation is protection, not convenience.
Describe DigiNotice in one sentence.
“DigiNotice gives every Indian the power to track and protect their property’s legal safety—instantly, intelligently, and transparently.”
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