A BAXTAGE INITIATIVE · FOUNDING COHORT 01
The room before the stage.
A verified members' network for India's creative class — music, film, design, fashion, code. The place where the work gets made and the right people meet. We call it the Green Room.
What it is
A card, an app, and real rooms.
Three simple parts. The card proves you belong. The app runs the room and keeps it safe. The lodges are real, public venues you tap into.
Metal. Etched. Yours.
A weighty member card. Tap to enter any lodge — no card, no entry. Working with another member counts only when both cards are in the room.
The room in your pocket.
Discover lodges, RSVP, check in, and find collaborators. Every profile is vetted, so the person you message is who they say they are.
Cafés. Libraries. Public.
Real public venues — cafés, libraries, bookstores. Sessions are tap-in only. The public crowd is the safety layer; the cohort is the signal inside it.
Why this exists
The work is already here.
The room isn't.
India has one of the most exciting creative scenes in the world — musicians, filmmakers, artists, designers, tattooists, technologists making work that's specifically Indian and specifically modern. The talent has arrived.
What's missing is the room between the work. Brooklyn has its bars, Tokyo its record shops, London its radio. India has Instagram comments and one festival a year. The Green Room is the room — built for people who refuse to pick a lane.
How it works
Three steps in.
Apply & get vetted
Sign-up is free. The vetting is real — references, a look at your published work, a quiet background check. A card means the network stands behind you.
Carry the card
Approved members get the metal card. It's your key to every lodge and your proof of belonging across all four cities.
Tap into the room
Find a lodge in the app, tap in with your card, and you're in a room full of verified makers. Meet, trade references, start the collab.
Sectors
Every discipline. One room.
Twelve creative families. Everyone's in the same business; nobody's doing the same work — which is exactly the point.
The safety mesh
Safe because it's public.
Three layers hold the room together — and a trustee always knows where you are.
The plan
Community first.
Built patiently.
Three phases over five years. The platforms that lasted in this space earned their seat slowly — we're running the same playbook.
Curate the cohort
100 founding members. Monthly gatherings in Mumbai, quarterly in Dubai. The highest signal-to-noise room in India.
Ship the tools
Portfolio pages that aren't Instagram, a directory the right people can find you in, and collaboration tools that aren't email threads.
Split the upside
A marketplace and incubator where the cut goes to the maker — plus owned studios, one per city, for verified members.
The cities
Four cities. One room. On purpose.
The geography isn't a marketing claim — it's four creative economies on a single flight path the founder actually lives.
Why it's a Baxtage initiative
One operator. Two engines.
Baxtage earns. Baxtage funds the Green Room. The software studio is the revenue engine; the Green Room is the passion engine. The same operator runs both — and they feed each other.
The room's sharpest creators grow businesses and come back to Baxtage for the websites, decks, and software they now need. The reputation compounds in both rooms at once.
From the founder
“I built the Green Room because I needed it to exist for the work I want to make — not someday, today. The kind of room I'd already pay to be in, if anyone had built it. That's the only honest reason to start something.”
Aditya Shah · Founder, Baxtage & The Green Room Project
Join the founding cohort
The first 100 shape what GRP becomes.
Free for the founding cohort — kept for as long as the company runs. No annual fee, no asterisks. We read every application, and you'll hear back from a human, not a template.
VETTING IS REAL — REFERENCE CALLS, A LOOK AT YOUR PUBLISHED WORK, A QUIET BACKGROUND CHECK.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE THINGS. SHOW US WHAT YOU SHIPPED LAST YEAR.