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The price you agreed is the price you pay: why I filed a patent for IntentConvert
On 15 November 2026 I filed an Indian patent application for the engine behind IntentConvert. It helps an online store hold a live-rate price for a buyer, show each buyer the page that fits why they came and answer only from what is true. It is now patent pending.
Nikhil Sharma · उद्यमनीति Udyamnīti · 15 November 2026 · 3 min read
I am the founder of IntentConvert and the inventor and applicant on this application. It is a provisional application and the technology is patent pending.
Every buyer online carries one quiet worry. Will the price I saw be the price I pay?
I learnt how fragile that promise is about eighteen years ago. I listed Apple TVs on eBay with a nationwide lowest-price guarantee. Orders worth ₹1,00,000 came in overnight for four units. The dealer in Nehru Place had only two. My calls to find more tipped the wholesale market and the dealers raised their prices together. My margin turned upside down and I refunded every buyer.
I had solved how fast I could sell. I had not secured the thing I was selling or the price I had promised. That lesson stayed with me.
Yesterday on Children’s Day I filed a patent application for Heartswill. Today on 15 November 2026 I filed a second one for the engine behind IntentConvert. It is now patent pending.
Where the doubt comes from
Much of what India buys with care has a price that moves every day. Gold and silver are the plainest examples. A family looks at a necklace online. They call a parent. They wait for the evening to decide together. By the time they pay the rate has moved.
Either the seller absorbs the loss or the buyer sees a new number at checkout and feels cheated. Both walk away unhappy.
There is a second gap. Most online stores show the same page to everyone. A person buying a wedding gift and a person checking today’s price get the same screen. And now there is a third. Chat assistants answer with confidence even when they are wrong about a price or a return policy.
What the invention does
The patent application is titled E-commerce System and Method for Live-Rate Price Locking, Intent-Archetype Page Assembly and Grounded Conversational Selling.
In simple words it helps an online store do three things:
- Hold a live-rate price. When a price follows a live market rate the buyer gets a price held for them for a set time. The price they agreed is the price they pay. The seller is not caught out if the rate moves.
- Show the page that fits the visit. Someone buying a gift and someone comparing prices did not come for the same thing. Each sees a page arranged around why they came.
- Sell in plain conversation and stay true. A shopping assistant talks with the buyer in their own words. It answers only from the store’s real products, prices and policies. It does not invent a price or a promise.
A provisional application stays unpublished while it waits in the system. So I will describe what it does for people and keep how it works for the patent office.
IntentConvert: E-commerce system and method for live-rate price locking, intent-archetype page assembly and grounded conversational selling. Patent applied for (India). Indian Patent Application No. 202611136579. Filed 15 November 2026 · Patent Office, New Delhi. Inventor Nikhil Sharma. Used in IntentConvert. All patent applications.
Why this matters for Indian commerce
I believe the biggest leak in online selling is not traffic. It is the trust lost between the product page and the payment.
When the price holds and the page fits the buyer a few things change:
- Buyers decide in peace. A family buying gold can take the time it needs. The number does not change under them while they talk it over.
- Small sellers compete on honesty. A family jeweller or a small brand can offer the same fair price promise as a big platform.
- Visitors become buyers. A page that fits the reason for the visit turns more of that intent into a decision. That is the whole idea of the name.
- Machines that sell stay accountable. An assistant that can only say what is true protects the buyer and the brand at the same time.
A buyer should never have to choose between deciding carefully and paying fairly.
Why IntentConvert
The name carries the idea. Meet what the buyer intends and then make it easy to say yes. IntentConvert began in local search, helping a business be found in its own city by people ready to buy. The engine takes the same idea into the store itself.
It began as the commerce engine of a jewellery store we built. It will run other stores next. The Heartswill store is being built on it so that every purchase there also turns into verified help.
The thought is not new for me. Years ago I built Karigiri, a jewellery portal where a buyer could shop by speaking in Hindi. I have long had ideas on how saris should be sold online. This application is where those years of thinking finally take a shape that can be protected.
What comes next
This is a provisional application. It secures our date in the patent system while we build and test the engine with real stores. The full application will follow within the next twelve months.
Two applications in two days look like two different things. One proves that help reached a child. The other keeps a price promise to a buyer. To me they are the same idea. A promise should be kept and anyone should be able to see that it was.
A patent is not the goal. A buyer who pays exactly what they agreed is the goal. A small seller who wins on honesty is the goal. The patent is simply our way of protecting a tool that helps more of those moments happen.
With gratitude
Nikhil Sharma
IntentConvert helps businesses turn a buyer’s intent into a sale. Learn more at intentconvert.com.
Patent pending: Indian Patent Application No. 202611136579 filed 15 November 2026. [All patent applications](/cv#patents). Read the [Heartswill patent essay](/soch/stambh/heartswill-patent-childrens-day).