What 25 year-old freelancer Dhvani Solani and 25 year-old marketing consultant Forum Shah have in common is “a rather severe mental allergy” to crockery, shirts, watches and other convenient products people often pick up last-minute tou00a0gift someone.

“We’ve always helped our respective families and friends by suggesting ideas for gifts for their loved ones and, eventually, picking them up, too,” says Solani. “But it was only in May last year that we actually sat down and thought of how we could make the act of gifting an experience for people, not just an obligation they must fulfil.” And that, adds Solani, is how Present Perfect was born.