MGU Innovation Foundation and DVL Systems Pvt. Ltd. came together with a shared objective to address the structural, operational, and technological challenges faced by the global scholarly community. The collaboration emerged from academic–industry dialogue around the need for a modern, transparent, and scalable scholarly management platform that could effectively support journals, editors, reviewers, and researchers. Combining MGU Innovation Foundation’s academic leadership and innovation-driven mandate with DVL Systems’ enterprise-grade expertise in application development, data engineering, and people augmentation, ScholarNote was conceived as a purpose-built solution. Designed with strong technical foundations, comprehensive functional coverage, and a sustainable commercial model, ScholarNote enables journals to streamline editorial workflows, strengthen governance, and scale confidently in an evolving scholarly publishing landscape.