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Governance, regulation, and agentic AI in India.

Field notes on RBI model risk management, DPDP, SEBI, and building AI agents you can actually put in front of a regulator.

Jul 20, 2026 Product

Try Sakshi Yourself: Sandboxes Are Live

We have been demoing Sakshi over screen shares for months. Governance is not a slideshow, so we built sandboxes. Request your own Sakshi instance, seeded with syn...

Jul 18, 2026 Policy

What We Told RBI About Governing AI Agents

RBI's draft Model Risk Management guidance is the most consequential AI regulation Indian finance has seen. We filed our formal comments this month. Here are the ...

Jul 10, 2026 Policy

The Agent Can Pay Now. Nobody Has Decided Who's Liable.

India shipped agent-initiated UPI payments faster than almost anyone - and skipped the accountability layer that Google's AP2 protocol made its centerpiece. NPCI'...

Jun 16, 2026 AI Governance

Human-in-the-Loop Is Becoming Human-as-Rubber-Stamp

Enterprises answered every AI risk question with 'there's a human in the loop.' That human now approves four hundred agent actions a day. The control exists on pa...

May 19, 2026 Engineering

AI Agents Need Flight Recorders, Not Log Files

When an agent makes a bad decision, the post-mortem question is 'what was it thinking?' - and application logs cannot answer it. Reasoning capture has to be built...

Apr 14, 2026 AI Governance

KYC Took Banks Thirty Years. Know Your Agent Can't Wait That Long.

Your bank can tell regulators everything about its customers and almost nothing about the AI agents already touching customer data. Agent identity - Know Your Age...

Feb 17, 2026 Policy

India's Seven Sutras for AI Governance: What They Actually Mean for Enterprises

India just released its AI governance framework - principle-based, not prescriptive, and built on the RBI's FREE-AI playbook. Here's what the seven sutras mean in...

Feb 17, 2026 Policy

India's Deepfake Crackdown: What the IT Rules 2026 Amendment Actually Requires

Three-hour takedowns. Mandatory AI labeling. Criminal penalties for synthetic media misuse. India just became the first major economy to regulate deepfakes with e...

Feb 1, 2026 AI Governance

Moltbook and the Shadow AI Problem: What Indian Enterprises Need to Know

A social network for AI agents just exposed critical vulnerabilities in multi-agent systems. Here's what it means for Indian enterprises - especially in regulated...

Jan 25, 2026 Policy

AI Audits Are Security Theater

The emerging AI audit industry is largely checking boxes that don't matter. Here's what a real audit would look like - and why continuous monitoring beats point-i...

Jan 24, 2026 Industry

State of Enterprise AI in India 2025: Lessons for 2026

2025 was the year AI moved from pilots to production in Indian enterprises. Here's what worked, what didn't, and what we expect in 2026.

Jan 10, 2026 Strategy

The Inference Cost Death Spiral

Nobody's doing the math on what happens when every enterprise app has AI embedded. The economics are brutal if you don't manage them proactively.

Dec 22, 2025 Engineering

Your RAG Pipeline is a Hallucination Machine

Retrieval-Augmented Generation was supposed to ground AI responses. Instead, it created new ways to fail. Here are the seven deadly failure modes we've catalogued...

Dec 8, 2025 Policy

India's Bureaucracy is an AI Governance Advantage

While the West scrambles to build AI oversight from scratch, India already has the infrastructure. The layered regulatory framework everyone complains about might...

Nov 24, 2025 Engineering

The Context Window is a Lie

What the foundation model companies won't tell you about those impressive token counts. That 128K, 1M, or 2M context window? It's a theoretical maximum, not a pra...

Nov 20, 2025 AI Governance

The Indian Fairness Challenge: Bias Detection Beyond Western Frameworks

Standard AI fairness tools check for race and gender bias. They miss caste, religion, region, and the intersections that matter in India. Here's a framework that ...

Oct 8, 2025 Engineering

Model Drift is Eating Your AI Investment: A Detection Framework

Your model worked great at launch. Six months later, performance has quietly degraded. Here's how to detect drift before it becomes a crisis.

Aug 22, 2025 AI Governance

India's AI Sovereignty Question: It's Not Just About Data Location

Everyone talks about 'data staying in India.' But true AI sovereignty requires rethinking the entire stack - from model training to inference to governance.

Jul 18, 2025 Engineering

Measuring AI Reliability: Beyond Accuracy to Production Metrics

Your model has 95% accuracy on the test set. Great. But accuracy doesn't tell you if it's reliable in production. Here's what to measure instead.

Jun 12, 2025 Engineering

Code-Mixed Reality: Why Your AI Fails When Indians Actually Talk

Your chatbot handles Hindi. It handles English. But when a user says 'Mera balance check karo please', it falls apart. Welcome to the code-mixing problem.

Apr 10, 2025 Regulation

DPDP Act Implementation: A Technical Checklist for AI Systems

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act is now being enforced. Here's what your AI systems need to change - with specific technical requirements and implementati...

Mar 15, 2025 Engineering

Why AI Agents Keep Failing in Production (And How to Fix It)

Everyone is building AI agents. Few are running them successfully in production. Here's what we've learned from deploying agentic systems across Indian enterprises.

Feb 18, 2025 Engineering

Agentic AI for Loan Underwriting: Why Credit Scores Are Just the Beginning

Credit bureaus give you a number. Agentic AI gives you understanding. Here's how to build underwriting systems that see borrowers as economic actors in a connecte...

Jan 15, 2025 Regulation

RBI's AI Governance Expectations: What Banks Actually Need to Implement

RBI has embedded AI governance expectations across multiple circulars covering IT governance, digital lending, and more. Here's what banks need to build - with sp...

Jan 5, 2025 AI Governance

Building Sovereign AI for Government: Beyond 'Data Stays in India'

Government AI projects claim sovereignty through data localization. But true sovereignty requires control over models, inference, and the entire AI supply chain. ...