ABOUT / SUMEDH TECHNOLOGIES

A sovereign cognitive capability, built in India, owned in India.

We hold one principle as non-negotiable: the intelligence that protects a country should be owned and controlled by that country.

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Mission

Sumedh Technologies builds sovereign cognitive intelligence — artificial intelligence for the contest over information, narrative, and perception — for the institutions responsible for national security. Our work begins from the constraints those institutions actually operate under — Indian languages, air-gapped networks, evidentiary standards — rather than retrofitting a platform built for someone else's. DRISHTI, our narrative-intelligence platform, is the first system built on this foundation.

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Founding Story — built for a gap that was already documented.

Sumedh Technologies was founded in 2026 to build DRISHTI against a defence problem statement for which no existing solution had been listed. Rather than adapt a foreign platform to Indian constraints, we built for those constraints from the first commit: Indian languages natively, air-gapped by default, evidence-grade by design.

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Team

Joy Jacob
Co-Founder & CEO

Leads product, strategy, and engagement.

Rakshit Tyagi
Co-Founder & CTO

Architect of the DRISHTI Narrative Engine; background in transformer-based deepfake audio detection (MIT Manipal).

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Why Dehradun — Indian IP, from the ground up.

Headquartered in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, Sumedh Technologies develops and holds its intellectual property in India. "Sovereign" is not a positioning choice for us — it is a fact about where the work is done and who owns the result.

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Programme Participation

Sumedh Technologies is completing DPIIT Startup Recognition. Pre-revenue and bootstrapped, the company develops and holds all of its intellectual property in India.