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The partners that co-deliver with SMMARUN.

SMMARUN's three-pillar model is powered by strategic partnerships that bring technology depth, enterprise reach, and sector-specific expertise. Each partner meets the operating posture: audit-ready, customer-protected, regulator-survivable.

Platform & delivery partners

The technology and advisory partners delivering Defensible AI with us.

i.
Defensible AI
Deterministic evidence substrate

ByteVerity

Founded by Mr. Mohit Mahajan (ex-PepsiCo, CoinFantasy, PwC, Adobe; IIM Bangalore). ByteVerity delivers an agent-agnostic runtime sidecar that intercepts every AI execution, evaluates it against a signed governance contract, and emits a cryptographically signed receipt. Receipts compose into evidence bundles any third party can verify offline, without trusting the producer.

  • Five planes: Kernel, Compositor, Governor, Sovereign, Vault
  • Five examiner questions answered: Authority, Review, Provenance, Conformance, Contemporaneity
  • One investment serves DPDPA, RBI FREE-AI, IRDAI, EU AI Act, FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Deployed inside the GCC's own VPC, cryptographic not procedural assurance
  • 121 patents filed; Anthropic Claude Code integration
  • Maps to Puneet Mohan 5P Model FrameWorkx™ (Predict, Prepare, Propose, Plan, Prevent)

Why ByteVerity + SMMARUN. ByteVerity answers the question enterprises have been unable to answer: am I Defensible? It occupies the empty quadrant of HIGH runtime enforcement × HIGH evidence production. SMMARUN's governance consulting (P1) and masterclass training (P2) give the deterministic substrate something measurable to deliver against. Together: Defensible AI.

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Secure your AI Agents

ProofLayer

Founded by Divya Chitimalla, ProofLayer, a product of SineWave AI, Inc., is the evidence layer for AI security. Its platform scans code, prompts, packages, MCP servers and tool configurations before deployment; continuously red-teams deployed AI systems; and secures MCP traffic at runtime. Every verified finding ships with a reproducible replay trace and mappings to OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act. ProofLayer was built by contributors to the open-source tools that shaped modern AI red-teaming.

ProofLayer sharpens the arrowhead — RAIGDRG Implementation Engine™. They continuously red-team AI systems and AI agents, secure MCP traffic at runtime, and scan AI coding tools before anything ships. Every attack they verify becomes signed, replayable, framework-mapped evidence feeding the principle-control-evidence chain — proof an examiner can check offline, not assurances they must take on faith.

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Architecture & solutioning partner

Vivikta Advisory & Creatives

Founded by Mr. Vivek Mahendra, Hyderabad. SME Healthcare and Banking architecture and solutioning, translating SMMARUN's governance frameworks into operational technology deployments with sector-specific compliance built in.

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Agentic orchestration

EvoluteIQ

Enterprise-grade platform for automating simple to complex processes and building solutions that scale service, volume, and complexity with outcome-driven deployment. Recognised in Gartner MQ for RPA 2025 and Everest Group PEAK Matrix 2025 as a Leader and Star Performer in Process Orchestration.

  • 3,000+ connectors with sector-specific guardrails
  • Full audit trace on every orchestration step
  • US$73M total funding (US$53M Series B, Sept 2025, Baird-led)
  • Outcome-driven deployment model
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SMMARUN's global advisory board

Advisors who anchor the practice.

Portrait of Arjun Malhotra

Arjun Malhotra

Mentor & Chairman of Advisory Board

Co-founder of HCL Technologies, pioneer of the Indian IT industry. IIT Kharagpur alumnus. Chairman of Magic Software. Recipient of the Albert Einstein Technology Medal. Sixty years in technology leadership.

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Ajit Thatte

Advisor · Branding & Marketing Strategy

IIT Kharagpur 1975 Electrical Engineering. Forty years in technology leadership across telecom, IT, and manufacturing. VP at Avaya GlobalConnect and Lucent Technologies. CEO at Enkay Technologies. Visiting Faculty at leading business schools.

Portrait of Darlene Newman

Darlene Newman

Strategy Advisor & Disruptor

Founder & Managing Partner, Ivy Captech Advisors. Bridges how work happens and what the enterprise knows to make AI work at scale. Led enterprise AI enablement at DTCC, embedding AI into engineering, client services, and risk. Oxford MBA. WEF and IIF contributor. Duke and NYU advisor.

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Manish Tiwary

Advisor · Go-to-Market Strategy & Marketing

Chairman & MD, Nestlé India & South Asia. Previously Country Manager, Amazon India. Senior leadership at HUL India and Unilever Middle East. Thirty years across the largest consumer institutions operating in India.

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Noah M. Kenney

Advisor · Responsible AI & Digital Risk Governance

Founder & Principal Consultant, Digital 520. Chief Scientist, Disruptive AI Lab. President, Ethical Tech Forum. AI Governance Lead at the SAFE AI Foundation. Author of Governing Intelligence (read 100,000+ times). UN visiting speaker. Co-created the United States' first AI Privacy Engineering course at Georgia Tech.

Portrait of Dr. Darryl Carlton

Dr. Darryl Carlton

Head of AI Governance, SMMARUN

Dr. Carlton leads SMMARUN's AI governance practice. Forty years of governance work across regulated sectors, four published books on enterprise governance, and the principal author of the curriculum behind every SMMARUN operator certification.

Want to partner with SMMARUN?

If your practice can carry the operating posture into co-delivery with SMMARUN, write to us. We take a small number of partners across system integration, technology, and advisory.