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Notes from building sovereign intelligence infrastructure. Engineering decisions, team lessons, honest retrospectives. Written by the people actually doing the work.

10 articles•Updated March 2025•
Why We Built Prithvi SE From Scratch Instead of Using GPT-4
FEATURED
Engineering8 MIN READ

Why We Built Prithvi SE From Scratch Instead of Using GPT-4

AS
Aryan Shakalya•2025-03-15

The honest story of why we decided to build our own reasoning engine instead of wrapping an existing model....

AI InfrastructureSovereign AIEngineering Decisions
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Six Months of Running Data-S in Production: What We Got Wrong
Engineering6 MIN READ

Six Months of Running Data-S in Production: What We Got Wrong

An honest post-mortem of our first six months running Data-S with real institutional clients.

RV
Rahul Varma•2025-02-28
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What 'Sovereign AI' Actually Means (And What It Doesn't)
Thinking5 MIN READ

What 'Sovereign AI' Actually Means (And What It Doesn't)

The term 'sovereign AI' is being used loosely. Here's our definition and why it matters for the future of institutional intelligence.

PM
Dr. Priya Mehta•2025-02-14
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Team4 MIN READ

Hiring Our First Research Fellow: What We Learned About Hiring for Depth

Finding the right research talent required a shift from searching for "impressive" to searching for "right".

HiringTeam Building
AK
Ananya Krishnan•2025-01-30
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Engineering7 MIN READ

The Architecture Decision That Cost Us Three Months

A look back at why we chose the wrong message queue and how we fixed it.

ArchitectureEngineering
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Rahul Varma•2025-01-15
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Technical12 MIN READ

Running AI Infrastructure in Air-Gapped Environments: The Practical Guide

Everything we've learned about deploying and maintaining AI systems in environments with no internet access.

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RV
Rahul Varma•2024-12-20
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From 3 Clients to 147: The Growth Pattern We Didn't Plan For
Company5 MIN READ

From 3 Clients to 147: The Growth Pattern We Didn't Plan For

How reputation and trust replace traditional sales in institutional markets.

AS
Aryan Shakalya•2024-12-05
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Why We Don't Use Slack
Team3 MIN READ

Why We Don't Use Slack

A short post about our communication stack and why sovereign tooling starts at home.

AK
Ananya Krishnan•2024-11-18
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Trishul AI's RAG Pipeline: How We Get Retrieval Right at Institutional Scale
Technical10 MIN READ

Trishul AI's RAG Pipeline: How We Get Retrieval Right at Institutional Scale

A deep technical walkthrough of how Trishul AI handles retrieval over massive, secure knowledge bases.

PM
Dr. Priya Mehta•2024-11-05
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One Year of Shakalya: The Honest Version
Company9 MIN READ

One Year of Shakalya: The Honest Version

What we got right, what we got wrong, and the moment we almost shut everything down.

AS
Aryan Shakalya•2024-10-01
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