Runtime Governance Intelligence

Turn operational evidence into decisions your board can defend.

AethIQ sits above your existing monitoring, observability, and ITSM stack — correlating evidence, applying governance context, and producing deterministic, audit-grade decisions instead of more alerts.

RBI MAS TRM DORA SEBI IRDAI ISO 27001 SOC 2 PCI-DSS Made in Bharat DPIIT Recognized Startup
Decision Artifact
DEC-9F21-AC04 · 2026-07-01T04:12:07Z
ESCALATE
root_causeCoreBankingSystem pool exhaustion
systemic_risk0.89 / CRITICAL
confidence_percent91%
regulatory_exposureRBI ITRF · PARTIAL (14/22)
blast_radius4 downstream services
governance_postureESCALATE TO CRO
AETHIQ
VERIFIED
decision_hash: 7c1e9a…4b90
40,000
Alerts generated daily across a typical BFSI stack — almost none reach governance review.
2 missed
Is usually all it takes to cascade into a reportable regulatory event.
3 days
Typical manual turnaround to assemble a defensible narrative for an Audit Committee.
The Enterprise Problem

Visibility was solved. Consequence wasn't.

Monitoring tells you what happened. Observability tells you where. Neither tells you what the business should do next — or what it means for governance and the board.

Fragmented

Evidence without correlation

A dozen platforms, a dozen partial views — no single deterministic record of what happened and why.

Manual

Governance bolted on after the fact

Compliance mapping happens in a spreadsheet, days after the incident — not as a continuous, evidence-linked posture.

Unexplainable

Black-box correlation, not causal proof

Correlation engines surface patterns; they don't produce decisions a regulator or board can trace and trust.

Exhibit A

What you need to be able to say in the next review.

Four roles. One platform. Each with a different question that needs answering before they'll approve anything.

"Is our architecture one failure away from collapse?"
AethIQ computes structural dominance and propagation paths across your topology — so you can answer with a number, not a hunch, before the question is asked in the room.
  • Systemic risk score, tiered 0.0–1.0
  • Collapse radius & affected downstream nodes live
  • Dominant control nodes ranked by exposure
  • Sits above Splunk / LogicMonitor / Broadcom no rip-and-replace
"What does this actually expose us to, in rupees?"
Every artifact ties technical exposure to business criticality — so a risk reads as a financial sentence, not a stack trace.
  • Blast radius scoped to revenue-bearing services
  • Cost-of-inaction framing per decision artifact
  • POC priced and time-boxed ₹5–10L · 30 days
  • Refund guarantee if no measurable value 30-day window
"Where exactly are our control gaps, today?"
ComplianceLens maps every decision to named frameworks with explicit gap counts — the same language your auditors use.
  • RBI ITRF, ISO 27001, SOC 2 named, not generic
  • Control coverage & gap count per framework
  • Exposure classification & sensitivity per artifact
  • Patent-filed methodology IN 202541103960
"What's my unit's exposure, specifically?"
Every service rolls up to a governance posture — MONITOR, ASSURE, or ESCALATE — scoped to your division, not buried in an enterprise-wide view.
  • Per-service posture tiering MONITOR / ASSURE / ESCALATE
  • Unit-level confidence score shown, not hidden
  • Plain-language explanation per service
  • Drift trend over time per unit
Exhibit B — How It Works

AethIQ does not replace your stack. It governs it.

Telemetry platforms tell you what failed. AethIQ tells you how fragile the system is, what the business exposure is, and what the board needs to hear.

01 ————————

Evidence Acquisition

API connectors and adapters pull operational signals from Splunk, LogicMonitor, Broadcom DXO2, Grafana, and more — nothing in your stack changes.

02 ————————

Topology & Compliance Engines

Structural dominance, collapse simulation, and regulatory framework mapping run deterministically — the same input always produces the same output.

03 ————————

Governance Arbitration

Risk, structure, business criticality, and compliance posture are weighed together to produce one causal governance recommendation.

04 ————————

Decision Artifact → Board

One hash-traceable, reproducible document. The same output for the same conditions every time — the only kind of evidence a Board or regulator can trust.

Exhibit C — The Artifact

The one document every persona ends up reading.

Not a dashboard screenshot. A structured artifact with the same fields every time — which is exactly what makes it admissible in a governance review.

decision_idDEC-9F21-AC04
governance_postureESCALATE
confidence_percent91%
root_causeCoreBankingSystem pool exhaustion
systemic_risk0.89 / CRITICAL
regulatory_exposureRBI ITRF · PARTIAL (14/22)
blast_radius_services4 downstream
decision_hash7c1e9a…4b90

Every field is computed by a deterministic engine — the same input window always produces the same output. That single property is what lets a CFO forward this to an Audit Committee without a caveat, and what lets a Compliance lead cite it as evidence rather than a screenshot.

Download sample artifact PDF →
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MADE IN BHARAT · DPIIT RECOGNIZED STARTUP · CERT. NO. DIPP270197 · METHODOLOGY PATENT-FILED, IN 202541103960
RBI MAS TRM
ISO 27001
DORA
SOC 2
SEBI
Deterministic by design
Core Capabilities

Six engines. One governed decision layer.

Each capability maps to a real architectural engine — not a marketing label.

Decision Intelligence

Evidence → Decision

Transforms fragmented operational evidence into trusted, explainable business decisions.

Runtime Governance

Continuous Posture

Evaluates operational posture against governance policy and compliance obligations in real time.

Topology Intelligence

Dependency Awareness

Maintains a live model of service relationships and operational dependencies enterprise-wide.

Systemic Exposure

Cascade Risk

Identifies cascading operational risk and hidden dependencies before they become outages.

Decision Explainability

Full Causal Chain

Every recommendation ships with supporting evidence, confidence indicators, and transparent reasoning.

Executive Intelligence

Board-Ready Output

Converts technical complexity into business language for executive and board-level decisions.

See It In Action

Watch a decision artifact being generated, live.

A walkthrough of the evidence ledger, the decision flow, and what a governance-grade artifact looks like end to end.

Demo video — coming soon
Architecture

Built to sit above your stack, not inside it.

API-first, vendor-independent, deployable on-premises, private cloud, or hybrid.

Enterprise Systems Evidence Acquisition Normalization Runtime Intelligence Decision Intelligence Runtime Governance APIs & Reports
SplunkServiceNowGrafana LogicMonitorBroadcom DX NetOpsKubernetes VMwareAzure MonitorAWS CloudWatch REST / OpenAPI
Built For Regulated Operations

Where evidence-to-decision speed has real regulatory consequence.

Banking & Financial Services

Protect payment systems, digital banking, and resilience obligations under DORA and RBI MAS TRM.

Telecommunications

Understand service dependencies across networks, infrastructure, and customer-facing platforms.

Manufacturing

Improve operational continuity across production systems and digital manufacturing platforms.

Healthcare

Support critical clinical systems with continuous operational awareness and governance.

Energy & Utilities

Strengthen resilience across distributed infrastructure and mission-critical services.

Government

Deliver governance-aware operational intelligence across digital public services.

Security & Governance

Enterprise-grade by design, not by retrofit.

  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across every decision and data path
  • SSO / SAML / OIDC and Multi-Factor Authentication
  • TLS encryption in transit, encryption at rest
  • Full audit logging and API-level authentication
  • Continuous compliance mapping, not point-in-time audits
Mapped Frameworks
DORARBI MAS TRM SEBIIRDAI ISO 27001NIST CSF SOC 2PCI-DSS
Founder & Chief Architect
Pradeep Gadicherla, Founder and Chief Architect of AethIQ
Pradeep Gadicherla
Founder & Chief Architect, AethIQ

25+ years across full-stack observability, AIOps, and enterprise IT operations — including leadership roles at Wells Fargo GCC, HCL Technologies, and CA Technologies / Broadcom. AethIQ's runtime governance architecture is built on a filed patent (202541103960) for a Runtime Governance Intelligence Framework, with a design philosophy rooted in explainability, causality, and deterministic decision-making.

Run it against one quarter of real telemetry before your next Board cycle.

30-day time-boxed POC · ₹5–10L · No infrastructure changes · Full refund if no measurable value