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Publytics · Public Proof

Know what was delivered.Then prove it.

Publytics builds the evidence chain beneath a public institution: what was committed, what was delivered, who verified it and when — dated, in Tamil, and able to survive a challenge.

90 minutes · one question · no deck

  • A free 90-minute briefing on one question — no deck
  • A working monitor on your own data, in one day
  • Pilots scoped to the public low-value procurement line

The idea

Not another dashboard. The record beneath it.

Most institutions can report what they announced and what they spent. Almost none can show the chain between them — what was committed, what was verified, by whom, when, and with what stated limits. That is not a reporting problem. It is an infrastructure problem, and it is the one we build for.

DPDP obligations in full13 May 2027
Publytics Tracker 131 Mar 2027
Method Standardv1.0 · published
TN low-value linebelow ₹25 lakh
One programme · three figuresSpecimen
78%
“in various stages”Departmental press statement
35.11%
operationalAssembly reply
~100%
“near-100%”Public address

The same conversion rate, published three ways within nine months. Nothing in the machinery that produced them was built to say which one is true.

Illustrative · pending the sourced dataset

Public proof

One programme. Three answers.

When a citizen asks whether the promise was kept, the honest answer is often a choice between figures. Publytics replaces the choice with a record — and the record carries its own proof.

Sourced
Every figure names where it came from and how it was collected — named, not described.
Dated
Published on a day announced in advance, versioned, with a diff against the last edition.
Challengeable
Every number carries a public route to dispute it, and a correction stays at the same address.

Who it is for

Eight institutions. One chain.

A secretary, a commissioner, a compliance officer and a data editor each ask a different first question. Each pathway follows its own procurement route and budget head.

Clive's House, with its slatted window hoods, inside Fort St. George, Chennai, seat of the Tamil Nadu Secretariat

Government

Government & public sector

“We have the announcement and the spend. We cannot produce the line between them, by ward, in Tamil, on the day someone asks.”

— Secretary, State Department

See the pathway
Ripon Building, headquarters of the Greater Chennai Corporation, seen across its front lawn

Municipal

Municipal & urban bodies

“Complaints reach us through 1913, the app, councillors and social media, and they get closed. We cannot show, ward by ward, what was actually fixed, when and by whom.”

— Commissioner, Municipal Corporation

See the pathway
The red-brick towers of the Madras High Court, Chennai, against a clear blue sky

Regulators

Regulators & supervisory bodies

“Returns arrive on a cycle, self-declared, in formats that resist comparison. We are supervising a population we cannot see.”

— Supervisory body

See the pathway
Office blocks and the Chennai skyline seen from St. Thomas Mount

Enterprise

Enterprise & GCCs

“We have a policy. What we do not have is a record that would survive an inspection in May 2027.”

— Compliance officer, GCC

See the pathway
Rice paddy fields in Tamil Nadu, with a lone palmyra palm on the horizon

Foundations

Foundations & philanthropy

“Our partners report outputs; the board asks for outcomes. We cannot show which programme produced which result — or how sure we are of it.”

— Head of Impact, CSR foundation

See the pathway
The brick towers and striped domes of Senate House, University of Madras, Chennai

Universities

Universities & research

“Every project rebuilds the same dataset from Tamil sources, and it dies with the grant. We need data we can cite, reuse — and disagree with.”

— Centre head, research institute

See the pathway
Old Tamil newspapers lying folded in raking sunlight

Newsrooms

Newsrooms & media

“We need the dataset, the method, and the ability to disagree with you in print.”

— Data editor

See the pathway
A gallery inside the Fort St. George precinct, Chennai

Legislatures

Legislatures & public offices

“Assurances given on the floor, petitions handed in at the office — we cannot show what became of them, and the record leaves when the term ends.”

— Legislature secretariat

See the pathway

The shared core

Five layers beneath every product.

Three are ours outright — the record model, the evidence ledger and the disclosure gate — with the Tamil civic evaluation set inside the language layer. The rest is assembled on open Indic models and India’s public digital infrastructure.

The platform
  1. A typed model — promise, scheme, obligation, department, ward, grievance, delivery event, beneficiary, regulation — that all six product families address. Tamil and English labels at the schema, not the presentation layer.

  2. Source, collection method, version, effective date, confidence and error rate attach to the fact, not to the report. Corrections are permanent notices at the original address. No number renders without them.

  3. Retrieval, classification and summarisation over Tamil, Tamil–English code-mixing, dialect and transliterated civic text. Assembled on open Indic models; the Tamil civic evaluation set and its published benchmark are ours.

  4. Ships a tracker on an announced date, versioned, with a diff against the previous edition and a machine-readable dataset that can be cross-listed on open-data portals.

  5. Where AI is used, what it does not do, and who reviews it — with the Method Standard checklist enforced as rules. A publish is blocked if any rule fails.

CIVIC RECORD MODELEVIDENCE LEDGERLANGUAGE LAYER · TAMIL-FIRSTDISCLOSURE GATEPUBLICATION ENGINE

The shared core · five layers · illustrative

How it works

Record. Verify. Publish. Challenge. Correct.

The same five steps run beneath every product, for every institution.

  1. 01Record

    Capture the commitment as it is made.

    Every commitment, delivery event, and grievance enters as a typed record at the moment it happens — not reconstructed later from a spreadsheet.

  2. 02Verify

    Check it against something that is not itself.

    A record is checked against a second, independent source before it is treated as fact. Self-declaration alone does not clear the bar.

  3. 03Publish

    Ship it on a date you announced in advance.

    Verified records ship on an announced date, versioned, with the method attached — so the figure can be found and cited, not just stated.

  4. 04Challenge

    Give the reader the means to disagree.

    Every published figure carries the means to dispute it: the source, the method, and a route to raise an objection in public.

  5. 05Correct

    Publish the error before someone else finds it.

    Where a challenge is upheld, the correction is published at the same URL as the original, dated, and never quietly edited away.

The carved and painted timber ceiling over the reading hall of Connemara Public Library, Chennai

How every engagement begins

Start free. Every step is credited.

One way in, for every institution. Start with a free Briefing on one question you cannot evidence today. Prove it on your own data in a day. Each step is credited against the next.

  1. 01BriefingFree

    90 minutes. Your problem, framed. No deck.

    90 minutes

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  2. 02Bootcamp₹2–4 L

    One day. Your own data. One working monitor by close.

    100% credited within 6 months

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  3. 03Record Model Workshop or DPDP Readiness Assessment₹8–12 L · ₹6–12 L

    One week. Declares your record types and obligations. Or, for DPDP: 3–4 weeks. Data map, DPIA, consent architecture, gap plan to 13 May 2027.

    Credited against what follows

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  4. 04PilotScoped

    Scoped to fit public low-value procurement lines — below ₹25 lakh in Tamil Nadu.

    Within the public low-value line

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  5. 05Annual platformBy institution

    The annual price is written into the pilot, before the pilot starts.

    Annual price written into the pilot

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  6. 06ExpandConfiguration

    A second product family or department. Configuration, not a new implementation.

    A second family or department

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Start where the deadline is

The dates that frame every engagement — statutory, and our own.

Two belong to the law, one to the budget cycle, and two are commitments we made in public — so you can hold us to them.

  1. 4 Sep 2026

    Method Standard v1.0

    The five-item publication checklist, open and versioned.

    Publytics commitment

  2. 13 Nov 2026

    DPDP Rule 4 in force

    Consent Manager registration opens, 12 months after notification.

    Statute

  3. Jan–Mar 2027

    Budget and CSR planning

    State budget preparation; corporate CSR annual action plans set for the next financial year.

    Budget cycle

  4. 31 Mar 2027

    Publytics Tracker 1

    The first public edition, on an announced date, under the Method Standard.

    Publytics commitment

  5. 13 May 2027

    DPDP obligations apply in full

    Including Significant Data Fiduciary DPIA and audit duties. Penalties up to ₹250 crore.

    Statute

AI at Publytics

AI, stated plainly.

Every product uses AI somewhere. Each one publishes exactly where — and where it does not. The disclosure gate blocks any workflow that cannot produce one.

Read our AI principles
  1. 01

    Where AI is used

    Classification, multilingual retrieval, anomaly detection, summarisation, and decision support within defined workflows.

  2. 02

    Where it is not

    AI does not make high-impact public decisions, determine eligibility, or operate as a political persuasion system.

  3. 03

    Who stays accountable

    People remain accountable for interpretation, escalation, approval, and any action that affects a person or institution.

  4. 04

    Tamil-first, benchmarked

    Built for Tamil, code-mixed, dialect and transliterated civic text, with a Tamil civic evaluation set to check accuracy before acceptance.

  5. 05

    Data stays bounded

    Client data is never used to train models outside the client’s governed environment. Residency is written into the contract.

  6. 06

    Non-partisan by design

    We do not sell political targeting or persuasion systems to parties or candidates — and we log what we decline.

The boundary

We sell to institutions. Never to contestants.

Publytics does not provide political targeting or persuasion systems to political parties or candidates. Where the buyer is an elected representative, the engagement is with the public office, and its outputs pass to that office’s successor.

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Not a software shopping list. Every first meeting is the free Briefing: 90 minutes on one commitment, obligation or figure you cannot evidence today.

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