— Contribute
Build with us.
Indian forensic technology has work for more hands than ours. Three ways in.
— How we work
A small team, in person.
Chakra works from the DJAC building at IIT Kanpur. The evidence-grade work is air-gapped by design, which means we are in the same room most days. Decisions are made on whiteboards and over cases, not in scheduled meetings.
Weeks, not sprints. The forensic work takes the time it takes, and the courtroom does not care how quickly we shipped. We prefer to be slow and right than fast and refactoring.
Every release passes a peer review across the founders and the engineering team. Every contribution from outside the company is read by a founder. The team grows only when the next person makes the work stronger.
— What we value
Five principles.
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The work earns the brand.
Every output is judged on whether it holds up in court. The brand is downstream of the work, never the other way around.
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Specifics over generalities.
We name the statute, the framework, the version, the number. Vague claims are absent from our work as from our speech.
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Declare or omit.
We do not hedge. We do not soften. If we cannot say something with conviction, we leave it unsaid.
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The standard is not negotiable.
Section 63(4)(c) is not aspirational. Dual-hash integrity is not preferred. These are the minimums every release meets.
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India first. Then the world.
Our work begins for Indian institutions, Indian law, Indian context. Holding the standard at that bar earns the wider reach.
— S.01 / 03 · Researchers
Students and academics.
Submit findings. We review research on mobile-forensic acquisition, app-database recovery, Indic-language artefact handling, deepfake provenance, and adjacent topics. Promising work gets evaluation, possible integration into Chakra's offering, and credit on the page that ships it.
— S.02 / 03 · Practitioners
Working professionals.
You have a parser, a plugin, a workflow, or tradecraft that the Indian forensic community would benefit from. Show us. Valuable contributions can become part of Chakra's offering through revenue share or paid integration. Attribution remains yours.
— S.03 / 03 · Engineers
Full-time roles.
Chakra is hiring engineers who want to build forensic software at the standard the Indian courtroom demands. Hardware, parsers, cryptography, application security, formal verification. Open roles are listed as they come online.
— How to begin
Submission forms are in development.
Until the forms ship, send a one-page note to work@cyberchakra.in with the subject line "Contribution". Name the lane (researcher, practitioner, engineer), say what you have built or want to build, attach what makes sense to attach. A founder reads everything that arrives at this address.