Applied AI systems
Models, agents, tools, and workflows that hold up in actual work, with a person still accountable for the result.
Current focus
Three problems I keep returning to
Data and intelligence
Provenance, structured records, verification, and evidence-aware outputs rather than model text alone.
Digital assets and financial systems
Stablecoins, chain intelligence, and investigation support where a decision has to survive review.
Selected work
Proof, not a catalogue
Four items that show different kinds of work. The full archive is on the Work page.
CSI
A proprietary cyber security and investigation system. It finds issues, secures systems, and reconstructs incidents with receipts. AI suggests, code decides.
StableSense
A live stablecoin market observatory: five coins, peg drift, cross-chain flow, and a cited research report. Working with money and assets on chain daily is part of the investigation fluency.
KeySense
A source-available, client-side workbench for multi-chain key derivation, address mining, and entropy security. Nine chains, no backend, no network calls.
Crypto investigation and evidence work
On-chain investigation, fund tracing, and evidence preparation for matters that have to hold up under review.
Research
Published research
Citable reports, separate from writing. Updated when the underlying picture changes.
- Research India Crypto Landscape: Regulatory Framework, Market Activity and Future Outlook India ranks sixth in the 2026 Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index while taxing Virtual Digital Assets at 30 percent plus 1 percent TDS. This report maps regulation, taxation, markets, enforcement, the Digital Rupee, and outlook through September 2026.
- Research India Financial Crime Intelligence Report Enforcement posture across PMLA, crypto-enabled crime, hawala, narcotics finance, cross-border flows, TBML, and agency performance. Updated September 2026 with FY2025-26 official figures, gap analysis, and projections to 2030.
Writing
Latest writing
Essays and notes on AI systems, investigations, regulation, and the work of building both.
- Sep 27, 2026 · AI Context Architecture: Designing AI Systems That Know What to Question A mature AI system knows which rules are fixed, which decisions are provisional, and when review is required. Context architecture makes that explicit.
- Sep 26, 2026 · Investigation A Case File a Reader Can Check A public case file should expose its evidence, limits, and unresolved questions so readers can inspect the reasoning, not just the verdict.
- Sep 26, 2026 · AI AI Agents Need Exploration Mode and Execution Mode Reliable execution needs stable boundaries. Useful research needs permission to challenge assumptions. One mode for both produces rigidity or risk.
Speaking
Sessions and institutions
Named only where the session is already public.
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GST Bhavan, Pune
Focused session with CGST Pune II on VDA taxation, blockchain forensics, and crypto-crime investigation
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National Police Academy, Hyderabad
Crypto crime and blockchain evidence
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Mumbai Police
Cryptocurrency investigation
About
A lawyer in cyber security and crypto investigation
I co-founded Cyber360 and build CSI. Counsel and training grow out of the work.
A question, a system, or a session
Research, product work, investigations, training, and advisory all go through the same contact path.
Contact Keshav