We make sense of market and power shifts — so you can move first, with confidence

Aarathi Krishnan, RAKSHA

We make sense of
the world’s chaos
so you can make
hard decisions
with confidence.

Intelligence for a world in flux.

For leaders who set the terms, before events set them for you.

In an era of accelerating shifts and contested advantage, most intelligence systems deliver too late to matter. RAKSHA does not.

We combine the Quiet Fracture Protocol™ , our proprietary intelligence infrastructure, with a partnership model that embeds into your decision cycle. Delivered through a secure, scalable infrastructure, QFP continuously scans geopolitical, economic, and infrastructure domains for early fractures and converging risks, translating them into precise, actionable intelligence.

RAKSHA helps senior leaders and mission-critical organizations:

  • Identify shifts before they move markets, policy, or narrative

  • Understand cascading impacts across sectors and geographies

  • Act at the moment when action can still change the outcome — securing advantage before it’s visible to competitors

Aarathi Krishnan, RAKSHA

White glove, bespoke intelligence

We don’t offer off-the-shelf answers because our clients don’t face off-the-shelf risks.

Every engagement with RAKSHA is shaped by your operating environment, decision windows, and tolerance for risk.

The Quiet Fracture Protocol™ powers this approach, delivering the continuous intelligence backbone. We work side-by-side with your leadership to pressure-test assumptions, model cascading effects, and identify opportunities before they become obvious.

The result: the speed and scale of intelligence infrastructure, with the precision and timing advantage of an embedded partner.

We operate as an extension of your internal capacity. Not just dashboards or analysts, but long-term partners in complex, high-stakes decision-making.

What makes RAKSHA engagements different

Embedded access. Integrated into your operational context, with insight shaped by your timelines, governance cycles, and risk environment.

Dual-lens analysis: AI-driven signal detection fused with lived, domain-specific expertise that captures nuance algorithms miss.

Action-first output: Intelligence designed for immediate strategic use, delivered in formats that drive decisions rather than sit in archives.

This is relational intelligence : context-rich, embedded, and grounded. We track the shifts that matter and work with you to shape the terrain before they take hold.

Our Operating Principles

RAKSHA is drawn from Sanskrit — meaning protection, defense, or shelter.

We take it as a challenge. To define whose interests are protected, from which forces, and through what actions, because those choices shape both value and influence.

We exist to frame those questions differently , and deliver intelligence that answers them with precision.

We believe that moving early isn’t only about creating value or alpha from a capital perspective. It’s also the opportunity to shape impact alpha: influencing the people, systems, and narratives that will define markets, policy, and positioning.

We work from five non-negotiables:

  • Power is dynamic and must be examined in every decision environment.

  • Disruption begins long before headlines or pricing shifts reveal it.

  • Early detection is only meaningful when it leads to decisive moves.

  • Relationships function as strategic infrastructure, moving information, access, and influence.

  • Integrity and clarity are operational disciplines that hold under pressure.

This is The RAKSHA Way: rigorous, embedded, and timing-driven intelligence that enables institutions to think sharper, move sooner, and act with intent..

Clients and Impact

We work with organizations navigating volatility, transformation, and geopolitical disruption.

  • UN Nepal

  • UNDP Botswana

  • UN Maldives

  • UNDP Jordan

  • United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

  • UN Ethiopia

  • UN Viet Nam

This is how we help institutions stay alert to hidden disruptions and act before they escalate.

  • Humanitarian Advisory Group, Australia

  • UNFCCC

  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)

  • IOM

  • UN Venezuela

  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Partners

  • Global Challenges Foundation

  • Margaret A Cargill Philanthropies

“Aarathi's risk anticipation work with the UN/UNDP in Iran was instrumental in navigating a complex, high-stakes landscape. Her insights sharpened our decision-making and broadened our strategic range”

—Claudio Providas, UNDP Resident Representative, Brazil