Aarathi Krishnan, RAKSHA

Act while others are still reading the headlines.

Anticipatory intelligence.
AI-powered. Human-driven.

RAKSHA is for leaders who set the terms — before events set them for you.

Most intelligence tells you what's happening. RAKSHA shows you what’s about to break, so you can change outcomes.

We detect stress before
it becomes crisis.

The biggest threats don’t announce themselves. They hide in plain sight — in the “smart” decisions everyone is making at the same time.

When every supply chain runs through the same chokepoints. When every portfolio assumes the same political stability. When every company follows the same playbook for managing sanctions, tariffs, or regime change. Each choice looks rational. But when one assumption fails, they all fail together.

Most intelligence arrives after positions have hardened and options have narrowed. We work in the latent phase—when intervention still changes outcomes. 

The RAKSHA Difference

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How RAKSHA Works

The Platform: Quiet Fracture Protocol™ Our core AI product continuously maps convergence across finance, climate, governance, and security. QFP tracks activation timelines of latent rupture and surfaces signals before they're priced in, delivering scalable anticipatory intelligence infrastructure.

Intelligence Layer Built on the QFP foundation, our intelligence layer includes embedded analysis, scenario modeling, and strategic simulations. Our analysts decode narrative and context that machines miss, translating platform signals into immediate strategic decisions, governance frameworks, and capital moves.

The result: AI platform at scale + intelligence expertise, integrated for maximum impact.

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.

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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..

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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