The gate is the
last sovereign perimeter.

I want India to be a country that looks after its own people, with technology of its own. We're building world-class things in almost every field now, and I think the safety of our streets and our homes should be one of them.

Honestly, it didn't begin with anything that grand. It began with small things I kept noticing. A guard cabin with nobody in it. A gate everyone trusts that no one is really watching. A reckless driver on a crowded road, his number plate the one thing that could ever hold him to account, and not a soul reading it. We have cameras on almost every wall in this country. We had just never put them to work keeping people safe.

For most of us, safety is still a private arrangement, something you buy or build for your own four walls. I wanted it to be something the country could offer everyone. And a country that cannot see its own perimeter can never quite protect it.

That is the gap I started Atlas to close. The idea is simple: give the cameras a brain that runs right there on the spot, on the hardware already on the wall, and keep what matters close to home. We begin with vehicles, because a number plate is the clearest thing to read at any gate in the country. But the goal was never one gate. It is a quiet layer of intelligence across the places people live and move, so the whole country becomes a little harder to harm and a lot easier to protect.

The part I think about most is doing it the right way. A safer India should never have to mean a watched one. I want safety and privacy to grow up together here, because that is the only version worth building.

I came to this because the problem sat in front of me every day, and I would rather spend my years trying to solve it than wait for someone more obvious to come along.

We're building this for the long term, and we pick up the phone.