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Shastra · Govern & protect

Turn data governance into infrastructure.

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Shastra is a data governance platform for India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Instead of DPDP compliance living in spreadsheets, tickets and legal reviews, it lives in your systems, operated by conversation rather than a dashboard you have to learn.

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Shastra is Shadow Security's AI-native data governance and DPDP infrastructure platform.

The interface

Talk to it. Don't learn it.

Compliance platforms fail for a boring reason: nobody has time to become an expert in the tool before getting value from it. Shastra's primary interface is conversational, and every answer it gives is something you can open up and inspect.

You ask in your own words

“Help me prepare our application for DPDP governance.”

It works within Shastra

The Copilot operates the platform and the integrations you have configured, not your wider infrastructure.

You stay in control

Nothing is a black box. Every state it reports maps to something you can inspect and change.

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You

“What's blocking our DPDP readiness?”

Shastra

Four areas are holding you back. Here's the current state.

  • Data inventory82% sources mapped
  • Consent workflows64% need attention
  • Retention policies71% defined
  • Vendor reviews55% complete
  • Evidence collected91% of current scope

Consent workflows are the highest-impact gap. Want me to walk through the three that need changes?

Illustrative interface. Figures shown are examples, not measured results.
Coverage

The whole governance surface, not one slice of it.

Consent is where most tools stop. It is roughly a quarter of the actual obligation.

Know what you hold

  • Data inventory
  • Personal data discovery
  • Purpose mapping
  • Data flow visibility

Govern how it moves

  • Consent management
  • Consent notices
  • Data sharing
  • Retention & deletion
  • Cross-border transfers

Run the obligations

  • Data principal rights
  • Breach workflow
  • Vendor & processor register
  • ROPA & documentation

Prove it happened

  • Decision records
  • Audit trail
  • Evidence export

Planned scope. Shastra is in pre-registration, so treat this as what it is being built to cover rather than a feature list you can use today.

Architecture

Integrate the way that suits you.

Three of the six layers are optional. That is the point: an organisation should be able to start by understanding what is happening before it changes anything.

Diagram: a user talks to the Compliance Copilot, which operates Shastra. Shastra contains a governance engine and an integration layer, with three optional layers: a proxy layer, an enforcement layer and an evidence layer.

Integration is a choice, not a requirement. The proxy, enforcement and evidence layers are each opt-in, so an organisation can observe first and enforce later, or never.

Sequence: Observe, then Govern, then Enforce, then Prove.

You choose how far along this you go, and you can stop at any stage.
Evidence

Proof, generated as it happens.

The hard part of an audit is never the report. It is reconstructing what was true six months ago from systems that were not recording it.

An evidence chain runs from request, to identity, to data, to purpose, to policy, to decision, to a stored record.

Evidence is a by-product of governance actually happening, rather than a report assembled afterwards.

We describe this as a record of decisions, not as cryptographic proof. If and when Shastra ships cryptographic signing or hashing of evidence, this page will say precisely what it does, and until then it will not borrow the vocabulary.

Go deeper

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Early access

Pre-registration is open.

Shastra has not launched. Pre-register and we'll be in touch as onboarding opens.

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No pricing is published while the product is pre-launch.

Questions

About Shastra.

What is Shastra?
Shastra is Shadow Security’s AI-native data governance and DPDP infrastructure platform. It is being built so that personal data governance lives inside your systems as infrastructure, rather than beside them as documentation.
How is this different from a compliance dashboard?
A dashboard reports on governance that happened somewhere else. Shastra is designed to be where the governance actually happens: policies, purposes, consent state and decisions live in the system, and the evidence is a by-product of that rather than a report assembled afterwards.
What is the Compliance Copilot?
It is the primary interface to Shastra. Rather than learning a platform before you can use it, you describe what you need in your own words and Shastra translates that into governance state, workflows and evidence you can inspect.
Is the Copilot connected directly to all our infrastructure?
No. The Copilot operates within the Shastra environment and acts as an intelligent interface to Shastra’s own functionality and the integrations you have explicitly configured. It is not an autonomous agent with open access to your company’s systems, and you remain in control of what it can reach.
What is the proxy layer?
An optional integration mode where Shastra sits in the path of the operations you want governed, rather than only observing them from the side. It is one way to integrate, not a requirement, and many organisations will not need it.
Is enforcement mandatory?
No. Enforcement is opt-in and configured by you. An organisation can start by observing, move to applying policy, and choose whether to actively control specific operations, or never enable that at all.
When can I use Shastra?
Pre-registration is open now. Shastra has not launched, and the capabilities described on this site are what it is being built to do rather than what you can use today.
What does it cost?
Pricing is not published yet. We would rather set it once the product is in real use than commit to numbers now.