GTM Strategy - Chanakya

About team:

Chanakya is Sarvam AI's specialised, self-contained vertical for national security and institutions of national importance. It carries its own pricing, business, product, engineering, custom-model and vendor functions under one roof — a complete unit built to solve the most complex problems in the strategic sector: the three armed forces, intelligence agencies, financial regulators, and institutions of national importance such as central ministries and national policy bodies.

What we deploy here must be at strategic parity or higher — anything less is a national-security risk. That standard is the reason Chanakya is a small, exceptionally high-performing team inside Sarvam, and the reason we are deliberate about who joins it.

Why this is one of the most consequential seats in Indian AI

01 — NATIONAL IMPACT

You sit where it all gets decided.

These systems are deployed inside the institutions that safeguard the country. The potential for national impact is not abstract — it is at the core of how the strategic sector reasons, decides, and acts. Few roles anywhere in Indian technology carry this weight.

02 — UNPARALLELED LEARNING

Full-stack, end to end — nowhere else does this exist.

Every deployment runs the entire stack: understanding a customer's real requirement, architecting and customising the stack for it, and where needed building and fine-tuning models, shaping training data, and in