Vākio
Vākio is the statutory workforce compliance platform for the Compliance Officer, CHRO, DPO and Internal Audit ‐ it turns 27 statutory Acts into role-specific training, drives each obligation to filing, and produces tamper-evident audit evidence as one chain.
One chain. Statute to training
to evidence to audit defence.
India's compliance landscape is structurally deep - and that depth is exactly where a platform earns its keep. Per-state Labour Code commencement, multi-Act overlap on a single employee record, gazette amendments that arrive on their own clock. Vākio is engineered for that depth: 27 statutory Acts in the corpus, per-state parameter resolution, gazette-to-training in days, and audit evidence designed to defend the chain end-to-end. An architecture engineered for India's depth operates the same way wherever statutory obligations are parametric.
Day 1 statutory core, then regulated-industry depth, then sector-deepening ‐ sequenced so the highest-frequency obligations activate first. POSH is already shipped as the reference implementation that every subsequent module follows.
ICC composition validator · §11 60-day inquiry timer · §21 annual District Officer report · §16 confidentiality. The architectural pattern every subsequent HRO module follows.
- EPF
- ESI
- Gratuity
- Maternity
- Minimum Wages
- Professional Tax
- Statutory Enrolment & Nomination
- Shops & Establishments
- Employee Onboarding & Statutory Induction
- Labour Law Returns & Registers
- Wage & worker-protection statutes
- Contractor & migrant workforce
- Privacy management (DPDP)
- ESG / BRSR roadmap
- Industrial relations & plant statutes
- Workplace accessibility & conduct
Three sectors receive deepest regulatory depth at launch ‐ chosen for the severity of their statutory burden and the cost of failure.
Statutory rates, thresholds, formulas, deadlines and exemption rules are the system of record ‐ not the training. Training, filings and audit packs are derived from this single source of regulatory truth. When the gazette moves, everything downstream moves with it.
Most enterprise compliance platforms were built for US and EU regulatory frameworks. Their India coverage is an adaptation layered over a foreign foundation. Vākio's regulatory knowledge is India-native ‐ deterministic statutory and judicial context is injected into every generation call. A Jurisdictional layer holds India's universal statutory facts at the country level; a Sub-Jurisdiction layer resolves them per state, sector and tenant policy. The same parameter-first architecture that handles India's 27 Acts resolves to any jurisdiction's statutory corpus without structural change.
Each tenant lives in its own cryptographically-isolated schema with its own audit chain. Each project ‐ division, region, sector or risk-tier ‐ is its own audit slice within. For group-of-companies structures, every subsidiary is an independent tenant with independent audit trails, consolidatable on demand. For HRO firms, Vākio's architecture is designed to support a single operator identity across multiple client tenants ‐ with each client's evidence staying with the client.
Vākio watches the statutory gazettes, detects amendments through a versioned topic chain, and auto-regenerates only the affected training modules - never the whole corpus. Re-attestation is recorded as legal evidence of worker communication under the relevant statute, on the timeline the statute demands.
Internal auditors get a real-time compliance health dashboard with proactive obligation timers (CERT-In 6 hr, DPDP 72 hr). External auditors receive engagement-scoped, PII-masked, signed evidence bundles with hash-chain verification ‐ designed for empanelled audit firms, certification bodies, and statutory inspectors.
Vākio in the Compliance Stack
Horizontal platforms touch statutory workforce compliance lightly because their job is breadth. Vākio is the vertical specialist ‐ engineered for depth in the one lane a regulator audits. Vākio enters at India's depth ‐ and the architecture travels.
HRMS systems run the workforce ‐ payroll, attendance, employee records, the org graph. Vākio takes that workforce signal and runs the statute against it: generating role-specific training, driving each obligation to filing, and recording every step as audit evidence.
LMS platforms deliver and track learning across every business need ‐ sales, product, leadership, compliance. Vākio is a full delivery platform in its own right for India HR-compliance training, with role-differentiated paths and inquiry-grade assessment built in ‐ and exports SCORM to any SCORM-compatible enterprise learning platform when the tenant prefers to host the content on an existing LMS.
Global GRC platforms maintain risk registers, control libraries, and policy attestation across every regulatory regime the enterprise touches. Vākio operates one lane of that landscape ‐ statutory workforce compliance ‐ with the statutory depth a generic GRC cannot carry: 27 Acts, per-state parameter resolution, gazette-tracked re-attestation.
India RegTech platforms file returns and track licences. Vākio takes the same statutory corpus and runs the full workforce-facing chain on top of it ‐ training, communication evidence, completion tracking, internal compliance health, signed external-auditor bundles.
to filed evidence ‐ in days.
Statutory amendments arrive on their own clock. Workforce communication clocks start the moment they are notified. Vākio's pipeline ingests the change, regenerates only the affected training modules, drives the workflow that owes the filing, and packages re-attestation as legal evidence ‐ on the timeline the statute demands, not the one a manual rollout permits.
"When a POSH complaint is filed, the inquiry clock under §11 starts ‐ 60 days to conclusion. When a gazette amends a return, the communication clock starts immediately. There are no months to wait for a training rollout."
An architectural response to statutory deadlines.
Training tells the workforce what the law requires. The Compliance Workflow Engine will drive the act of compliance itself ‐ turning each obligation into a tracked, evidenced action, not a scheduled reminder. The gap between knowing and doing, between training completion and filed proof, is where most India HR-compliance programmes break down. This layer is designed to close it.
Was the EPF ECR filed this month?
Is the contractor licence renewal in 30 days?
Has the POSH annual return been submitted to the District Officer?
Vākio is architected to know the answer ‐ and the platform will hold the proof.
PF ECR · ESIC contribution return · POSH annual return to District Officer
Factories Act licence · contract labour licence · Shops & Establishments registration
PF challan · ESIC contribution · gratuity payout · statutory bonus
DPDP fiduciary registration (where applicable) · sector-specific certifications
One tamper-evident source of truth.
Internal auditors need live compliance health and proactive timers. External auditors need scoped, signed, verifiable evidence bundles. Vākio ships both, on top of an audit log designed to survive cross-examination.
"An audit log is only as defensible as the trust placed in the writer. Vākio's audit writes are hash-chained, segregated, retention-protected ‐ not by policy, by architecture."
Designed for the inquiry that hasn't happened yet.
Real-time compliance health score across the 27 Acts. Proactive obligation timers ‐ CERT-In 6-hour cyber-incident notification (Direction Apr 2022), DPDP 72-hour Board notification, POSH §11 60-day inquiry deadline, EPF/ESI filing windows. Gap closure trends ‐ training completion mapped to outstanding statutory obligations. Built for the CHRO, DPO, internal auditor, and group risk function.
Engagement-scoped access ‐ date-bounded, PII-masked, signed evidence bundles with hash-chain continuity verification. Statistical sampling support. Designed for empanelled audit firms, ISO certification bodies, DPO appointments and statutory inspector reviews. Chain-of-custody is verifiable independently of the platform.
An auditor opening any record sees the specific control reference inline ‐ SOC 2 CC6.1, ISO 27001:2022 A.8.24, DPDP §8, GDPR Art. 5, POSH Act §16, CERT-In Direction 2022. No interpretive layer between the event and the framework it supports.
Vākio is the data fiduciary for its tenant users ‐ the platform consent layer. Your tenant is the data fiduciary for its employees as data principals ‐ the employer consent layer. The two layers are designed never to read each other. Both will be evidenced. When a tenant is classified as a Significant Data Fiduciary, the platform is designed to surface the additional obligation layers the classification triggers ‐ managed as a distinct compliance track within the same audit chain.
Vākio-generated content exports as standards-compliant SCORM 2004 and SCORM 1.2 packages ‐ readable by any SCORM-compatible enterprise learning platform your organisation already operates. That platform remains the delivery system of record if you choose. The audit, evidence and workflow layers continue to operate centrally ‐ only the delivery surface moves.
For CHROs and ICC chairpersons: every statutory communication is captured as evidence. POSH compliance is structural, not procedural ‐ the platform enforces ICC composition rules, runs the inquiry clock, generates the annual return, and seals confidentiality at the field level.
Auto-checks §4(1) and §4(2)(c) ‐ minimum four members, presiding officer a senior woman, ≥50% women, external NGO/legal member present. Fails closed before ICC operates.
Auto-tracked from complaint filing through conclusion. Breach alerts before the statutory ceiling. Recorded extensions captured as evidence.
Auto-generated submission to the District Officer covering ICC cases, outcomes, conciliation status ‐ on the schedule the statute demands, with continuity to the audit log.
Complainant, respondent and witness identities encrypted at rest with field-level keys. ICC-only access. Hearing notes write-once, encrypted. Confidentiality is structural.
Nine layers of regulatory intelligence - encoded at inference time.
Every competitor now claims AI. Vākio's answer is specific: not which LLM is used, but what is injected at inference time. The KAEP context engine is deterministic - the same document passed without KAEP produces generic content. With KAEP, it produces expert-grade India compliance training. The outcome is training that an external auditor can defend, in the language your workforce actually reads ‐ every module traceable to a clause, every assessment traceable to a section, every certificate traceable to a date and a regulator.
Vākio answers: Yes - but only if you inject
deterministic regulatory expertise at inference time."
7 of 9 tiers sealed - competitive moat, not disclosed publicly
Tiers 1 through 9 of the KAEP context architecture are listed above. Tiers 4 through 9 are visually sealed on the public site ‐ they describe industry persona injection, regulatory framework injection, workforce taxonomy injection, tone-of-voice configuration, assessment rule injection, and evidence packaging. These are the competitive moat and are not disclosed publicly.
for India's priority sectors.
We are onboarding organizations where the statutory burden is highest, the cost of failure most acute, and the chain ‐ from statute to filed evidence ‐ needs to be defensible end-to-end.
BFSI · Manufacturing & Industrial · Pharma & Healthcare
Early access is admitted in cohorts. Each request is reviewed personally by the founding team. We will reach out to set up a discovery call if your profile fits the next cohort.
Enterprise-only · Multi-tenant isolated · 27 Indian Workforce Compliance Acts · Two auditor portals · SCORM export