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About ConsentOS

Architecting India's Era of Consent

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 set a clear requirement. ConsentOS is the consent management and compliance infrastructure built to meet it — operationally, not theoretically.

The Compliance Gap

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 set a clear requirement. Businesses must collect personal data with explicit consent, store it with accountability, and honour every individual's right to withdraw that consent at any time. The law is not a roadmap. Enforcement is approaching.

Most businesses operating in India understand they need to be compliant. Most do not know what compliant actually looks like at an operational level.

ConsentOS exists to close that gap. It handles the mechanics: capturing consent in a legally valid format, maintaining an auditable record, processing withdrawal requests, and generating documentation that holds up under regulatory scrutiny.

"The goal is 30 days to operational compliance. Not six months of consultants, bespoke development, and internal sign-offs. Thirty days from account creation to a defensible consent framework embedded in your product."

— CivicLayer Technologies, Founding Memo

Operating Principles

How We Build

Three principles govern everything in ConsentOS.

  1. 01

    Sovereignty by design.

    The individual is the data principal. Consent is captured with specificity, recorded with a timestamp, and withdrawable on demand. This is not configurable behaviour. It is how the system works at its foundation.

  2. 02

    Precision over theatre.

    The compliance industry has spent a decade producing consent popups designed to confuse, opt-out flows buried six levels deep, and privacy policies written to obscure. ConsentOS replaces all of that. Every mechanism produces a consent record that is accurate, complete, and legally defensible.

  3. 03

    Continuity.

    Compliance cannot halt the business. ConsentOS integrates into existing data flows without requiring product teams to rebuild core features. The compliance layer runs alongside your product, not against it.

Primary Segment

Built for Regulated Fintech

NBFCs, fintech lenders, registered brokers, and insurance companies face a compliance challenge that generic DPDP tools cannot resolve. The RBI mandates 10-year KYC retention. The DPDP Act requires erasure on request when the processing purpose is fulfilled. These obligations are in direct conflict — and most compliance tools offer no resolution beyond manual workarounds.

ConsentOS is built to resolve this conflict, not manage it. The Compliance Vault implements a Legal Obligation Override: data held under a statutory mandate — RBI, PMLA, KYC — is classified, documented, and exempted from DPDP erasure. A denial register creates the audit evidence your compliance team needs when responding to data principal requests or a DPBI review.

NBFCs
Fintech Lenders
Registered Brokers
Insurance Companies

Purpose-built for India's regulated mid-market — the companies too small for Big 4, too regulated for banner tools.

Structural Advantage

Why India-Incorporated Matters

From November 2026, the DPDP Act requires Consent Managers operating in India to register with the Data Protection Board. That registration requires Rs.2 Crore net worth, DEPA certification, and a cryptographic audit trail meeting 7-year retention standards. CivicLayer Technologies Private Limited is building to meet this standard from the outset.

Consent Manager registration is not an exclusionary barrier — other platforms are also applying. What it creates is switching costs: a compliant consent chain of custody, once established, cannot be trivially migrated. Every consent record, withdrawal receipt, and audit log is cryptographically tied to your registration.

India-incorporated status is a credibility signal to your regulators, your auditors, and your data principals. For regulated BFSI companies facing DPBI review, it is the foundation every compliance artefact rests on.

Nov 2026

Consent Manager Registration Deadline

Registration requires Rs.2 Cr net worth, DEPA certification, and 7-year cryptographic audit trail.

Boundaries

What We Are Not

  • We are not a dashboard. A dashboard shows you data. ConsentOS handles the operations that generate the data — consent capture, withdrawal processing, audit records.

  • We are not a checklist PDF. Checklists describe requirements. ConsentOS implements the mechanisms that satisfy them.

  • We are not a one-time audit service. Audits produce a point-in-time report. ConsentOS runs continuously, maintaining compliance as your product changes and your user base grows.

  • We are not a GDPR tool mapped to Indian requirements. ConsentOS is purpose-built against the text of the DPDP Act 2023, not adapted from a framework designed for another jurisdiction.

  • We are not a foreign-incorporated platform. CivicLayer Technologies Private Limited is incorporated in India, regulated by the same authority our clients are regulated by, and eligible for Consent Manager registration under the DPDP Act.

  • We are not a problem you can revisit next quarter. If your business collects personal data from Indian users, you have a compliance obligation that does not resolve itself. ConsentOS is how you resolve it, and keep it resolved.

Understand your DPDP compliance position.

The free Compliance Vault Assessment covers five compliance areas under the DPDP Act 2023. You receive a personalised PDF report with your compliance score and a prioritised action list. No sales call required to access it.

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