Built for the Indian retail and HNI investor who refused to settle for a tracker.
Indian markets have ~9 crore demat accounts and not one quant workstation built around them. The choice is either a slick tracker that hides every interesting number, or a foreign terminal license priced in dollars that nobody's retail book can justify. Kautilya is the third option.
Institutional math. Indian-first inputs. Retail price. No advice. No data sales. Yours to run.
Six things that shape every decision.
Indian markets, Indian math
The S&P 500 isn't a benchmark for an HDFC Bank holding. We use Damodaran's India ERP (11.14%) and CRP (4.12%), 10-yr G-Sec for the risk-free rate, and 2-year weekly OLS for beta with Blume adjustment — the exact recipe used by Indian quant desks, not the US default that screens import wholesale.
Math you can see
Every Kautilya number traces back to a formula and a source. No proprietary scores you can't reproduce on paper. If we calculate fair value, you can read the DCF inputs. If we flag tail risk, you can see the VaR derivation. Trust comes from auditability, not branding.
Platform, not advisor
We don't tell you what to buy, sell, or hold. Not because we're hedging — because giving advice without knowing your personal balance sheet is reckless. Kautilya gives you the math; you make the call. Same model as TradingView, screener.in, and every Bloomberg terminal.
Your data stays yours
Broker tokens are encrypted per-user. The .env file holding system credentials is chattr +i immutable on the EC2 host. We don't sell anonymized order flow, holdings, or behavioural patterns to anyone. Your subscription pays us — that's the entire economic relationship.
No advice. No tips. No model portfolios.
Kautilya is SEBI-safe by design. We're a data and analytics platform. If you want recommendations, hire a SEBI-registered investment advisor — there are plenty of good ones. If you want institutional-grade math you can run yourself, that's us.
Built by someone who trades.
I run my own book in the Indian market and got tired of choosing between either a ₹50/month tracker that shows P&L or a ₹5L/year Bloomberg license that nobody in retail can afford. Kautilya is the workstation I wanted to use — Greeks, vol surfaces, DCFs, MC VaR — at a price that makes sense for a retail or HNI book.
From first commit to 21+ modules.
The boring (but important) stuff.
Kautilya provides analytics, risk modelling, and research data. It does not provide investment advice, manage portfolios on your behalf, or execute trades against discretionary mandates. All investment decisions are your own. Markets carry risk; past performance is not indicative of future results.