About — AttriEdge | The standard for holding the corridor

Who you work with

The one who lives on both shores.

US side Enterprise procurement instinct Reads the security questionnaire Knows what stalls the deal

Founder portrait
B&W · 4:5 Hemant Attri, Founder of AttriEdge

India side DPDPA · IT Act · labor law Inside the India GCC reality Direct to auditors & ops

I build operating systems. For twelve years, across four time zones, the work has been the same: take something that doesn't exist yet, build the system that makes it run, and stay until it holds. AttriEdge is the latest of those systems — the standard for holding the US–India compliance corridor.

A generalist fractional CISO is usually US-only and loses the thread the moment your team is in India. An India consultancy serves Indian companies and doesn't speak enterprise procurement. The large global firms rarely take a company your size at a price that makes sense. If you run a US-headquartered company with an India team of 20 to 200, you've felt that gap directly — a deal stalls on security review, and nobody you can call understands both halves of your operation at once.

That gap is the entire reason AttriEdge exists. The method is operational, not theatrical: every control gets a named owner, every artifact a timestamp and a home, the statutory layer — DPDPA first — mapped to the frameworks your buyers actually ask about. Built once, run monthly, defensible the moment a security team asks.

I run it myself — the same person from your first diagnostic through every retainer call and every auditor pushback. That's deliberate: when one operator scopes the work and answers for it, accountability isn't a clause you negotiate, it's just how the engagement runs.

Hemant Attri · Founder and Operator · AttriEdge

Why a specialist

Everyone else is stranded on one shore.

Each alternative covers half the corridor. None of them can stand on the line.

◆ Stuck on the west shore

Generalist fractional CISO

Fluent in US security review and the buyer's questionnaire. Strong on the framework.

Can't cross: India ops, statutory depth, the India GCC reality.

Stuck on the east shore ◆

India-based consultancy

Knows DPDPA, the IT Act and labor law cold. Close to your engineering team.

Can't cross: US procurement and the deal-stalling review.

Hovering above · won't come down

Large global firm

Has both sides on paper. But won't serve your size, your speed, or a price that fits.

▸ On the line

AttriEdge — the one operating layer between all three.

US procurement instinct, India statutory depth, and a retainer that fits a 20–200-person team. That intersection is the whole practice. Nothing outside it is on the menu.

Why India-based works in your favor

The advantage you can watch happen.

Run from India, this work gains a property no US-only practice has: while your buyers sleep, your evidence stays current. Here's the corridor, live.

SAN FRANCISCO · your buyers

BENGALURU · your operator

live overlap

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Fig. A3 — your 24 hours across the corridor, livecontinuous coverage · not a 9-to-5 in one timezone

01Full overlap with your India teamNo time-zone gap to the people who hold your evidence and access.
02Native India statutory fluencyDPDPA, IT Act and labor law read in the original — not translated after the fact.
03Direct relationships on the groundIndia auditors, lawyers and ops specialists, reachable directly when needed.
04Cultural fluency on both sidesThe cross-border conversation handled by someone who lives in both halves of it.

This isn't outsourcing — and it isn't about being cheap.

It's specialist coverage. The same way you'd hire a fintech-specific compliance firm if you were a fintech, you hire a US–India specialist when you run a US–India operation.

The AttriEdge standard

Six markers, driven into the line.

These are the practice's terms — the standard AttriEdge holds, set down where you can audit them rather than buried in a contract you'd read after signing. Whoever runs the practice signs for them. Today, that's me.

C-01 One-page mutual NDA, before any technical discussionSigned before AttriEdge reviews a single control or access map. standing

C-02 Month to month · no lock-ins · zero termination feesCancel by the 28th of any month, no penalty. You stay because the work earns it. standing

C-03 Transparent pricing on the diagnostic and retainersPublished on the site. You know the number before the call. standing

C-04 No referral fees from tools or auditorsEvery recommendation is unbiased — AttriEdge takes no fee to point you anywhere. standing

C-05 Work outside the specialty gets turned downEven when it's offered. AttriEdge declines the wrong work — it's what keeps your engagement whole. standing

C-06 One operator, end to endAttriEdge runs each engagement through a single operator — the one who scopes it answers for it. Today, start to finish, that's me. standing

— Hemant AttriFounder and Operator, AttriEdge · the standard I sign my name to today

Disclosures

Stated plainly, up front.

What we are — and aren't

AttriEdge is the practice; today it is operated by Hemant Attri, based in India. It is not a law firm, a CPA firm, or a licensed auditor. Engagements are operational and advisory in nature.

For licensed audit work, AttriEdge partners with US-licensed CPA firms — auditor introductions available on request, with no fee for making them.

AttriEdge holds the line between them. And I run it.