Saalr is the execution and compliance layer for AI-native algo trading in regulated markets. Built around SEBI's algo framework — Algo-IDs, broker-as-principal liability, exchange empanelment, and tamper-proof audit trails — engineered for the brokers and prop firms now running compliance in production.
SEBI's February 2025 circular reset the rules for every algo provider and every broker running API-based order flow. It took two deadline extensions and a phased glide-path, but on April 1, 2026 the framework went fully live. Brokers who missed earlier milestones were already barred from onboarding new API clients in January. The forcing function is no longer ahead — it's underway.
Brokers, prop firms, and professional trading teams are running compliance, research, execution, and analytics across disconnected systems — most of them not built for SEBI's new accountability standard.
Research, backtesting, execution, and compliance live in separate systems with no integration. Manual handoffs become audit gaps.
The Feb 2025 circular put brokers on the principal hook: Algo-IDs, audit trails, empanelment, RA license for black-box strategies, static IP enforcement, 2FA.
From signal research to production execution takes months of manual coordination between quants and operations. Compliance review adds weeks more.
90%+ of retail F&O traders lose money. Net individual losses widened 41% to ₹1.05 lakh crore in FY25. Black-box strategies make the problem harder to fix.
Algo-ID tagging, audit trails, and regulatory reporting baked into every order flow. Compliance is not a wrapper — it is the substrate.
Signal research, backtesting, risk gating, broker execution, and audit logging in one integrated stack. No handoffs. No reconciliation drift.
ML-driven signals and risk controls from day one. Risk gates and execution stay deterministic — agents propose, deterministic controls decide.
Static IP, OAuth 2FA, daily session resets, tamper-proof hashchain audit logs, designed against the exchange empanelment audit gate.
Saalr maps directly to each pillar of SEBI's Feb 2025 framework. The same hashchain that protects manual orders protects every AI agent decision.
Each broker onboarded deepens the platform through registered algos and compliance switching costs. Algos that are exchange-registered cannot be casually moved.
The framework is law. Every broker, every algo, every order needs traceable, registered identity.
In-house build is 6–12 months and an exchange audit gate. Most brokers won't build this twice.
Each registration ties the strategy, the broker, and the audit trail to Saalr's infrastructure.
Migrating a registered, exchange-empaneled algo is operationally and legally expensive. Lock-in compounds.
Anomaly patterns, breach signatures, and compliance heuristics transfer across the deployed base.
Saalr is early. The signals that matter at this stage are infrastructure, domain depth, and partner-validated capability — not ARR.
Member of NVIDIA's startup program for AI-native companies. Compute access, technical validation, and ecosystem placement for the AI execution stack.
Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading. Founder-certified across SEBI regulatory framework, market microstructure, and quant strategy design.
AWS cloud-native architecture, GPU compute path through NVIDIA Inception, target controls mapped to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 program requirements.
The pivot from consultancy to product was deliberate. Two decades of engineering leadership across enterprise platforms gave the operating discipline. The EPAT certification and three live AI-trading products gave the domain depth. SEBI's Feb 2025 circular gave the wedge — a regulatory forcing function that creates a category from scratch.
Saalr is built on a simple thesis: as AI lowers the cost of building trading systems toward zero, the defensible value migrates to what cannot be replicated — regulated market access, exchange-registered compliance infrastructure, and institutional trust.
That's the layer Saalr is building. Glass box. Not black box. Audit-first, agent-augmented, broker-grade.
CTO / Co-Founder & Head of Compliance · Seed-round hires. Quant-systems and SEBI-regulatory expertise. Reach out if this is your build.
If you're running compliance stopgaps and looking at the next 12 months of maintenance — let's talk about replacing the patchwork. We'll scope a 60-day pilot against one strategy, one broker connection, one audit trail.
sreekanth@saalr.io →$200K F&F SAFE at $2M cap closing now, $1.5–2M seed to follow at $8–10M pre-money. Use of funds: engineering, compliance hires, exchange empanelment, first three broker integrations.
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