What the DPDP Act puts at stake
upto ₹250 Cr
Penalty range · stacks cumulatively per incident
13 May 2027
Full compliance deadline · phased since Nov 2025
B2C · B2B · B2B2C
Every model in scope: consent, processor & intermediary chains
The penalty range under the DPDP Act runs up to ₹250 crore and stacks cumulatively per incident. Full compliance is due by 13 May 2027, phased since November 2025 — and every business model is in scope, including consent, processor and intermediary chains.
Two common approaches to DPDP. One gap remains.
Approach A — Consent Management SaaS
A licensed platform to capture, store and manage consent going forward. It doesn't know what's already processed without consent, across your existing systems.
Approach B — Audit / Consulting Partner
A gap assessment, reliant on interviews and self-reported inventory. A snapshot in time, not a living system of record.
At a glance
| Capability | Consent SaaS | Audit / GRC | humaineeti |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sees legacy data already collected | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Traces cross-border transfers at source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Maps every PII field to a discovered processing activity | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Continuous, not a one-time snapshot | ~ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Autonomous DPIA, RoPA register, DSAR response, clause-to-control | ~ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Autonomous agents within customer's secured private cloud | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ delivered · ~ partial · ✗ not addressed.
What the control plane runs
Agentic continuous compliance, run by agent swarms of specialized agents:
Specialized agent
Multiple sources-of-truth
Specialized agent
DPIA
Specialized agent
DSAR
Specialized agent
RoPA
Specialized agent
Clause to Control
Autonomous agents run within the customer's secured private cloud.
What you get
- Agentic DPDP continuous compliance, not a one-time audit
- Every PII field traced to a processing activity
- Auto-generated RoPA register & clause-to-control mapping
- Consent & notice quality dashboard
- Root Cause Analysis of (potential) violations along with the citation
- Months of manual compliance effort, cut to weeks
Built for
DPOs · CISOs · CTOs · GRC & law-firm partners.
Sectors
- BFSI & Fintech
- Retail & D2C
- Manufacturing
- Media & OTT
- Healthcare
- PSU & Government
Get a headstart with our agentic DPDP Service Desk.
Read next
For the statutory background behind this page — the DPDP Act's scope, the phased timeline and what it asks of an AI system — see our DPDP Act AI compliance guide for India. For how humaineeti governs the agents it ships, see Responsible AI and the AI Eval Service.
Frequently Asked
What is DPDP-AID?
DPDP-AID is humaineeti's fully autonomous DPDP compliance suite, providing a true-discovery engine. It parses every line of your code, schemas, endpoints and unstructured artifacts for source-of-truth data lineage, processing purpose and violations of the DPDP sections and rules, down to individual data-principal granularity.
What does “true discovery” mean for DPDP?
Discovery of personal data is more than finding them at-rest. True discovery parses actual code, schema, legacy data and artifacts for data lineage, continuously, down to data-principal granularity and processing purpose.
How is this different from a consent management SaaS?
A consent management SaaS is a licensed platform to capture, store and manage consent going forward. It doesn't know what's already processed without consent, across your existing systems. DPDP-AID sees legacy data already collected and traces cross-border transfers at source.
How is this different from an audit or consulting partner?
An audit or consulting engagement is a gap assessment reliant on interviews and self-reported inventory — a snapshot in time, not a living system of record. DPDP-AID is continuous, not a one-time snapshot.
What are the DPDP penalties and the compliance deadline?
The penalty range goes up to ₹250 crore and stacks cumulatively per incident. Full compliance is due by 13 May 2027, phased since November 2025.
Which business models are in scope?
B2C, B2B and B2B2C — every model is in scope, covering consent, processor and intermediary chains.
What do I get from DPDP-AID?
Agentic DPDP continuous compliance rather than a one-time audit; every PII field traced to a processing activity; an auto-generated RoPA register and clause-to-control mapping; a consent and notice quality dashboard; root cause analysis of potential violations along with the citation; and months of manual compliance effort cut to weeks.
Where do the agents run?
Autonomous agents run within the customer's secured private cloud.
Who is DPDP-AID built for?
DPOs, CISOs, CTOs, and GRC and law-firm partners — across BFSI and fintech, retail and D2C, manufacturing, media and OTT, healthcare, and PSU and government.
Related resources
Prove it on your estate
Two ways to see whether true discovery finds what your current approach cannot — both at no cost:
- A free demo of DPDP-AID — the true-discovery engine running end to end, from code and schema parsing through to the RoPA register and clause-to-control mapping it generates.
- A no-cost DPDP gap assessment — we point the agents at a scoped slice of your estate and show you the personal data, lineage and processing purposes already there. The merit is in what it surfaces that interviews and self-reported inventory do not.
Write to hello@humaineeti.ai with the subject DPDP, or call +91 70440 90022. Offices in Mumbai and Kolkata.
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