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."

— Dataguard India, 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.

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 is available only to India-incorporated entities.

The major global consent platforms are incorporated in the United States and Europe. Dataguard India Private Limited is incorporated in India. This distinction is already meaningful. Once registration becomes mandatory, it becomes decisive.

Foreign platforms cannot register. Their clients will need to migrate. We are building for the organisations that want to get this right before that deadline arrives.

Nov 2026

Consent Manager Registration Deadline

Only India-incorporated entities may register. Foreign platforms will be excluded.

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. Dataguard India 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.

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