Our Story
In July 2022 — two years before the NEET paper-leak scandal broke, and four years before a leaked paper forced India to cancel NEET outright and call twenty-two lakh candidates back to their desks — we filed a patent for a question almost nobody was asking yet: why must a question paper ever be readable to anyone before the exam hour?
Everyone else was arguing about stronger locks, tighter vans, better cameras. We had reached a harder conclusion: exams don't fail in the exam hall — they fail on the journey. Every press, strongroom and envelope between the board and the candidate is an act of faith in a human being. And faith, however sincere, is not a security architecture.
So we engineered faith out. The result became Indian Patent No. 572782 — granted 28 October 2025 to the founders of Durjeya — a way to deliver a sealed paper to thousands of locked devices, offline, inside the exam venue, where no one in between ever holds anything readable. Incubated at SINE, IIT Bombay, we then asked the question that follows: securing the paper is necessary — but who protects the candidate's trust in everything else? The answer is CORTEX, our patent-pending evidence chain that turns an entire examination into proof a parent can check on a phone.
We did not pivot to India's exam crisis. We were built before it — for it.











