jamil khatri

By Jamil Khatri India is ready to deploy AI agents faster than it is ready to govern them. In boardrooms, AI conversations are still dominated by use cases and productivity gains. Far less attention is paid to a harder question. What authority will these systems hold? AI agents differ from conventional assistants. They do not merely generate content. They can retrieve information, interpret it, recommend actions, communicate with stakeholders, and trigger workflows across enterprise systems.

Until 2022, the significant liquidity in the financial systems also drove significant startup investments. For the most part, the focus of investors and consequently founders was customer acquisition, revenue growth and market share gains. This was often at the cost of an appropriate focus on profitability, internal processes, and internal controls.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has established itself as a sustainability tool for companies looking to make social or environmental impact that will directly benefit communities. Subsequently, to a limited extent, CSR also became a benchmarking tool for consumers and investors seeking socially conscious organizations to do business with.