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Purpose-built for Indian higher education's autonomy journey

System of Records for
Academic Autonomy

Where academic rigour meets operational clarity — a platform for institutions that take their responsibilities seriously. The quality of higher education infrastructure is not a technical question. It is an academic one.

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15+
Years in Operation
40%+
VTU Market Share
55+
Platform Capabilities
3
Product Verticals
What We Believe

Higher education is not just a service.
It is a responsibility.

The institutions we work with are not selling a product. They are shaping the professional futures of thousands of students at a time. Every examination result, every attendance record, every graduation certificate has a consequence in someone's life. That consequence deserves better infrastructure than a spreadsheet.

We believe that the best technology for higher education is technology that disappears — that does its job so reliably, so quietly, that the people using it can focus entirely on what matters: teaching, mentoring, and research.

We also believe that Indian higher education deserves world-class tools built for its specific context — its regulatory frameworks, its OBE requirements, its autonomy journey. Not adapted from a Western platform. Built from the ground up, in Bangalore, by a team that has spent fifteen years learning every nuance of the problem.

This is not a mission statement. It is a record of fifteen years of decisions made consistently in one direction.

Intelligence

The platform doesn't just record.
It learns.

AI is not a module in Contineo. It is woven into the operational core — running during evaluation, surfacing risk before it becomes crisis, and turning fifteen years of institutional data into decision-ready intelligence for every level of leadership.

~35%
Faster evaluation cycles
Patent-pending AI assistant co-evaluates answer scripts, flags anomalies, and automates examiner remuneration — without removing the examiner from the process.
Weeks
Earlier risk identification
Attendance, assessment, and engagement signals converge to surface at-risk students long before outcomes become irreversible — giving mentors time to act.
Research
validated
Independent validation
The analytics methodology has been independently validated at a leading US research university — not just built and shipped.
The Platform

Seven pillars. One operating system.

Every capability is integrated. Data flows between pillars without re-entry. The whole is deliberately more than the sum of its parts.

I
Admissions & Student Lifecycle
Digital intake, document management, PhD tracking — from first enquiry through graduation and beyond.
II
Academic Delivery & OBE
Calendar, timetable, attendance, curriculum, and lesson delivery — all OBE-tagged in process, not retrospectively.
III
End-to-End ExaminationAI
Question bank through valuation, grading, certificate generation, and digital verification.
IV
Student Success & EngagementAI
Mentoring, portals, mobile app, placement, and every student interaction — tracked and acted upon.
V
People, Payroll & Campus
HR, payroll, leave, transport, hostel — the institution's operational backbone.
VI
Finance, Compliance & Accreditation
Fee management, budgeting, NAAC/NBA/AICTE readiness — always inspection-ready.
VII
Insights & CommunicationAI
Role-based dashboards, AI analytics, and mass communication — the leadership layer.

Single data backbone  ·  No re-entry across pillars

Serving
Autonomous Colleges · Deemed & Private Universities · Health Sciences Universities
Capabilities

Built for every layer of the institution.

Four discipline areas, each a complete system of record in its own right — and fully integrated with the others.

01
Academic Foundation

Admissions, curriculum, and academic delivery. The foundational layer — from the moment a prospective student makes an enquiry to the moment they complete their last examination. Every step is recorded, every record is connected.

Admissions
Digital Intake & Student Records
184-field digital intake with webcam capture, verifier workflow, and ID card generation. Document collection fully paperless. PhD admissions, supervisor mappings, and research milestone tracking in the same system.
Curriculum
OBE-Aligned CBCS Registration
Student-driven CBCS registration against OBE-aligned published course structures. Cognitive tagging happens at the point of assessment — not compiled retrospectively for accreditation.
Timetable
Calendar of Events based roll-out and tracking
Academic calendar as the single authoritative driver. Contact-hour tracking per faculty-course combination in conjunction with progress in topic delivery.
Attendance
Live Attendance & Parental Alerts
Biometric or digital attendance. Offline Android and iOS capability for low-signal environments. Instant parent SMS on absences — the registrar is no longer the last to know.
AI Module
Script-o-meter & Early Identification
Patent-pending AI evaluation assistant delivering ~35% time savings per evaluation cycle. Strongest and weakest student identification for early intervention — weeks before a crisis becomes visible.
02
Examination & Certification

Rigorous, transparent, fully auditable. From question bank to digital certificate — with every step logged, every decision traceable, and zero opportunity for integrity compromise. University rules for VTU, Shivaji, Savitribai Phule Pune, Solapur and Mumbai Universities are pre-incorporated.

Question Paper Bank
Bloom's-Tagged & OBE-Mapped
Rich question paper banks with Bloom's taxonomy tagging, OBE parameter mapping, and CO coverage analytics. Question Paper Scrutiny workflow ensures peer review before any paper goes live.
Conduction
Hall Tickets, Seating & Barcode Anonymisation
Rule-based room and seating allotment, hall ticket generation, and barcode-anonymised script dispatch — eliminating identity-based bias before evaluation begins.
Valuation
Manual & Digital Valuation
Traditional marks entry or fully digital on-screen valuation — both modes produce identical OBE-tagged result data. Evaluator remuneration calculated automatically.
Results
Processing, Grading & E-Results
Configurable result rules including relative grading and grace marks. Malpractice handling, revaluation, challenge valuation, marks card printing, and public e-results portal.
Certificates
NAD compliant & DVS-Verifiable
Examinations data available in NAD compatible form, signed certificates and transcripts. Any credential verifiable instantly via the Digital Verification System — by employers, universities, or regulators, worldwide.
03
Student Success & Campus

Every student cared for. No one left behind. The capabilities that ensure every student's journey is tracked, supported, and celebrated — and that the institution operates cleanly around them.

Student Affairs
Mentoring & CounsellingAI
Assigned mentors, structured sessions, counselling topic records, and SLA-enforced follow-up timelines. Early warning flags surface students before problems compound into outcomes.
Portal & App
Student, Parent & Faculty Access
Real-time attendance, CIE marks, results, fee dues, and timetable — accessible on web and mobile. Multi-dimensional feedback collection with analytics dashboards for quality teams.
Campus HR
People, Payroll & Operations
Leave management, performance appraisal, payroll with PF/ESI/TDS, transport management, hostel and mess — all staff categories in a single system. No parallel spreadsheets.
Placement
Placement & Internship Tracking
Placement records, recruiter relationships, and real-time statistics formatted for IQAC. Internship records maintained in the same system. AICTE activity points auto-linked to degree eligibility.
Grievances
Structured Grievance Management
Every grievance registered, routed, and resolved — with SLA monitoring, escalation paths, and full transparency. No case disappears into a process.
04
Intelligence & Growth

Finance, compliance, and leadership insight. The financial and intelligence layer — where every rupee is accounted for, every regulator is satisfied, and every leader has exactly the picture they need.

Finance
Fee Management & Budget Planning
Multi-head fee structures, online and offline collection, digital receipts, scholarships, and department-wise budget planning with forecasting. Every rupee auditable, every report on-demand.
Compliance
NAAC, NBA, UGC & AICTE
Accreditation evidence centralised by design. Criterion wise delineation. Inspection-ready is not a sprint — it is a default operating state.
Dashboards
Role-Based Leadership Intelligence
Tailored dashboards for Faculty, HoD, Principal, Dean, and Director. Each view shows only the KPIs relevant to that role. Mass communication via SMS, email, and in-app with delivery tracking.
Infrastructure
Cloud, On-Premise & Hybrid
99.9% uptime SLA on cloud. Full on-premise deployment for data sovereignty. Hybrid architecture for institutions that need both. Automated daily backup to secure remote datacentre.
AI & Research
ML Analytics & Global Validation
ML analytics independently validated at a leading US research university — REDCap-based research insights and gamification-based engagement. ABET advisory with ACA (US). AI pipeline actively expanding.
Our People

Built by people who chose
this problem deliberately.

e-Sutra Chronicles was not founded by educators who learnt to code. It was founded by enterprise software veterans who chose Indian higher education as the problem worth solving — and have not wavered from that choice in fifteen years. World class products with Indian relevance and global applicability.

Founders, Management & Advisors
Sudhindra Mokhasi
Founder & CEO
Former Head of Technology, MphasiS. Built Contineo from a conviction that Indian institutions deserved enterprise-grade technology purpose-built for their context.
Sudhindra Mokhasi
Sudhindra Mokhasi
Founder & CEO
Aparna Mokhasi
Co-Founder & COO
Drives operations and client relationships. The person behind the continuity of partnerships that span over a decade.
Aparna Mokhasi
Aparna Mokhasi
Co-Founder & COO
Balaji C R
President
Former VP, MphasiS. 25+ years in technology delivery. Brings the rigour of enterprise-scale implementation to every engagement.
Balaji C R
Balaji C R
President
Leaderboard
Raghavendra Deshpande
Chief Architect
Anchors the technical architecture and platform integrity of Contineo.
Somnath Wadkar
Product Leader
Leading product delivery with precision and purpose in education technology implementation.
Sagar Hundekar
Product Leader
Shapes product innovation by working closely with FDE insights.
Mahesh Kanguri
Product Leader
Drives product evolution and excellence across Contineo’s core modules with clean, intuitive workflows.
Muktum Kunnur
Customer Relationship Leader
Champions client success and long-term relationship management.
Nikhil G
HR and Admin Leader
Manages the human and operational backbone of the organisation and ensures the team that builds Contineo operates with clarity and purpose.
Chinnayya V M
Sub-Product Leader
Design and execution of s/w infra and communications in CONTINEO product.
Founding Partnership

Trusted by institutions that set the standard.

Our longest and deepest partnership is with an institution that has itself defined excellence in Indian engineering education — a relationship that shaped much of what Contineo is today.

KLE Technological University
Recipient of the World Bank Award and ranked MIT Top-5 Engineering Universities. Represented Indian progress in OBE to the Washington Accord committee.
Founding & Mentor Client 15+ Years
A conversation worth having

A focused 45-minute demonstration is all it takes.

See every pillar working together, live, for your institution's specific context.

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Phone
Email
e-Sutra Chronicles Pvt. Ltd.
No. 953, SLN Plaza,
1st Floor, 21st Main, 15th Cross,
BSK II Stage, Bangalore – 560070
Karnataka, India