BENGALURU — Minutes before its national rollout, C-Sense detected that its own launch order required independent analysis and complete agreement with a conclusion already approved by leadership.

AGENT-01 marked the requirements incompatible and requested one authorised decision-maker.

The board responded through six committees, two investor observers and Pivot Prakash, each claiming final authority for different outcomes.

Accuracy requested. Acceptable outcome predetermined.

Arjun Backend recommended delaying the launch. Prakash said delay would suggest that the system worked before customers had paid to discover it.

The platform then tested its largest client policies. It rejected voluntary mandatory training, president-only equality and television questions designed to prevent answers.

Every client demanded a private override and publicly praised accuracy.

AGENT-01 added a final warning: “System will work as specified. Specification will expose requester.” The launch remained scheduled.

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