Three regulators, three mandates. One independently held record.

Confirm who ran the campaign, what was disclosed, who was paid, and whether tax was withheld at source — from an independently held execution record, not from whatever the agency chooses to send you. India polices disclosure (ASCI/CCPA), withholding (§194-O/§194R), and financial-advice promotion (SEBI) through different bodies; the record answers to each on its own terms.

3distinct enforcement layers — ASCI/CCPA, Income Tax (CBDT), SEBI

₹20k§194R benefit threshold, tested at the relationship level, not per post

DPDPtenant data held in-region under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

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Illustrative authorities

ASCICCPAIncome Tax Dept (CBDT)SEBIMeitY (DPDP)

Listed for illustration only. Admission is invite-only per authority, subject to institutional and individual vetting — see how admission works.

The six signals

01Creator / finfluencer registration statusConfirm a financial-advice creator's SEBI registration where the finfluencer overlay applies, and the creator's standing for the category being promoted.

02ASCI / CCPA disclosure-label compliance per postSee whether each post carried an unambiguous label — 'Advertisement', 'Sponsored', 'Paid partnership' — in the required placement and language, per the ASCI Influencer Guidelines and the Consumer Protection Act.

03Approval chain and audit trailEvery content approval captured: who reviewed, who signed off, when. Named actor, timestamped, cryptographically signed.

04TDS withholding (§194-O / §194R) and GST recordsTDS deducted at source under §194-O / §194R — including on barter benefits above the ₹20,000 relationship-level threshold — linked to the execution event, with GST metadata per transaction.

05Cross-border regulatory clarity (DPDP transfers)For campaigns crossing into or out of India, see every applicable disclosure, withholding, and data-transfer obligation under the DPDP Act in a single lookup.

06Immutable independent recordCognitiva AV holds the record in independent custody. Neither the agency nor the creator can edit it.

Indian tenant data stays in India, held under the DPDP Act, 2023. No exceptions.

A single in-region deployment with an in-country Hardware Security Module. Data egress from India is blocked at the infrastructure layer, not just the policy layer.

1in-region India deployment — in-country HSM

DPDPDigital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 — consent and residency by design

15 minmaximum cross-border token lifetime — public identity only

WhatsApp messages are processed in memory only — the event is extracted and written to the India ledger, then the message body is immediately purged.

Jurisdiction and domain scoping

An authority admitted under this market sees only tenant records whose jurisdiction falls within its own, and only the regulatory domains it was explicitly admitted for. Cognitiva AV does not provide a searchable index across tenants — access is by tracking-code lookup.

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