Building the
Trust Layer
for Bharat's Education
Gradify Labs is a deep-tech startup building open AI + blockchain infrastructure to issue, verify, and manage academic credentials — combining machine intelligence with permissionless cryptographic rails to make credential fraud impossible and trusted education records accessible to every institution, employer, and student.
AI + Blockchain infrastructure for verified learning
Gradify Labs combines AI and permissionless blockchain to build secure, tamper-evident academic credential infrastructure. AI powers fraud-pattern detection and analytics; blockchain provides the immutable cryptographic layer. Currently deployed at IIIT Surat — real credentials, on real permissionless rails, for real students.
Tamper-Evident Architecture
Credentials are cryptographically anchored on-chain — immutable and independently verifiable by anyone, anywhere.
Global Accessibility
Verify any credential in seconds with no intermediary, no registrar wait, from anywhere in the world.
Near-Instant Verification
Any third party can verify a credential independently in under 3 seconds — no login required, free for everyone.
Meet the Founder
Shradesh started where most credential fraud is actually solved — not in policy decks, but in code. A blockchain and systems engineer with two years building production-grade software in Rust on Blockchain, he has shipped DeFi protocols, a Solana micropayment SDK, and dived deep into the unglamorous layers most builders never touch — QUIC, HTTP/3, and kernel-bypass networking. That obsession with what happens at the lowest level is exactly what credential infrastructure needs.
The insight behind Gradify was simple and uncomfortable: India issues tens of millions of degrees a year, yet almost none can be verified without a phone call to a registrar — and a convincing fake costs nothing to produce. Every employer, bank, and university quietly absorbs that risk. Shradesh set out to make forgery not just difficult, but mathematically impossible — and verification instant, free, and open to anyone.
Today that thesis is live: Gradify is deployed at IIIT Surat, backed by a Solana Foundation grant, registered as an LLP, and a DPIIT Startup India applicant — issuing real, tamper-proof credentials on-chain while staying aligned with every standard Indian universities are mandated to adopt.
“A degree should be as easy to verify as it is impossible to fake. We're building the rails that make trust the default — not a privilege you pay a middleman for.”
— Shradesh Jodawat, Founder
Built with
A national-scale problem, structurally unsolved
Credential verification in India is slow, manual, and trivially gamed. Gradify replaces trust-by-paperwork with trust-by-mathematics — the kind of category-defining infrastructure that only gets built once.
Mission & Vision
To create a tamper-proof, open AI + blockchain ecosystem for academic credentials in India and beyond — making verification instant, fraud impossible, and educational records portable across institutions, employers, and borders. We build in alignment with NEP 2020, Digital India, and the Startup India ecosystem.
A world where academic credentials are universally trusted, instantly verifiable, and seamlessly portable across borders — owned by the learner, not locked inside any institution's server. We are building the infrastructure that will power the future of education and professional trust globally.
What we stand for
Integrity
Trust earned through cryptography, not claims. What we anchor on-chain is true by mathematics.
Built for Bharat
India-first by design — aligned with NEP 2020, Digital India, and the Startup India ecosystem.
Open Rails
Permissionless infrastructure with no vendor lock-in. Credentials outlive any single company.
Student-Owned
The holder owns their credential for life — portable, private, and independently verifiable.
Guided by people who built this space
Gradify Labs is advised by academics, computer scientists, and quality-assurance leaders across India's universities — bringing accreditation, research, and engineering depth to every decision we make.
“Accreditation bodies are moving towards verifiable, audit-ready evidence. Gradify's criterion-mapped credential trail is exactly the kind of infrastructure IQAC and NAAC teams need to stop reconciling records by hand.”
Assistant Professor and IQAC member at Manikaka Topawala Institute of Nursing (a constituent of CHARUSAT, accredited NAAC A+). NAAC, GSIRF and ABC coordinator, Department E-Governance coordinator, and Young Scientist Award winner.
“Public verification with no login is the right model for India. Employers shouldn't have to contact registrars for something that should be a 3-second check — Gradify gets that right where most platforms don't.”
Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at IIIT Surat. Research spans distributed systems and computer science, with a focus on secure, verifiable systems applicable to academic credentialing.
“Gradify's NEP 2020 approach — NAD push, ABC credit mapping, and DigiLocker integration from a single issuance — is exactly what an institute's academic office needs. The team is deeply knowledgeable.”
M.Sc., Ph.D. in Physics (Korea). Coordinator for Research & Consultancy and Head of Applied Sciences & Humanities at IIIT Surat, where he is an Assistant Professor of Physics.
Interested in advising?
We're selectively adding advisors across academic policy,
credential standards, and blockchain infrastructure.
If your work intersects with verifiable credentials, NEP 2020 implementation, or Digital India infrastructure — we'd like to hear from you.
Reach OutBuilding credential infrastructure
for Bharat — and beyond
We welcome conversations with universities, government bodies, investors, and builders exploring how permissionless blockchain can serve public education goals.