The problem

India's growth engine is assessed with yesterday's tools

Data-thin borrowers

Bureau scores fail where MSMEs need credit most: no files, no history, no rating.

Fragmented risk stack

Bureaus, background-check firms and monitoring tools each cover one slice; nobody integrates.

Diligence is manual & slow

External due diligence today is analyst-driven, expensive, and refreshed yearly at best.

Crises surface too late

Lenders and insurers typically learn of stress from defaults and headlines, not early warning.

6+ crore

Udyam-registered MSMEs, most with thin or no formal credit file

₹25–30 lakh crore

Estimated MSME credit gap

2.61 billion

Financial accounts enabled for Account Aggregator sharing (Dec 2025)

Why now

Three forces converge — for the first time

01

Digital public rails

ULI, Account Aggregator, OCEN, ONDC, GSTN, NeSL, DigiLocker: lawful, machine-readable business data at scale that didn't exist five years ago.

02

AI maturity

LLMs, knowledge graphs, agentic monitoring and explainable scoring make assessment of data-thin entities economically viable.

03

Regulatory clarity

The DPDP Act 2023 penalises scraping-based models and rewards consent-architected platforms. Compliance becomes the moat.

Positioning

What we are — and what we are not

What we are

  • An AI Risk Intelligence & Assessment company
  • Issuing scores, grades and due-diligence opinions
  • A user-pays model — lenders, insurers, corporates and investors subscribe
  • DPDP-by-design — Account Aggregator, GSP APIs, public registers, consented checks only

What we are not

  • Not a SEBI-registered credit rating agency — we do not issue securities ratings
  • Not a credit bureau under CICRA 2005 — no regulated credit information business
  • Not a scraping operation — no unconsented personal-data harvesting

The solution

One data spine. One knowledge graph. Three engines.

Engine 01

AI Assessment Engine

  • Business Health Scores & risk grades
  • Reason codes on every score (explainable AI)
  • Built for data-thin MSMEs using alternative data
Engine 02

External Due Diligence

  • Corporate, promoter, litigation, UBO, AML/sanctions screening
  • GST, MCA, court & tender analytics
  • Lawful-source, consent-architected reports
Engine 03

Crisis Intelligence

  • Continuous monitoring & early-warning alerts
  • Financial, legal, ESG, cyber, supply-chain and media risk
  • Heat maps & board risk dashboards

Assessments feed monitoring. Monitoring feeds the graph. The graph sharpens every next assessment.

Why us

Everyone owns a slice. Nobody owns the stack.

Bureaus, rating agencies and due-diligence firms each cover one piece of the picture. Crux integrates assessment, deep diligence and continuous monitoring on a single knowledge graph — so every new report makes every future score sharper.
  • Built for data-thin MSMEs, not just large rated corporates
  • Consent-architected data (DPDP-by-design) — not scraping
  • Continuous monitoring, not one-off reports
  • Explainable AI — every score comes with reason codes
About Crux

Products

Four categories, one platform

01

Associate Assessment

  • Business Health Score & risk grade
  • Channel partner / distributor / franchisee grades
  • Cooperative Risk Grade
  • ESG & governance grades
02

Due Diligence for MSME

  • MSME Assessment Report
  • Credit Passport (MSME-held)
  • Lender & government-scheme onboarding checks
  • Insurance risk assessment for MSME covers
03

Supplier Validation

  • Supplier verification & certification
  • Vendor Risk Grade
  • Supply-chain risk mapping
  • Continuous supplier monitoring
04

External Due Diligence

  • Corporate, financial & promoter diligence
  • UBO, AML/sanctions/PEP, adverse-media screening
  • Litigation search
  • Investor, M&A & board due diligence

Who we serve

Six audiences, one risk language

Banks & NBFCs

Origination scoring, portfolio monitoring, EDD on borrowers and vendors.

Cooperative banks & societies

White-label risk desk for UCBs, DCCBs and credit societies.

Insurers

Underwriting data for credit insurance, trade credit and surety bonds.

Corporates

Vendor and supply-chain risk, distributor and dealer assessment.

VC / PE & M&A

Investment and transaction due diligence, portfolio company monitoring.

Government & DFIs

Scheme-linked assessment at scale (e.g. CGTMSE, state MSME programmes, export promotion).

Get in touch — for banks, NBFCs, insurers, cooperatives, corporates and government partners.

Focus areas

Where we go deep

Cooperative Risk Desk

White-label borrower assessment for UCBs, DCCBs and credit societies, an underserved segment.

Insurance & Surety

Underwriting data for credit insurance, trade credit and the emerging surety bond market.

Government Schemes at Scale

Assessment infrastructure for scheme-linked lending and MSME programmes.

Get the Crux risk briefing

MSME credit & alternative data, DPDP compliance, cooperative banking risk, trade credit and surety underwriting, and explainable AI in risk scoring.