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Their 'digital infrastructure for loan against mutual funds' is genuinely complex regulatory plumbing that banks need today — SEBI compliance, lien marking, multi-lender orchestration. But Perplexity can already explain loan-to-value ratios better than their blog posts, and soon it'll bypass the infrastructure entirely by directly connecting borrowers to competing lenders in real-time.

Compliance engineers and integration specialists aren't going anywhere — someone still needs to wire up the SEBI-approved workflows and manage the actual money movement. The risk is higher up the stack: loan officers, underwriters, and portfolio analysts whose expertise becomes an API call.

This is real infrastructure with genuine switching costs — banks don't casually rip out lending rails, and the regulatory approvals create actual barriers to entry. The partnerships with City Union Bank and Bajaj Finance represent structural integrations that take quarters to replicate. It's boring, necessary plumbing that AI can't replace, only route around.

Their careers page shows 'no current openings' despite claiming to power 'the next generation of secured lending' — either they built the perfect team or they're not growing fast enough to stay ahead of the AI curve that's digitalising the very workflows they're trying to own.

Secured lending survives — people will always want to borrow against assets. But the need for 'digital infrastructure' to enable it gets thinner as AI handles origination, risk assessment, and portfolio monitoring directly. They're building the highway just as everyone's learning to fly.