About
Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu Buddhi Roopena Samsthita, Namasthasyai Namo Namah
iSRL is an open research commons. The intelligence that makes the work sharper lives in the people, and the people come from everywhere — regulatory expertise, food science, data standards, legal analysis, nutrition, lived experience of the systems we are studying.
We couldn’t have coined Regulatory Delta Analysis without Lalitha trying to explain to Sai how two sets of law could be read as data. We couldn’t have seen the limits of what we were building for small F&B businesses without Dr. Swati pointing it out in the open. We couldn’t have known the parallels with how similar systems in completely different industries solve this without Thej saying so here.
The debates, the dead ends, the moments where something we were sure about turned out to be wrong — all of it happens in public, on GitHub.
Fully async, fully remote. No office, no fixed hours, no check-ins for the sake of check-ins.
Every third week is off — completely. No pings, no updates, no gentle nudges.
When it is a working week, it is high agency. You know what the deliverable is. You organise your time around it.
Your worth as a person has nothing to do with what you produce here. You are not here to impress anyone. You are here to find out what is actually true and represent it as clearly as you can.
Say no early when the timing isn’t right. A clear no now is worth more than a yes that quietly unravels.
When you do say yes — not perfection. Commitment. Showing up, communicating when things aren’t working, doing the unglamorous parts without being asked.
If the problem is pulling at you, the discussions are where the thinking happens in real time. The join page has the rest.