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About Dhakma

Private intelligence. American engineering.

Designed, assembled, and deployed from West Lafayette, Indiana.

The Mission

Why private AI exists

Every law firm, medical practice, and defense contractor in America runs sensitive data through cloud AI vendors they do not control, cannot audit, and cannot air-gap. The moment that data leaves your building, you have lost custody. You are trusting a third party with your clients' most confidential information, and you have no mechanism to verify what happens to it.

Dhakma exists to close that gap. We build on-premise AI infrastructure that processes your data on your hardware, in your building, under your control. The models run locally. The data stays local. There is no cloud connection to breach because there is no cloud connection.

For operators in defense, energy, healthcare, and law, this is not a feature request. It is the minimum acceptable standard.

We work with operators in defense, energy, and healthcare who can't afford to send sensitive data to the cloud and can't afford AI that doesn't work.

The Founder
Tharindu 'Mackie' Mathew, PhD

Tharindu 'Mackie' Mathew, PhD

Ex-Microsoft Azure · PhD, Purdue University

At Microsoft Azure, Mackie built planet-scale distributed systems. He saw firsthand how enterprise data moved through infrastructure that no single customer could audit, control, or disconnect. The cloud was the product. The data was the fuel.

At Purdue, he earned a PhD in Computer Science specializing in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Robotics, and Simulations. The research gave him the tools. The industry gave him the problem.

Dhakma is the answer. A private AI platform built from the hardware up, designed for organizations where a data breach is not a line item on a risk register. It is an existential event. Core trains on-premise. Edge deploys to the field. The loop is closed. The data never leaves.

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Deployed & Proven

Operational across sectors

Defense
Drone Tracking & Detection
Real-time multi-object tracking and classification for DoD-adjacent programs. On-device inference at 30fps with zero cloud dependency.
Counter-UAS
DIU CSO Pipeline
Pursuing the Defense Innovation Unit's Counter-small UAS program. Purpose-built Edge hardware for persistent airspace monitoring and threat classification.
Energy
Private AI for Oil & Gas
Deployed on-premise AI systems for operators in East Texas. Document intelligence, operational data processing, and local RAG on air-gapped infrastructure.
Aerial Intelligence
Real-Time Segmentation R&D
Instance segmentation and site analysis from aerial platforms. 0.914 mAP@50 on drone classification with SAHI tiling for small object detection.
West Lafayette, Indiana

Dhakma LLC

Purdue Research Park
1281 Win Hentschel Blvd
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Software developed in the USA. Hardware assembled in the USA.
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