Kamal Ghorui
PUNE: Bharathcloud, an Indian AI-ready cloud services provider, announced a partnership with Smartail AI, Asia’s first AI-powered grading company, to accelerate the adoption of secure, scalable, and data-sovereign AI in education. The collaboration aims to support AI-led transformation across 3000+ schools and universities in India by 2026, with phased rollouts aligned to institutional readiness and academic frameworks. Together, the companies are enabling educational institutions to deploy AI responsibly, without compromising data security, compliance, or pedagogical integrity.As AI adoption grows across India’s education sector, data sovereignty and security have become essential. BharathCloud’s sovereign AI cloud powers DeepGrade, Smartail’s flagship platform, enabling a secure, automated grading system, real-time student performance analytics, and personalised learning insights.
Leveraging BharathCloud’s solutions, Smartail has enhanced platform performance and efficiency, now grading over 3 million marks per month with approximately 97% accuracy. Question paper generation has increased by 17%, with 500+ papers produced monthly across CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE, IB, Cambridge, and State Board curricula. The secure, upgraded network infrastructure ensures safe data storage and retrieval, supported by a cost-optimised cloud architecture offering competitive pricing.Swaminathan Ganesan, Co-Founder & CEO of Smartail, Says, “As a deeptech AI grading software company, our cloud choice is mission-critical. After evaluating multiple providers, BharathCloud stood out for its high availability, scalability, low latency, GPU-CPU performance, and cost efficiency. Its secure, sovereign infrastructure enables us to scale DeepGrade, handling over 100,000 answer evaluations daily while ensuring data security, AI sovereignty, and superior customer outcomes.”“Partnering with Smartail allows us to showcase how deep-tech driven AI cloud infrastructure can empower educators and transform learning institutions, while supporting India’s broader digital transformation,” said Rahul Takkallapally, Co-Founder, BharathCloud. “We are delighted to be serving Smartail, one of the top ten startups selected by the IndiaAI Mission, and to be part of their journey. This collaboration reflects BharathCloud’s commitment to empowering Indian organisations with secure and scalable AI cloud solutions that drive meaningful innovation at scale.”Beyond supporting Smartail’s core platforms, Smartail enables institutions to access secure AI cloud infrastructure through BharathCloud, delivering a unified platform for both AI deployment and cloud management. Looking ahead, the partnership is designed for mutual growth beyond India, with BharathCloud’s sovereign AI Cloud expertise complementing Smartail’s established presence in the UK and UAE, enabling both companies to expand solutions to global markets.
