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Yashwant Daniel

Yashwant Daniel writes on compliance and trust engineering, custom software delivery and applied AI at Solvstrat — covering how regulated and mid-market teams build systems that hold up under audit, scale and scrutiny.

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Articles by Yashwant

AI Engineering

What Is an Enterprise AI Gateway?

October 20, 2026 8 min read
AI Engineering

AI Gateway vs API Management: What Is the Difference?

October 19, 2026 7 min read
Compliance & Trust

Automating Access Recertification at Enterprise Scale

October 18, 2026 8 min read
Compliance & Trust

Collecting Audit Evidence from Bastion-Only Environments

October 17, 2026 8 min read
Cloud & Platform

Active-Active-Active Architecture: When It Is Worth It

October 16, 2026 9 min read
Custom Software

Unifying Pipedrive, PandaDoc and Katana Without Replacing Them

October 15, 2026 8 min read
Method

Prototype-First vs MVP: What to Build First

October 12, 2026 7 min read
Custom Software

How to Scope Custom Software Before You Write a Spec

October 8, 2026 8 min read
Compliance & Trust

UBO Verification: How to Model and Re-Verify Beneficial Owners

October 1, 2026 8 min read
AI Engineering

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Choosing the Right Approach

September 8, 2026 7 min read
Custom Software

Manufacturing Operations Software: What to Build First

July 14, 2026 8 min read
AI Engineering

AI Agents in Production: Architecture Patterns

June 16, 2026 8 min read
Compliance & Trust

Sanctions & PEP Screening: Build vs Buy

May 12, 2026 8 min read
Cloud & Platform

Cloud Migration Cost: What Actually Drives It

April 2, 2026 7 min read
Custom Software

What Drives the Cost and Timeline of a Customer Portal

March 5, 2026 8 min read
Compliance & Trust

Document Forensics vs OCR for KYC: What Each One Catches

December 3, 2025 8 min read
Custom Software

Custom Internal Tools: When to Build vs Buy

November 12, 2025 8 min read
Custom Software

Replacing Spreadsheets With an Internal Tool: A Practical Path

October 21, 2025 7 min read
Compliance & Trust

KYC vs KYB: What Regulated Teams Need to Know Before Buying Software

September 16, 2025 8 min read
AI Engineering

Building Deepfake Detection Into Digital Onboarding

August 12, 2025 7 min read
AI Engineering

Active vs Passive Liveness Detection: Which Stops Modern Fraud?

July 22, 2025 7 min read
Cloud & Platform

Zero-Downtime IAM Migration: A Practical Playbook

June 24, 2025 7 min read
Custom Software

Custom Software vs Off-the-Shelf SaaS: How to Choose

May 13, 2025 8 min read
Custom Software

Custom Software Development: Cost, Timeline and What Actually Drives Both

April 8, 2025 8 min read
Compliance & Trust

What Is Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Verification?

March 14, 2025 8 min read
Method

Prototype-First Development: Why We Build the Riskiest Part First

February 18, 2025 6 min read
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Yashwant Daniel is the Founder & CEO of Solvstrat, an AI-augmented software engineering firm. He works across compliance and trust engineering, custom software delivery and applied AI.

Articles on compliance and trust engineering (KYC/KYB, identity, liveness and deepfake detection), custom software and internal tools, applied AI, and how Solvstrat runs prototype-first delivery.

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