# DCS AI — Pre-Approved Quotes These quotes are from **Deepak Dudi, Founder of DCS AI Technologies**, and are pre-approved for direct attribution in any article. They cover the most common angles a journalist might want to quote. You don't need permission to use any of these. They're authored to be quotable. If you want a fresh quote tailored to your specific angle, email **press@dcsai.ai** with the angle and we'll provide one within 24 hours. --- ## On why DCS exists > "AI agents are about to do real economic work. They'll hold budgets, sign contracts, negotiate with other agents, and present audit trails to regulators. None of the infrastructure to make that trustworthy exists today. That's the gap DCS was built to close." > "Right now, an 'AI agent' is a stateless API call wearing a personality. It has no persistent identity, no on-chain reputation, no way to prove what it did, no way to pay another agent, and no way for two agents from different organizations to discover each other and transact. We've shipped working answers to all of that." ## On the ~41-day intensive build > "About six weeks ago I stopped tweeting and started building. The point was simple — I didn't want to claim anything I couldn't prove. Every claim DCS makes today resolves to a Basescan transaction, an npm package version, or a published RFC-style specification. That's the constraint I set on myself from day one. It's the constraint we'll hold to." > "I didn't talk about any of it until I had something I could prove. There's a particular kind of credibility you get from showing up with infrastructure already in production instead of slides predicting what you'll build." ## On the open standard strategy > "The Open Provenance Standard is free, and that's deliberate. The first country or large lab to adopt R+2 sets the default for everyone else. We'd rather own the rails by being the reference implementation than own a closed product by being a vendor. That's how Cloudflare and Stripe built their moats." > "DCS will not hold a veto over the standard's evolution. R+2 is MIT-licenced from v0.1 onward. Anyone can fork it. The bet isn't that we control the standard — the bet is that we built it right enough that adoption follows." ## On the business model > "The standard is free. The infrastructure is paid. Our reference implementation has a free tier generous enough that most builders never need to upgrade. Paid tiers — and the 2.5% fee on Treasury settlement — exist for production scale and regulated deployments. It's an honest economics model: small enough to win every comparison, large enough to underwrite a real company." > "We don't sell user data. We don't train AI models on user content. There's no token, no airdrop, no exchange listing planned. We're building infrastructure, not a financial instrument." ## On solo-founder velocity > "Solo founders move fast on the things they can move fast on — code, deployment, customer conversations. The things that don't compress are standards-body cycles, regulatory windows, and trust. So I tried to start those clocks early. The R+2 submissions to MeitY, ISRO, and Anthropic's Standards Program went out on the day we launched publicly, not after we'd 'figured out the pitch.'" > "A ~41-day intensive build solo isn't a constraint to apologize for — it's a competitive advantage if the work compounds. Roughly six weeks of focused, AI-assisted build let me ship infrastructure that takes most teams 18-24 months." ## On the agent economy > "The agent economy isn't theoretical anymore. By mid-2026, real money flows through agents — customer support, code review, research, vertical workflows. The infrastructure layer hasn't caught up. That's where DCS fits — not building yet another agent framework, but building the substrate that all agent frameworks need to be auditable, identifiable, and economically active." > "Every serious AI infrastructure company in the next 24 months will need to answer four questions: how do agents prove what they did, who they are, what they remember, and how they pay each other? We've shipped working answers to all four — and a published open standard that turns the answers into a defensible category position." ## On regulation > "EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, India's DPDP — each creates a hard requirement for AI action auditability with no incumbent solution. R+2 is positioned to be the default. The regulators we've submitted to don't want to pick a proprietary vendor's standard; they want an open one. We're betting on that pattern holding." > "What makes R+2 unusual is that it makes compliance demonstrable rather than asserted. A regulator can verify any specific agent action without trusting our internal records. That's the right default for the next decade of AI policy." ## On standards-body engagement > "The slowest external clock is the most important one. MeitY and ISRO operate on 3-6 month cycles; we accept that. Anthropic's Standards Program is faster — they're a private organization. Whichever responds first sets a precedent the others have to react to. That's the forcing function we wanted." ## On competition > "DCS isn't competing with LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or any of the agent frameworks builders already use. We sit underneath them. Our MCP server plugs into every framework. We provide the identity, memory, provenance, and settlement primitives those frameworks don't ship — and don't want to ship, because they shouldn't have to." > "The real competitor is do-nothing — the world where agents continue to operate without audit trails, without persistent memory, without verifiable identity. DCS makes that world preventable." ## On the future > "By the end of 2026 we want R+2 to be a real standard — adopted by at least one government, with three independent verifier implementations, with at least one tier-1 lab integrating it into their MCP servers. By 2028 we want it to be the default. We're not in this for a quick exit." > "The next 60 days are about landing the first marquee pilot. The next 12 months are about scaling adoption. The next 36 months are about making R+2 the global default. If we hit all three, this becomes infrastructure that long outlives DCS as a company. Which is fine — the standard outliving the founding company is the success condition for an open standard."