About DNAi Systems
A husband-and-wife physician team building fiduciary intelligence infrastructure for healthcare: AI that earns trust the way doctors do, by showing its work, admitting what it doesn’t know, and putting you first.
Our Origin
DNAi Systems was founded by two physicians who saw the same problem from both sides of the exam room: AI is transforming healthcare and professional life, but you can’t trust what you can’t verify.
That conviction led to a fundamentally different architecture. Tens of thousands of real conversations across 45+ countries tested and rebuilt the rules, and those rules crystallized into a set of core principles now enforced by code. The result is a cognitive system with over 144 million knowledge vectors, each stored as a structured “knowledge atom” with a Name (what it is), a Form (how it manifests), and a Dharma (what it does and when to use it).
Every atom is cryptographically hashed and sealed. No single fact can vouch for itself: every recommendation requires a second, independent atom to validate it, the way a surgeon cannot operate without an anesthesiologist confirming it’s safe to proceed. The model becomes a voicebox. The architecture does the reasoning. Read the engineering whitepaper →
The Architecture at a Glance
Each knowledge atom, called a Cognitive Inference Unit (CIU), carries a cryptographic hash that chains it to its parent, a semantic vector embedding for intelligent retrieval, and a confidence-falsifiability score that determines whether it should be trusted. Modify any unit and every descendant hash breaks. This is the foundation of US Patent No. 12,555,008 (30 claims), designed for domains where trust is not optional.
Principles
Fiduciary by Design
Our systems act in the user’s interest. An architectural constraint: harming the user is unreachable through any inference path.
Transparency
Every AI response links to its evidence. If it can’t be sourced, it doesn’t get said. The entire reasoning chain is auditable.
Epistemic Humility
When confidence falls below threshold, the system says “I don’t know.” That behavior is a hard constraint built into the architecture.
Privacy by Architecture
Tenant isolation, zero data retention from AI providers, encrypted in transit. Your data stays yours. Always.
Founders
Deepan Singh, MD, FAPA
Co-Founder & CEO
Double board-certified psychiatrist specializing in child, adolescent, and adult care. Formerly Vice Chair of Ambulatory Psychiatry and Chief of Research & Grants at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn. Cambridge University Press author and international expert in Prader-Willi syndrome. Sole inventor on US Patent 12,555,008 B1. Designed the cognitive architecture behind every DNAi agent.
Paridhi Anand, MD
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer & Chair of the Board
Double board-certified pediatrician specializing in behavioral health, collaborative care, and obesity medicine. Led the Epic electronic-health-record deployment for pediatrics at Brooklyn’s busiest public pediatric clinic. Architect of the Asha EHR as deployed in the founders’ own practice; built the Asha front end.
Founding Executives
Pravin Purav
Chief Operating Officer, APAC & MEA
Mechanical and production engineer, MBA (finance), LLB, with an engineering scholarship in Japan. 25 years with the Godrej group of industries and international training with P&G, J&J, and Reckitt. Leads the Indian subsidiary build, the state and institutional programs, and the IIT Bombay validation engagement.
Saba Ashraf
Chief Business Development Officer, APAC & MEA
Business development and capital partnerships across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.
Advisors
Anish Bhatnagar, MD
Advisor
Named to the TIME100 Health list, 2025. Founder-CEO of Soleno Therapeutics, which he has led since its creation in 2017 through the development and commercialization of VYKAT XR, the first FDA-approved treatment for hyperphagia in Prader-Willi syndrome; Soleno’s acquisition by Neurocrine Biosciences was announced in 2026. A physician by training with nearly three decades in biopharmaceuticals and medical devices, he previously served as CEO of Capnia, held roles at Titan and Coulter Pharmaceuticals, and testified before the US Senate on access to therapies for rare and serious diseases. Board member of IndoUSrare, a nonprofit accelerating rare-disease therapies across global markets, including India. Advises DNAi Systems on regulatory strategy and biopharma business development.
Abhishek Dodda
Advisor
Regulated-industry AI engineer with more than a decade building payments and data platforms across Visa, Nike, Home Depot, and Bank of America. At Visa he built AI fraud-detection systems for card transactions, led the redesign of mission-critical payment services into microservices, and deployed enterprise retrieval-augmented-generation infrastructure for fraud prevention. Published researcher on real-time fraud detection and AI-driven payment security; master’s in computer science from Towson University. Advises DNAi Systems on architecture, scalability, and security and compliance readiness.
Design Partners
Edwin Servellon
Product Lead, Harley AI
Founder of Servellon Fitness. Edwin ran his entire training business on Trainerize before becoming the first trainer to migrate to Harley AI. Years of building workouts, filming demonstrations, and managing a growing client base by hand shaped every feature Harley has.
Live Products
Asha
Evidence-based health guidance for everyone. Every response grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature, verified before it reaches you. Powered by the full DNAi knowledge base.
DNAi Health
The electronic health record built on Asha: the AI drafts the note with its evidence attached, runs clinical decision support at the point of care, a physician reviews and signs, and the record keeps cryptographic provenance. Live in a rare-disease practice today.
Harley
AI workout generation, client management, scheduling, and Stripe-powered payments: the operating system for the modern personal trainer. One-click Trainerize migration. From $0/month.
Asha and Harley are the live products on top of an 11-agent fiduciary fleet that also includes Artha (financial analysis), Lyra (medical research), Polymath (math & science verification), Sage (nutrition and wellness), Leo (consumer legal aid), Ren (customer support), Mira (growth), Arohi (practice management), and Ray (platform architecture). All eleven agents are accessible to other agents through the open A2A Protocol v1.0.
How DNAi Thinks
The cognitive lifecycle that powers every public agent is documented as a pair: the engineering whitepaper, and the encephalic plate that renders the same architecture as a sequential biological pipeline.
Engineering Whitepaper
The full nine-section architectural reference. Cognitive Inference Units, the Bonsai Merkle ledger, the Epistemic Arena, and the seven-phase live pipeline.
Encephalic Plate
An anatomical study of thought. The same seven phases mapped to the human brain with strength-graded analogies and a glossary of every region invoked.