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The best ideas rarely start with a business plan. Instead, they start with someone noticing a problem they can’t stop thinking about and deciding to build a solution.
For nearly two decades, that’s been the spirit behind CampIO, Centric Consulting’s annual innovation showcase. Originally comprising a full day of in-person demos, CampIO has now evolved into a multi-day virtual conference.
In 2024, Centric India launched its own CampIO competition, providing a platform for innovators to showcase their ideas locally. Continuing the tradition this year, the top three teams from a field of more than 45 participants were selected by their peers to represent India at CampIO U.S. During the virtual program, they presented their ideas and competed for the prestigious “Best Overall Award.”
The top three Centric India CampIO projects met that challenge. They included:
- A platform that unmasks digital scams in plain language
- Another platform that drives employee engagement by turning the office’s favorite sports rivalries into a daily culture habit
- A tool built to catch the quiet warning signs that a child needs help before a crisis hits
While developed as prototypes, CampIO India’s projects display the use of sharp engineering to solve problems that matter. Below are profiles of the top three CampIO India entries.
Sentinel: Making Scams Make Sense
Digital fraud has become harder to spot because it no longer looks like fraud. That’s a challenge for everyone, but especially those who are not as familiar with how online scams have evolved. Often, the victim doesn’t recognize a scam until their money is gone.
Divya Nair and Jatinderpal Singh, two full-stack developers with a combined 17 years at Centric, built Sentinel to close that gap.
“Sentinel is like a soldier stationed to keep watch,” Nair told the audience. “Not to fight after the attack, but to see it coming before it reaches you.”
Most scam-detection tools stop at a warning label. Sentinel is built to explain what’s behind the label. It reads suspicious text messages, screenshots, images, and even recorded phone calls, then tells the person exactly what’s dangerous about it, what tactic the scammer is using, and what to do next in plain language rather than a generic alert.
Behind that explanation is a two-layer system: A rules engine does an initial pass for known scam patterns, and an AI layer checks that finding against the full context before returning a risk score and a recommendation. A companion feed tracks emerging scam trends so the system keeps learning as fraud tactics change.
“Sentinel addresses a real-world problem that millions of users are facing across the globe every single day,” Singh said. “Our objective is to make every single user digitally safe and digitally protected.”
Clutch: Making Workplace Culture a Daily Habit
Most companies try to build workplace engagement with one big event a year, like a field day, an off-site meeting, or a company picnic. The efforts are well intentioned but often forgettable.
Centric India configuration analysts, Ridhim Uppal and Shivam Aggarwal, set out to fix that by building on something people already do every day without being asked — follow sports.
Their program, Clutch, turns live games across soccer, cricket, basketball, and tennis into a running, gamified layer of office culture. Live scores sit in one feed alongside company team fixtures. Quick score predictions and an AI-personalized daily quiz, which adapts difficulty and sport mix to each employee, keep the app relevant, even on days without a big event. An Auction Room — where employees spend a fixed budget of in-app credits to bid for a full squad and enjoy department-versus-department “rivalry weeks” — create the bigger, buzzier moments. Participation earns coins that employees can spend on rewards or redirect to causes the company has already vetted, with the ability for an organization to match what’s donated.
For HR, Clutch’s Culture Pulse dashboard delivers an anonymized, real-time read on engagement, weekly active users, cross-team participation, and more.
Everything the pair demoed was a working prototype rather than a mock-up. The idea grew out of an earlier, cricket-only version the two built for a previous Centric India competition. This year’s version broadened that effort into a multi-sport platform based on initial feedback.
“We are not asking anyone to care about something new,” Uppal said. “We are taking this thing that they already check on their phone at lunch and making it count for their team.”
SafeNest: Connecting Signals Before They Become a Crisis
The hardest part of protecting a child at risk usually isn’t a lack of information. It’s that the information already exists but it’s scattered, and different people are responsible for each data point.
For example, a drop in attendance is linked to one system. A teacher’s concern lives in a notebook or an email. A parent’s worry never makes it past a hallway conversation.
Alka Sharma, Kirti Srivastava, Shrinkhla Negi, and Rita Sharma — from Centric India’s PMO team — built SafeNest to connect those pieces so that schools and parents can spot symptoms of larger problems and provide early support to the child.
“One missed class may mean nothing. A change in behavior may mean nothing,” Rita Sharma said in the presentation, speaking on behalf of Team SafeNest. “But when several of these signals start appearing together, it can indicate that a student may be moving from a normal concern to an emerging risk.”
SafeNest is an AI-powered early intervention platform designed to help parents and schools protect children. The platform identifies patterns across attendance, academic performance, and behavioral observations, then surfaces it for a human or counselor to review. SafeNest doesn’t diagnose or flag an allegation. Rather, it surfaces it for adults to see the fuller picture and act if needed.
“The AI doesn’t make the final decision. The counselor reviews the information, validates the concern, and then decides what action is appropriate,” Rita Sharma added.
The team closed with a video that provided the idea behind the whole project: “Children rarely say, ‘I need help.’ Instead, they change. And sometimes the difference between a concern being missed and a child receiving support is simply someone noticing early enough.”
Looking at all three presentations, Centric CampIO U.S. co-leader and moderator, Indu Varatharaj, said, “This year, Centric India wanted to combine the innovative use of technology and AI with a strong focus on solving meaningful real-world challenges.”
Innovation is the reason CampIO exists, and this year’s presentations put that purpose on full display. After a strong competition among teams across Centric Consulting, Sentinel took home the prize for best overall in 2026.
