Vision
01A future where every growing business in India and the GCC runs on software it owns outright.
Systems that get better every year through active maintenance — not systems that get switched off the moment a subscription lapses.
About Darcio Labs
Darcio Labs designs, builds and supports every system on the Saiga platform, from the first discovery call to the support ticket years later. We exist because too many growing businesses in India and the Gulf were being asked to rent the tools they run their operations on, forever, with the price going up every year and the data locked behind someone else's login.
Businesses across India and the Gulf, each named here with their agreement, and what we built for every one of them.
See the clientele01What we stand for
Vision
01Systems that get better every year through active maintenance — not systems that get switched off the moment a subscription lapses.
Mission
02CRM, ERP, HRMS and more, with a transparent annual maintenance contract, so operators can plan costs like they plan any other capital purchase — not like an open-ended rental.
Profitability partner
03We call ourselves a profitability partner, not a software vendor, because our commercial success is tied to your operational outcome, not your subscription tenure. An AMC only gets renewed if the system is still worth maintaining — which means we have to keep earning that renewal with real support, real fixes and real improvements, not lock-in.
02The directors
Darcio Labs is run by three directors who had each spent long enough inside other companies' software to know what they wanted to build differently. Between them they cover the whole arc — the product, the engineering behind it, how it reaches a business, and what happens to that customer afterwards.
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sreelal set the terms Darcio Labs trades on: you buy the software once, and you actually own it.
That position is unusual enough in this industry that it has to be defended, and defending it is most of the job — deciding what gets built, how it gets priced, and which deals get turned down because they would quietly turn a licence back into rent.
An engineer by training and a second-time founder, he had already co-founded LAOZ Global Assets before starting Darcio Labs. Seven years in, his instinct runs to the operational detail most software skips: what a business actually does on a Tuesday afternoon, and where the current system makes them do it twice. Closing that gap is what the systems in the registry are for.
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Varun owns what the software does once it is running — the architecture behind the registry, and the standard every system in it is held to.
He came to Darcio Labs from IBS, a software company operating out of both Technopark and Infopark — Kerala's two major technology campuses, and the closest thing the state has to a proving ground for product engineering. It is an environment where software is judged on whether it holds up under real operational load rather than on whether it demos well, and that is the bar he brought with him.
Systems built to one engineering standard are harder than systems built to their own, and it is the reason a customer can run the CRM and the ERP and have the numbers agree. His remit runs from architecture through to what ships: how the products are built, how they are maintained under an AMC rather than abandoned at handover, and how a licence someone bought outright keeps running long after they stop renewing.
Co-founder & VP, Marketing
Srijith is the force behind how Darcio Labs shows up in the world — and how every customer who meets the brand ends up staying for the long haul.
Fifteen years spanning marketing, sales and customer operations across hospitality, healthcare, EdTech and automotive gave him a rare mix: a strategist's eye for growth and an operator's discipline for execution. He has led sales teams, managed high-value key accounts, built brand partnerships from scratch and run customer success across fast-moving sectors — most recently owning end-to-end marketing strategy for an automotive dealership business.
Here he owns three areas that make or break early-stage companies. Marketing: go-to-market strategy, brand, and campaigns across ATL, BTL and digital — measured on pipeline rather than impressions. Customer Lifecycle Management: not just deploying CRM, but re-engineering the workflows behind it so no customer falls through the cracks. And People & Culture: attracting, hiring and growing the team against clear expectations and consistent follow-through.
03How we're built
Darcio Labs designs the Saiga platform, ships every system built on it and maintains each one afterwards. When you buy a Darcio system, the people who built it are on the other end of your support ticket. There is no outsourced maintenance layer and no reseller in between.
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We sit with the people who do the work and write down how the operation actually runs — not how the org chart says it does.
04Where we operate
We build for two markets we understand well. That focus shapes everything from compliance defaults to payment norms — we are not trying to be everything to every market, only exactly right for these.
That focus shapes everything from our pricing currencies to our compliance defaults to the languages our interfaces support. We are not trying to be everything to every market; we are trying to be exactly right for these two.
The model, in plain English
Most business software today is priced as an endless rental: monthly fees that scale with your headcount, features you lose the day you stop paying, and data that isn't fully yours to walk away with.
Our model is different. You pay a one-time licence fee for the software itself, and a separate, transparent annual maintenance contract — an AMC — that covers updates, support and fixes. When the AMC year ends, the software you already paid for keeps running. You're not locked out. That's the whole idea behind software worth owning.
A note on accuracy
Clients are named only with their agreement. Nothing else here claims a count, a testimonial or a statistic, because none has been verified.
Ready when you are
Tell us how your operation runs today. We will tell you honestly which system fits — and which facts we are still confirming.