Darwinbox

Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an HCM software company started in 2015 by co-founders and Co-CEOs Jayant Paleti and Chaitanya Peddi. It is incorporated in India with a registered office in Hyderabad, and its website has a Singapore regional version. The August 2026 release reports more than 1,400 enterprises and 4.5 million employees on the platform.

Darwinbox Cortex is described as an AI-native HCM rebuilt around four layers: a Signal Layer that flags risks and opportunities, a Context Graph of people, policies and workflows, a Cortex Agent Platform for building governed HR agents, and an Experience Layer inside Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Slack and Glean. Design partners named are Visteon and Transcarent.

• Signal Layer: detects patterns across roles, modules and lifecycle stages.
• Context Graph: a live map of people, policies, workflows and decisions.
• Cortex Agent Platform: build agents with templates for common HR tasks.
• Experience Layer: interactive experiences in Teams, Copilot, Slack and Glean.
• Regional site: a Singapore regional version of the website.

A Vietnamese enterprise with several thousand employees can evaluate it to consolidate core HR and talent processes. A regional group with units in Indonesia and Vietnam can run one HCM instance.

• Cortex is built AI-native, with agents that act within existing permissions and keep a record of each decision.
• The Signal Layer detects patterns across roles and modules to flag risks early.
• Experiences are delivered inside Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Slack and Glean.
• A Singapore regional website version indicates attention to Southeast Asian buyers.

Large employers in Asia are replacing legacy HR systems with AI-native HCM suites. The website has a Singapore regional version, although Vietnam is not mentioned on the pages fetched.

Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd., registered office in Hyderabad, India. Started in 2015. Cortex launched on 4 August 2026.