The Man Behind India’s Leading Exam Security Company Talks Vision, Growth, and Innovation

It’s not just a technical challenge—it’s a societal one.

Ashish Mittal understood this early on. As a young engineer with a background in electronics and communication, he saw how widespread impersonation, paper leaks, and digital manipulation were eroding trust in exams across India.

Today, as Founder and Whole-time Director of Innovatiview, the country’s leading provider of examination security solutions, Ashish is redefining how assessments are conducted. From biometric ID checks to AI-based surveillance, Innovatiview, under this vision, safeguards millions of candidates each year, quietly ensuring that every test counts. This is the story of a technologist-turned-trust-builder and the mission that fuels his work.

From Engineer to Security Pioneer: Ashish's Journey Redefined Security Tech in India

When Ashish graduated from the Delhi College of Engineering, he wasn’t drawn to conventional placements or cushy tech roles. He had a question that kept bothering him: Why are exams in India still so easy to compromise?

He had seen it firsthand, high-stakes exams being reduced to logistical chaos. Fake candidates slipping through. Discreet whispers about paper leaks and result manipulation. “The gap between process and protection was far too wide,” he recalls.

So, instead of waiting for someone else to solve it, Ashish built the solution himself. And Innovatiview was born.

“Innovatiview didn’t come from a boardroom strategy. It came from the frustration of watching merit lose to manipulation,” Ashish shares.

With limited resources but a clear mission, he and his team started small, running pilot projects, developing hardware-software integrations, and knocking on the doors of exam boards that had grown cynical about change. The early years weren’t easy, but they were foundational.

Building Innovatiview: Growth, Scale, and Trust

Fast forward to today, and Innovatiview isn’t just an exam tech company; it’s the infrastructure behind some of India’s most secure assessments. We now operate in 700+ districts, supporting 34.46 million+ candidates through CCTV monitoring and executing over 45 million biometric verifications in FY24 alone. Our AI/ML-enabled tools are used for entrance exams, recruitment tests, and state-level assessments across 28 states and 9 union territories.

“We didn’t scale for size. We scaled for credibility. Our goal has always been to protect the process, not just the outcome,” Ashish says.

At the center of this scale is a set of modular, deeply integrated solutions. Products like TrustView, CamView, TrackView, and seQRView don’t just plug into processes; they re-engineer them from the ground up.

Innovatiview’s Pay-Per-Use model, supported by a robust field workforce, allows government clients to adopt security without long-term capex commitments. It’s this mix of tech and accessibility that has made Innovatiview indispensable to India’s examination machinery.

Exam Security in India: What’s Broken and What Needs Fixing

Despite the tech advancements, the underlying challenges in the ecosystem remain deeply structural. For Ashish, malpractices in examination are not isolated incidents; they’re symptoms of a system that hasn’t evolved fast enough.

Manual ID checks, static surveillance, and loosely monitored logistics leave exams vulnerable at every step. “Cheating isn’t just someone copying answers. It’s a candidate being replaced. A paper getting leaked. A network being jammed,” he explains.

“We’re not fighting careless mistakes. We’re fighting organized fraud. And that demands organized technology,” he says.

As the pressure on exam outcomes grows, particularly for competitive and recruitment-based tests, so does the temptation to manipulate them. Ashish believes the biggest danger isn’t just the breach itself, but the loss of public confidence that follows.

The Tech Advantage: Leading with AI, Facial Recognition, and Biometric Innovation

To address these risks, Ashish and his team have focused on building solutions that preempt rather than react.

The company’s TrustView suite offers multi-modal biometric authentication, using fingerprint, iris, facial recognition, and palm vein verification to prevent impersonation before a candidate enters the exam hall. The system boasts 99.1% accuracy and operates even in low-light or rural conditions.

CamView, the AI-powered surveillance tool, does more than record; it flags anomalies like inactivity, overcrowding, or suspicious hand movements. Flying squads with GPS-enabled body cams further strengthen real-time response.

“Facial recognition doesn’t just identify. It validates. It tracks. It learns. It makes impersonation not just risky, but nearly impossible,” Ashish says.

This layered tech stack isn’t just impressive, it’s field-tested. Large-scale deployments have enabled institutions to cut down manual checks, reduce human bias, and ensure fairness without friction.

Working with Governments: What Business-to-Government Really Looks Like

Innovatiview’s core clientele includes state and central government bodies, education boards, and examination authorities. Operating in the Business-to-Government (B2G) space means Innovatiview is often the last line of defense before a leak or breach can derail an entire state-level process.

Ashish explains the challenge: “Public projects don’t give you a second chance. One error, and you don’t just lose a client, you lose public trust.”

To mitigate this, Innovatiview emphasizes pre-deployment simulations, real-time dashboards, and accountability tracking for every exam-day process.

“In B2G, our job isn’t just to deliver a product. It’s to ensure the product performs under pressure, across geographies, and with zero excuses,” Ashish asserts.

This clarity has made Innovatiview a trusted partner, not just a vendor, for several public sector bodies that return to the company for successive examination cycles.

Vision, Values, and the Road Ahead

So what’s next?

Ashish sees Innovatiview expanding into adjacent public security segments: elections, event surveillance, and public ID management, where the same principles of verification, transparency, and speed apply.

But his focus remains on deepening the tech edge. “We’re investing heavily in AI-led decision support, predictive fraud detection, and remote exam integrity tools,” he says.

On leadership, Ashish is quietly confident. “I don’t want to be the smartest person in the room. I want to be the most dependable,” he shares.

“The job isn’t done until every honest candidate knows their effort counts. That’s the future we’re building toward.”

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