Founded 2025 · Hyderabad, India
We make the billing rule enforceable on every invoice.
OSRA 2022 gave cargo owners rights. The FMC wrote them into Part 541. ATAHSKIA exists so nobody has to give those rights up for lack of time.
Why we started.
Vikram spent eleven years running ocean procurement for an exporter shipping into US ports. Every month the same thing happened: detention invoices arrived late, without availability dates, for days the terminal was closed, and the team paid most of them because disputing took longer than the charge was worth.
When the FMC's billing rule took effect in May 2024, the defects that used to be arguments became rules with consequences. What was missing was the capacity to check every invoice and dispute inside 30 days. Vikram and Sneha built that capacity as software.
The structural problem is simple: carriers bill at scale, shippers dispute by hand. ATAHSKIA closes that gap.
Operating principles
How we work.
Cite the rule, every time
Every finding carries its CFR paragraph. If we cannot cite it, we do not flag it.
Evidence before argument
Capture the terminal record as it happens, not after the dispute starts.
Disputes, not fights
Factual relief requests to published contacts. Carrier relationships survive recovery.
Your invoices stay yours
Tenant isolation, AES-256 at rest, and zero model training on customer data.
Inside the window
A recovery that misses the deadline is not a recovery. Clocks are first-class objects.
Know our boundary
We are software, not a law firm. We prepare the record; you and your counsel decide.
Leadership
The team.
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Vikram Nair
Co-founder & CEO
Spent 11 years running ocean procurement and carrier relations for an Indian auto-parts exporter shipping into US Gulf and East Coast ports. IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad.
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Sneha Iyer
Co-founder & CTO
Built EDI and document pipelines for freight clients at Infosys before leading platform engineering at a logistics SaaS. IIT Bombay, Computer Science.
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Arjun Malhotra
Head of Maritime Regulatory Intelligence
Former trade compliance lead for a US importer of record. Maintains the Part 541 and § 545.5 rule packs and reads every FMC order the week it issues. NLSIU Bengaluru, LL.M. in maritime law.
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Kavya Reddy
Lead Trade Systems Architect
Designed EDI 315 and 322 milestone ingestion for a container visibility platform. Owns terminal and appointment-system connectors. NIT Warangal.
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Siddharth Menon
VP Product
Product lead on accounts-payable automation at a Bengaluru fintech, then freight audit. Thinks in invoice exceptions. BITS Pilani.
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Nandini Rao
Head of Security & Compliance
Ran SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programmes at Wipro for financial services clients. Owns tenant isolation and the trust center. IISc Bengaluru.
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Rahul Bansal
VP Customer Recovery
Led a 40-person freight audit desk recovering carrier overcharges for North American retailers. Runs the retrospective audit team. Delhi University, CA.
Maritime legal & operations advisory board
Margaret Ellison
Advisor, terminal operations
Former operations director at a South Atlantic container terminal. Advises on gate, appointment and empty-return evidence.
Raghav Sethi
Advisor, maritime administrative law
Maritime regulatory counsel who has represented shippers before the Federal Maritime Commission. Reviews dispute and complaint templates.
Thomas Whitfield
Advisor, drayage
Ran a 180-truck drayage fleet in San Pedro Bay through the 2021 congestion peak. Advises on per diem and chassis evidence.
Dr. Leela Krishnamurthy
Advisor, supply chain finance
Former treasury head at a consumer goods importer. Advises on accrual treatment of disputed carrier charges.
Milestones
- Mar 2025Founded in Hyderabad by Vikram Nair and Sneha Iyer after a year of manual D&D disputes for exporters.
- Jul 2025Part 541 rule engine released: all 20 § 541.6 elements and § 541.7 issuance checks.
- Oct 2025First retrospective audits for US importers; terminal appointment capture live in San Pedro Bay.
- Jan 2026Incorporated as ATAHSKIA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED in Hyderabad. SOC 2 Type II report issued. NVOCC workspaces with § 541.7(b) and (c) support.
- Apr 2026Charge complaint dossier module and first public Billing Accuracy Index.
- Sep 2026Coverage expanded to 30 US container ports; $42.8M disputed and recovered on the platform.
Registered office
ATAHSKIA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
HNO. 4-1-938, FLAT 602, KRISHNA APTS, TILAK ROAD, Hyderabad G.P.O., Hyderabad, Telangana, India, 500001
Phone
+91-40-4123-2929
1800-266-2929 (toll-free)
Corporate
ATAHSKIA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED is a private limited company incorporated in India, CIN U69200TS2026PTC212241. SOC 2 Type II. hello@atahskia.si
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