BharathCloud, an Indian AI-ready cloud services provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Smartail AI, Asia’s first AI-powered grading company, to accelerate the adoption of secure, scalable, and data-sovereign AI solutions in the education sector.
The collaboration aims to support AI-led transformation across more than 3,000 schools and universities in India by 2026. Rollouts will take place in phases, aligned with institutional readiness and academic frameworks. The partnership is designed to help educational institutions deploy AI responsibly without compromising data security, regulatory compliance, or pedagogical integrity.
Strengthening AI Infrastructure with Data Sovereignty
As AI adoption expands across India’s education ecosystem, data sovereignty and cybersecurity have become central concerns. BharathCloud’s sovereign AI cloud infrastructure now powers DeepGrade, Smartail’s flagship platform, enabling secure automated grading, real-time student performance analytics, and personalised learning insights.
With BharathCloud’s infrastructure support, Smartail has significantly enhanced platform performance and efficiency. The platform currently grades over 3 million marks per month with approximately 97% accuracy. Question paper generation has increased by 17%, with more than 500 papers produced monthly across CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE, IB, Cambridge, and various State Board curricula.
Swaminathan Ganesan, Co-Founder and CEO of Smartail, said:
“As a deep-tech AI grading software company, our cloud choice is mission-critical. After evaluating multiple providers, BharathCloud stood out for its high availability, scalability, low latency, GPU-CPU performance, and cost efficiency. Its secure, sovereign infrastructure enables us to scale DeepGrade handling over 100,000 answer evaluations daily while ensuring data security, AI sovereignty, and superior customer outcomes.”
