Meet Audit Narayan. Your AI Compliance Officer.
Meet Audit Narayan. Your AI Compliance Officer.
Audit Narayan owns labour compliance for Indian businesses, starting where exposure is largest: the Code on Wages. It validates payroll and every statutory obligations, surfaces risk early, and keeps your organization audit-ready every day.
Covering the Indian labour code, end to end
Audit Narayan's compliance modules.
Audit Narayan is labour law compliance software for India, run by an AI Compliance Officer rather than a passive dashboard. Every month, your compliance team executes dozens of recurring activities across payroll, statutory contributions, filings, inspections, and labour law monitoring. Audit Narayan runs these workflows as statutory compliance software that never sleeps, flags risks early, prepares actions, and keeps every step audit-ready.
01/05
Payroll Compliance
Audit Narayan validates your payroll before every run, ensuring salary structures, wages, and statutory rules are checked before salaries are processed or compliance gaps become liabilities.
- Payroll Compliance Automation
- Pre-Payroll Compliance Gate
- Minimum Wage Compliance Checker
- Salary Structure Audit
- Wage Code Readiness Check
Every payroll run is validated before processing, reducing payroll errors, wage violations, and downstream compliance risks.
02/05
Statutory Contributions
Automatically verifies statutory deductions and contribution calculations across central and state schemes before remittance, helping ensure accurate payroll compliance every month.
- PF Contribution Validation
- ESI Contribution Validation
- Professional Tax Validation
- Labour Welfare Fund Validation
Accurate statutory deductions, fewer contribution errors, and greater confidence before monthly remittances.
03/05
Statutory Filing & Remittance
Audit Narayan prepares payroll compliance for filing by validating remittances, generating filing-ready data, and reconciling statutory payments with portal records.
- Pre-Remittance Readiness
- Statutory Challan Management
- Return Filing Pack
- Post-Remittance Reconciliation
Reduce filing delays, improve payment accuracy, and maintain complete statutory records for every compliance cycle.
04/05
Audit & Inspection Readiness
Stay prepared for inspections, customer audits, and internal reviews with continuously maintained compliance evidence and documentation.
- Compliance Evidence Pack
- Inspection Ready Pack
- Audit Logs & Registers
- Exception Reports
Inspection-ready documentation available on demand, without manual preparation or last-minute effort.
05/05
Enterprise Compliance
Manage complex compliance environments across multiple states, establishments, contractors, and client locations from a single compliance workflow.
- Multi-State Compliance Engine
- Labour Law Notification Tracker
- Contract Labour Compliance Check
- Client Site Compliance Mapping
Consistent compliance across locations with faster adaptation to regulatory changes and reduced operational complexity.
A day in the life of Audit Narayan.
Every morning, the same flow runs end to end, so the work waits for nobody to remember it.
- 06:00
Reads the current rules
Checks each establishment against the wage rates and provisions in force for its state today.
- 07:15
Reconciles the evidence
Wage registers, attendance, payslips, and bank credits read together.
- 08:30
Recomputes the numbers
Wage base, overtime, deductions, and contributions worked against what the law requires.
- 09:20
Rates the findings
Each gap classified Critical, High, Medium, or Low, so the queue opens already sorted.
- 10:00
Drafts the actions
Corrections, filings, and statutory forms prepared with the citation attached.
- 11:30
Routes to the owners
The day's findings and approvals reach the named person for each decision.
Compared to how this gets done today.
Each does something real, and each stops short of the same thing: applying the rule to every record and reaching a defensible conclusion.
- 01
Your compliance team
Holds the judgment, but not the volume. Reviewing every record every month becomes sampling; the colleague reads all of it and brings back the exceptions.
- 02
Consultants
Review a period and hand you a report. The months in between run unchecked. The colleague applies the same reading every day.
- 03
Compliance software
Tracks the filing and trusts the amount payroll supplied. The colleague checks whether that amount was right to begin with.
- 04
An AI assistant
Explains the rule, then hands the work back. The colleague does the review, cites the rule, and rates what it found.
- 05
Outsourcing
Moves the work out; the liability stays with you. The colleague keeps the work in your systems with the reasoning attached.
The filing is visible. The exposure is underneath it.
The expensive gaps are rarely a missed deadline. They are a wage definition applied wrong, an overtime rate set low, a deduction past its cap. Each one files cleanly and compounds quietly.
EPFO employer arrears have crossed ₹26,000 crore, nearly doubling in two years. Around 2,400 employers each owe ₹50 lakh or more.
Source: EPFO arrears data via The Ken / IndiaSpend, 2024 to 2026.
The penalties are statutory, and they stack.
These are the figures written into Indian law today. Interest and damages run until the gap closes, on top of the arrears.
EPF late deposit interest
Section 7Q. Charged on delayed contributions until paid.
EPF damages on arrears
Para 32A, amended June 2024. Runs up to a 100% of arrears cap.
minimum wage violation
Up to ₹50,000 on first offence and ₹1.5 lakh on repeat, under the Code on Wages.
Failure to pay ESI contributions
Section 85(a), ESI Act. Continued default after conviction adds up to ₹1,000 per day under Section 85C(2).
Source: EPF & MP Act 1952, Sec 7Q, 14B, Para 32A as amended June 2024; Code on Wages 2019.
Good companies get caught by small structural gaps.
None of these were bad actors. Each had a quiet gap between what payroll did and what the law required.
Top IT services firms · 2026
₹4,000 Cr+
When the Labour Codes took effect, India's largest IT services companies had to realign gratuity and leave liabilities. Together they booked more than ₹4,000 crore in one-time charges in a single quarter, denting FY26 margins.
Even the most sophisticated employers were caught by a definition change.
Supreme Court · 2019
Allowances = basic wages
A landmark Supreme Court ruling held that allowances paid uniformly to all employees count as basic wages for PF. Employers who had kept basic pay low to reduce PF liability were exposed to retrospective arrears nationwide.
A salary-structure choice became a country-wide compliance liability.
Public-sector employer · PF default
₹190 Cr+ demand
A large public-sector authority faced a PF demand of over ₹190 crore for a period of pension-contribution default. One missed obligation, compounded over years, became one of the largest single PF demands on record.
Unaddressed gaps don't stay small. They compound into crores.
See what Audit Narayan finds on your registers.
Enterprise ready by design.
Every interpretation it reaches is a recommendation until a named person on your team approves it.
Role based access
Every user sees and does only what their role allows.
Approval workflows
Material actions wait for a named human to approve.
Audit logs
Every action is recorded with who, what, and when.
Action traceability
Each finding is sourced back to the rule behind it.
Data security
Your data is handled under enterprise security controls.
Human in the loop
Judgment calls route to your team, by design.
Ready to run Audit Narayan on your registers?
Live in days.
A guided path from first connection to production, with your team in control at every step.
Connect systems
Link payroll, attendance, and registers.
Configure establishments
Map locations, registrations, and the obligations that follow.
Review the findings
Run the review, walk the findings with your team, and tune the escalation thresholds.
Production rollout
Audit Narayan goes live on the daily run.
Real compliance workflows, end to end.
Unlike passive labour audit software, each one pairs a real gap with what your compliance officer does about it, and the outcome it produces.
- 01
Wage definition review
The gapThe wage definition under the Code on Wages decides your PF base, gratuity, and bonus. Applied wrong, every downstream number inherits the error.
What it doesApplies the definition and the 50% basic share rule to your actual salary structures, and flags every structure that falls short.
The error is caught at the source, before it reaches four calculations.
- 02
Minimum wage validation
The gapRates differ by state and skill grade, and they change often.
What it doesValidates every wage against the current rate for that state and grade on each run, across 28 states and 8 UTs.
No silent under payment. No variance penalty.
- 03
Overtime and deductions
The gapOvertime under paid or deductions past the statutory cap surface later as arrears and claims.
What it doesRecomputes overtime at twice the normal rate and checks deductions against the 50% cap and the 3% sub cap on fines.
Exposure caught in the month it happens.
- 04
PF and ESI reconciliation
The gapA wrong wage base under pays PF and quietly builds arrears while the challan reads as filed.
What it doesRecomputes the correct base and reconciles contributions against portal records to surface any shortfall.
Arrears caught before interest and damages accrue.
- 05
Bonus and Form D
The gapAllocable surplus, set on, and set off take real calculation, and the return falls due every year.
What it doesWorks the surplus, applies set on and set off, and prepares Form D for approval.
The annual return stops being an annual scramble.
- 06
Contract labour compliance
The gapThe principal employer carries liability for contractor defaults.
What it doesVerifies contractor PF and ESI challans every cycle and maintains the prescribed forms.
Documented due diligence that supports your position.
- 07
Register reconciliation
The gapMuster, wage, and attendance registers drift apart between reviews.
What it doesReads them together and surfaces every mismatch with the evidence attached.
Clean, consistent, inspection ready records.
- 08
Audit preparation
The gapAudits demand a defensible trail on short notice, with the reasoning behind each position.
What it doesKeeps every finding logged, cited, rated, and exportable, drafted to the SIA 330 internal audit standard.
Audit ready on day one, not after a scramble.
Put Audit Narayan on the job.
Put Audit Narayan on the job.
Book a scoped first run across a few of your establishments. It reviews your registers and returns real findings, rated and cited. You see the work before you buy it.