A hundred-eyed watchman, modernized.
Argus tracks incidents, changes, on-call, and postmortems with AI classification, similar-incident search, drafted postmortems, and plain-English search. It is built to bring back ITIL discipline without the weight.
The name
In Greek myth, Argus Panoptes was a giant with a hundred eyes, set to watch over what mattered most. Some of those eyes always stayed open, while others rested. Nothing slipped past him. We chose the name because that is what an operations console should feel like — a steady, attentive presence across every system you depend on, without ever asking you to look in a hundred places yourself.
Why we are building this
Legacy ITSM platforms got the discipline right. Incidents, changes, problems, postmortems, on-call rotations, configuration items — ITIL named these for a reason, and the reason still holds. But the tools that carry that discipline aged badly. They became heavy, licence-locked, specialist-shaped, and slow to use on the days that matter most. So teams quietly drifted to spreadsheets and chat threads, and the discipline got lost along with the bloat.
Argus is an attempt to bring the discipline back without the weight. AI handles the parts that are tedious — classifying severity, surfacing similar past incidents, drafting postmortems from the timeline, answering questions across every entity in plain English. Operators stay in the decision loop; suggestions are always presented for review before they commit. The platform stays light, opinionated, and shaped around the actual on-call day.
How Argus fits into Ekarche
Argus is a product of Ekarche, the home of software for the things people actually keep — memory, paperwork, operations. The name pairs Sanskrit eka (one) with Greek arche (origin) — the one origin from which everything begins. Argus is one of three products built around the same principle: software that ages well. Slow architecture, durable formats, no pivots that erase the work users trusted us to keep.
Where we are
Argus is pre-launch. The platform is being built; design and engineering decisions are being made now, slowly and on purpose. If the philosophy resonates, join the waitlist — early feedback shapes what ships first, and you will hear from us when it opens to your tier of access.
How to reach us
Write to hello@ekarche.com. We are based in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.