Daily Research News Online

The global MR industry's daily paper since 2000

Cursory Tech Brings AI 'Under Control'

March 24 2026

Panels and research tech company Cursory Technologies has introduced a new feature called Ethana, within its AI-powered Brisk platform, described as a unified AI 'control plane' sitting between applications and AI models and 'orchestrating everything with precision.'

Vinay RaoThe firm was founded in 2022 by Vinay Rao (pictured), in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and also has offices in the US and UK. Clients have access to a B2B panel covering the Americas, EU5 and AsiaPac regions; and a consumer panel covering more than 50 international markets; as well as survey programming, data validation and reporting services. Six months ago The company launched a premium support service called 'Brisk Ops Transformation', providing a team of engineers and experts to embed Brisk into clients' workflows.

Ethana includes smart LLM routing across providers; built-in guardrails for safety and compliance; PromptOps with evaluation & versioning; no-code agent orchestration; and full observability, audit and cost tracking. Users can switch between AI models without code changes, and deploy them on the cloud, VPC, or air-gapped environments.

Web site: www.cursory-tech.com .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

Select a region below...
View all recent news
for UK
UK
USA
View all recent news
for USA
View all recent news
for Asia
Asia
Australia
View all recent news
for Australia

REGISTER FOR NEWS EMAILS

To receive (free) news headlines by email, please register online