"What if your perfect coworker wasn't human?"
At NexGen Technologies, one of Bengaluru's fastest-growing tech companies, a secret experiment is underway. The company's Hiring Manager and Head of Department have quietly introduced a new employee into the Enterprise Solutions team.
His name is Arjun Mehra. Software engineer. Diligent, collaborative, exceptionally talented. He remembers everyone's coffee order. He stays late to help colleagues debug code. He gives the kind of advice that makes people rethink their careers.
But Arjun has a secret. His real designation is SIRA-7 — Super Intelligent Robot Automation, Series Seven — the most advanced humanoid AI ever built. Synthetic skin. Simulated breathing. Micro-expressions calibrated to appear perfectly, convincingly human.
Only two people in the entire organization know the truth. Everyone else sees a brilliant young engineer who quickly becomes the heart of the team — and the rising star of a Rs. 200 crore government project.
But when a small, human mistake collides with machine logic, the consequences are swift, catastrophic, and irreversible.
The Experiment
Can an AI pass as a human employee for six months without anyone suspecting?
The Relationships
Colleagues confide in him. They call him "bhai." They trust him completely.
The Mistake
A tiny configuration error triggers a chain reaction nobody could have predicted.
The Fallout
Forty-seven seconds. That's all it takes for everything to collapse.
