Strategic clarity for growing businesses
Management consulting, financial advisory and operational strategy for mid-market companies across India.
Four practice areas
We take on around twenty engagements a year. If your problem is not one of these, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Strategy & Planning
Where to compete, what to stop doing, and what the next three years actually cost.
Financial Advisory
Fundraise readiness, valuation, due diligence support and post-deal integration.
Operations Excellence
Cost, throughput and working capital — found on the floor, not in a slide deck.
Digital Transformation
System selection and rollout, judged on adoption rather than go-live.
Our approach
We staff engagements with partners who stay on them. There is no model where a senior name wins the work and a graduate delivers it — the partner who sits in your first meeting is in the room in week eleven. Every recommendation carries a number, an owner and a date, because advice without those three things is a conversation rather than a plan. We work from your data, not from an industry benchmark, and where the data does not exist we say so rather than estimating around it. Roughly seventy per cent of our work each year is for clients we have worked with before.
The partners
Four partners, eighteen consultants. Every engagement is led by one of the four.
Vikram Sethi
IIM Ahmedabad, previously a principal at a global strategy firm. Nineteen years advising manufacturing and industrial groups on portfolio and growth.
Latika Bhandari
Chartered Accountant and CFA. Led sell-side diligence on more than forty mid-market transactions, previously with a Big Four transaction services practice.
Rohan D’Souza
Former plant head turned consultant. Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, with fourteen years split between the shop floor and advisory.
Ananya Krishnan
Engineering and MBA background, twelve years in enterprise systems. Has run ERP and CRM selections for companies between ₹200 Cr and ₹2,000 Cr in revenue.
They told us in week three that the acquisition we had asked them to model was the wrong use of the money, and then spent the remaining eight weeks proving it and showing us what to do instead. It cost us a fee to be talked out of a deal, and it is the best money this company has spent.
How we work with clients
How are engagements priced?
Fixed fee against a defined scope, quoted after a free scoping conversation. We do not bill by the hour, because that prices our incentive against your speed. Expenses are billed at cost and capped in the engagement letter.
How long does a typical engagement run?
Between six and sixteen weeks depending on the practice area. Anything we cannot scope inside sixteen weeks we break into phases with a decision point between them, so you are never committed to the second half before you have seen the first.
Who actually does the work?
A partner leads every engagement and stays on it from first meeting to final readout. Below that, one or two consultants depending on scope. We do not staff pyramids and we do not substitute people mid-engagement without your agreement.
Do you work with companies our size?
Our clients are typically between ₹100 Cr and ₹2,000 Cr in revenue. Below that a full engagement is usually poor value, and we will say so — we often point smaller companies at a shorter diagnostic instead.
Do you implement, or only advise?
We stay through implementation on operations and digital work, because recommendations that nobody executes are worth nothing. On strategy and financial advisory we hand over and review at ninety days.
How do you handle confidentiality?
A mutual NDA before the first substantive conversation, as standard. We do not name clients publicly without written consent, which is why this page lists sectors rather than logos, and we decline work that conflicts with an active engagement.
Schedule a consultation
A 45-minute scoping call, at no cost and with no obligation. A partner takes it, not a salesperson.