WHY WE EXIST
A catalyst is not consumed by the reaction.
The name is the argument
We used to be called The AI Works. A works is a foundry: a place where things get made, by the hour, for a fee. It described what we sold. It did not describe what we were for.
A catalyst does one precise thing. It lowers the energy a reaction needs to start, makes it happen faster, and is not consumed in the process.
Every part of that matters. The energy is where projects die, in the gap between deciding and running. Not being consumed is the promise: a consultancy is consumed by the reaction and invoices you for being consumed, and the engagement ending is their commercial problem. And the reaction is already happening. We do not bring your business. You have one.
What we are
We are a product company. We build our products by running the operations ourselves first, which is why they fit.
We built a lead generation platform because we needed pipeline. We are building Business Pulse because we kept watching good businesses decide on numbers nobody could defend. The custom work is where we find out what is actually broken, at a level of detail no market research produces.
What we believe about this market
One. The constraint is fit, not capability.
Indian mid market firms are not short of software. They are short of software that reads what they already have. Every hour spent reshaping a business to suit a tool is an hour the tool has already cost more than it returns.
Two. The talent is here. The distribution is the problem.
Twenty five percent of Indian manufacturing firms score below 2.0 on the World Management Survey, against 2% in the US. But the Indian top quartile scores above the American average. Distributions move when people can see where they stand.
Three. Nothing here spreads on its own.
When the Indian management RCT ran, 16% of neighbouring firms had heard of it and 2% knew any detail. Knowledge in Indian industry travels when people change jobs and barely otherwise. A good idea does not win by being good. Somebody has to carry it.
Who we are
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Working here
We are a small team in Open item: <city> building for a market most people have written off as too hard to sell into. If our standard reads like a description of how you already think, we would like to hear from you.
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TRY IT ON YOUR OWN DATA
Bring the messiest file you have.
Put it through the same road our clients' data travels. It will either read correctly, or tell you exactly what to change. Nothing is stored, and you do not need an account.