Strategy & Planning · Mumbai

Marketing strategy built for execution, not slideware.

Most strategy decks die on the second page of a slide library — long on opinion, short on ownership. We write strategies that survive contact with execution: GTM plans, channel matrices and media plans that the marketing, sales and finance teams can all defend on the same call.

★ 4.9 · 600+ Google reviews Operator-led strategy 200+ strategies shipped
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Strategies shipped
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Google rating · 600+ reviews
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Brands planned for
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Years of active work
E · E · A · T Trust Signals

How we earn your confidence

Four signals that show how we demonstrate Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness on this service — visible to your leadership team and the search engines that rank us.

Experience

Operator-led, not consultant-pure

Strategies written by people who have actually run channels — not analysts moving frameworks between client logos. The plan is defensible because we've shipped it before.

Expertise

Channel-fluent across the stack

SEO, paid search, paid social, lifecycle, content, influencer, OTT, OOH and retail media — strategy is only credible when the planner can speak each channel's economics.

Authoritativeness

Planning that survives contact with execution

Channel matrices, comms platforms and media plans built to be handed off — to your in-house team, to a roster of agencies, or to us. The brief reads the same either way.

Trustworthiness

P&L-aware recommendations

Every plan ladders to unit economics, gross margin and payback windows — not vanity reach numbers. We pressure-test the spend against the business before we send the deck.

The strategies that win aren't the most clever — they're the ones a team can actually execute on Monday morning with the budget, headcount and tools they already have.

Most strategy work fails not in the thinking but in the handoff. Beautiful decks die when the team that has to deliver them wasn't in the room and the constraints weren't honest. We invert the order — diagnose the business and the team first, then write the plan that fits both.

For founders and CMOs, our work usually replaces three artefacts: the half-finished brand book, the channel deck that nobody updates, and the spreadsheet of campaigns nobody owns. One coherent strategy, one channel matrix, one media plan — every quarter, on time, defensible to finance.

How we work

From business diagnostic to a measurement framework — in five disciplined steps.

Five stages we run in sequence so every strategic decision ladders to evidence — not opinion, not last quarter's deck.

01

Business diagnostic

Revenue model, unit economics, sales cycle, current channel mix and team capability mapped honestly. No strategy gets written until we agree on where the business actually is — not where the last deck said it was.

02

Market & audience analysis

Category sizing, competitive teardown, audience segmentation and jobs-to-be-done interviews. Strategy without customer evidence is just opinion in PowerPoint — so we collect the evidence before we write the recommendations.

03

Strategy & positioning

Category position, value proposition, messaging hierarchy and brand-performance balance. The decisions made here cascade into every channel, campaign and creative that follows — so we make them explicit, defensible and shared.

04

Channel & comms plan

Channel matrix, budget allocation, communication platform and campaign architecture — owner, KPI and review cadence assigned to every cell. The plan is built to be executed, not admired.

05

Measurement framework

North-star metric, channel KPIs, attribution model and quarterly review rhythm. The framework lives inside the strategy doc — not in a separate dashboard nobody opens.

Strategy disciplines

Six disciplines. One coherent plan.

Strategy & planning isn't a single deliverable — it's six disciplines that have to agree with each other. We run them as one connected programme, not six disconnected workstreams.

Go-to-market strategy

Pre-launch, launch and scale-up plans for new products, new markets and new categories — sequenced so demand capture, demand creation and proof-points land in the right order.

Launch sequencingDemand creationProof-points

Brand strategy

Positioning, archetype, value proposition and messaging hierarchy — captured in a brand book the design, performance and PR teams can all work from without re-interpretation.

PositioningMessagingBrand book

Channel planning

Which channels matter, in what order, and with what share of budget — based on your sales cycle, audience and unit economics, not last year's mix or what worked elsewhere.

Channel matrixBudget splitSequencing

Communication planning

What to say, to whom, in what order, on which surface — a communication platform that connects brand work, performance creative and lifecycle into one voice.

Comms platformMessage archAudience map

Campaign architecture

Annual hero / hub / hygiene calendar, tentpole moments, always-on layers and recurring sale plays — designed so creative, media and lifecycle stop firing in isolation.

Annual calendarHero/Hub/HygieneTentpoles

Media planning

Spend pacing, channel weighting, reach & frequency goals and geographic split — locked at the start of the year and re-paced quarterly, not improvised month by month.

PacingReach & freqGeo split
What you take away

Six artefacts you can actually hand off.

Every engagement ships finished documents your team can act on the next morning — not a deck nobody re-opens. These are the six we deliver most often.

90-day GTM plan

Three phases, named owners and weekly milestones — the document a founder can send to a board on day one of a launch.

Brand books

Positioning, archetype, voice, messaging hierarchy and visual principles — short enough to be read, structured enough to be applied.

Channel matrices

Channel × funnel stage × audience grid — every cell carries an owner, a KPI, a budget and a quarterly review trigger.

Comms platforms

The single source of truth for what the brand says, where and why — written so any agency or in-house team can produce on-message work.

Campaign blueprints

Tentpole + always-on calendars with brief templates, creative principles and channel mixes attached — ready for production handoff.

Annual media plans

Pacing locked by month, by channel, by city — with quarterly re-plan triggers built in so it adapts without falling apart.

Measurement

Six KPIs that judge a strategy on the way it ships.

Strategy work is easy to write and hard to measure. These are the six KPIs we hold ourselves to so the plan is judged on adoption and outcome — not on slide count.

01

Strategy adoption rate

% of strategic recommendations actually moved into execution within 90 days — the cleanest test of whether the plan was usable.

02

Time-to-launch

From strategy signoff to live campaign — measured in weeks, not quarters. Fast handoffs are a feature of good strategy, not luck.

03

ROAS lift

Blended return on ad spend before vs after strategic re-allocation — the proof that the channel matrix wasn't just a re-shuffle.

04

Brand equity

Aided and unaided awareness, consideration and association tracked quarterly — so brand work isn't a black box next to performance.

05

Channel efficiency

Cost per qualified outcome by channel — the metric that decides where the next rupee of incremental budget should go.

06

Plan-to-execution fidelity

How closely actual spend, calendar and messaging matched the plan — drift gets diagnosed, not buried.

Industries

Where we plan most often.

Categories we've shipped enough strategies in to know what the audience rewards, what the channel mix usually looks like, and where most decks get stuck.

D2C consumer brands
Fintech & financial services
Healthtech & wellness
Real estate & proptech
FMCG & CPG
B2B SaaS & enterprise tech
Edtech & skill platforms
Professional services
Why teams stay with us

What you get that most strategy decks skip.

Picking a strategy partner is less about the polish of the deliverable and more about whether the team can write a plan, defend it to finance, and hand it off to whoever has to execute.

Executable strategies — not slideware that dies on the second page of a shared drive.

Operator background — written by people who have run channels, owned P&Ls and missed targets.

Honest constraint mapping — team size, budget and tooling are inputs, not afterthoughts.

Channel-fluent planners — paid, organic, brand and lifecycle agree inside one document.

Customer evidence built in — interviews, segmentation and JTBD work, not borrowed personas.

P&L-aware recommendations — gross margin, CAC and payback windows pressure-tested.

Quarterly review rhythm — the plan adapts, doesn't expire after the first 60 days.

Agency-roster friendly — briefs that any partner can pick up without translation overhead.

FAQs

Questions teams ask before they sign.

What does a marketing strategy engagement include?
Audience research, competitive analysis, channel strategy, budget allocation model, content and creative direction, KPI framework, and a 12-month marketing calendar.
Do you help implement the strategy as well?
Yes. We offer strategy-only engagements for clients with internal teams, and full-service engagements where our team implements the strategy across all recommended channels.
How long does a strategy engagement take?
Most strategy engagements run 6–10 weeks: 2–3 weeks of audit and research, 2–3 weeks of strategy synthesis and option development, 2–3 weeks of recommendation refinement and stakeholder alignment, plus a final strategy document and execution roadmap. Aggressive 4-week timelines are possible for focused engagements.
Will the strategy be theoretical or actually implementable?
Always implementable. Every recommendation includes the channel, budget, team capability, and timeline implications of execution. We refuse to deliver strategies that require unrealistic team sizes, budget reallocations the business can't fund, or capabilities the team doesn't have. Honest constraints produce strategies that get executed.
What does a marketing strategy engagement cost?
Most strategy engagements range from ₹3 lakhs for focused audit-and-recommendation work to ₹12+ lakhs for comprehensive strategy with research, positioning, and full channel architecture. Pricing depends on research depth, stakeholder count, and execution roadmap detail. Custom proposals always provided after a discovery call.

Ready for strategy that ships, not strategy that sits on a shelf?

Book a free 30-minute consult — we'll diagnose your current plan and send a custom proposal within 48 hours.