Advisory
Three buyers, one argument.
Institutions pursue outcomes. Companies sell products that claim to move them. Investors underwrite those claims. One chain, three positions in it, and all three benefit from someone who can read the outcomes at component level.
Institutions
Promoters · boards · Vice-Chancellors · DirectorsRanking strategy at component level rather than in aggregate. Accreditation readiness and the evidence that actually survives a review. Student outcomes, from admissions to placement. Curriculum transformation. And where AI genuinely belongs in academic operations, as against where it merely looks modern.
Read more →Education technology companies
Founders · product leaders · country headsProduct management, especially product design and user experience from an end user's perspective. What your institutional buyer is actually measured on, and what that means for your roadmap. Why promising pilots stall at procurement. How to price against outcome impact rather than seats. And for global platforms, the buyer committee and regulatory frame in India that is not visible from outside.
Read more →Investors
Private equity · venture · operating partnersCommercial due diligence on higher education technology. Whether a target's institutional return-on-investment claim holds up against how schools are really measured, whether its metrics are ones a buyer recognises, and where the renewal risk sits in an institutional sales motion.
Read more →How engagements are shaped
Most work begins with a specific decision rather than a general review: a roadmap question, a diligence deadline, a ranking that has not moved, or an AI proposal that needs testing before it gets funded. That is deliberate: a narrow first engagement is more useful to a client than a broad one, and it establishes quickly whether the fit is real.
From there, arrangements vary. Product advisory usually runs as an ongoing advisory-board relationship. Market entry and institutional work tend to run on a defined retainer. Diligence is project-based and time-boxed.