Hiring two junior analysts costs ₹35–50 lakh annually before a single deliverable lands. The big consultancies charge ₹18–25 lakh for a market brief and take six weeks. Boutique agencies churn fast and miss context. There's a gap between "expensive full-time team" and "one-off consulting project." That gap is where RaaS lives.
Salaries, benefits, management overhead, ramp time. Quiet months with expensive salaries. Loud months where two analysts aren't enough.
Slide-deck theatre. Six-week timelines. ₹20L+ invoices. Associate-written work dressed up by a partner. Rarely India-specific, rarely GCC-specific.
No continuity. No institutional memory. Every engagement starts from scratch. You brief the same context five times.
Project-based consulting. Fixed scope, fixed deliverable, fixed invoice. You brief once, wait six weeks, get a deck, pay, leave.
Staff augmentation. We don't place analysts inside your team. We operate as an external intelligence desk with its own senior oversight.
A research subscription. Send a Slack message, get a brief back in 72 hours. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. Scale up when you need more firepower.
90-minute session. We map your business, competitive set, current questions, and existing research stack. Output: a strategic brief the analyst team references forever.
Slack, email, or voice note. One-line request or detailed brief — both work. "Size the India B2B SaaS HR tech market" or "What is Razorpay doing in MENA?" Drop it in.
Within 24 hours you get a one-page hypothesis — our initial read, methodology, sources we'll use. You redirect or approve. No surprises on day 3.
Executive-ready PDF + raw data appendix + HTML microsite (on request). Built in the North Vector Systems dark-luxury format. Ready to forward to your board.
Bottoms-up and top-down triangulation. Specific to India, SEA, or GCC geographies. Includes growth drivers and 3-year projection.
Business model, pricing, funding, GTM motion, leadership, org chart, weaknesses. Built for competitive response planning, not vanity reading.
Five trends reshaping your sector. Evidence, not vibes. Includes "so what" for your business and 12-month predictions.
Competitive pricing landscape, price sensitivity modelling, tier architecture recommendation. Specific dollar amounts — no "it depends."
We recruit, screen, interview, and synthesize. Jobs-to-be-done framework. Transcripts included. Patterns extracted, not just summarized.
Top 8 acquisition channels scored on CAC, time to results, scalability. Top 3 get a 30-day playbook with tactics and budgets.
Background, thesis fit, portfolio mapping, introduction strategy. Used by founders before raises and by BD teams before pitches.
"Should we enter UAE?" "What's the 3-year view on Indian EV charging?" "Who owns the HR tech category in mind?" We've answered all three. Ask the next one.
Cost and speed. A Big-5 engagement starts at ₹20–40 lakh and runs 6–12 weeks. Our Core tier is ₹4.2 lakh/month with unlimited briefs at 72-hour turnaround. We also specialise in South Asia and GCC — most Big-5 India work is done by associates flown in from New York.
They don't roll over. The retainer buys capacity and analyst availability, not a bucket of hours. But in practice, Core and Command clients under-use capacity in month 1 and over-use it by month 3. The value compounds.
Yes. 30-day written notice. No termination fees, no clawbacks, no three-year contracts. If it isn't working, you leave. We operate on a renewal-every-month model because we'd rather earn it monthly than lock you in.
A dedicated senior analyst owns your account. For primary research, a research associate supports interviews and data collection. A partner reviews every deliverable before it ships. You're not getting an offshore team — you're getting a small, senior, named unit.
Ask. The list is the 8 most-requested formats. In practice, we've delivered regulatory analyses, talent-market scans, org design studies, and policy landscape briefs. If it's research-shaped and geography-relevant, we can do it.
Yes to both. Mutual NDAs are standard before onboarding. Every analyst signs individual confidentiality agreements. Data retention policies available on request.
Often the best setup. We handle the deep dives and geography-specific work, your team handles institutional knowledge and stakeholder management. Command tier clients frequently use us as "research leverage" rather than replacement.
We'll return a one-page hypothesis within 24 hours — free, no retainer, no commitment. If the work is useful, we talk retainer. If not, you keep the brief.
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