You already know something is wrong. You do not know which thing
Most owners are carrying five or six suspicions at once — the advertising, the returns, the staffing, the pricing, the stock. They are rarely equal, and they are almost never in the order they feel. Working on the loudest problem instead of the most expensive one is how a good year quietly becomes an average one.
Who this is for
It sells. You cannot see where the money goes.
- Growing turnover, flat or falling profit
- No reliable profit figure by product or channel
- Costs that climbed without anyone deciding they should
- Cash that never seems to be there
You are the bottleneck and you know it.
- Everything routes through you before it can happen
- Work done by hand that clearly should not be
- A team busy with the wrong things
- No idea which fix pays back first
What we run
How it starts
Not with a retainer. With a Scan — two weeks, ₹75,000 — across every area where money leaks, not just this channel. You get a ranked list of what it is costing you and what each fix is worth. If it will not pay for itself, you hear that inside the first two weeks.
Then you either act on the list yourself, or we run the parts you want run. No lock-in either way. See exactly what you get and what it costs →
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Common questions
How much does a business consultant cost in India?
Independent consultants in India typically run 50,000 to 3,00,000 rupees a month on retainer, and the large firms start well above that. Ours is not a retainer: the Scan is a fixed 75,000 rupees plus GST introductory, list price 1,00,000, and the two-month Deep Audit is 1,50,000 plus GST. If you then want the fixes implemented rather than only identified, that is quoted separately to the job. The Scan fee credits in full against the Deep Audit.
What does the Scan actually give me?
One pass across nine areas of the business — revenue, operations, resourcing, structure, automation, information security, customer retention, cash and the quarterly roadmap — and a ranked list of where money is going and what each fix is worth. It is advisory: it finds and prices the problems, it does not install anything. Most owners have a rough idea of two or three of these. The value is in the ones they did not know about and in seeing all of them ranked against each other.
How is this different from a management consulting firm?
Scale and posture. A large firm brings a team, a methodology and an invoice to match, and hands you a deck. This is one accountable person who has actually run these functions, a fixed fee, and a ranked list you could act on yourself. If you want somebody to do the acting, that is available and priced separately. We would rather be the cheaper thing that gets used than the expensive thing that gets filed.
Is my business too small for this?
The Deep Audit is scoped for a business up to roughly thirty staff and three thousand orders a month; above that it is quoted. Below it, the Scan is usually the right size, and for a very early business even that may be premature — if you have not found what sells yet, no audit fixes that. We will tell you if that is where you are.
What happens after the audit?
You get the findings, ranked, with what each is worth. Then it is your call: act on them yourself, have us implement the ones you want implemented, or do nothing. Ronnie's own line for it is the honest one — we'll show you how to fix it, or we'll fix it for you at extra cost, depending on what you need. There is no retainer you have to enter to receive the findings.
Do you work outside Mumbai?
Yes. Being in Mumbai matters for the parts that need someone physically present — suppliers, warehouses, distributors, factory visits. The audit work itself is not geographically bound, and a good share of it is done for brands based elsewhere in India and for international companies with an India operation.
In more detail
What a business growth consultant in Mumbai is actually for
Most owners do not need a strategy. They need to know which of the six things they are worried about is genuinely costing them money, and which is just noisy. That is a different job from consulting as it is usually sold: less about a plan for where the business could go, more about finding what is leaking now and pricing each leak so the order of work becomes obvious. An owner who knows that the returns problem is worth four times the advertising problem will spend the next quarter correctly without needing anybody to motivate them.
Why the audit is priced to pay for itself
An audit is a report, and nobody wants to buy a report. So the product is two numbers: what you can stop spending, and what you are leaving on the table. Every area ends in what it is worth, and the total is what makes the fee look small. That framing is also the honest one, because the promise is about finding — which we control — rather than about what you go on to earn, which we do not.
The difference between advice and someone doing it
Plenty of consulting ends at the recommendation, and for a capable team that is enough. For most owners it is not, because the reason the problem exists is usually that nobody had the time. So the two are priced separately and deliberately: the audit tells you what to do and what it is worth, and implementation is quoted only for the parts you actually want handed over. Keeping them separate means the advice stays honest — there is no incentive to find problems that happen to match what we would like to sell you.
Find out where the money is going first.
Before you spend more on this channel, spend two weeks finding out which parts of it work.