Product Design Engineering & Strategy Consulting
How CEOs use us?
How our clients use our services?
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CEOs
CEOs consult us at times of significant change. In case of a new leadership team, a merger, fighting competitive threat, blue water invasions, but mostly CEOs consult us for designing next generation product offerings and to speed up product growth.
We help CEOs for the business intelligence and epistemological analysis before production or launch of an new products. We help designing & building products from drawing board onwards to "final launch" with the viewpoint of "How to optimize the profit time window?"
We also provide extra help, when disasters strike or when key personnels resign. Immediate firefighting is a highly useful operational practice we provide to CEOs.
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Board of Directors
We are hired by professional board members to provide them business intelligence from product engineering point of view. We give analysis about the overall market environments and how others are viewing your products.
We understand shareholder's point of view. We make technical briefing reports before meetings, make technical presentations and analysis, "before and after" meetings. We do all our reporting under strict "Non Disclosure Terms."
We also make "Black swan checklists" & prepare disaster recovery & asset protection plans.
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Private Equity
We assist private equity leaders to gather business intelligence, to review & research targets. We help them to evaluate cases with interest rates and leverage perspective from engineering & technology point of view. Our PE practice team is unique blend of technology geeks who also understand interest rates, financial markets and private equity. So when we are researching targets on your mandate, we know what PE leaders are looking for.
We assist you to modify portfolio company's product portfolios after acquisitions, modernize the product offerings to increase revenue & profits. Best part is you can have a clear idea before acquisition how much you can push the existing product portfolio.
One of the most valuable business practice for PE leaders is making basic engineering plans and clever design presentations to actually help negotiating for valuation meetings & interest rates with banks.
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Venture Capital Funds
VCs use our services for business intelligence & product planning. We assist with quick yet detailed engineering due diligences and give second opinions. VCs consult us to help startups for designing quick product launches to various markets. Startup CEOs love our help to expand operations.
One of the special services we offer is to salvage defunct, broken down startups, for the technology they have built. Even failed startups have sometimes good technology and unfinished products or product parts. In past we have helped VCs to salvage and recycle unsuccessful products and teams. This recycling practice adds up nicely to your VC fund's performance.
What we do for you?
Logic and reasons for hiring us
How much these services cost?
Top reasons why CEOs use us
CEOs consult us to execute aggressive new ideas and products. Test Launching and Rapid Prototyping is one of the extremely popular practices with most CEOs.
It is a CEO’s idea they want to test with very small risk capital and small talented team, we are your silent team to test your big idea. Once prototype and test launch is successful then you can go big with it.
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Clever entrepreneurial people
1> What you need is a small highly skilled team to work on your project prototype, before you put it in front of your board or committing more capital. All our partners have been entrepreneurs who have founded companies/start-ups as core founders and successfully ran them. Coupled with deep practical experience, and acute business acumen, they have experience of working for mega-corporations/VCs/Banks also.
2> Gathering and employing such a specialist team is a costly and time consuming task. (Comprehensive skills ranging from product strategy, design, legal, taxation, structuring, HR, PR, marketing, sales, branding, IT, presentations, processes, operations are needed along with dedicated time.)
3> Dedicated entrepreneurial abilities to work on near shoestring tight budget to get prototype project viable and profitable are also needed in such a team.
4> We strive to under promise and over deliver. Our sharpness, loyalty and culture of silence make us one of the most elite & effective team.
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Why not use internal employees ?
1> Most employees do not have a time, dedicated enthusiasm or mindsets to launch a new business units.
2> When few team members venture in totally new projects, disturbs well oiled smooth functioning team’s balance. Teams working on new ventures and those who could not work on the ventures, both feel disturbed.
3> Working on fringe idea projects is considered a downward career move by most professional high caliber specialist employees.
4> Most junior employees do not dare to tell boss if the project idea is bad.
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Our profits are linked to project success
1> We never do hourly billing, we only get paid big if project is highly successful. Hence we honestly tell and criticize a CEO if the idea/project is logically bad, and CEO can cut the losses at very early stage in case of bad ideas.
2> Many a times CEOs are very mildly told or never told about their mistakes, hence wrong projects are done and executed till mistakes become big and apparent. This happens more often than imagined. No employee wants to irk a company’s/boss’s dream projects, even if it is wrong.
3> Being honest to CEO about facts without disturbing company’s culture, is very valuable service we provide.
4> In case of a good ideas they can have a profitable prototype very quickly and for high potential projects you have working profitable business unit quickly for you.
What a CEO can expect?
Consulting contracts: Mutual signing of Non disclosure and consulting agreements.
Initial report: We listen to CEO and his plan, and ask questions. Then depending on organization's specific requirements a partner and junior engineer/MBA/CPA team members together shall make a strategy plan for CEO. (If we think your plan/idea is bad/good, we shall give you scoping/modification report.)
Strategy, product & project design: Multiple phone/email/chat/video-conferencing based discussions (Most CEOs find this a very valuable service.)
Core team assignment: (1-2) people CEO either deploys very trusted persons/often her/him-self + 1 specialist partner from wiseai We use co-ordination cloud based software to speed up interaction.
Core operations: As needed by the scope of the project, CEO is given everyday report to find the progress of the assignment. (Generally most small pilot projects have a time line of 90 days to make practically operational phase 1)
Expansion/Finance/Execution:
1> We provide needed detailed strategy & business plan for the product/legal/taxation/structuring/HR/PR/marketing/sales/branding/IT/presentations/processes/operations.
2> We help you structure and optimize finances to optimize your resources and risk.
3> Negotiate/help you hire a very appropriate team working for your project as your employee.
4> Handhold the new team till they can take over and make project operational.
Operational exit for us: We finish our role upon reaching milestones and success markers. We do not charge by hour, so we do not encourage bad or non profit making projects else we do not make profits. As we want to maximize our bonus, we also try to finish projects as optimally and efficiently.
Disaster recovery team/Launch management: CEOs can always hire us later as a disaster recovery team/Extra help in launch management/New product development team etc., thus making you less reliable on critical internal employees.
Contact a partner
We help CEOs to incubate and convert their business ideas & innovations in to profitable nimble business units. Our sharpness, loyalty and culture of silence make us elite & exclusive.
Your rapid growth is our long-term core strategy. We as a consultancy have maximum to gain when our customers grow exponentially. Please go ahead and contact us, and we promise to make it an interesting and profitable experience for you.
Thanks and regards,
Mangesh Mahajan
Partner and COO
Team wiseai
