Operator-led boutique advisory firm

Strategy for the next generation of food & nutrition brands.

We help CPG and D2C brands identify the right opportunities, validate demand, build winning products and take them from pilot to scale.

00The context

The market is crowded.
The right opportunity is not.

New products are easy to launch. Finding the right product, for the right consumer, at the right price and through the right channel is much harder.

We bring together market understanding, consumer insight, product expertise and distribution know-how to turn opportunities into scalable businesses.

From market gap to market scale

Four decisions. One connected path to growth.

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01

Find the gap

Where should you play?

We identify whitespace within categories, consumers and occasions to uncover opportunities worth pursuing.

  • Category and market mapping
  • Consumer and occasion analysis
  • Competitive landscape
  • Emerging trends and whitespace
  • Consumer pain points
  • Market sizing and opportunity assessment

The output

A clear view of where the opportunity is and why it exists.

02

Validate the opportunity

Is the opportunity real?

Before investing heavily in product, inventory or distribution, we test whether consumers actually want what you are proposing.

  • Consumer research
  • Concept testing
  • Product-market fit assessment
  • Pricing research
  • Competitive benchmarking
  • MVP and pilot design
  • Demand validation

The output

Evidence to decide what to build, who to build it for and how much they will pay.

03

Build the strategy

What should you launch, and how should you win?

We translate the opportunity into a commercially viable product and go-to-market strategy.

  • Product architecture
  • Channel strategy
  • Price and margin architecture
  • Positioning and differentiation
  • Distribution and route-to-market

The output

A commercially grounded strategy for product × price × channel × consumer.

04

Pilot. Launch. Scale.

Does it work in the market?

Strategy only matters if it works in the market. We help brands move from the plan to the shelf, screen and consumer.

  • Pilot design
  • Launch planning
  • Initial distribution
  • Commercial readiness
  • Market feedback loops
  • Performance tracking
  • Scale-up strategy

The output

Start small. Measure what matters. Fix what does not work. Then scale what does.

Our position

We sit between the founder’s vision and the operating team

Founders carry the vision. Operating teams carry the execution. In between sit the hard decisions — what to build, for whom, at what price, through which channel — that neither has the bandwidth to own alone.

That is where we work. Close enough to act as your own team, senior enough to think like owners — from identifying the market gap all the way through product, distribution and pilot execution.

Built by operators

Not just consultants.

People who have built, launched, distributed and scaled consumer businesses.

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Shrijit

Founder & Lead

Former operator and entrepreneur with experience building and scaling consumer businesses across food and nutrition.

Focus: Strategy, business models, GTM and growth.

Experience

  • Co-founded Cora Health, a health foods and nutrition venture — launched a private label brand end to end
  • Strategy, supply chain and sourcing for CPG and D2C businesses at Flipkart
  • 16 years across project strategy, digital transformation and building things from 0 to 1

Previously with

Flipkart · Cora Health

Education: ISB alumnus

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Snigdha

Strategy & Consumer

Consumer strategy, category development and brand building across food, nutrition and consumer businesses.

Focus: Consumer insight, market opportunity, proposition and growth strategy.

Experience

  • Led the Foods category at Flipkart, scaling it from ₹5 cr to ₹100 cr with full P&L ownership across 2,000+ brands
  • Co-founder of a health foods & nutrition marketplace — 200,000 users, 1,000+ brands and ₹20 cr GMV in 3 years
  • Ex-ITC, Philip Morris and United Breweries — experience across offline, modern trade, HoReCa and digital channels
  • 14 years of category experience

Previously with

Flipkart · ITC · Philip Morris · United Breweries · Cora Health

Education: MICA alumna

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Prateek

Distribution

FMCG and D2C veteran with a practical understanding of how consumer products reach the market.

Focus: Channel distribution, offline expansion, pricing and commercial strategy.

Experience

  • Multiple stints across CPG companies — Epigamia, Reckitt and Mondelez, to name a few
  • Led sales and trade marketing across geographies and brands for over 14 years
  • Handled channel distribution, offline expansion, and pricing & commercial mandates

Previously with

Epigamia · Reckitt · Mondelez

Education: GIM alumnus

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Aurthan

Product & NPD

Food innovation and commercialisation leader translating product concepts into commercially successful portfolios.

Focus: NPD, product architecture, formulation and portfolio development.

Experience

  • Leads the end-to-end innovation pipeline at Simpli Namdhari's — concept development, formulation, portfolio design, contract manufacturing and commercial launch
  • Delivered 60+ SKU launches within 8 months across retail, QSR and functional foods
  • Multidisciplinary foundation across food science research, culinary product development and food manufacturing — experience spanning India and Germany

Previously with

Simpli Namdhari’s

A specialist network, when you need it.

We bring the right expertise into a project without building unnecessary overhead into the engagement.

Our ecosystem

Research · Design · Branding · Formulation · Manufacturing · Packaging · Performance Marketing · Distribution

What we work on

Across the food and nutrition ecosystem.

Food & Beverage

Snacks · Staples · Beverages · Ready-to-eat · Convenience · Functional foods

Nutrition & Wellness

Supplements · Functional nutrition · Better-for-you products · Performance nutrition

Consumer Brands

D2C · CPG · New-age brands · Category extensions · Portfolio expansion

How we work

Think Test Build Scale

What needs to be true for this business to work?

That is where we start. Then we work backwards.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

  2. 02

    Identify

  3. 03

    Validate

  4. 04

    Build

  5. 05

    Launch

  6. 06

    Scale

When we help

Different stages.
Different questions.

01

Exploring

Should we enter this category?

Market opportunity, category strategy and consumer validation.

02

Building

What exactly should we launch?

Product, proposition, pricing, channel and launch strategy.

03

Growing

How do we scale this?

Distribution, channel expansion, portfolio strategy and growth.

04

Repositioning

Something isn't working.

Diagnose the problem, identify the constraint and build a new path forward.

Selected work

Selected Product Innovation Projects

A selection of product innovation engagements across functional nutrition, dairy alternatives and food technology.

The Mind Project01

Cognitive Performance Nutraceutical

Identified market opportunity and led product ideation, NPD and commercialisation of a cognitive performance nutraceutical.

Novel Dairy Alternative02

New-Age Healthy Ice Cream

Identified market whitespace and developed an ice cream concept incorporating a novel dairy alternative, taking it from market assessment through pilot.

Functional Nutrition03

Gut-Health Protein Bars

Developed protein bars incorporating gut-health benefits, from market gap identification through product development and pilot.

Seafood, Fruits & Vegetables04

Freeze-Drying

Assessed the feasibility of freeze-drying applications across seafood, fruits and vegetables, translating technical and commercial assessment into a project plan.

Start a conversation

Have a food or nutrition business worth building?

Whether you are evaluating a new category, developing a product or figuring out how to scale an existing brand, let’s talk.