Built
with
Purpose

Visionary leaders in the social sector deserve more than advice from a distance. We consult as peers.

We kept seeing the same gap

Across years of working inside and alongside social sector organisations, we watched the same pattern repeat: brilliant leaders with the right values, the right drive, and the wrong support around them.

Ideas stalled at the planning stage. Coalitions fell apart before they gained momentum. Programs launched without the systems to sustain them. Not because the leaders lacked ambition, but because ambition alone doesn't build what needs to be built. So we decided to become the partners we kept wishing existed.

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Meet theteam

We are a small, senior team. Every person on a project is someone with real skin in the game, not a junior delegate.

Jacob John

Partner

Jacob brings grounded wisdom and a remarkably wide network to every room he enters. Calm, measured, and full of ideas that open entirely new angles.

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Rashmi Nair

Partner

Rashmi brings methodical clarity and ambitious thinking to every project. She frames fast, dives deep, and never lets a client settle for less.

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Niti Kumar

Partner

Niti brings structure, precision, and a creative lens to every engagement. The person you trust completely when it absolutely has to land well.

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Arvind B

Partner

Arvind connects ideas, sectors, and people with rare ease. A systems thinker who brings deep expertise and a restless curiosity to every challenge.

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Vaishali M

Associate

Grounded in the field, sharp in the room. She brings research rigour and quiet attentiveness to every stakeholder she works with.

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Kaushiki Das

Associate

Critical thinker with an editor's eye. Kaushiki holds the analytical and the narrative together without letting either slip.

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Swaminaatha Krishnan

Analyst

Curious about systems, fluent in data. Swaminaatha finds the patterns others miss and builds the tools that make teams work smarter.

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Devyani Kacker

Consultant

Thirteen years at the intersection of law and justice. She brings precision, principle, and genuine depth to systems change work.

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Yogesh Ranganath

Consultant

Twenty years across sectors, zero loss of curiosity. He brings rare cross-domain fluency to healthcare, climate, and governance.

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Ayan Biswas

Senior Partnership Advisor

Development generalist. 23 years of experience across 2 continents. Design, data, digital transformation. M.Sc., IHE Delft. MBA, IISW&BM.

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Alumni

We are a small, senior team. Every person on a project is someone with real skin in the game, not a junior delegate.

Akshit Dedha

Associate

Climate, policy, and strategy in one head. He connects data to decisions across some of development's most complex terrain.

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Our partners

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We work differently. On purpose!

We don't arrive with a framework already written. Every engagement starts from scratch: listening first, diagnosing honestly, then co-designing a path that fits your context, not ours.

Our senior partners stay embedded throughout. We commit only to what is genuinely achievable, we adapt as the real problem reveals itself, and we hold ourselves accountable to outcomes, not just deliverables.