Speaking engagements
I deliver strategic keynotes and executive briefings for industry conferences, corporate offsites, and business accelerators.
The Portal Thesis: Building High-Trust Category Marketplaces
The economics of high-consideration discovery portals. Why neutral curation out-converts traditional ad-spend in high-trust verticals.
AI Consultation in Practice: Avoiding Enterprise Vaporware
Deploying generative AI tools that actually impact bottom-line EBITDA rather than generating unread slide decks.
Why Advisory in Platform Markets Must Be Founder-Led
The organizational case against delegating high-stakes platform strategy to junior account managers.
Two Into One: Human Strategy Meets Machine Acceleration
Transforming services into products and integrating creative intuition with automated AI pipelines.
Two Algorithms, One Strategy: Navigating Classic SEO and Generative AI
How search is fracturing between PageRank and LLM synthesis (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews), and the unified strategy to win both.
GEO & AEO: Engineering Brand Citations for LLM Answer Engines
Moving beyond keyword density to entity graphs, quotable declarative prose, and llms.txt standard optimization.
Scaling Google Ads at $8M+ Velocity with AI Frameworks
Frameworks, negative-intent gating, and prompt architectures derived from ₹70+ Crore in ad management across five countries.
From Agency to Ecosystem: The 18-Year Founder Journey
Lessons from single-room bootstrapping in Pune to multi-brand holding group and international book publishing.