Custom Engagement

Bespoke Counsel For Complex Mandates.

Not every mandate fits a template. Enterprise transformation. Board-level strategy. M&A integration at scale. Fortune 500 AI readiness. These need custom thinking from someone who has sat at that table. Saksham personally signs off on every output.

What Changes At This Stage

Where Custom Engagement Fits.

Enterprise Transformation.

You're modernizing across business units and you need someone who has done this at scale. Not an army of consultants. One senior voice the CEO can trust. Consult Saksham stays with you through the horizon.

Board-Level Mandates.

Your board needs a technology voice that's independent and credible. Not a vendor. Someone who understands both the business and the technical. Saksham sits quarterly with audit and board, ready for the questions that matter.

M&A And Integration.

From pre-deal diligence through post-close integration, Consult Saksham is the consistent voice. Saksham leads the technical view, designs the integration plan, and sits with the new CTO through the critical hundred days.

Engagement Models

Four Common Custom Mandates.

Enterprise AI Strategy

Strategy, Governance, Roadmap

Six to twelve weeks. Which AI use cases actually matter. Governance that passes audit review. A target operating model the board will approve. Investment case sized to reality, not hope.

M&A Integration

Pre- And Post-Close Plan

Eight to sixteen weeks. Technical integration architecture. Team consolidation that works. A sequenced delivery plan that keeps revenue stable through the integration window.

Board Advisory

Quarterly Senior Counsel

Annual retainer. Quarterly board prep. Audit committee support. CEO and chair access between meetings. The board gets a technology voice that understands the business.

Transformation Office

Executive Sponsor Support

Years-long partnership with the executive sponsor. Strategy, governance, decision support, and the honest conversations the sponsor can't have in the room.

How Engagements Move

From First Call To First Outcome.

01

Strategy Call

Thirty minutes. No pitch.

02

Scoping Memo

Five business days. Shape of engagement.

03

Engagement Start

Principal on the work day one.

04

Outcome

Recommendation with execution path.

Positioning

Who This Is Built For.

Selected Client Engagements

What The Work Looks Like In Practice.

๐Ÿ”’ Under NDA ยทFortune 500, Cross-Business AI

Enterprise-Wide AI Readiness Across Nine Use Cases.

The board had publicly committed to AI strategy. Eighteen use cases were competing for budget. The executive sponsor was drowning. Saksham ran a six-week assessment: data architecture, technical viability, team capability, and real ROI.

Nine green-lit. Five deferred. Four killed. Year-one ROI on the portfolio came in at $8.4M in operating savings. The board approved the investment case at first reading with confidence.

$8.4MYear 1 ROI
9 / 18Green-Lit
6 WeeksAssessment
๐Ÿ”’ Under NDA ยทFortune 500 Retail, Global Operations

Designed An AI Governance Framework That Passed Board Review On First Submission.

Eighteen AI initiatives. No governance. Regulators asking questions. Saksham designed a governance framework that covered model risk, data lineage, bias detection, and incident response. Built for audit, designed for speed.

18AI Initiatives Governed
1st PassBoard Approval
6 WeeksFramework Delivered
Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How quickly can a custom engagement begin?

From first call to scoping memo is typically two weeks for custom mandates, given the complexity. Engagement start follows within two to four weeks of memo sign-off.

Are custom engagements priced as projects or retainers?

Both structures are supported. Most large mandates blend a project-priced phase with an ongoing retainer.

Can multiple advisors from the practice be engaged?

Yes. For larger mandates, a senior team is assembled with Saksham Agarwal as the principal sign-off.

How do you handle confidentiality?

NDAs and per-engagement confidentiality protocols are signed at the outset. Many custom engagements operate under codename for the duration.

Do you provide expert witness or testimony work?

Selectively. Engagements of this nature are scoped narrowly and only accepted where there is no conflict.

How is sign-off structured?

Saksham Agarwal personally signs off on every output. For multi-stakeholder engagements, sign-off cadences are agreed in the scoping memo.

Start With One Decision.

The first conversation is thirty minutes. By the end of it, the shape of the engagement is clear.