Every case below is a real mandate, protected under mutual non-disclosure. The numbers are what clients signed off on at close. NDA-backed reference calls can be arranged for shortlisted engagements.
Six examples across stages, industries, and decision types. All results signed off by clients at close.
Mandate. Four microservices with cascading latency. Engineering shipping features on a platform the founders did not trust. Designed the consolidation path, selected the messaging layer, and guided the migration in parallel with feature work.
Outcome. Single well-bounded platform with sub-100ms p99. Engineering velocity returned within the quarter.
Mandate. Clinical automation stalled by compliance. AI capability was ready; regulatory path was not. Designed the data architecture, vendor stack, and regulatory approval path.
Outcome. Deployed to production in ten weeks with zero compliance flags. Clinician documentation time fell by two thirds in pilot clinics.
Mandate. Mid-market PE firm closing on a $180M acquisition. Technical diligence needed in eleven business days: architecture, team capability, debt inventory, modernization cost forecast.
Outcome. Flagged $12M of hidden modernization debt that repriced the deal. Closed with adjusted terms and a value-creation plan the new board adopted at first meeting.
Mandate. Board had committed publicly to an AI strategy. CIO had eighteen proposed use cases and no consistent way to decide which would return value. Ran a six-week readiness assessment across data, platform, and team.
Outcome. Nine use cases green-lit, five deferred, four killed. First-year ROI on the green-lit portfolio landed at $8.4M in documented operating savings.
Mandate. A D2C brand with three times the traffic it was engineered for. Replatforming path needed live before the peak holiday window. Designed the architecture and ran the technical program office through go-live.
Outcome. 3.1x capacity headroom through the peak. 99.99% uptime sustained across the four-week window.
Mandate. A growth equity fund wanted a consistent technical risk view across fourteen portfolio companies. Designed the scan methodology and executed across architecture, team, security posture, and AI readiness in nine weeks.
Outcome. Four high-risk portcos flagged for intervention. Three of the four avoided known failure modes we called out within twelve months.
Thirty minutes. No pitch. Saksham asked the right questions and by the end I knew what we were doing and why. That's not how these calls usually go with the big firms, where half the meeting is the engagement partner selling you.
Three firms. Six weeks each. Then one person, eleven business days. The choice was obvious when you're on the clock. He found things the big firms would have listed in footnotes, not flagged. Deal closed at better terms because of it.
I've been handed a lot of consulting decks. They look good, then nothing happens. This one came with a real plan. Team to execute it. Principal putting their name behind the recommendations. That accountability changes everything.
Consultant mindset versus operator mindset. Different questions. Different outputs. We validated the recommendations six months out and they held. That's the only measure that matters.
HIPAA kills a lot of health tech ambitions. We thought we were watching a quarter slip. This team had done HIPAA compliance with another platform. Playbook existed. Regulatory path was clear. We shipped two months early. That's not theory. That's pattern recognition from actually doing the work.
Most advisory shops build bench breadth. This one is narrow and deep. Every person we interacted with had actually shipped the kind of architecture we were wrestling with. That shows.
A thirty-minute strategy call decides whether the practice is right for the decision on the table.