Ideas to impact — taking on new engagements

Growth problems are rarely mysterious. They're unmeasured.

Vsquare Consulting works alongside founders and operating teams in India and across the globe to find the one constraint holding the business back — and stays until it's fixed.

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What changes

Where clients start, and where we leave them

BeforeThe business has been loss-making for three quarters running. Everyone has a theory about why, the monthly numbers arrive too late to act on, and cost-cutting so far has taken out the wrong things.
AfterA P&L rebuilt by product and customer, the three levers that close the gap, and a dated path to breakeven.
BeforeOrders keep growing but margins don't move, and no two people give the same answer for what a unit actually costs to deliver.
AfterA cycle time you can measure and a cost to serve you can defend in a board meeting.
BeforeLeads arrive in reasonable numbers, deals stall mid-pipeline, and discounting has quietly become the way things close.
AfterA scored pipeline and a sales motion the team runs without the founder in the room.
BeforeThe team has doubled in a year, and every decision of consequence still routes back through one or two people at the top.
AfterDecision rights written down, and a hiring plan built for the next twelve months.
BeforeThere's a transaction on the table, a synergy case resting on assumptions, and nobody independent has read the numbers.
AfterDeal-breakers separated from negotiables, and a plan for the hundred days after signing.

Practices

Five places we do our best work

Engagements usually begin in one of these and spread outward as we learn what's really going on.

Operational excellence

Taking a loss-making business back to profit

When a company is losing money, the cause is almost never one thing. Revenue is priced too low, the cost to serve is higher than anyone realises, and a handful of products or customers are quietly funded by the rest. Everyone has a theory and nobody has the numbers.

This is our deepest engagement. We rebuild the P&L from the bottom up — line by line, product by product, customer by customer — then work through operations, sales and cost structure together, because fixing one without the others just moves the loss somewhere else. We stay through execution, not just diagnosis.

  • Margin recovery
  • Product and customer profitability
  • Pricing correction
  • Cost base restructuring
  • Working capital
  • Path to breakeven
  1. Find the real lossTwo weeks to rebuild profitability by product, customer and channel, so you can see exactly which parts of the business are earning and which are being carried.
  2. Choose the leversPrice, mix, cost to serve, headcount, working capital. We size each one, rank them by impact and speed, and agree what you're willing to do.
  3. Run it to breakevenA dated plan with named owners and a weekly number. We stay in the room until the trend line turns, then hand over the reporting that keeps it there.
Mergers & acquisitions

An independent read on what you're actually buying

A transaction is easy to fall in love with and expensive to get wrong. We give you a clear-eyed view of the target — what the earnings really are, where the revenue is concentrated, and how hard integration will be in practice. We separate genuine deal-breakers from what can be negotiated down, and if it proceeds we stay through the first hundred days, where most of the value is won or lost.

  • Commercial diligence
  • Operational diligence
  • Quality of earnings
  • Valuation support
  • Synergy testing
  • Integration planning
  • Carve-outs and exits
Business operations

Make the work visible, then make it cheaper

We rebuild your core cycle around the points where time and margin leak out.

  • Process mapping
  • Cost to serve
  • Capacity planning
Sales & marketing

Leads arriving isn't revenue landing

We work the pipeline stage by stage to find where deals stall, what your won deals share that the lost ones don't, and which channels are quietly subsidising the rest.

  • Conversion diagnostics
  • Customer profiling
  • Pricing tests
  • Sales enablement
People & organisation

Scaling pain is a decision-rights problem

When a team doubles, the informal structure that got you here starts routing every decision back through the founder. We map who really decides what, and design what the next year needs.

  • Org design
  • Decision rights
  • Hiring plans
  • Retention

How we work

Four things we agree to before we start

Consulting has a reputation problem and much of it is earned. These are the terms, in writing, from day one.

Clarity

You'll know what we found, what it means, and what it costs to fix. No eighty-slide deck that ends in "it depends."

Measured results

We agree on the number that has to move before the work begins, and we're judged on it afterwards.

Honest pricing

Senior people, small teams, fixed scopes. You pay for the work, not for juniors learning your business.

Pace

First findings inside two weeks. Better to be useful early than exhaustive late.

About the firm

A small firm, on purpose

We work with start-ups and established companies facing the same underlying question in different forms: what do we do next, and how do we know it's the right thing?

We stay deliberately small. Every engagement is led by the people you meet in the first conversation, which means we take on fewer clients and go deeper on each one. We sit with your team, work from your data, and hand over everything we build so it keeps running after we've gone.

Our mission

Practical, affordable work that helps growing businesses reach what they're genuinely capable of.

Our vision

A generation of Indian businesses making decisions from evidence rather than instinct.

Our approach

Hands-on and in the room. We work with your team rather than around them.

Insights

Notes from the work

What we keep running into across engagements, written up plainly. Two are published; the rest are being written.

Sales

Winning in sales: overcoming challenges to drive growth

Sales powers business growth, and it's also one of the most complex and competitive functions in any organisation. What separates the teams that keep winning.

Operations

The pursuit of operational excellence

Under constant pressure to improve performance and reduce costs, operational excellence is the discipline that turns that pressure into an advantage.

Turnaround In the works

The first thirty days of a turnaround

Before you cut anything, you need to know which parts of the business are earning and which are being carried. How to rebuild a P&L by product and customer when the reporting won't give it to you.

Pricing In the works

Why discounting feels like strategy and isn't

Discounts are the fastest way to close a deal and the slowest thing to undo. What a discount actually costs once you trace it through gross margin, and how to give sales something else to offer.

M&A In the works

The synergy case nobody stress-tested

Most deal models assume cost savings arrive on schedule and revenue synergies arrive at all. A short guide to pressure-testing the assumptions before they become a price.

Organisation In the works

When every decision still reaches the founder

Growing teams rarely fail on talent. They fail because nobody wrote down who decides what. A practical way to map decision rights before the bottleneck becomes attrition.

We're taking on new work

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Office

Infinity House, 4th Floor
No. 8 Ramachandrapuram
Bangalore 560094, India