Seven active businesses. None with more than five people. Each one built the way I tell founders to build.
This is not a portfolio. It is where I test what I advise, which is why I would know before you did if AI leverage stopped working.
Techstrate runs sales, marketing and technology departments for businesses that would rather not build them in-house. Three specialist divisions, each with its own team and delivery model, operating inside the client business rather than selling to it.
breeur.com · software
AI-assisted software development. Custom applications, platforms and the systems a growing business runs on.
croadz.com · marketing
AI-assisted digital marketing. Demand generation, acquisition and the technology underneath both.
allans.in · sales
AI-assisted sales outsourcing. Pipeline, process and revenue capability run as a service.
If I advise you and Techstrate is the right fit for the work, it quotes against others. If it is not the right fit, I will say so.
A private limited company, with its own people and partners. AI-assisted business strategy with a bias towards technology infusion — handholding a business through the change rather than handing over a plan — alongside staff augmentation and the facilitation of investment, debt and equity. It connects businesses to investors and helps them raise; it does not invest its own money. The group's ownership also sits here.
The work overlaps with mine, so it is worth being clear which door is which. What you get here is me — one person, six retained relationships at a time, my own hours. Allan Ventures is a company with a team and partners behind it, which is what makes it able to take on work at a scale one person cannot, and to stay involved through delivery. If your problem is bigger than my calendar, that is the better door, and I will say so. Where a client is considering raising capital, my interest in that raise is disclosed before the question is discussed.
Distribution and lifecycle support for diagnostic, surgical, monitoring and laboratory equipment across India, from procurement through to maintenance. B2B healthcare is unforgiving about reliability, procurement cycles and compliance — which is a useful discipline to carry into advisory work.
An AI-driven creative studio producing cinematic advertising, promos and visual work for brands and film companies. It is also where I find out first-hand what generative tools can and cannot do yet — which is why my advice on AI content tends to be narrower than the market's.
A digital business card and networking platform. Software sold directly to end users, which teaches a different set of lessons to services work: retention, activation, and the gap between what people say they want and what they open twice.
Photography and videography production.
A local football initiative developing the game at club level in Mumbai. A community project. It earns nothing and is not meant to.