I started Beryl Agency with no formal design degree and no safety net. Over fifteen years, we built brands for 1,573 clients across 67 industries and 19 countries, from first-generation MSME founders to companies preparing for their next funding round. Every project taught me something a textbook never could.
Along the way I also co-founded what became one of India’s most respected design institutions, served on CII’s National Committee on Design Innovation and Design Policy, and worked with founders across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, technology, and consumer goods.
What I noticed after all of it is this. Every struggling MSME had a business. Every thriving one had a brand. The difference was never the product. It was always the thinking behind how that product showed up in the world.
That thinking is what I coach. Not design. Not marketing. The clarity that has to come before both.