Client work
The world's first live TV streaming service for cars
20 plus
Markets reached by Avani, the world's first live TV streaming service for cars
We build the system that multiplies your business
One constraint is holding your numbers back. We find it, and we build the system that fixes it: your Business Multiplier. Marg, our research and agent engine, does the heavy lifting, and a Senior Advisor who has run businesses like yours reviews and signs every move.
Prefer to talk first? Tell us a good time and a Senior Advisor will call you.
Industries we serve
Six sectors, chosen on purpose
We screened 25 industries for where Marg has an edge. Twelve qualified. We work in the six where we have also run the business ourselves.
The problem
Does this sound familiar?
You and your leadership team work hard. What is missing is the system that ties product, demand, and sales together. We build that system, your Business Multiplier, so more orders and stronger margins compound month after month.
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Product market fit blur
Your product is solid. Feedback is vague. You are unsure what to fix next.
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Lukewarm interest
Traffic comes. Few convert. Demos drag on with no buying signal.
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No growth system
Sales and marketing run their own playbooks. Leads leak between them.
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Missed upsell
Existing customers want more. Nobody is asking them to buy it.
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Operations overwhelm
You firefight every day. There is no time left for strategy.
How we work
How Appetals serves leadership teams
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Marg Advisory
We find the one constraint on your growth and build your Business Multiplier. Start free with a Growth Blueprint, go deeper with a Research Blueprint.
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Appetals Engineering
The software your industry runs on. The CRM behind a study-abroad consultancy. The platform behind a lending marketplace. The ERP behind 2,000 schools. Built by people who have run these businesses.
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A Senior Advisor signs every cycle
Every Blueprint is reviewed and signed by a Senior Advisor with proven results and deep domain depth. The work is fast because Marg does it. It is trusted because a person who has been in your seat stands behind it.
Known by what we have built
Zee EntertainmentSony Music IndiaJM FinancialFinqy.aiConvergeAppKidzeeCollegepondGocon Logistics
Testimonials
Real engagements, real outcomes
Operators who shipped with us. Direct quotes, no marketing edits.
The diagnostic bootcamp gave us the clarity we had been missing. Months of uncertainty turned into a concrete product roadmap and growth strategy. We left knowing exactly how to move forward.
Suraj Bajaj
Managing Director, Collegepond
Appetals transformed our digital strategy and product innovation. The international CEO at HBO preferred our design for Asteriskos Media over the in-house team. That is the level of strategic thinking they bring.
Bharat Ranga
Managing Director, Beginnen Media
I have worked with Ishwar on multiple engagements. His approach to problem solving consistently exceeds expectations. Disciplined execution paired with creative thinking. A rare combination.
Nitin Potdar
M&A Partner, J Sagar Associates
Real problems, real fixes, measured outcomes
The Process
Four steps, with a Senior Advisor accountable at every stage
A 90 day system that lands inside the quarter you sign.
Marg reads your filings and sector data. A Senior Advisor reviews the output. You receive a personalised 90-Day Growth Blueprint in five business days.
- Filings ingestion
- Sector benchmarking
- Constraint diagnosis
Engagement tiers
Three ways to work with us
Every engagement is sized in a conversation, not on a price list. You pay only for the scope you choose.
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Growth Blueprint
The one constraint on your growth, named, with a 90-day direction. Built from your filings, delivered in five business days, signed by a Senior Advisor. Your first proof of how we think.
- Free, no obligation
- Delivered in five business days
- Signed by a Senior Advisor
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Research Blueprint
PhD-grade research on the question that moves real money: your next product, a new market, a capacity gain. The depth a Big-4 study gives, without the six weeks. Offered to select clients first.
- Your next product, market, or capacity gain
- Cross-sector benchmarks, not a template
- Offered to select clients first
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Marg Intelligence
The cross-sector pattern library, refreshed every quarter. What manufacturing learns this quarter, your edtech business can use next.
- Cross-sector pattern library
- Refreshed every quarter
- What one sector learns, another uses
Outcomes
What you have after 90 days
Your board sees real results every quarter. Not excuses, not slideware, not a five-year plan nobody can stress test.
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A diagnostic of every revenue lever
Marg analyses your funnel, sales motion, and product hooks. You see exactly where revenue leaks. Each lever has a number, a cause, and a fix.
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A working growth system
Five playbooks running in parallel. Demand, sales, retention, expansion, and investor narrative. The cadence ships before the quarter ends.
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Weekly board-ready reports
No more guesswork. Each Monday you walk into the board meeting with numbers that hold up. Trends, leading indicators, and the next decision.
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A Senior Advisor on every cycle
Ishwar reviews each deliverable. You never deal with a junior. No account manager in between. The brain you wanted on the call is the one on the call.
05
Capacity you would not hire
Marg, a 108-agent AI workforce, ships alongside Ishwar. Research, content, pipeline, and reporting run in parallel. The output volume matches a full team.
Ishwar Jha
Founder and CEO, Appetals.
A Senior Advisor signs every Blueprint. Marg does the work underneath.
Ishwar Jha has spent three decades building the systems that run businesses, from the engine room to the boardroom. As CIO of Sony Music India and CEO of Zee's Digital Media Convergence, he ran technology and digital at national scale. He built avaniTV, the world's first live TV service for cars, and has since shipped more than 115 products across six industries and trained over 13,000 founders to launch, grow, and scale.
He has seen business from the founder's chair and the C-suite, and he reads a company from the numbers up and the vision down. Strategic clarity, a bias to action, and judgment you can trust are the marks of his work. That judgment is what he puts his name to on every Blueprint.
Track record
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World's first live TV for cars
avaniTV, featured on CNBC TV18 Young Turks.
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Asia's largest digital media archive
Built Zee's 300,000-hour digital asset system.
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115+ products, six industries
Sony Music, JM Financial, Kidzee and more.
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13,000+ founders trained
Through Idea-to-IPO bootcamps across India.
The system
Marg AI does the work. A Senior Advisor signs it.
Marg, a 108-agent AI workforce, drafts the analysis. A Senior Advisor adds the judgment a model cannot, and signs. The work is fast because Marg does it; it is trusted because a person stands behind it.
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The system
Product, demand, sales, and retention, wired into one loop instead of four disconnected efforts. The Business Multiplier you keep.
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What the Blueprint uncovers
The one constraint holding your numbers back, the evidence behind it, and the 90-day direction to fix it.
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The performance model
We earn when you grow. Pricing is sized in discovery and the upside is shared. No outcome, no full fee.
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Find the constraint. Then multiply.
Start with a free Growth Blueprint. We find the one thing holding your numbers back, and a Senior Advisor signs the plan to fix it. No cost, no obligation. Prefer to talk first? Tell us a good time and a Senior Advisor will call you.
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