About
A research and advisory firm built the way the problems actually are.
Sundarbans works with companies in India and internationally on the decisions that sit between strategy, capital and execution. We are a research and advisory organisation — not a consultancy that outsources the numbers, and not a research shop that stops before the recommendation.
Why we exist
The advisory market is organised around disciplines. Strategy here, capital markets there, research somewhere else. That works for companies large enough to buy all three and employ a team to reconcile them.
Everybody else gets a partial answer. A market study with no financial model. A financial model with no view on industry structure. An investor deck that tells a story the operating plan does not support.
We built Sundarbans to give the whole answer to companies that cannot or should not buy it in three pieces.
What we bring together
- Strategy
- Framing the decision, and the options under it
- Finance
- Models, projections, valuation, capital structure
- Research
- Sectors, competitors, companies, industry structure
- AI
- Applied to the research itself, and to clients' own AI questions
- Content
- Decks, memos and narratives written to persuade the actual audience
- Talent
- The specialists a particular problem needs, brought in for it
- Network
- Industry, investor and operator relationships across our markets
How we are different
We start with the question
The reframe is often the deliverable. Two of the five projects on our work page changed shape in the first fortnight, and both were better for it.
We are small, and that is the point
You work with the people doing the analysis. There is no layer between the thinking and the client.
We go underneath the financials
Reported numbers describe the past. Manufacturing capability, competitive position, industry structure and management quality describe what is available next.
We build things that keep working
Where a question will recur, we leave behind a tracker or a model rather than a document that ages.
Where we work
India is our home market and where our deepest coverage sits. We also work with companies in the Gulf and the wider Middle East, the UK, Europe and the US, and Southeast Asia and Japan — most often on India entry and expansion, or on cross-border strategy and diligence.
Sundarbans Management is a business advisory firm. It is not connected with the Sundarbans mangrove forest, its conservation, or any forest-management body.