Industries, tools,
and current thinking.

A few things about what I do and how I work — without the detail that isn't mine to share publicly.

01  ·  Profession

Chartered Accountancy & International Tax Advisory

This is the core. Thirty years of family practice in CA work, now focused on international taxation — businesses with operations across India and one or more other countries. Transfer pricing, DTAA, cross-border structuring, India entry, overseas incorporation. Work done as a business partner, not as a compliance vendor.

02  ·  Hospitality

Hospitality & Event Management

I own and operate a property in the hospitality and events space near Gurgaon. The model is designed to run on systems with minimal daily intervention. It serves corporate clients, social events, and private stays. Built with SEO, AI-driven content, and WhatsApp as the only sales channel.

03  ·  Real Estate

Residential Accommodation

I operate a residential accommodation business in Gurgaon in the managed accommodation segment. Fully self-service, enquiry-to-occupancy automated, no sales team. An experiment in whether a real estate income stream can operate as a hands-off asset from day one.

04  ·  Technology

AI-Driven Internet Platforms

I'm building a portfolio of AI-powered information and directory platforms across several verticals in India. Each one is designed to run autonomously — AI writes and refreshes content, manages SEO, handles data, and keeps the platform current. How they work exactly is not something I describe publicly — but what they do is fill real gaps in information access for specific Indian audiences.

"I build businesses the way I think a CA should build them — with full clarity on where the money comes from, where it goes, and what the structure looks like when it's working correctly." — On the connection between CA work and business building
How I Work

I use AI across everything — research, writing, content management, compliance monitoring, data processing, and business operations. It has substantially changed the amount of work one person can do without building a large team. I write about this occasionally because I think the practical reality of AI-run operations is under-discussed among business owners in India.

The specific tools, scripts, and systems I use are not something I describe publicly. They're built for my context and they're not generalisable instruction manuals. But the principles — designing for autonomy, reducing human-in-the-loop dependencies, using AI as the operator of routine processes — those are things I'm happy to discuss.

Everything is WhatsApp-first. Every business I run uses WhatsApp as its primary customer and partner communication channel. Not because it's trendy — because it's where real India communicates and converts.

Building

A portfolio of AI-driven internet businesses

Whether one person, using only AI as a development partner and no team, can launch multiple revenue-generating platforms in a single quarter. Not a question I've seen answered seriously for the Indian market.

Thinking About

The WhatsApp-native business model for India

Whether India's next generation of small businesses will skip websites and CRMs entirely and operate primarily via WhatsApp — and what that means for how you build infrastructure around them.

Writing

International tax — plain language series

A series of articles that explain cross-border tax concepts in plain language. DTAA, transfer pricing, PE risk, India entry structuring — written for founders and business owners, not for other CAs.

Reading

Wikipedia's theory of notability

How Wikipedia decides who is notable enough to have an article is, at its core, a theory of what makes a person's work worth documenting. I find it more philosophically interesting than it appears at first.

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