Advisory
Senior time, scoped and scheduled
Some questions do not need an engagement letter; they need forty minutes with someone who has seen the same facts before. A sprint is one scheduled session with a defined agenda and something written at the end of it. Where it turns into work, the mandate below is scoped before it starts.
Advisory sprints
One session, booked for a stated purpose. Each is priced as a piece of work rather than as a first meeting, which is what keeps the slot open for the matter that needs it.
NRI Tax & Repatriation Call
A reading of your residency position and the remittance route before you commit to either.
₹7,500 + GST
45 minutes, paid before the slot is held
What the session covers
- Residential status for the year under section 6, and what it does to the receipt in question
- Capital gains on the Indian asset, indexation, and the exemptions actually available
- The DTAA article that applies, and whether a Tax Residency Certificate and Form 10F are needed
- Whether a lower or nil TDS certificate under section 197 is worth applying for, and the timeline
- The Form 15CA / 15CB route for the remittance, and the FEMA limits on it
For: NRIs selling Indian property, repatriating sale proceeds, or unsure which country may tax a given receipt.
Notice Assessment Session
A notice read properly once, before the reply that has to live with it is drafted.
₹5,000 + GST
30 minutes, paid before the slot is held
What the session covers
- What the notice actually alleges, separated from what it recites
- Jurisdiction and limitation: whether it was validly issued, and by whom
- Procedural defects worth taking, and the ones not worth spending the reply on
- The evidence that has to be on the record before the reply goes in
- The realistic path — reply, rectification, appeal — and what each costs in time
For: Anyone holding a live notice under section 148, 148A or 143(2), or a DRC-01 under GST, with the response window running.
Turns into litigation support
Startup Statutory Health Check
The filings a term sheet will ask about, checked before a diligence team asks about them.
₹9,000 + GST
60 minutes, paid before the slot is held
What the session covers
- Cap table against the statutory record: allotments, share certificates, PAS-3, the register of members
- FDI received and the FC-GPR position, including filings already late
- Valuation support for the round under section 56(2)(viib), where it is required
- ESOP pool: whether it is documented, approved and accounted for
- Open statutory gaps — ROC, TDS, GST — that surface in diligence rather than before it
For: Pre-seed and seed founders raising, or about to, and anyone who has taken foreign money without filing for it.
Turns into start-up advisory
Fixed-scope mandates
Where a sprint finds work, this is the shape it takes. Both are scoped and priced in writing first, so the engagement does not open-end into an hourly bill.
Pre-Investment Due Diligence
A fixed-scope review of a target company for an investor or an angel syndicate, delivered as a findings report.
Scope
- Statutory health: ROC filings, registers, charges and board records
- Direct tax exposure: open assessments, TDS defaults, disallowance risk
- Indirect tax exposure: GST returns against books, input credit mismatches, notices
- Book integrity: revenue recognition, related-party dealings, provisioning
- A findings report with each item quantified and marked as a deal issue, a price issue, or a condition
Fixed fee, tiered by turnover and the number of years under review. Scoped in writing before work starts.
Virtual CFO & Compliance Retainer
Monthly ownership of the books and the statutory calendar, with a partner reading the numbers rather than only filing them.
Scope
- Cloud bookkeeping kept current, not reconstructed at year end
- Bank reconciliation and debtor ageing, monthly
- TDS and GST computed, paid and returned on the statutory dates
- A monthly pack: profit and loss, position, cash movement, and what changed
- A quarterly call with the partner on what the numbers are saying
Fixed monthly fee, set by transaction volume and the number of registrations. Reviewed once a year.
How a sprint runs
Four steps, and none of them is a sales call.
Book and pay
Pick a session and a slot. Payment is taken at booking, which is what holds the time.
Send the papers
The notice, the sale deed, the cap table — whatever the session is about — at least a day ahead.
The session
A partner has read the file before the call. The time is spent on the position, not on the background.
The written note
The position taken, the forms required, and the dates. Yours to act on with or without the firm.
Not sure which session applies?
Describe the matter in two lines. If a sprint is the wrong instrument for it we will say so, and if it is something we do not act in we will say that too.