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Fi
Fi is a neobank. These testimonials describe the outcomes I delivered for Fi:
Kartick helped us build our iOS engineering team. We needed someone with deep iOS expertise to evaluate candidates and did not have someone matching the profile on our team at the time. The depth he covered in the interviews helped us hire the right engineers who have helped us build a great product over the last two years. iOS is very important for us as a neobank since a large part of our affluent customer base uses iOS. The feedback provided on each candidate was very detailed. He also went beyond his brief and provided technical guidance to our team when we asked him to. The team was able to incorporate best practices on architecture and coding from this guidance. I highly recommend Kartick for the expertise he brings on engineering, iOS in particular, and his ability to cover all details.
"Hiring is one of the most critical and challenging things for startups, especially early. We did not have sufficient skill in-house in a business-critical technology, so we worked with Kartick, whose evaluation of candidates and inputs were extremely valuable for us. The people who joined were solid, which validates Kartick's work. I recommend Kartick for his combination of experience, strong opinions and the expertise/skill to back it up and deliver solutions."
Unovest
Unovest was an investment portal. Read this testimonial to understand my contributions:
Vipin Khandelwal
Founder, Unovest
“Kartick has contributed to multiple areas: staying on top of the evolving fin-tech landscape, brainstorming products and features to build, planning our roadmap, pricing, making introductions to relevant people, helping with a vendor relationship…”
Loktra
Unovest was a B2B SaaS startup focused on BFSI. Read this testimonial to understand my contributions:
“Kart as an adviser has given significant inputs to the company work culture which fixed the gaps and improved the work culture a lot. He pulled a couple of engineers from his network on short notice and helped Loktra to fill the urgent opening in just 3 days. He has helped Loktra in key hiring. He is a great value addition as an adviser.”
In other roles than as a consultant:
I built a marginal tax calculator, in command-line, Mac, iPhone and iPad versions.
I planned an investment backtesting tool, but after speaking to people in the target audience, I realized that the prosumer market segment I was targeting didn't exist: consumers didn't want to analyze their investments, and professionals (like Wall Street types) required something far more complex than I was planning. So I abandoned this project.
Let's talk about what I can do for your startup
Goal-based engagement
Is your startup surpassing your milestones, but your tech is not keeping up? If so, this engagement may be the solution for you:
I'll start by understanding the outcomes you want. We'll write them down, and order them by priority. We'll brainstorm and iterate on them, perhaps by creating two lists of outcomes and comparing them side by side to bring us clarity on what's truly important. We'll also seek input from your cofounders, advisors and functional leads. Once everything is clear, we'll lock in the outcomes, and start executing.
Budget $100K to start, and if additional funds are needed as the engagement proceeds, I'll let you know.
You don't need to pay the entire $100K upfront, just $20K. The billing will be hourly, at $175/hour.
In the unlikely event I fail to deliver, I’ll do whatever it takes to make things right, whether redoing the work at no extra cost or giving you a partial or full refund.
Option 2: Prepay $48K, and you'll get $10K worth of services free.
Option 3: Prepay $100K, and you'll get $20K worth of services free.