About Us | SMB Catalyst - India's Leading SME Consulting Firm

The Opportunity

India's SMEs are the backbone of the economy.
But they're fighting alone.

71.6M

MSMEs Registered

Largest SME ecosystem in the world

30%

Contribution to GDP

Rs 30L Cr+ economic value annually

313M

People Employed

Largest employer after agriculture

45%

Of India's Exports

Powering India's global trade

Our Story

From a simple observation to India's leading SME consulting firm

SMB Catalyst was founded in 2014 with a simple observation: India's 70+ million SMEs are the backbone of the economy, contributing 30% of GDP and employing over 300 million people. Yet 85% of them have never engaged a professional consultant.

The big consulting firms don't serve them — the ticket sizes are too small. And the local "consultants" often lack the rigour and methodology to drive real change. We saw the gap and decided to fill it.

We started with a founding principle that still guides us today: “Treat every client's business as if it were our own.”

That means we don't deliver PowerPoint decks and leave. We embed ourselves in your team, work alongside your people, and stay until the change sticks.

Over 12+ years, we've grown from a solo practice to a team of 40+ professionals, delivered 250+ projects across 150+ clients, and built an ecosystem that spans Consulting, Technology (AGKIYA — our ERPNext Gold Partner arm), AI-powered intelligence (SMBiAN OS), and SaaS products (Inspera).

Key Milestones

2014

Founded in Mumbai. First client engagement. The beginning of a mission.

2018

Launched structured service offerings: Strategy, Operations, Talent. Expanded PAN India.

2020

100+ projects milestone. Proved the embedded consulting model works at scale.

2022

Launched AGKIYA Technology (ERPNext practice). Became a Gold-certified ERPNext partner.

2024

200+ projects delivered. Team grows to 35+. Launched AI-powered business intelligence tools.

2026

250+ projects, 150+ clients, 40+ team. Launched SMBiAN OS and Inspera SaaS platform. Full ecosystem operational.

Leadership

The team behind the transformation

Mihir Shah

Managing Partner & CEO

Founded SMB Catalyst in 2014 after working with the Tata Group. 20+ years across IT, consulting, and entrepreneurship. Leads overall strategy, key client accounts, and AI product development across the SMB Group ecosystem.

Expertise: Strategic Planning, Business Turnaround, Working Capital, AI-powered BI

Ankit Jain

Designated Partner

Co-founding designated partner of SMB Catalyst LLP. Drives client engagements across the consulting practice with deep expertise in strategy, operational excellence, and business transformation for Indian SMBs.

Expertise: Strategy, Operational Excellence, Business Transformation

Pranav Singhal

Partner — Consulting

Leads the consulting practice with a team of 10. Pioneered the Sales Sprint and Working Capital Sprint methodologies. Manages 8+ recurring retainer clients and drives the Execution OS offering across Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities.

Expertise: Sales Sprint, Working Capital Sprint, Execution OS, Operational Improvement

Gaurav Sakalgaonkar

Partner — AGKIYA (ERP)

Leads AGKIYA Technology, our ERPNext Gold Partner practice. MMS in Operations Management. Builds the bridge between strategic consulting and technology implementation with focus on Manufacturing, Chemical, and Pharma verticals.

Expertise: ERPNext, Digital Transformation, Manufacturing ERP, Operations Management

Uday Jadhav

Partner — Manufacturing

Owns the Manufacturing Vertical P&L. Leads project portfolios with full ownership, building high-capability delivery teams. Pioneering performance-linked engagement models where consulting fees are tied to measurable growth over baseline.

Expertise: Manufacturing Consulting, Performance-linked Engagements, Operational Excellence

Abhas Chowdhry

Partner — Inspera

Leads the Consulting, Technology & Product practice. Owns the Inspera SaaS platform end-to-end — from product development to implementation. Also leads high-value EIM consulting engagements bridging operations, technology, and AI automation.

Expertise: Inspera SaaS, EIM Consulting, Product Development, AI Automation

Vidit Shah

Partner — SMBiAN OS

Leads Clarity Systems — the firm's process intelligence practice. Building secure on-premise AI/RAG infrastructure that transforms scattered business data into actionable intelligence. Focused on document, meeting, and financial intelligence for SMBs.

Expertise: AI/RAG, Process Intelligence, Secure Workflow Automation, LLM Infrastructure

What Drives Us

Our values aren't on a poster.
They're in how we work.

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Ownership Mindset

We treat every client's business as our own. Your goals are our goals. Your problems are our problems.

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Execution Over Advice

Clarity is strategy. Discipline is execution. We don't deliver decks — we deliver results.

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Embedded Partnership

We work shoulder-to-shoulder with your team. Real change happens on the shop floor, not in boardrooms.

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Measurable Impact

Every engagement has clear KPIs. If we can't measure the impact, we haven't done our job.

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Knowledge Transfer

We build your team's capability, not dependency on us. The goal is always to make ourselves redundant.

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QATE Philosophy

Quality × Acceptance × Timeliness = Effectiveness. A solution that isn't accepted, or delivered late, fails.

We exist to close
the execution gap.

India's SMEs are the backbone of the economy.
But they're fighting alone.