Founder · Strategic Advisor

Strategic clarity for
the founder's hardest quarter.

I am Saket Tulsan — founder of Thinkbridge Partners. I work with founders and leadership teams to turn fragmented data, scattered processes, and ambition into a calm operating system that compounds. 6+ years across fintech, healthcare-insurance, transportation, and consulting — between Mumbai and the United States.

Mumbai · New York · Dubai · Global Selectively taking on engagements

Advising,
from the inside out.

6+ years inside the engine room of a fintech unicorn, a U.S. warranty administrator, a public transit authority, and a global IT firm — before building my own.

Based
Mumbai, India
Operating
India · United States · Dubai · Global
Tenure
6+ years · six companies
Education
Rutgers Business School · K.J. Somaiya · MBA dropout

I help founders turn the everyday chaos of running a company into clear, working systems — so the next quarter runs with fewer surprises, fewer heroics, and better outcomes.

I moved to the United States in 2019 to study analytics at Rutgers Business School. The years that followed put me inside companies where the cost of a wrong number was measured in millions — a fintech unicorn moving payroll for thousands of employers, a warranty administrator migrating a portfolio onto a new platform, a public transit authority answering to commuters. I learned to deliver the numbers a CFO could take to the board, and forecasts that held up under audit.

I began building Thinkbridge Partners in late December 2023 — while still at Dealer Owned Warranty Company — driven by a simple pull: bring what I had learned across five years in the U.S. home to India, and use it to help founders here solve the kind of operating problems I had spent five years inside of. The firm formally launched in 2024 as an automation-first consultancy pairing senior judgment with autonomous agents. My posture today is the one I learned on the ground: lead with the work, not the deck; audit before advising; and leave behind systems the founder's own team can actually run.

The founders I work with are usually past the messy-zero stage and into the harder problem — a P&L that does not yet explain itself, a pipeline that converts unevenly, an operations team running on tribal knowledge. We meet weekly. The work is calm, specific, and measured against the only thing that matters: whether the next quarter is easier to run than the last.

01
Strategist

6+ years inside, before stepping outside. The engagements come with hands, not opinions.

02
Bi-coastal

Mumbai roots, five years in the U.S. north-east. Equally fluent in family-business and unicorn.

03
Data-native

BI consultant by training. The financial model is the conversation, not the appendix.


Outcomes that hold up to scrutiny.

A selection of business outcomes from prior engagements — each one defensible to the finance team that signed off on it. No marketing math, no compounded estimates. Sourced directly from delivered work; further detail available under engagement.

₹10L
Annual savings identified
Two-week operational audit · 10 processes · 7 stakeholders · 8 months of data
82%
Forecast accuracy
Monthly / quarterly / annual cash-flow models holding positive FCF through seasonal lows
$1M
Discrepancy uncovered
Annual savings flagged in partner-comms data while at DailyPay
20%
Adoption lift
Go-to-market for EWA product · 15% quarter-one revenue boost
15+
Hours / week automated
Investor reporting workflow at DailyPay · weekly time given back to leadership
Promotions in <2 years
Business Analyst → BI Analyst → Senior BI Analyst at a fintech unicorn
Source · prior engagements 2017–2024 · figures as delivered to client finance teams

From engine room to advisor's chair.

Not a list of jobs. A career told as three acts — what I learned, where, and why each chapter set up the next.

Act I
2017 — 2019

Foundations, at scale.

India's largest IT services firm, embedded in a multi-year program for a U.S. healthcare insurer. Build for the engineers who inherit the work — not the meeting that approves it.

Infosys
Systems Engineer·Pune, India

Inside a long-running Aetna engagement — tens of millions of Americans served. Learned how a real production system behaves at scale.

  • Resolved 30+ critical production defects — restored 15 days of project up-time.
  • Automated MySQL → Power BI extraction; eliminated 10+ hrs/week of manual prep.
  • Ran knowledge-transfer sessions; lifted team efficiency ~15%.
Act II
2019 — 2024

Inside the American engine room.

Five years across public infrastructure, supply-chain, a fintech unicorn and a $2M platform migration. Every wrong number had a finance team that defended it.

Dealer Owned Warranty Company
Data Lead·New Jersey · 2023 — 2024

Anchored a $2M administration-system migration — the seam where finance, vendor management and engineering meet.

  • Translated 15+ discovery sessions into a documented spec the engineering team shipped against.
  • Captured 200+ business rules; reduced legacy error rate 5% pre-migration.
  • Co-designed the Client Transition Department that onboards new dealer programs.
DailyPay
Sr. BI Analyst·New York City · 2021 — 2023

Joined as a Financial Business Analyst; promoted to BI Analyst and then Senior BI Analyst inside two years. The person the C-suite trusted to bring the right number.

  • GTM on the earned-wage-access product — 20% adoption lift, 15% Q1 revenue uplift.
  • Flagged a partner-comms data discrepancy worth ~$1M in annual savings.
  • Automated the monthly investor report — returned 15+ hrs/week of leadership time.
  • Cut ad-hoc requests 70% via self-serve Tableau on Fivetran · dbt · Snowflake.
Spicechain
BI Consultant·New Jersey · 2021

Short, dense engagement across sales, ops and finance. A weekly view of the business — without a meeting.

  • Automated revenue, COGS, margin and quota-attainment into one Tableau view.
  • Turned stakeholder interviews into an analytical workstream feeding commercial planning.
NJ Transit
BI Consultant·New Jersey · 2020

Statewide public-transit data — KPIs that the people on the platform, not the people in the meeting, would use.

  • Surfaced peak-hour delay patterns; reduced average delays 12% on selected routes.
  • Lifted reporting accuracy by validating service-request data quality across IT & CX.
Act III
2024 — Present

Coming home, building the bridge.

Returned to India to bring what five U.S. years taught — and help founders here solve the operating problems I spent those years inside of.

Thinkbridge Partners
Founder & Managing Partner·Mumbai · 2024 — Present

Senior judgment, working software, a clean exit. Engagements end with production systems the founder's own team can run.

  • Two-week operational audit surfaced ₹10L of annual savings — 10 processes, 7 stakeholders.
  • Forecasting models at 82% accuracy; held positive free cash flow through seasonal lows.
  • Margin work on Tally/Excel data lifted gross margin ~2–3 pts.
  • Built the firm's operating spine on Microsoft 365 — cut IT overhead ~20%.

A small surface,
worked deeply.

I will not run six services indifferently — these are the six I stake my name on. Most engagements begin with one and grow into two; almost none touch more than three at once.

01 —

Founder operating system

A weekly cadence, a working dashboard, and an explicit decision log. The basic infrastructure most founders deserve but rarely have.

Cadence·Decision log·Owner-driven
02 —

Data infrastructure & visibility

From Excel reality to a working warehouse — Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Tableau / Metabase. The same stack that supports a unicorn, sized for a founder team.

Snowflake · dbt·Tableau·Self-serve BI
03 —

Forecasting & financial models

Monthly, quarterly, annual. Built to be defended to a board, not admired. Cash-flow first; revenue second; vanity metrics never.

FP&A·Cash-flow·Scenario planning
04 —

Operational diagnostics

A short, intense audit — interviews, process mapping, data sampling. Output is a ranked list of where the leverage actually is.

Audit·Process mapping·Automation roadmap
05 —

Go-to-market & growth

Honest GTM work: who buys, how they buy, how to compound it. Built from inside DailyPay's EWA launch, not from a deck.

GTM·Pipeline·Adoption
06 —

Cross-border operating

For founders selling U.S., hiring India. Bridging legal, financial and cultural distance between the two markets I have lived in.

India ↔ USA·Hiring·Vendor model
On working method
The role of an advisor is not to be present in every conversation, but to make sure the conversation a founder has with themselves at midnight is one they can win.

Outside the résumé.

A visual ledger of the chapters that built the practice — schools, environments and recognitions, in chronological order.

  1. 2017
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai. The technical floor the rest of the practice sits on.
  2. 2019 — 2020 · USA · Academic
    Rutgers Business School & MIT COVID-19 Challenge winner
    Moved to New Jersey in 2019; graduated Rutgers with a 4.0 / 4.0 GPA. Won the MIT COVID-19 Challenge — selected from 1,800+ participants and 200+ mentors across 89 countries for a business solution in the restaurant industry. Profiled in a Harvard publication.
  3. 2020 — 2023
    Three years inside U.S. industry
    NJ Transit (public infrastructure) → Spicechain (Spice Manufacturing & Sourcing) → DailyPay (fintech unicorn, NYC). Promoted Business Analyst → BI Analyst → Sr. BI Analyst.
  4. 2023 — 2024
    DailyPay & Dealer Owned Warranty Company
    Closed the DailyPay chapter as Sr. BI Analyst; led data on a $2M platform migration at DOWC — 200+ business rules captured, error rate cut 5% pre-migration.
  5. 2024
    Moved to India · launched Thinkbridge Partners
    Returned to Mumbai to start an automation-first consultancy — the bridge the five U.S. years were always building toward.

If the next quarter
matters, we should talk.

A working session is one calm hour. Bring whatever is on your desk — a forecast that does not add up, an operations team running on heroics, a board meeting in two weeks. We will leave with a one-page brief on what the next ninety days should look like. No cost to that first hour.