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About Backstage Advisors
Why We Started Backstage
We're a boutique consultancy for organisations that want strategy executed, not just presented, and AI adopted where it pays back. A Togo Tech Ventures brand.
Our story
Built to Execute, Not Just Advise
We started Backstage because good strategy kept dying in delivery. The plans were smart, the fees were vague, and nobody stayed to make it happen. We built the firm we wished we could hire.
- Fixed fees, always. Every engagement is a fixed fee agreed before we start. No day rates, no meter running.
- Prices on the website. Our fees are published on this site for anyone to see, before the first call.
- Assumptions in writing. You see how we sized the opportunity and what we counted.
- No deck-and-dash. Live deliverables. We don't hand over a PPT and leave. Every deliverable is a living document that evolves with your context as you grow.
- Results against a baseline. We measure what changed from where you started, and report it weekly.
- We stay until it ships. Then we hand it over and get out of the way.
- Where we work. Netherlands, United States, UAE and India, for mid-market and enterprise clients.
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Countries: Netherlands, US, UAE, India
B360
Our Self-Serve Portal
B360 is how our work stays live after we leave. Every engagement is delivered inside it: the pains we found, the initiatives fixing them and the vendor decisions behind them. When the engagement ends, you keep the workspace.
See B360 →The team
The Team
Shashvat Jaiswal
Strategy, ERP & Governance
Founder and director. Corporate strategy, benchmarking, ERP strategy and execution, operating-model redesign, vendor selection and negotiation, and the governance that keeps a programme on its gates. On every engagement personally, from the first findings report to the handover.
Akanksha Trikha
M&A, Marketing & GTM
Due diligence, post-merger integration and Day-1 readiness, plus the go-to-market and marketing work that protects revenue through a transition. Strategy&, EY-Parthenon and Gartner before Backstage. MBA, Rotterdam School of Management.
Sai Donepudy
Operations, Execution & AI Automation
Operations strategy and implementation, automation and AI in production. Builds the exception rules, integrations and dashboards inside client systems, and keeps them measured against the baseline after go-live.
We're a small team on purpose. See open roles if you'd like to join it.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Got questions? We have answers. If you don't find what you're looking for, reach out.
01What is Backstage Advisors and what services do you offer?+
Backstage Advisors is a boutique strategy-execution and AI consulting firm. We help organisations execute strategy, not just deck it, across strategy execution, AI advisory, M&A go-to-market and digitisation, plus B360, our platform of pre-built AI use cases. We publish our prices, start with a free baseline findings report, and report every result against a baseline.
02How are you different from the big consulting firms?+
Large firms sell big teams and long discovery phases. We are a small, senior team. We publish our prices and show our assumptions, start most engagements with a free one-week baseline findings report, and report every result against a measured baseline. You get partners on the work, not layers of project managers and juniors.
03What industries does Backstage Advisors work with?+
We work across asset-heavy, process-heavy sectors including mobility, automotive, financial services, manufacturing, energy and utilities, logistics, retail and technology. Our methods are industry-agnostic but tailored: whether it's exception-based trip-to-pay for a fleet, invoice-exception handling in banking, or procure-to-pay redesign in manufacturing, we build to your domain.
04Can Backstage Advisors help with enterprise AI implementation and digital transformation?+
Yes. We help leadership teams adopt AI pragmatically: AI strategy and use-case discovery, workflow and exception automation, build-vs-buy analysis, and pilots with a measurable baseline. We start with a findings report to find the high-impact opportunities, prove value on one slice of the business, then scale what works, often onto B360.
05What AI and automation solutions does Backstage Advisors build?+
Through B360 and our advisory work we deliver exception-based verification, payout and invoice reconciliation, demand sensing, document and data extraction, anomaly triage, and predictive-maintenance prioritisation. Solutions integrate with your existing stack, Salesforce, SAP, your ERP, and route only genuine exceptions to people.
06How much do Backstage Advisors engagements cost?+
We publish fixed-scope pricing. Every engagement opens with the same front door, a free one-week baseline findings report. After that: strategy-execution sprints from $25,000; AI advisory from $30,000; M&A go-to-market from $45,000. B360 use cases are a simple monthly subscription from $2,800/mo. Every price states the sample outcome you receive, see Services & pricing.
07What is the typical engagement timeline?+
We move fast and de-risk as we go. Findings report: 1 week. Design: 2–5 weeks. Pilot: 6–10 weeks. B360 use cases go live in 2–4 weeks. You see value and status reported every week, not just at the end.
08Does Backstage Advisors provide ongoing support and maintenance?+
Yes. Many clients start with a baseline findings report or build and move to a monthly retainer where we run the delivery cadence, track captured value, and support B360 use cases in production, including monitoring and enhancements.
09Can you build AI assistants for customer service and operations?+
Yes, through B360 we deploy intelligent exception-handling and assistant workflows for operations and support. They auto-clear the routine majority, escalate only genuine exceptions to people, and integrate with WhatsApp, email and your service desk, typically cutting manual effort by 40–70%.
10Do you offer AI consulting and strategy services?+
Yes. AI readiness assessment, use-case identification, build-vs-buy analysis, governance frameworks and implementation roadmaps. We help leadership see where AI drives the most value and hand them a costed, actionable plan to get there.
11What methods and frameworks does Backstage Advisors use?+
For thinking: the Pyramid Principle and Situation–Complication–Resolution, answer first, then support it. For delivery: clean target operating models, exception-based process design, and value-sizing against a baseline. For B360: production-grade AI (LLMs, RAG, computer vision) chosen by fit, not vendor lock-in.
12How do I get started with Backstage Advisors?+
Email [email protected] or use the contact form. We'll set up a 30-minute call to understand the situation, assess fit, and outline an approach, with a proposal and price within two business days and work starting within a week. No lengthy procurement.