Kartik Balpande · Bengaluru

Built to perform.Finished by hand.

Brand, content, paid media and the AI systems behind them — from one studio of one, for businesses in India and abroad.

₹15L+≈ US$15K+ad spend managed every month
400+AI-qualified leads a month
3.2×store revenue in 90 days
32businesses across 5 countries
Hype It On◆Eorb Solutions◆Golden Threadzs◆V4Veg◆Taskmo◆Magnum Ore◆Spanworks◆Style Story◆Pixxel City
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Nine businesses, each with a problem worth paying to fix.

  1. 01Hype It OnWebsite · AI agents6.4s → 1.8s mobile load on the same site
  2. 02Eorb SolutionsPaid media · WhatsApp AI agent400+ qualified leads a month
  3. 03Golden ThreadzsShopify store · Meta Ads3.2× revenue in 90 days
  4. 04V4VegWebsite · Operations system2–3 hours back every morning, per kitchen
  5. 05TaskmoPerformance marketing · SocialAcquisition cost 81% below the category average
  6. 06Magnum Ore IndustryB2B demand generation · ListingsInbound enquiries, from zero
  7. 07SpanworksBrand identity · PrintLogo system, brochure and stationery
  8. 08Style Story SalonsHyper-local ads · CRMWeekday chairs, filled.
  9. 09Pixxel CityWebsite · Local SEOA booking-ready site and a Google profile that works
  10. +Many moreAd accounts · automations · landing pagesAsk for the full list
No. 01Hype It On · Website · AI agents · Ad creatives · India & abroad

An agency whose sales engine I wrote.

Every agency tells a business owner their website is bad. Hype It On had to prove it, in rupees, before asking for a meeting.

Hype It On homepage with the free audit sample
Homepage — the audit sample shows seven issues before the visitor types a word.hypeiton.com ↗
The problem

Owners have heard “your site needs work” from every agency that called. Nobody had shown them what it was costing, so nobody was believed.

What I built

An audit-led site: a sample report up front, a problem picker that turns into a free-audit request, and case charts that show enquiries before and after — and where they actually arrive.

Under the hood

An audit agent that crawls a site, scores it and writes the report — and refuses to write one when it can’t confirm the site is reachable. A lead agent that finds and ranks prospects. Python, FastAPI, Playwright and Gemini.

The engine — sourced, audited and scored overnight; a person approves every contact.
The engine — sourced, audited and scored overnight; a person approves every contact.
32businesses served, across 5 countries
6.4s → 1.8smobile load on the same site
Free audit report with the estimated monthly loss
The free audit — the loss, estimated in rupees.
Ad creative for PEB suppliers
Ad — PEB suppliers
Ad creative for manufacturers
Ad — manufacturers
How it sells

The ad earns the click. The audit shows the loss. The meeting starts with the fix, not the pitch.

Ads written per industry, each pointing at one free 48-hour check. Fixed price, in writing, and every login belongs to the client from day one.

NextNo. 02Eorb Solutions — Every paid lead, answered in seconds
No. 02Eorb Solutions · Paid media · WhatsApp AI agent · B2B SaaS

Every paid lead, answered in seconds.

Paid campaigns were bringing in more WhatsApp enquiries than the team could qualify by hand.

400 dots — one per qualified lead in a month.

Paid

Google, Meta and LinkedIn campaigns for B2B SaaS lead generation.

The agent

Greets every lead on WhatsApp, asks the discovery questions one at a time and scores the answers on budget, timeline and authority.

The handover

Qualified leads reach sales with the full transcript; anything unsure goes to a person. OpenAI, n8n and WhatsApp.

400+qualified leads a month
2 wksfrom brief to production
Secondsto answer every paid lead
NextNo. 03Golden Threadzs — One store, two continents
No. 03Golden Threadzs · Shopify store · Meta Ads · Retention · India, Australia, NZ

One store, two continents.

A Kashmiri ethnic-wear label with beautiful product, no online presence, and buyers split between India and the diaspora in Australia and New Zealand.

Golden Threadzs homepage
Homepage — currency set automatically by region.goldenthreadzs.com ↗
The problem

Diaspora buyers need their own currency, familiar payments and confidence that a cross-border order will arrive. Without that, they browse and leave.

What I built

A Shopify store with 10+ collections and currency by region, and Meta Ads for diaspora audiences — lookalikes and dynamic product ads priced in the viewer’s currency.

Under the hood

Shopify, Meta Ads, GA4 and Klaviyo. A checkout tuned for international buyers: address formats, shipping expectations, trust signals and seven payment methods.

3.2×revenue in 90 days
136+products across 10+ collections
4currencies — INR, AUD, USD, NZD
Golden Threadzs new arrivals
New arrivals — merchandised by collection.
NextNo. 04V4Veg — A supply chain, run from WhatsApp
No. 04V4Veg · Brand identity · Website · Operations system · Rate cards · Print · Film · Bengaluru

A supply chain, run from WhatsApp.

Restaurants order late at night, in shorthand, on WhatsApp. V4Veg had to look as reliable as the service — and turn every one of those messages into a buy list, a delivery and an invoice without anyone retyping it.

V4Veg homepage: vegetables and fruits for kitchens that can’t wait
Homepage — order on WhatsApp by 11 PM, delivered before morning prep.v4veg.com ↗
The problem

Orders arrived as “2kg tamatar, 500g adrak” and were typed out by hand. Short supply was split by gut feel, and billing ate the morning.

What I built

A WhatsApp-first site, rate cards designed and sent every evening, and a back office that closes the day in one click: buy list, a fair split when supply runs short, invoices and P&L.

Under the hood

Google Apps Script, Sheets, Gemini and Twilio. The copilot reads a Hinglish order into line items, and a person checks it before anything goes live.

100+SKUs across three rate cards, priced every evening
2–3 hrsback every morning, per kitchen
0 errorsin a full mandi-to-invoice stress test
A WhatsApp order parsed into line items
The order, as the kitchen sends it — already line items.
Buy list — generated overnight, split by kitchen
Buy list — generated overnight, split by kitchen
How it works: first light at the mandi
How it works — first light at the mandi.
Daily rate card cover with the day’s big movers
Rate card — cover
Standard vegetables rate card, with price changes against yesterday
Rate card — standard vegetables
How it runs

The kitchen sends a message. Everything after that is the system’s job.

Prices are drawn from the sheet onto the cards every evening, each change marked against yesterday. The cards go out on WhatsApp, and the orders come back the same way.

Identity
Logo — three concept routes
Logo — three concept routes
Logo — final lockup
Logo — final lockup
Content
Flyer front
Flyer — for kitchen visits
WhatsApp brochure
Brochure — sized for WhatsApp
Ad — for restaurant owners
Ad — for restaurant owners
Ad — exotic range
Ad — exotic range
Launch film — Weekend Veggie Bag
Hook A — the product
Hook A — the product
Hook B — the price
Hook B — the price
Hook C — the count
Hook C — the count
Hook D — the problem (plays)

One film, four openings — built to test which hook stops the scroll.

NextNo. 05Taskmo — Five years building a marketplace brand
No. 05Taskmo · Performance marketing · Social · Reporting · 2018 – 2023

Five years building a marketplace brand.

A marketplace has to buy both sides at once: gig workers and the businesses that hire them. Every rupee of acquisition cost mattered, for five years running.

Category average₹65
Taskmo₹12

Cost per lead, drawn to scale.

Paid

Hyper-local Meta Ads aimed separately at gig workers and employers, with weekly creative and audience tests and budget moved to what worked.

Brand

Organic brand building across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube from launch.

Reporting

Looker Studio dashboards, so leadership saw return on spend every week.

81%lower acquisition cost than the category average
+180%LinkedIn followers in 12 months, organic
5 yrsof both sides of a marketplace
NextNo. 06Magnum Ore Industry — From word of mouth to steady enquiries
No. 06Magnum Ore Industry · B2B demand generation · Listings · Website · Social

From word of mouth to steady enquiries.

A heavy-equipment manufacturer sold only through word of mouth, with nothing online for buyers to find.

Built

Google Business Profile, IndiaMART, JustDial, LinkedIn and Meta — every channel set up from scratch.

Written for buyers

Listings and content written for how equipment buyers actually search.

Routed

Every enquiry sent straight to the sales team.

152buyer enquiries logged in one month (December 2022)
9product lines drawing enquiries
Maagnum Metalogy — site for the group's recycling venture
Maagnum Metalogy — site for the group's recycling venture
Maagnum Metalogy — products, by furnace need
Maagnum Metalogy — products, by furnace need
Visiting card — front and back
Visiting card — front and back
NextNo. 07Spanworks — A PEB firm that looks as solid as its steel
No. 07Spanworks · Brand identity · Print · Stationery · PEB project management

A PEB firm that looks as solid as its steel.

An execution partner for pre-engineered buildings — project management, erection crews and site supply — pitching to manufacturers and clients who have been let down before.

Spanworks brochure, inside spread
Brochure — inside spread: why Spanworks, and the four services.
The problem

PEB clients hire on trust. A new firm without an identity looks like one more subcontractor, not the partner who holds the project together.

What I built

A mark drawn from a portal frame — the shape of the buildings they put up — in navy, steel and orange, with a type hierarchy and usage rules.

What it covers

The logo in three colourways and an icon, brand guidelines, a business card, a letterhead and a four-page brochure that sells single-point accountability.

Spanworks primary logo on navy
Primary lockup — Where Steel Meets Strategy.
Spanworks brochure cover
Brochure — cover
Spanworks business card, back
Business card — services side
NextNo. 08Style Story Salons — Weekday chairs, filled
No. 08Style Story Salons · Hyper-local ads · CRM · Print · Social · Local service

Weekday chairs, filled.

Chairs sat empty on weekdays, and first-time visitors rarely came back.

Found

Hyper-local campaigns drawn around each salon, on paid social and search.

Kept

CRM rebooking flows that turned first visits into repeat clients.

Print & social
Beauty menu — cover
Beauty menu — cover
Beauty menu — body rituals
Beauty menu — body rituals
Stationery — C4 envelope
Stationery — C4 envelope
A4 flyer — first-visit offer
A4 flyer — first-visit offer
Repeat-visit coupon — 25%, 20%, 15%
Repeat-visit coupon — 25%, 20%, 15%
Story — pre-wedding grooming packages
Story — pre-wedding grooming packages
Post — balayage
Post — balayage
Story — Franchise India channel partner
Story — Franchise India channel partner
Story — Daily Glow express package
Story — Daily Glow express package
Post — men's grooming
Post — men's grooming
Story — Navratri festive menu
Story — Navratri festive menu
NextNo. 09Pixxel City — Nagpur’s biggest themed studio, made findable
No. 09Pixxel City · Website · Local SEO · Social · Nagpur

Nagpur’s biggest themed studio, made findable.

15+ themed sets, 500+ clients and 10,000+ sessions — and no digital presence. Couples searching for a pre-wedding shoot in Nagpur found competitors instead.

Pixxel City pre-wedding shoot page
A page per service — pre-wedding shown here.pixxelcity.com ↗
What I built

A booking-ready website with a page per service: pre-wedding, maternity, family, baby and brand shoots.

Found locally

Google Business Profile optimisation and local content written for Nagpur’s wedding and portrait market.

Linked up

Instagram and Facebook connected to the site, so gallery posts lead back to a booking.

Pixxel City signature sets
Signature sets — each one a reason to book.
NextYour business — let’s talk
Ways to work together

Three ways in.

Fix one thing

A fixed-price project: a site rebuilt, an ad account rescued, one workflow automated. Scoped and priced in writing before work starts.

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Run the growth

A monthly retainer: paid media, content, and the reporting that shows what it returned. Every login stays yours from day one.

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Hire me

Hiring a growth or marketing-automation lead? 8 years in paid media and marketing automation, full-time or contract, remote.

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Google Ads · Meta Ads · LinkedIn Ads · GA4 · Tag Manager · Looker Studio · n8n · OpenAI, Claude and Gemini APIs · Python · Apps Script · Shopify · Figma

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Tell me what’s holding the business back. I’ll build what fixes it.

Working from Bengaluru (IST): mornings overlap Australia, afternoons the UK and Europe, evenings the US East Coast.

Finished by hand · 2026