Faculty Consulting

There is a professor forty minutes away who has spent twenty years on your problem.

India publishes vastly more research than it commercialises. The gap is not intelligence — it is that no structured marketplace has ever connected a faculty member's depth to a business that needs it.

₹40,000–₹80,000 typical
Milestone escrow
Rated afterwards

What you can commission

Anything a consultancy would charge you five times as much for.

Domain research

Regulatory landscape, materials selection, process alternatives, market structure — written up properly and defensibly.

Process improvement

Someone who teaches the theory of your production process, looking at how you actually run it.

Product or design review

An expert second opinion on a design before you commit to tooling.

Testing and validation methodology

How to test the thing properly, from someone who designs test regimes for a living.

Compliance and standards guidance

Which standard applies, what it requires, and what evidence you need to produce.

Training your team

A short, structured programme for your staff, delivered by someone who teaches for a living.

How it works

You post a requirement. They propose. You choose.

What you post

Field	Example
Need	Market research on EV battery recycling regulation in India
Domain	Environmental engineering, policy analysis
Duration	6 weeks
Deliverable	A 40-page research report plus an executive summary
Budget	₹75,000
Engagement	Remote, with two video calls
Level required	PhD preferred; industry experience a plus

What they propose

Their understanding of the scope and their proposed approach
A timeline with milestones
Their rate — the platform shows a market range so neither side is guessing
Relevant publications or past engagements, with ratings from previous clients

What the platform handles

Standard NDA and engagement agreement templates
Milestone escrow — 50% on start, 50% on delivery
A quality review after completion, where you rate the engagement publicly
Payment, TDS and the faculty member's income statement

Finding the right person

You are not searching a directory of self-descriptions.

Everything on a faculty profile is derived from what they actually do on the platform — what they teach, what their students achieve, what they have delivered for other businesses.

Verified expertise

Derived from courses taught and development tracks completed — not from a bio they wrote.

Engagement history

Every past consulting engagement, guest lecture and training programme, with the client's rating.

Published work

Research output and any frameworks they have published that other institutions adopted.

Availability

Hours a month they have declared, and what kinds of engagement they accept.

₹40–80K

typical engagement, against ₹3–8 lakh for a comparable consultancy scope

15%

platform fee, deducted from your payment — the faculty member's rate is what they quoted

50/50

escrow split: half released on start, half on delivery you have accepted

Beyond a single project

Two ways this becomes an ongoing relationship.

A monthly advisory retainer

Typically ₹10,000 to ₹40,000 a month for a defined number of hours. For an MSME without a technical director, this is the closest affordable equivalent — someone with real depth who knows your business and is available when a decision comes up.

Paid monthly through the platform, on the 1st
A standard advisory agreement, so nothing waits on legal
Sessions and notes logged, so the relationship has continuity

Joining the mentor pool

At Innovation Partner level, a company commits an industry mentor to the pool. As an MSME you can go the other way — your own founders and managers can register as mentors to students, building your visibility with exactly the talent you want to hire.

Each mentor takes up to five active mentees
Sessions logged with notes; students submit reflections
A contributor badge and public visibility to every student in your region

When 15 lakh faculty members have a structured channel to convert domain expertise into industry engagement — through a verified, rated, paid marketplace rather than informal networking — India’s research stops being cited and starts being built.

Udgam Vision 2047 — the research-to-product pipeline

Co-working
Universities and industry, working on the same problems at the same time.
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Real business problems. Real student teams. Real outcomes.
Viksit Bharat
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