Enroute 2.0 AI Native · AI First
AI AGENTS & ADVISORY — FOR AMBITIOUS SMBs

AI agents and advisory — the extended AI team behind your business.

Enroute designs and deploys custom AI agents — and advises the humans running the business on how to use them — so SMBs across India and globally get an AI capability without having to build one from scratch.

For a decade, we were the senior research judgment behind decisions at global institutions. Now we're building that same judgment into the AI layer of your business.

Your AI Agent
Customer-facing, always-on — answers questions, manages CRM, takes the first pass on research and ops
Live 24/7
Enroute — Design & Governance
Senior-built workflows, guardrails, and judgment underneath — so the agent is trustworthy, not just fast
What We Do

Three ways in — one discipline underneath.

This is Enroute 2.0: an AI-native, AI-first practice. The agent work is new. The discipline that makes it trustworthy — senior people validating what the machine produces — is the same one we've applied to research for institutional clients since 2015.

Pillar 01 · Build

AI Agent Development

Custom LLM-powered agents built around how your business actually runs — not a generic chatbot with your logo on it.

  • Customer-facing agents — support, lead qualification, order status, FAQs
  • Internal agents — sales research, competitor tracking, document drafting, ops copilots
  • Integration — connected to the tools you already use, not a bolt-on dashboard
New
Pillar 02 · Advise

AI Advisory for SMBs

A fractional AI advisor for business owners who need a straight answer on where AI helps, where it doesn't, and what to do first.

  • AI readiness diagnostic — an honest read of where AI creates real leverage in your business
  • 12-month adoption roadmap — sequenced, budgeted, tied to what you can actually execute
  • Ongoing advisory seat — for owners who want a technical partner, not a vendor
New
Pillar 03 · Prove

Market & Competitive Intelligence

Our original discipline, still running — senior-led competitive intelligence, benchmarking and deal support for corporates and PE funds.

  • Competitive intelligence — continuous tracking and strategic gap analysis
  • Deal support — market sizing and due-diligence research on a deal timeline
  • Since 2015 — the track record the AI practice is built on
Legacy Offerings
Investment & Deal Research — sell-side/buy-side coverage, financial modeling, M&A & PE support
Knowledge Services — company/country/industry reports, transaction & news tracking
Sales & Marketing Intelligence — account-based research, client-visit briefing support
Economic & Quantitative Research — forecasting, segmentation, econometric modeling
See It Work

Don't take our word for it. Talk to it.

This is a live, working AI advisor — the same we would build and tune for your business. Ask it something an SMB owner would actually ask.

Sample: SMB AI Advisor

A general-purpose version of the kind of advisor agent we build for clients — scoped here to answer questions about AI adoption for small and mid-sized businesses. A client-specific build would be trained on your data, your workflows, and your voice.

Note: This demo calls a live model directly from your browser. It's a general advisor, not connected to any Enroute client data.
I'm a sample of the kind of advisor agent Enroute builds. Ask me a real question an SMB owner would ask about adopting AI — or tap one of the prompts on the left.
How We Work

The S.A.V.E. protocol.

The same four-step discipline runs under both practices: AI does the first pass, a senior person owns the last two steps. Click a step.

S
Scan
AI ingests the raw material
A
Architect
We design the workflow
V
Validate
A senior partner reviews
E
Execute
Delivery & monitoring

For agent work: structured and unstructured data about your business, workflows and customers. For research work: filings, news, primary interviews, databases — whatever the mandate calls for.

Why Trust the AI Practice

Because we've been the judgment layer since before AI made it fashionable.

  • Partner-level involvement on every engagement, not just key accounts.

  • A decade of building research and intelligence functions for institutions that don't tolerate sloppy answers.

  • The same S.A.V.E. discipline — AI for speed, senior humans for the call — now applied to agent-building.

  • Relationships across the US, UK, Europe and India since 2015.

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Years, since 2015
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Regions — US, UK, Europe, India
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Projects delivered
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Countries screened, single PE mandate
Case Studies

The discipline, applied — before we called it AI advisory.

AI Agent Development and AI Advisory are the newest things we do. The standard of work behind them isn't — it's the same one that's been delivering for clients like these since 2015.

Consumer Electronics

Six-month competitor deep-dive

Ongoing competitive intelligence and deep-dive profiling for a global consumer electronics leader, tracking strategy shifts across product, pricing and channel.

Senior-led
Pharmaceuticals

Strategic gap analysis & wargaming

Benchmarking, primary competitive intelligence and wargaming to support a pharma manufacturer's new API launch.

Primary research
Private Equity — Edtech

48-country investment screening

A market-sizing and competitive-landscape model supporting a PE fund's Edtech investment screening across 48 countries.

Deal support
Manufacturing / Supply Chain

Post-Covid supply chain relocation intelligence

Competitive and market intelligence on manufacturing relocation out of China, supporting client sourcing strategy.

Senior-led
Team

The people applying judgment.

Nitin Rohatgi

Nitin Rohatgi

Founding Partner

Built and ran market intelligence functions at Microsoft India, CRISIL Global Research & Analytics (P&L, team of 55) and Pipal Research. Dual specialization in Marketing & Information Technology

Kumar Kartikeya

Kumar Kartikeya

Founding Partner

Led research teams at McKinsey and served as Global Market Intelligence head for a leading global law firm before co-founding Enroute.Dual specialization in Finance & Systems with degree in Computer Science.

Johannes Gottwald

Dr. Johannes Gottwald

Advisor

Ex-McKinsey business consultant; market research and business consulting background focused on European market entry and competitive strategy.

R Gunjan

R. Gunjan

Advisor

Business consulting background supporting client intelligence engagements across sectors since the firm's founding.

Start a Conversation

Bring an AI advisor into your business — with judgment built in.

Agent development, a fractional AI advisory seat, or a straightforward adoption roadmap — happy to start with a short scoping call.

info@enroutellp.com