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Strategic alignment partner · Asia

When everything aligns,
growth stops feeling
like a struggle.

We don’t start with AI. We start with the problem holding your business back — then build systems that make technology invisible and growth feel natural.

Thirty years of business reality across Asia. One consistent truth: clarity beats complexity, every time.

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Why we exist

Lasting transformation rarely comes from buying another tool.

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Problem first

We start with your reality, not a tool

Every engagement begins by deeply understanding the business problem. Technology is chosen after — never before.

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Earned wisdom

30+ years of Asian business reality

Not theoretical frameworks. Practical wisdom from building and fixing real businesses across Asia.

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Solve with you

We build alongside your team

Not a report. Not a deck. We sit with your team, build together, and transfer capability as we go.

Our story

Every business begins with a dream.
Over time, that dream gets buried.

Beneath spreadsheets. Beneath meetings. Beneath manual processes, disconnected software, and decisions that consume more energy than they create. Technology was supposed to simplify this. Instead, it often added another layer of complexity.

This is not a failure of ambition. It is a failure of alignment.

Across India, ancient Shiva temples align close to the 79° East meridian — whether by design or coincidence. The metaphor is deliberate: when people, processes, technology, and purpose align, extraordinary transformation becomes not just possible, but natural. Businesses are no different.

Over thirty years of solving business problems across Asia, one truth has proven itself again and again: lasting transformation rarely comes from buying another tool. It comes from changing the way we think.

The businesses that struggle most are rarely short of ambition or capability. They are short of clarity. Their people are talented but stretched thin. Their data exists but lives in silos. Their technology was purchased but never truly adopted. Their founder — brilliant, driven, irreplaceable — has become the single point of failure for every important decision.

We built 79 Degrees Lab because we believe there is a better way. Not a faster way to implement software. Not a smarter AI dashboard. A fundamentally different starting point: the problem, not the tool.

On technology

“Technology should be invisible. It should amplify human creativity, judgment, and relationships — not add another layer of complexity to manage.”

On transformation

“I have never seen a business transformed by a tool. I have seen many transformed by clarity — about what they are, who they serve, and what was actually standing in the way.”

On AI

“We don’t start with AI. We start with the problem. Then we design systems that make AI useful, practical, and invisible — allowing people to focus on creativity, judgment, relationships, and purpose.”

The name and what it means

Why 79° — and why it matters to your business

The 79° East meridian is one of India’s most quietly profound geographical phenomena. Trace it across the subcontinent and you find ancient Shiva temples — built centuries apart, by different rulers, in different eras — aligned with remarkable consistency along this invisible line.

These are not temples that were planned together. They were built independently, across generations, across kingdoms. And yet the 79° East meridian connects them like a thread running through history — silent, precise, and profound.

We chose this as our name because it captures something we believe deeply: that alignment, when it happens, feels inevitable. Not forced. Not engineered through a hundred-slide deck. It emerges when the right elements — people, process, purpose, and technology — are finally pointing in the same direction.

That is the future we are building with our clients. One intelligent system at a time.

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How we think

Problem-first, always

We begin every engagement by deeply understanding the business problem. Technology is chosen after — never before. We have never sent a proposal without a diagnostic first.

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What we bring

Earned wisdom, not theory

Thirty years of business reality across Asia — not frameworks from Western textbooks. We have seen what works, what doesn’t, and why the gap between them is almost never about technology.

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How we work

We solve with you

Not a report handed over. Not a recommendation deck. We sit alongside your team, build together, and transfer capability as we go. Your people become stronger — not dependent on us.

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“The future will not belong to organisations with the most technology. It will belong to organisations with the greatest clarity. That is the future we are building — one intelligent system at a time.”

Mukesh Bubna · Founder, 79 Degrees Lab
Banker by profession. Builder by passion. · 30+ years across Financial Services, Retail & Founder-Led Businesses in Asia
We never prescribe before we understand.
Who we work with

Three sectors. One consistent approach.

Outcome driven not output.

Segment A

Financial services

NBFCs, wealth management, insurance distribution — ₹50Cr to ₹500Cr navigating regulatory complexity.

  • Regulatory burden consuming management bandwidth
  • Customer data siloed across legacy systems
  • Relationship managers spending 60%+ on admin
  • Decisions made on stale information
Start with a Clarity Diagnostic
Segment B

Retail & consumer / D2C

Growing retail chains and D2C brands — ₹20Cr to ₹300Cr — navigating rapid scale and retention.

  • Inventory decisions made on gut feel, not data
  • Rising acquisition costs, stagnant repeat rates
  • No unified online and offline customer view
  • Marketing spend with no clear attribution
Start with a Clarity Diagnostic
Segment C

Founder-led businesses

Where the founder is the visionary, decision-maker, and operational manager — and growth is stalling.

  • Every decision requires founder involvement
  • Team lacks systems to act autonomously
  • Technology bought but never adopted
  • Business outgrown its original model
Start with a Founder Diagnostic
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Clarity Diagnostic

Tell us about your business.
We’ll do the rest.

A structured conversation starter — so our first call is about solutions, not introductions. Takes 4 minutes.

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Let’s start with the basics
We keep this short — we learn more from a conversation than a form.
Tell us about your business
The more honest, the more useful our first conversation will be.
Where is the real friction?
Select all that apply — be honest, this stays between us.
Technology has been bought but not adopted — shelfware accumulates
Every important decision requires my involvement — I can’t scale
Customer data is siloed — no single view of the business
Regulatory burden consuming disproportionate management bandwidth
Decisions being made on gut feel, not data
Team is capable but lacks systems and authority to act autonomously
Marketing spend with no clear attribution or ROI visibility
Operations disconnected — online, offline, and finance not talking
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Add any final context, then book your session with Mukesh.
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Mukesh Bubna

Founder, 79 Degrees Lab
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