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Boutique Strategic Consulting

Your partner in expanding horizons.

Shirav Consulting builds and executes Go-To-Market strategies for industrial and infrastructure companies entering and growing in international markets. Rigorous strategy. Real relationships. Measurable outcomes.

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20+
Years of Industry Experience
GTM
Go-To-Market — Our Core Expertise
4
Continents — Active Presence
Our Belief

A strategy is only as good as the execution behind it.

"We don't hand over a document and move on. We stay until the work is done."

The gap between a well-crafted GTM strategy and a market that actually buys from you is where most international expansion programmes fall apart. The research is done. The deck is impressive. And then nothing moves.

Shirav was built to close that gap. We design GTM strategies with the rigour they deserve — structured, evidence-based, commercially grounded. And then we execute them, operating as a commercial extension of our client's team in markets they are entering for the first time.

We work with a select number of clients. We turn away engagements where we don't see a genuine path to value. We have ended contracts where the commitment required to succeed was not matched by the client's readiness to act. That discipline is what allows us to stand behind every engagement we take on.

What We Do

End-to-end GTM strategy and execution for companies serious about international growth.

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Go-To-Market Strategy

Our core expertise. Market sizing, buyer profiling, competitive positioning, channel architecture, pricing strategy, and phased entry planning. Structured. Evidence-based. Built to be executed.

02
Market Entry & International Expansion

From first-entry strategy to in-market activation across North America, Europe, the Balkans, and Latin America — in energy infrastructure, T&D, railways, and industrial sectors.

03
Business Development & Buyer Access

Established relationships with North American industrial buyers, European utilities, EPC contractors, and procurement teams — built through two decades of on-the-ground commercial engagement.

04
Commercial & Compliance Advisory

Contract structuring, pricing strategy, CBAM compliance, technical standards alignment, and regulatory navigation — so our clients can focus on delivery.

05
Business Strategy & Growth Architecture

Identifying new revenue streams, adjacent market opportunities, and integration strategies that build compounding, scalable business models from a single starting point.

06
Stakeholder & Relationship Management

We manage key stakeholder relationships, represent client interests in critical conversations, and build the long-term partnerships that turn buyers into advocates.

How We Work

We don't just advise.
We execute.

Step One
Diagnose

Every engagement begins with understanding — your product, your ambitions, your constraints, and the market you want to enter. No strategy is built until this is done properly.

Step Two
Design

A rigorous, structured GTM strategy. Market maps. Buyer profiles. Entry sequencing. Commercial architecture. Regulatory readiness. Built to hold up under real market conditions.

Step Three
Activate

We activate the strategy — opening conversations, building relationships, supporting bids, managing compliance, and navigating the market as your commercial partner on the ground.

Step Four
Scale

After the first win, we help you go further — deeper into existing markets, broader across new ones. Building the commercial infrastructure for sustainable international growth.

Where We Operate

The Americas and Europe.
Wherever the opportunity is.

Two decades of on-the-ground engagement across four continents — with active relationships, regulatory knowledge, and commercial presence in every market we serve.

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North America
United States · Canada
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Latin America
Brazil · Colombia · Peru · Chile · and wider region
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Northern Europe & Scandinavia
Finland · Sweden · Norway · Denmark
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Western Europe
Germany · France · Netherlands · Belgium · Switzerland · Austria · Italy
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Central & Eastern Europe
Poland · Czech Republic · Slovakia · Slovenia · Latvia · Estonia · Lithuania
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Balkans & South-East Europe
Croatia · and neighbouring Balkan markets

These are markets where we have built relationships, navigated procurement processes, managed compliance requirements, and delivered outcomes for clients. That distinction matters.

Raghu Bhagavatula — Founder, Shirav Consulting
Raghu Bhagavatula
Founder & Managing Partner
About Shirav

Built to do the work
others only advise on.

Shirav Consulting was founded on a straightforward conviction: that serious companies deserve a consulting partner who combines structured strategic thinking with the commercial relationships, regulatory depth, and execution commitment to actually make international expansion work.

Our core expertise is Go-To-Market strategy — built across some of the most demanding industrial and infrastructure markets in the world. Energy infrastructure, T&D, railways, industrial manufacturing. GTM strategies that have moved companies from ambition to signed contracts in new geographies.

Shirav is a boutique firm by design. We work with a select number of clients. Our founder is personally present in every engagement — from the first strategy session to the first revenue milestone in a new market. When you work with Shirav, you work with Shirav.

MBA, Indian School of Business (ISB)
MS & MBA, Wright State University, USA
Two decades in Sales, Business Development & GTM Strategy
Domain expertise: Energy Infrastructure, T&D, Railways, Industrial Manufacturing
Active across North America · Latin America · Northern Europe · Western Europe · Central & Eastern Europe · Balkans
Get In Touch

Ready to build your
Go-To-Market strategy?

Let's have a direct conversation about where you want to take your business and whether Shirav is the right partner to get you there.

raghu@shiravconsulting.com
+91 630 502 9313 LinkedIn → raghub India — Operating Globally