Frequently Asked Questions
1. What does AltG do?
AltG acquires profitable Indian services companies and installs its AI operating playbook to turn people-heavy, low-margin businesses into higher-margin, more predictable cash-flow machines.
Most investors see Indian services businesses as messy, founder-led, execution-heavy companies. AltG sees something else: a few repeated decision bottlenecks controlling the entire P&L.
AltG buys the asset, identifies those bottlenecks, and uses its AI tool to improve the decisions that drive revenue, margin, conversion, utilization, retention, pricing, routing, staffing, and throughput.
This is the AltG Intelligence Buyout.
2. Who founded AltG?
AltG was founded by Poornima Vardhan and Taponeel Mukherjee.
Poornima brings a rare combination of global finance and India operating experience — with a Wharton MBA, Wall Street investment banking experience, and a decade of operating in India.
Taponeel brings deep experience across investment banking, capital markets, infrastructure, financial services, and investment strategy.
Together, they built AltG around one core belief: India’s best services companies are under-optimized, under-institutionalized, and underpriced — and AI gives a buyer the operating leverage to change that.
3. What is an Intelligence Buyout?
An Intelligence Buyout is AltG’s acquisition strategy for Indian services businesses.
A traditional LBO makes money from leverage, debt paydown, cost discipline, and multiple expansion.
An Intelligence Buyout makes money by buying a services company and installing intelligence into the repeated decisions that control the P&L.
The asset remains physical. The P&L becomes computational.
That is the shift.
4. What kind of companies does AltG acquire?
AltG targets Indian services companies where the business is already real, cash-generating, and valuable — but operationally constrained.
The ideal company has:
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real revenue,
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recurring or repeat customer behavior,
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high human coordination,
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fragmented workflows,
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measurable bottlenecks,
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scope for margin expansion,
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and a few repeated decisions that determine most of the economics.
AltG is is looking for real companies where intelligence can unlock operating leverage.
5. What sectors does AltG focus on?
AltG focuses on Indian services sectors where decision quality controls economic outcomes.
Examples include healthcare delivery, diagnostics, clinics, staffing, payroll, insurance distribution, financial services operations, logistics, education services, B2B distribution, specialty services, and other asset-light or asset-medium services businesses.
The common thread is not the sector.
The common thread is the repeated decision bottleneck.
Where pricing, conversion, routing, scheduling, utilization, retention, staffing, claims, underwriting, or customer follow-up
determines the P&L, AltG is interested.
6. What is a decision bottleneck?
A decision bottleneck is the repeated business judgment that quietly controls revenue, margin, or cash flow.
In a clinic, it may be lead conversion, doctor utilization, follow-up, or treatment plan conversion.
In staffing, it may be candidate matching, client retention, pricing, or deployment.
In insurance broking, it may be risk selection, renewal timing, carrier matching, or customer segmentation.
In logistics, it may be routing, capacity allocation, pricing, and service recovery.
AltG’s core insight is simple: many services businesses do not have one big problem. They have a few repeated decisions being made inconsistently, manually, and without a learning loop.
That is where the money leaks.
7. How does AltG use AI after acquisition?
AltG uses its AI tool to identify where the money is leaking, recommend the next best operating action, and improve decisions over time.
The tool is not a generic chatbot. It is built to sit inside the operating rhythm of a services company.
It helps answer questions such as:
Which lead should be called first?
Which customer is likely to churn?
Which branch is underutilized?
Which salesperson needs intervention?
Which price should be offered?
Which route, roster, or schedule creates the best throughput?
Which action should management take this week?
The goal is not “AI adoption.” The goal is cash-flow improvement.
8. How does AltG create value?
AltG creates value by removing the constraints that keep services companies small, inconsistent, and low-margin.
The playbook is:
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Buy a profitable services company.
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Find the few decision bottlenecks controlling the P&L.
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Install AltG’s AI tool into those workflows.
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Turn those decisions into measurable loops.
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Improve conversion, utilization, retention, pricing, and throughput.
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Expand margins and cash flow.
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Re-rate the business as a more predictable, scalable asset.
The money is made because the market prices the company like a services business before acquisition, while AltG improves it into something closer to a software-like cash-flow engine after acquisition.
9. How is AltG different from traditional private equity?
Traditional private equity usually improves companies through professionalization, reporting discipline, cost control, hiring, pricing work, and governance.
AltG does those basics, but its core value creation engine is different.
AltG focuses on the repeated decisions inside the business. It asks: which decisions, if improved every day, would change the P&L?
Then it applies its AI tool to those decisions.
This makes AltG less of a traditional operating team and more of an intelligence layer installed into the acquired company.
10. How is an Intelligence Buyout different from an LBO?
An LBO uses financial leverage to improve equity returns.
An Intelligence Buyout uses intelligence leverage.
In an LBO, the key question is: how much debt can the business support?
In an IBO, the key question is: which decision bottlenecks can be turned into compounding intelligence loops?
Debt may still be used, but it is not the core engine. The core engine is improving the operating decisions that control cash flow.
That is why AltG believes the IBO is the natural evolution of the buyout model for Indian services.
11. Why is India the right market for Intelligence Buyouts?
India has a massive base of founder-led services businesses that are real, profitable, and demand-rich — but operationally under-optimized.
Many of these companies are not broken. They are constrained.
They have customers, demand, brand, distribution, and physical presence. What they lack is repeatable decision infrastructure.
That is exactly where AI matters.
India does not need every services company to become a software company. It needs intelligence installed into the businesses that already sit closest to customers.
That is AltG’s opportunity.
12. Why does AltG focus on services instead of software?
Because the biggest AI opportunity in India may not be building more software companies.
It may be applying intelligence to existing services companies.
Services businesses already have customers, workflows, transactions, employees, branches, calls, leads, invoices, payments, and operating data. The problem is that this data rarely becomes intelligence.
AltG’s view is that the next great AI trade in India is not just the model layer or the app layer.
It is the application of intelligence to real-world services P&Ls.
13. What does “the asset remains physical, the P&L becomes computational” mean?
It means AltG is not trying to turn a clinic, distributor, staffing company, or services business into a software company.
The company still has people, customers, branches, operations, and physical delivery.
But the decisions that run the P&L become increasingly data-driven, AI-assisted, and repeatable.
The asset remains a services business.
The economics begin to look more like software.
That is the Intelligence Buyout.
14. What does AltG mean by “two P&Ls”?
AltG believes many Indian services companies contain two P&Ls.
The first P&L is the visible one: revenue, EBITDA, people, branches, costs, and current margins.
The second P&L is hidden: the profit that can be unlocked if the company’s decision bottlenecks are improved through intelligence.
Traditional buyers pay for the first P&L.
AltG buys the first P&L and builds the second.
That gap is the investment opportunity.
15. Is AltG buying AI companies?
AltG buys services companies where AI can change the economics of the business.
The focus is not speculative AI exposure. The focus is ownership of real cash-generating companies where AltG can use its
AI tool to improve the operating engine.
The thesis is simple: the fastest way to monetize AI in India may be to buy the businesses where AI can be applied directly to the P&L.
16. What size companies does AltG target?
AltG is focused on Indian services companies, typically in the lower-middle-market range, where the business is already meaningful enough to underwrite but still small enough for operational transformation to matter.
The sweet spot is companies where a buyer can see the existing cash flows clearly, identify the bottlenecks, and use AltG’s AI playbook to expand EBITDA materially after acquisition.
AltG is especially interested in companies where the current owner has built a valuable business but has not yet institutionalized the operating system needed for the next stage of growth.
17. Why would a founder sell to AltG?
A founder should sell to AltG if they have built a profitable services company and want a buyer who understands both capital and operations.
AltG is not buying to strip the business. It is buying to scale the business.
For founders, the AltG proposition is straightforward: preserve what made the company valuable, install a stronger operating system, improve decision-making, and build the next phase of growth with institutional capital behind it.
AltG is especially relevant for founders facing succession, scaling constraints, margin pressure, fragmented operations, or the need for a more institutional owner.
18. Why would investors back AltG?
Investors should back AltG because it is attacking one of India’s most underpriced opportunities: profitable services companies that can be transformed with AI.
The market often values these companies as labor-heavy, low-margin, execution-risk businesses.
AltG believes many of them are mispriced intelligence assets.
By buying these companies and applying its AI operating playbook, AltG aims to create software-like margin expansion inside real-world services businesses.
The upside is not just multiple expansion. The upside is a structurally better P&L.
19. What is the AltG operating playbook?
The AltG operating playbook starts with the root decision.
Every services company has a few repeated decisions that control the P&L.
AltG identifies those decisions, measures them, and turns them into AI-assisted loops.
The loop is simple:
Data comes in.
The AI tool recommends the next action.
The team executes.
The result is measured.
The system learns.
The next action improves.
Over time, this compounds. The business does not just become more efficient. It becomes more intelligent.
20. How can a founder, investor, or intermediary contact AltG?
Founders, investors, intermediaries, and strategic partners can contact AltG at:
Email: ideas@altgind.com
WhatsApp: +91 8527591847
Website: altgind.com
AltG is interested in Indian services companies where intelligence can unlock a materially better P&L.
If the business has real cash flows, repeated workflows, and decision bottlenecks that control growth or margins, it may fit the AltG Intelligence Buyout strategy.
