About — Skyshot
The Skyshot philosophy
The problem is never
the product.
It is always the position.

And most founders have been too close to their own brand to see it.

What we believe

A founder who understands why executes with conviction. A founder who is just told what executes with doubt. The difference between those two founders is not strategy. It is knowledge. That is what Skyshot is built to give.

The problem we keep seeing

Across every brand we work with, in every category, the root cause is the same. The founder cannot clearly say who this brand is actually for and why that specific person would choose it over everything else available to them. Not because they haven't thought about it. Because nobody has ever helped them find the real answer.

The biggest difference
We don't give you a fish.
We teach you how to fish.

If I tell you to go sit in the next room without telling you why, you will doubt it. You might not do it at all. But if I show you the logic, the science behind it, you walk into that room with conviction. Conviction is the difference between a strategy that stays in a deck and one that actually gets executed.

Without Skyshot
You get a direction. You don't know why.
1
Consultant hands you a strategy. It looks right on paper.
2
You don't understand the reasoning. Doubt creeps in quietly.
3
Execution is half-hearted. You second-guess every decision.
4
The strategy fails. Not because it was wrong. Because belief was missing.
5
Next year, you're back at square one with a different consultant.
With Skyshot
You get the direction and the logic behind it.
1
We show you the positioning problem. You see it clearly yourself.
2
We explain the science behind every decision we make together.
3
You understand why. You believe it. Execution is committed, not cautious.
4
The strategy works because the founder executing it is fully convinced.
5
You now know how to think about positioning. That knowledge stays forever.

Most consultants deliver a deck. Skyshot delivers a knowledge base. You leave every session knowing not just what to do, but why it works and how to think about it next time. That is the unfair advantage.

The question everything is built around
"Who is this brand actually for, and why would that person choose it over everything else?"

This is not a marketing question. This is not a tagline exercise. This is a survival question. Every brand that cannot answer it clearly is one bad quarter away from a crisis. Every brand that can is already halfway to owning its category.

Akash Sonakia
Akash Sonakia
Founder, Skyshot Business
The person behind the work
Akash Sonakia
Founder, Skyshot Business

I built Skyshot because I spent fifteen years without the one thing that would have changed everything: someone to tell me exactly what was wrong and exactly what to do next. Not in theory. In practice. Step by step. With the logic explained at every turn.

When I work with a brand, I work from the founder's shoes, not the consultant's. The question I'm always asking is: given your resources, your risk appetite, your market, what is the move that makes the most sense for you specifically?

Three companies built before Skyshot. Every failure taught me something the next engagement uses.
12+ industries worked across. Same positioning problem. Every single time.
9/10 NPS consistently. Not because the process is easy. Because founders finally see what was invisible before.
4 clients per month maximum. Real work cannot be scaled into a conveyor belt.
The story behind Skyshot
Fifteen years.
Three companies.
One realisation.

Skyshot was not built in a boardroom. It was built through fifteen years of building, failing, losing, and starting again without anyone to show the way. This is that journey.

2015
01
First company. Wrong strategy.
Started with conviction, short on direction. It failed. Not because the idea was bad. Because I didn't know how to position it, who it was for, or why anyone should choose it. My father supported me without hesitation. I told him something great was going to happen.
Company 1 shuts down
2017
02
Second company. Same villain.
Started again. My father supported me again. Second company failed too. Different product, different market, same root cause hiding underneath. I still hadn't named what was actually wrong. Nobody was there to tell me.
Company 2 shuts down
2018
03
Tuseva. It actually worked.
Third company. This time something clicked. Tuseva got recognition. Awards. Real growth. I kept telling my father: this is the one. Watch what happens next. For the first time, I wasn't wrong. He kept believing. I kept promising.
Recognition and awards arrive
Early 2021
04
The thing I couldn't show him.
My father passed away in the early second wave. I had finally built something real. I wanted to show him. Not because I built it for him. Because he had waited through every failure, every restart, every promise that something great was coming. He never doubted me once. I couldn't show him. He was gone before I could. That time I can never get back.
The hardest moment
Late 2021
05
Tuseva closes. The truth lands.
Tuseva shut down after the second wave. For a long time I blamed Covid. The truth was harder: poor financial planning, a flawed strategic outlook towards my own company. Three companies. The same villain each time. And nobody to hold my hand and tell me exactly what I was doing wrong.
Tuseva shuts down
2022
06
Teaching. Then realising teaching isn't enough.
I started teaching what I had learned. Founders would nod, take notes, go back, and do exactly what they were doing before. Not because they didn't understand. Because understanding and doing are two completely different things. I had to stop teaching and start doing it with them.
The insight that built Skyshot
2023
07
Skyshot. The consultancy I needed.
I couldn't show my father what I built. But I could make sure other founders don't lose what I lost. Skyshot exists as the thing I needed and that didn't exist: a structured process where we find the answer together, and you walk away knowing how to think, not just what to do.
Skyshot launches
Why this exists

I don't tell this story for sympathy. I tell it because it taught me something I can't unknow: the cost of not having someone guide you isn't just money. Sometimes it's the things that matter most. I don't want any founder to lose what I lost because they were doing it alone.

The pattern
Same villain.
Every category.

Across every brand, every founder, every category, the root cause was the same: nobody had clearly answered who this brand is actually for.

Natural Hair Care
Who is natural for, exactly?
Natural Skin Care
Natural is a category. Not a position.
Car Inspection
Trust before transaction.
Juice Brand
Health or taste? Pick one.
AI EdTech Brand
Technology is not a position.
Hair Transplant Clinic
Confidence, not procedure.
Mental Wellness
Stigma is the real competitor.
Real Estate
Every developer says the same thing.
Resort
Location is not a brand.
FMCG
The shelf is the battlefield.
D2C Electronics
Feature vs meaning.
And more
The pattern holds everywhere.
The process
Five steps.
One outcome.

Not a course. Not a series of calls. A structured process where each step builds on the last, and you walk out of every session knowing more than you walked in.

01
Foundation
Market dynamics, category mapping, where you actually sit today
02
Customer
Who your real customer is and what they actually value
03
Battlefield
Competition gap map, positioning pyramid, where to play
04
Messaging
SPOROID framework, ICP story, how to communicate clearly
05
Delivery
Complete positioning system, 90-day roadmap, ready to implement
By the numbers
The work speaks.
Client NPS
9/10
Consistent across every engagement. Not because we are easy. Because the work is real.
Industries worked across
12+
Same positioning problem. Different products. Proof the framework travels.
Capacity
4/mo
Four clients per month maximum. Real work cannot be scaled into a conveyor belt.
The next step
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