Model the engineering entrance coaching market
For investors and operators sizing the engineering-entrance coaching market in India.
- Engagement type
- Team Pod
- Experts
- 2 founders · 1 advisor
- Hours
- ~60
- Duration
- 4 weeks
What the client needed
An investor needed a market model for engineering-entrance coaching in India: structure by city tier and format, fee bands and unit economics per centre, and an investment view it could put in front of its committee.
The brief
The questions on the table
As the client wrote them, lightly shortened. Client and respondents are not named.
- Q1
How is the market structured by city tier and format, and where is it moving?
- Q2
What are the real fee bands and unit economics per centre?
- Q3
Where would an investor make money, and where would they lose it?
The hours
What the work involved
- 01
Market structure
By city tier and format — classroom, hybrid, online — from the founders’ own operations and network.
- 02
Unit economics
Fee bands and per-centre economics: batch sizes, faculty cost, marketing cost, conversion, with the ranges and what moves them.
- 03
Investment view
The senior advisor wrote the investment view and consolidated the model.
- 04
Committee session
One session with the investment team.
Deliverables
What the client received
- A market modelBy city tier and format.
- Unit economics per centreWith the ranges and drivers.
- An investment viewWritten by the advisor.
- One sessionWith the investment team.
The terms
What an engagement like this costs
You buy hours in blocks and can change the expert at the end of any block, at no extra cost. Longer projects run in stages: pause after a block, pick up the next stage when you are ready.
- Rate band
- $65–$250 /hr
- Senior specialists can be up to $500
- Hour blocks
- 1 · 2 · 5 · 10 · 20 · 50 · custom
- This engagement
- Team Pod · ~60 hours · 4 weeks
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