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Akash
Chaurasia.

I build the systems that make growth work, then scale spend on top of them. A creative-scoring model that filters bad images before the auction. CAPI wired to CRM so bids chase qualified leads. An incrementality framework that found ₹10L/month of spend the business didn't need. Today that runs ₹3.5 Cr/month at Housing.com — before it, I co-founded Flex EV and built its fleet platform from scratch.

Akash Chaurasia
0.0Cr / mo
Meta + Google spend managed
0 → 0
Vehicles scaled at Flex EV
IIT KGP'23
Where everything started

Tools I actually use

Channels
Meta · Google · Criteo · Taboola · RTB · Branch · Appsflyer
Measurement
GA4 · Tableau · GTM · MoEngage · CAPI · AEM
Data
SQL · PySpark · Postgres · AWS Glue / Athena · Quicksight
AI & Automation
Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini · Kling · Veo 3 · Zapier · Apps Script
Languages
Python · SQL · C++
Work

Three seats, three kinds of growth.

Headlines first. Open any one of them for the cases, the numbers and how it was actually done.

Housing.com

Growth Associate · Jan 2024 — Present
Six casesClose

Built the measurement and creative systems first — then scaled spend on top of them. 2× SPOTLIGHT Quarter Award.

₹3.5Cr / mo
Meta + Google spend
₹10L/ month
Non-incremental spend found
18 → 90%+
Catalog match rate
CASE 01 · MEASUREMENT

The incrementality framework that found ₹10L/month we didn't need to spend.

Budget allocation running on last-click and gut calls.

Built the cross-city testing framework Housing.com now uses to measure true campaign lift and cost per incremental lead, across 12 markets. A geo-holdout in Chennai surfaced ₹10L/month of non-incremental spend — roughly ₹80L/quarter at full scale.

₹10L/ month
non-incremental spend found
CASE 02 · AI CREATIVE

An AI creative engine — and a quality gate that runs at auction time.

Bad property images slipping into live campaigns, week after week.

Shipped 15,000 videos through Kling AI and Veo 3 and 30,000 enhanced images. Built a runtime ML scoring model with the Data Science team that strips non-marketable creative from the feed before it serves, and expanded into Reels and Stories.

80% ↓
bad-image escalations
CASE 03 · TRACKING & DATA QUALITY

Rebuilt the catalog feed: 18% → 90%+ match rate.

Campaigns optimising on broken signal — most of the catalog never matched.

Stripped irrelevant Meta Pixel and FB SDK parameters, added an hourly out-of-stock cron, and enriched property params. Fixed an 18% city-mismatch rate in the same pass.

+10% CTR
QoQ · CVR +5%
CASE 04 · LEAD QUALITY

CAPI wired into CRM, so bids optimise on qualified leads.

No per-channel × campaign view of what a good lead actually looked like.

Connected CAPI for Leadgen to CRM and dialer signals, then moved optimisation onto the call-connected lead rather than the raw form submit.

9% ↓
cost per qualified lead · Mumbai & Noida
CASE 05 · AUTOMATION

Built the CRM behind a 5-person lead-generation desk.

Callers working manual lists, with no view of agent productivity.

Built the CRM and the automation layer around it for a 5-person lead-generation calling team — the work that won the first SPOTLIGHT award.

₹2L/ month
agent productivity saved
CASE 06 · PAID MEDIA

Scaled Meta + Google from ₹1.5 Cr → ₹3.5 Cr/mo, 12 → 36 cities.

A fragmented 180-campaign account starved of learning volume.

Restructured 180 → 100 campaigns into PAN-India, city-cluster and city tiers, and shifted bidding from Highest Volume to tCPA under SOP-led governance. CPL −5% QoQ, CPM flat YoY against an industry that rose ~5%, affiliate share 6% → 9%.

15% ↓
CPV, while spend grew 2.3×
★ ★
2× SPOTLIGHT Quarter Award — one for building the CRM, one for the campaign restructure and the Kling AI creative engine. Martech AI Awards winner with the Housing.com team.
Martech AI Awards
Martech AI Awards · Winner
Housing.com team
The team
Housing.com team
The team

Flex EV

Co-Founder · B2B2C EV rental, Delhi NCR · Dec 2024 — Oct 2025
What I ownedClose

Co-founded an EV rental business for gig delivery riders, and ran it alongside a full-time role. Built the ops, the platform and the P&L.

500+ vehicles
On the road
₹40LMRR
Reached in 12 months
86%
Fleet utilisation

Co-founded a B2B2C EV rental business for gig delivery riders in Delhi NCR. Scaled to 500+ vehicles and ₹40L MRR in 12 months at 86% utilisation — while holding a full-time role at Housing.com. Stepped back in October 2025.

OPS

End-to-end ops from scratch.

Rider onboarding, collections, recovery, maintenance. 1 → 3 hubs, 2 → 30 team.

FINANCE

Payment & KYC automation.

Replaced manual QR collections with Easebuzz bulk payment links and automated rider KYC through Leegality. Cleaned up reconciliation, cut leakage.

PRODUCT

Sheets and Apps Script → a real platform.

Started the whole operation on Google Sheets, GForms and Apps Script, then rebuilt it as an in-house Fleet Management Platform and Rider App for rent tracking, dues and asset visibility.

TELEMATICS

In-vehicle IoT into the fleet platform.

Piped third-party in-vehicle IoT and webhooks into our own platform for remote immobilisation and theft prevention.

DEMAND · GTM

Demand partnerships with Uber, Zepto and Porter.

Cold outreach → commercial close across three delivery platforms, plus OEM and battery-swap supply deals.

LEADERSHIP

Built the operating layer.

Hired the first hub managers. Wrote the SOPs for collections, recovery, redeployment.

On the exit

Stepped back in October 2025 after a structural disagreement on operating discipline with my co-founder — foundations before scale. Took the lessons; took the operator scars.

With co-founder at the fleet hub
With co-founder · fleet hub
Flex EV fleet
On the ground
Flex EV operations
Ops
Flex EV fleet
The fleet

Pinnacle Infotech

Product Manager · R&D · Jaipur · Jun 2023 — Dec 2023
Three casesClose

Their first-ever PM, out of IIT KGP. Took reporting from on-prem Excel to a production data platform on AWS — and co-authored the AWS blog about it.

3K+ engineers
On the talent system
75% ↓
Dashboard load time
AWSpublished
Named co-author, Dec 2023

My first role out of IIT KGP — and Pinnacle's first-ever PM, in their R&D wing. A BIM engineering firm running ~500 live projects for international clients. I helped take its reporting from on-prem Excel to a production data platform on AWS.

CASE 01 · DATA PLATFORM

Co-built Pinnacle's BI platform on AWS, from zero.

Dashboards running straight off live production databases — slow loads, constant engineering drag.

Shipped a cloud BI stack on AWS S3 + Glue + Athena + QuickSight and migrated 6+ dashboards off on-prem, then specified a natural-language chatbot that turns plain-English questions into charts on the same warehouse. Gave engineering back 6 man-hours a week.

Co-authored the AWS blog on this work ↗

75% ↓
dashboard load time
CASE 02 · TALENT INTELLIGENCE

Talent Tracking System for 3,000+ engineers.

Project staffing made on tribal knowledge across a global engineering org.

Built a feature store and shipped a Talent Tracking System to match engineers to projects, surface hiring gaps and plan training. Resource allocation went from 3–4 days to hours.

3K+engineers
allocation: days → hours
CASE 03 · CLIENT DESK GROWTH

Drove 70%+ DAU lift on the client portal.

Client Desk had low adoption among 400 named accounts.

Led the activation campaign, reworked onboarding. DAU grew 70%+ QoQ; onboarded 98 of 400 clients in a single month.

70%+DAU
QoQ growth
AWS Recognition — Co-authored the official AWS Business Intelligence blog on Pinnacle's QuickSight rollout, published 13 Dec 2023.
Pinnacle Infotech team
Pinnacle Infotech · Jaipur
Projects

Things I made outside the job description.

BrokerBoost

Self-initiated · Real-estate broker SaaS · Concept deck
The thinkingClose

A product scoped end to end — market, segmentation, revenue architecture, unit economics, roadmap. Modelled, not shipped.

4
Revenue streams modelled
3
Broker tiers, mid as beachhead
12
Slides, market → roadmap

Indian brokers fight over a shrinking pool of portal leads, then struggle to find the right inventory once a buyer is finally in hand. Solving demand alone is a feature. Solving supply alone is a feature. BrokerBoost resolves both sides of the same transaction — a broker runs their own campaigns from one console, and when a buyer turns up, a co-broking handshake surfaces matching listings across the network in seconds.

ACQUISITION

Messaging — WhatsApp & SMS.

Blasts to the broker's own lead lists at ₹2/msg, top-up credits, no lock-in. Telco pass-through pricing, ~50% margin.

ACQUISITION

Meta campaigns from the console.

Auto-creative and targeting at ₹240 / 1K impressions. Media passes through; the margin sits in the layer above it.

STICKINESS

AI creative.

Auto-generated listing brochures, reels and broker brand kits at ₹199/pack — margin expands as model costs fall.

★ THE ENGINE

Broker Connect — the co-broking rail.

A ₹200-a-side handshake matching one broker's buyer to another's inventory. Pure software, bilateral lock-in, ~95% gross margin.

SEGMENTATION

Beachhead chosen, not assumed.

Premium brokers already buy portal packages; volume brokers spend ~₹1K/month. The mid tier is the wedge — digital enough to adopt, under-served enough to care.

UNIT ECONOMICS

Defended against the obvious objection.

Modelled revenue per lead channel by channel against the portal's own — the deck answers "doesn't this cannibalise us?" with arithmetic rather than assertion.

Worth being clear about

This is a concept deck, not a shipped product — the market sizes, pricing and three-year trajectory in it are modelled, not measured. What it demonstrates is the reasoning: segmentation, wedge selection, revenue architecture, unit economics and an engineering roadmap, argued end to end.

P · 01Published · AWS

Pinnacle Infotech's BI strategy, on the AWS blog

Co-authored with AWS for their Business Intelligence blog — how we took Pinnacle from on-prem reporting to a QuickSight data platform. Published Dec 2023.

Read on aws.amazon.com
P · 02Product Case

Flipkart APM Deck

A structured product case on a real Flipkart problem — retention, growth, user-journey diagnosis, and a recommendation that lands.

View deck
Thinking

How I think about growth.

On measurement vs. attribution

Attribution tells you which pipe the water came out of. Incrementality tells you if you needed the pipe. Once you've run a geo-holdout, watched a channel go dark, and found ₹10L a month the business never missed, you stop arguing about last-click.

On AI in performance marketing

Most "AI in marketing" posts are prompt libraries. The real wins are boring: scoring creative before it ships, generating 15K variants when you'd previously brief 15. Hype is on image generation; leverage is on the filter that runs after.

On building vs. operating

Most growth roles hand you a machine and ask you to turn the dial. The interesting work is upstream of the dial — the feed, the signal, the measurement. Fix those and the dial starts working; skip them and you're optimising noise. I'd rather own the thing end to end than tune someone else's.

Thinking out loud on LinkedIn

If you're building a growth engine — let's talk.

Currently at Housing.com, three years in. Open to growth / performance marketing and product roles at mid to mid-senior level. IIT Kharagpur '23. Gurugram, open to relocation.