Industrial transformation doesn’t fail because companies lack ambition. It fails because the plan lives in slides while the factory lives in constraints.
For decades, “performance improvement” in heavy industry meant long diagnostic cycles, generic benchmarks, and change programs that never made it past month two. Meanwhile, private equity timelines and operational realities kept getting tighter.
Founded by Gaurav Batra, Ayna is a premier advisory and implementation firm in the industrial technology space — focused on performance improvement and value creation through customized partnerships.
This isn’t just consulting. It’s an operator’s approach to making change stick.
The core of Ayna is an engaged investor-operator model: pairing deep industrial domain expertise with hands-on transformation capability — so strategy, execution, and outcomes stay connected. Instead of one-size-fits-all playbooks, Ayna works like a bespoke partner across inorganic growth, end-to-end transformation, and sustaining transformation.
The market? Industrial companies and investors who need measurable value creation, not another quarterly narrative.
The insight came from watching how often digital and AI programs in heavy industry stall at the exact moment they hit real-world complexity — plants, supply chains, pricing, and people. The answer wasn’t more analysis. It was bridging advisory with implementation, where accountability is built into the model.
It’s a classic example of turning industrial ambition into operational reality — and a strong signal for the kind of India-linked, global, industrial-tech talent.
Let’s celebrate the builders.
w/ Jay Ingle & Dikshant Joshi
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