THE MARKET PULSE

At 9:12 AM on a Tuesday, a sales manager in Bengaluru opens her laptop and finds something unusual. Her day is already underway—without her. Overnight, her AI agent has reviewed the CRM pipeline, identified three high-intent leads that went cold, drafted follow-up emails in the brand’s tone, scheduled them for the most responsive time slots, and even flagged one lead as “urgent” because a competitor had recently entered the conversation. She didn’t ask for any of this. She di

On a humid weekday morning in Hyderabad, a young professional steps out of his apartment building not for a meeting or a workout class, but for a blood test. The phlebotomist arrives with a small kit, a barcode scanner, and a calm sense of routine. The entire process takes less than ten minutes. The report will arrive by evening, interpreted not only by a lab but also by an algorithm that flags trends across the last six months. For this consumer, healthcare no longer begins

Understanding the Shift in Manufacturing In manufacturing corridors across India, a quiet shift is underway. It doesn’t announce itself with smokestacks or assembly lines. Instead, it emerges through stainless-steel bioreactors, microbial cultures, and fermentation tanks humming behind cleanroom walls. This is India’s bio-manufacturing push—an inflection point where biology is beginning to replace traditional industrial processes. Fermentation technology and lab-grown inputs