VivekaDecide with Clarity

The calls too big to get wrong — decided with clarity.

I’m Amithanand Dsilva. For fifteen years I’ve helped founders and CXOs of India’s mid-market pressure-test their highest-stakes decisions. Viveka is the discipline I built from that work: six lenses, and a verdict you can act on.

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The Viveka 6-Lens Framework

Six lenses. One verdict.

Viveka means discernment. Every decision is read through Strategic, Financial, Operational, Risk, People and Customer lenses, and ends in one outcome: proceed, proceed with conditions, or don’t. No opinions; a defensible verdict you own.

  • Strategic
  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Risk
  • People
  • Customer
  • Proceed
  • Proceed with conditions
  • Do not proceed

See the method at work

Where the framework has been used

  • Advising founders on a mid-market pharma-sector sale: valuation, brand-value case and deal structure.
  • Talked a fast-growing product company out of a discount that would have undercut the premium positioning central to its corporate-market goal.

Three ways to work with the framework

Same six lenses. Same three verdicts. You choose who holds the pen.

Every route runs your decision through Strategic, Financial, Operational, Risk, People and Customer, and ends in a verdict: proceed, proceed with conditions, or don’t. What changes is how much of my fifteen years sits beside you.

Viveka Advisory · with Amithanand Dsilva

Fee scoped to the mandate

I run it for you.

For the crore-level calls: an acquisition or exit, a pricing move, a capital commitment, a senior hire. I take the decision through all six lenses with you and your team, and stand behind the verdict.

Guided 6-Lens Review

₹30,000 + GST

We run it together.

You work through the framework with me alongside: I challenge the assumptions that matter, lens by lens, and review the verdict and its conditions with you. One 90-minute session, online.

See how a guided review works

Strategy by Viveka · self-serve

₹7,500 + GST

You run it yourself.

The same framework, built into an AI tool. Pressure-test a decision online and get a written report that ends in a verdict.

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Free tool · by Viveka

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Referable by Viveka

For members of networks such as BNI and JBN: build a presentation that makes you recognisable, trusted and easy to pass on, and see your Referable score.

Are you referable?

If you’re sitting on a decision you keep circling back to, that’s exactly the call I’m built for.

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