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What exactly does Maidaan do?

Maidaan is a brand growth partner. Brand strategy, identity, content, performance, PR and influencer networks, and the AI systems underneath, all under one roof. If it touches how your brand looks, sounds, spreads, or sells, it's ours.

Are you an agency?

Technically, yes. Behaviourally, no. Agencies take briefs and ship deliverables. We work as an integrated extension of your team: in the strategy, in the numbers, accountable for outcomes. If it ever starts feeling like a vendor relationship, tell us. We will be horrified.

You're new. Why should I trust you?

Reasonable. The company is new. The people running it are not: two decades of combined experience building brands, pipelines, and marketing functions from scratch inside B2B companies. Being early works for you too: you get the senior people on the work, not a junior team wearing our logo.

Who do you work with?

Side projects built after work, neighbourhood boutiques and salons, founders building personal brands, startups, growing companies, and enterprises ready to be talked about again. Industry-agnostic, geography-agnostic, size-agnostic. The one filter: you have to actually want to stand out. Sounds obvious. Isn't.

What does "Maidaan" mean?

A maidaan is the open ground: the public field where everyone plays and nobody hides. It is where brands compete now. There is a whole page about it, obviously.

How do engagements work?

Most start as a scoped project: positioning, identity, a launch, a rebuild. If the work is good and the chemistry is real, it grows into an ongoing partnership. Retainers are earned here, not assumed.

We already have a team. Do you replace them?

Only if you want us to. We slot in where the gap is: some clients hand us the whole machine, others need one sharp piece done properly. We also partner with other agencies when it serves the work, egos are expensive and we didn’t budget for one.

How much does it cost?

Every engagement is scoped to the brand and the goal. No rate card, because nothing here is off the shelf. The first conversation is free and usually tells both sides whether it is a fit within twenty minutes. We would rather lose a project than force one.

How fast can we start?

Usually within a couple of weeks of the first call. We keep the client roster deliberately small, which means less waiting and more attention. The queue is short. For now.

Where are you based?

Pune, India, with work spanning India, North America, the UK, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Time zones are a logistics problem, not a quality one.

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