MWR

Who We Are

Rigour without
the theatre.

MWR Collective is a research, strategy, and evidence firm. We exist because most work in this space gets diluted — by the pressure to look impressive, the incentive to tell clients what they want to hear, and the habit of dressing up inconclusive findings as definitive answers.

The Story

We started with
a choice.

Anish and Maitreyee left established firms to build something with more room for honesty — a place where the standard for good work isn't whether the client is happy with the answer, but whether the answer is actually right.

Good research and strategy work is rarer than it should be. Most of it gets diluted — by the pressure to look impressive, the incentive to confirm the client's existing hypothesis, and the habit of dressing up inconclusive findings as definitive answers.

Being useful, it turns out, requires being quite different from most firms in this space. We're fine with that.

Get it right, not impressive
Good work doesn't need a performance. The standard is accuracy and usefulness — not how the deck looks or how confident we sounded in the room.
Useful beyond the room
A recommendation that expires on delivery isn't a recommendation — it's a performance. We write for the person who has to act on it six months later.
High standards, no performance
We expect a lot from the work. We don't mistake seriousness for severity or rigour for coldness. Good work and good people aren't in conflict.
Smart enough to know the rules.
Confident enough to question them.
We follow the evidence wherever it goes. We say the uncomfortable thing in the room, calmly. Politely radical — in every engagement.
About the name
Mindworld Research Private Limited

MWR Collective operates as Mindworld Research Private Limited — our registered, DPIIT-recognised startup entity. The name reflects what we do: research that works at the intersection of data, systems, and human behaviour. We go by MWR because it's shorter, but the full name is on every contract.

What Makes Us Different

Not one thing.
All of them.

01
Academic depth
PhD-level econometrics, peer-reviewed publications, and methodological rigour that most consulting firms can't access.
02
Field operations at scale
40+ programmes, 20+ states. Our team has run large field operations and knows what actually goes wrong — and how to prevent it.
03
Policy instinct
Economic strategy advisory for NITI Aayog, state governments, and multilaterals. We understand how policy actually gets made.
04
Small and senior
No juniors running your project while the partners are elsewhere. The people you hire are the people who do the work.
05
We'll tell you if you're wrong
If the evidence doesn't support your hypothesis, we say so. That requires not needing to be liked more than needing to be right.
06
Politely radical
We follow the evidence wherever it goes. We say the uncomfortable thing in the room, calmly. Serious impact delivered with spirit.

Meet the
team.

Three researchers, one standard. See who's behind the work and what they bring to it.

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