About us

Connecting curiosityto evidence

Expert-driven AI simulation platform for growth, product & marketing teams.

Every ambitious business question arrives with a mess around it: old research, new signals, internal preferences, external opinions, category shifts, consumer contradictions and inspiring references. Qlue makes that mess useful. Guided by expert strategists, it stitches these inputs into a single thinking layer that helps teams simulate possible answers and make confident decisions.

THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE

Human judgment is always compounding. Organisational intelligence often does not. Qlue exists to fill that gap.

Our beliefs

Things that have remained firm since day one, even as our offering evolves.

Human judgement - first and foremost

Tech can do many things well - but framing, interpretation, context understanding and taking calls will always belong to people. Qlue expands human judgement.

Research should compound, not expire

A study, transcript or consumer connect can keep creating value when it is connected to new questions, fresh inputs and changing context. At its core, Qlue makes existing research more alive.

Complex problems need more than one lens

The strongest strategic answers come from looking at evidence across consumer behaviour, culture, retail data, market trends, the last big decision's presentation, and more.

Trust is built by showing the work

If a recommendation is going to influence a serious business decision, people need to see what supports it, what complicates it, and where the evidence runs thin.

The founding team

Qlue is built by a duo that brings together consumer strategy, AI engineering and a shared impatience with shallow answers.

Sushma Panchawati

Sushma brings 18 years of consumer insights, marketing and innovation strategy to Qlue. With a background across engineering, brand strategy and research, she shapes the platform around the questions strategists actually wrestle with: consumers, categories, markets, growth and judgement.

“I built Qlue to be the platform I wish I had mid-way through my career.”

Ravi Bhim

Ravi has spent two decades across ML, NLP, information retrieval and product engineering. A coder at heart, he has built consumer internet and enterprise systems, founded BeautifulCode, and brings that obsession with code quality, craft and applied AI into how Qlue is built.

“Any new tech needs to solve business problems in a credible, and useful way. It can’t be AI for AI’s sake”

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