We help manufacturers and industrial businesses cross a border in either direction — and we help enterprises find the technologies and companies worth piloting.
Tariff access is announced; utilisation is earned. The gap is not caused by the agreement — it is caused by the sequence around it: origin determined at line level rather than sector level, a route chosen on evidence rather than on whoever answered the email, a buyer qualified before the container moves, and a preference claim that survives verification a year later. No single institution owns that sequence end to end.
We do not sell hours or decks. We sell a clear bearing and the introductions that follow from it, and we say no to the engagements that shouldn't happen. That honesty is the whole business.
Eligible Indian exporters who actually claim the preference available to them. Access is announced. Utilisation is earned — and the gap is where the money sits.
You are paying for judgement, not encouragement. Fixed fees only — no success fees, placement fees, finder's fees, or compensation linked to the value of a transaction, a capital raise or an introduction. Our fee is the same whether you proceed or stop.
Every recommendation is marked Verified Fact, Northstar View or Management Decision, so established data is never confused with our judgement, or our judgement with your decision.
Four stages between India and the United Kingdom, in either direction. Each stands alone, is priced alone, and commits you to nothing beyond itself.
The business already works at home. What is unresolved is where it travels, at what landed price, through whom — and whether the origin position holds when it is tested.
The Blueprint covers the United Kingdom. European Union entry follows a different regulatory sequence and is quoted separately. Where the product is consumer-facing, Stage 02 substitutes shelf-price competitor analysis, the three-route entry model — wholesale importer, diaspora specialist, mainstream grocery — and importer economics built to the door. The stages, fees and discipline are unchanged.
The board wants conviction before capital moves. The sequence is the same; what changes is that partner selection and regulatory structure carry more of the risk than price does.
Entity, FDI and compliance work is scoped inside Stage 02 rather than sold separately. The full sequence is set out in the India entry guide.
A different buyer, and a different question. An innovation mandate and a budget rarely arrive with a reliable mechanism for finding early-stage vendors. Consultancies sell frameworks without founder access. Accelerators have founder access without standing at the buyer's table. Most of what we surface sits in AI, deep tech and industrial software applied to a named operating problem.
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We take no fee from any company we surface, in any engagement, ever. Any equity or economic interest we hold in a company is disclosed in writing before it is recommended. The fee is fixed regardless of whether a pilot proceeds, succeeds or is abandoned. You receive first-look rights on every company surfaced in your engagement.
| What it is | What it answers | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Export Position ReviewThirty minutes | Is there anything here worth pursuing? | No fee |
| India Readiness ReviewThirty minutes | Is there anything here worth pursuing? | No fee |
| The Bearings™Fifteen working days · Either direction | Is the claim, and the price, defensible? | ₹1.25 lakh / £1,000 |
| Entry BlueprintForty-five working days · UK or India | How exactly do we enter, and with whom? | On enquiry |
| Execution PartnerMinimum six months · By invitation | Are we actually selling, and is it holding? | On enquiry |
| Technology ScoutingNinety days · Fixed | Who has solved this, and are they real? | On enquiry |
Every stage stands alone and is priced alone. Nothing commits you to the next. Each fee is set for its own market rather than converted from the other. Fees are payable on commencement and are not contingent on outcome.
Commissioned on their own, or folded into a Blueprint where they shorten the path. These support the two practices. They are not practices in their own right.
Representation and qualified lead generation for foreign portfolio and inward investment, in front of credible Indian opportunity. Preparation, positioning and introduction — never intermediation.
End-to-end handling of inbound and outbound delegations, with the matchmaking that makes each meeting count rather than merely happen.
Sector and technology research that turns a destination market into a map — landscape, route to market, and the partners worth pursuing first.
Built specifically for manufacturers and exporters navigating the India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement — now in force.
Most exporters find out their Rules of Origin position won't survive verification only after a shipment is challenged. The Navigator tells you now.
Run the Navigator →Selected engagements across polymers, battery technology, manufacturing, fintech and food & beverage.
Identify and establish a credible UK manufacturing customer relationship.
Introduced and supported commercial partnership discussions with a UK motor manufacturing company.
Access specialised battery testing and technology capabilities not available internally.
Introduced technology partnership discussions with a UK battery technology and testing company.
Build a scalable manufacturing and sourcing base in India.
Supported the journey from market assessment and supplier identification through to establishing manufacturing capability in India for global deployment.
Engagements led by members of the Northstar Bharat team and named with permission; further references shared directly in conversation. Fifty years combined across the founding team in trade, investment and market entry.
Authority isn't claimed, it's demonstrated. Our research and frameworks are open — so you can judge the thinking for yourself.
A market opens for those already known inside it.
The Review is Stage 00: thirty minutes, no fee, one written finding, and an honest read on whether we are the right people to help. The Bearings™ is Stage 01: a paid fifteen-day diagnostic ending in a one-page board recommendation with a confidence rating. Nothing in the Review commits you to the Bearings.
No. Fixed fees only, in both practices — no success fees, placement fees, finder's fees, or compensation linked to the value of a transaction, a capital raise or an introduction. Our fee is the same whether you proceed or stop.
Yes. Named counterparts are screened on capability and standing, then approached and briefed as part of Stage 02 in either direction. We describe them as screened rather than vetted: the judgement on whether to appoint remains yours, and we set out what we checked and what we could not.
Automotive, manufacturing, industrial technology, and AI and deep tech solutions are the lead sectors. Food and beverage is a proven second lane. We work outside these where the corridor logic transfers cleanly, and we say so when it does not.
No. Entity and structure are usually decided as part of the engagement, not before it.
Both, though the method fits engineering-intensive and regulated mid-market companies best. Technology Scouting is bought by larger enterprises and Global Capability Centres with an innovation mandate.
Yes. FPI Representation exists for investors seeking screened, on-the-ground deal flow. It is a fixed-fee service and carries no success, placement or finder's fee.
Whichever practice applies, the first conversation is the same and costs nothing — for you, or for anyone you introduce. Every submission is read personally within two working days.