MIS & Management Consultancy
Periodic management reports and advisory reviews on your own numbers — for institutions and business groups.
Discover more →Chartered Accountants · Growth Architects
Your business problems need a growth architect.
Clever Core finds the bottleneck, installs the system, and stays for the decisions — MIS reporting, ERP & SOPs, payroll, compliance, projects and strategy. One partner across the table, instead of many teams to chase.
For institutions, business groups and start-ups · every engagement scoped entirely to you
CA-Led
Chartered Accountants across the table
System-Driven
SOPs & reporting that outlast individuals
Confidential
NDA-bound; your data stays yours
No Software Sold
We advise on systems; vendors license them
Sound familiar?
Running the business shouldn't feel like chasing it.
Too many teams to chase
One question becomes five follow-ups — accounts, HR, the consultant, the lawyer, the software vendor.
Decisions in the dark
The numbers arrive too late, too aggregated — or not at all — so calls get made on instinct.
Everything depends on someone
Processes live in people's heads; one resignation stalls a whole function.
Where Clever Core steps in: we architect the fix — systems installed, reporting running, and one accountable partner across the table.
Our services
Led by Chartered Accountants. Driven by systems.
We install the systems and SOPs, run the reporting, and stay accountable — so the work is streamlined instead of person-dependent. Each service has a dedicated page.
A consultancy engagement — not a software sale: nothing to license, install or maintain. Our team does the work; yours keeps its focus.
ERP, SOPs & Process Optimisation
ERP evaluation and implementation oversight, SOP design, and ongoing monitoring — every system reporting into one management view.
Discover more →Employee & Payroll Management
Salary structuring, payroll runs, TDS and statutory dues — a clean, compliant monthly cycle.
Discover more →Business & Strategy Consulting
Planning, budgeting, operations and risk — strategy grounded in your financials.
Discover more →Project Advisory
Feasibility, governance and monitoring — from concept to completion.
Discover more →Business Compliance
Legal, regulatory and financial obligations under one accountable owner.
Discover more →Start-Up Services
Business plans, financial models, investor readiness and mandatory compliance.
Discover more →Business Development
Process optimization, positioning, CRM and continuity — customized to your opportunities.
Discover more →Institutional frameworks
Schools, colleges, hospitals, trusts, real-estate and family business groups — a ready reporting framework for each, customised on engagement.
Explore the frameworks →How we work
From your data to your decisions
You share data
Your existing exports and documents. No new system needed.
We analyse
Our consultants compile, reconcile and interpret.
We report & advise
Clear deliverables plus a review meeting with your leadership.
You decide & act
Recommendations tracked into the next cycle.
Why Clever Core
A CA practice that reads your numbers like an owner
Clever Core is the management-reporting arm of a practising Chartered Accountant firm. We do not sell software — we sell judgement. Think of us as your growth architect: we find the bottleneck, design the fix, and stay until it works.
| Who | What they do | The gap |
|---|---|---|
| Your accounts team | Keeps the books | Records data — doesn't analyse or advise |
| Your auditors | Verify & certify | Assurance — annual and backward-looking |
| Clever Core | Helps you steer | Analyses, advises & executes — periodic and forward-looking |
We don't keep your books or audit them — we help you run the organization by the numbers. Clever Core augments your accountants and auditors; it replaces neither.
The engagement
An engagement that runs in cycles
Monthly or quarterly, scoped to your size, units and frequency — across every service line.
- ✓ Periodic deliverables on your own numbers and documents
- ✓ Review meetings — we sit with management and walk through findings
- ✓ Recommendations & follow-up, tracked into the next period
- ✓ Scoped to your organization — entities, volume and cadence
Low-risk start
Pilot on one term or one quarter
A focused engagement on one period's data — see the value before committing to anything longer.
Request a Sample Report →FEES ARE FINALISED ONLY AFTER SCOPING — YOU PAY FOR WHAT FITS.
The people
Chartered Accountants across the table
CA Satyanarayan Agrawal
Founder
Chartered Accountant with a decade across management advisory, due diligence, SOP design and ERP implementations. He architects the reporting systems Clever Core runs — financial-intelligence dashboards and automation across accounting, tax and compliance workflows — so every engagement lands as a working system, not a one-off report.
CA Manuj Agarwal
Partner
Chartered Accountant practising since 2012 — audit & assurance, direct tax, transaction advisory and due diligence, with SAP implementation experience across manufacturing, construction, IT, hospitality, pharmaceuticals and logistics. Independent Director and ICAI Peer Reviewer.
Data & trust
Your data stays yours
✓ Aggregated financial and operational figures only — no individually identifiable records
✓ Bound by professional confidentiality and NDA
✓ You retain full ownership of every report and dataset
✓ Shared only with the people you authorise
✓ Secure handling, aligned with the DPDP Act 2023
✓ Your accounts remain the single source of truth — we mirror, never replace
Common questions
Asked by every client we meet
Is this a software we have to buy and maintain?
Nothing from us — we sell no software of our own, and there are no servers or IT burden in our engagement. Where a service genuinely needs a system, such as an ERP, we help you evaluate it and you license it directly from its vendor; we then oversee the implementation, monitor it, and read its reports into one management view. Your existing accounting and payroll software stays exactly where it is.
What do we need to give you each period?
Only the exports and documents your team already produces. We compile, reconcile and interpret from there. Every deliverable is data-dependent: it can only be prepared once the relevant data is shared.
Who sees our numbers?
Only the people you authorise. We work under NDA and professional confidentiality, use aggregated figures rather than personal data, and you retain ownership of everything we produce.
Does this replace our accountant or auditor?
No — it augments both. Your accounts team keeps the books; your auditors verify and certify. We do the third job nobody is doing: analysing, advising and executing, period after period.
How are fees decided?
Through scoping: your size, number of units and reporting cadence decide the fee — you pay for what fits, and nothing is quoted before we understand the work. Most engagements begin with a pilot on one term or quarter.
How do we start?
Pick a focus. Share a sample of your data or documents. We return a sample deliverable on your own numbers, and you judge the value before committing.
Next steps
See a sample report on your own numbers.
- 01PICK A FOCUS
- 02SHARE A DATA SAMPLE
- 03WE RETURN A SAMPLE REPORT
A consultancy partnership for reporting, advice and execution — not a software purchase.
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