Why we started Nexara
We started Nexara in 2024 because of a gap we kept seeing in how marketing is bought and sold.
Most marketing is sold as a tactic. A company says growth has slowed, and the answer arrives as a package: more ad spend, an SEO retainer, a website rebuild. The recommendation tends to match what the seller offers, not what the evidence shows. Fees tied to ad spend reward spending more. Contracts fix the scope before anyone knows whether it is the right one. Reporting leans on clicks and cost per lead, because those are what the agency controls, while pipeline quality and revenue go unexamined. The result is short engagements that look busy and rarely compound.
We came at this from two directions. Srivatsa spent years in performance marketing and analytics at Wipro, Merkle, and Mu Sigma, and saw from the inside how agency work gets scoped and sold. Adithya spent over a decade in software engineering at companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Lenskart, and Oracle, finding where large systems fail. Different work, same lesson: the visible problem is rarely where the failure starts.
So Nexara works the other way round. We find what is actually limiting growth first, then decide what should change, and whether we are the right people to do it. When the answer is not a marketing fix, or not us, we say so. We would rather earn a long working relationship by being right about the problem than win a contract by selling a tactic.
We wrote down how we think buyers should evaluate any agency, including us, in How to Choose a Marketing Agency.