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title: "Yashasvi Shailly - Operator & Builder | Founder in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Yashasvi Shailly, 3x Chief of Staff | Strategy, Operations & Revenue | Brand Partnerships: partnerships@yashasvishailly.com based in India. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
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# Yashasvi Shailly on Tal

## Headline

3x Chief of Staff \| Strategy, Operations & Revenue \| Brand Partnerships: partnerships@yashasvishailly\.com

## About

The problem with fixing things before they break is that you never get credit for it\. The crisis never happened\. There is no way to prove your paranoia was right\. I started in merchandising, then moved through sales, business development, and key accounts\. Different functions, same pattern\. I kept ending up as the person who saw something was off before anyone else, and could name what it actually was\. People call this Chief of Staff\. I have held the title three times\. It is one container for the work, not the work itself\. The work is finding the gap between how a company looks and how it actually runs\. That does not change with size\. A Series A startup and a company of several thousand need the same thing from me: someone who sees the gap before it becomes the crisis\. The same gap shows up in people, not just companies, and I find that just as interesting\. Why we trust who we trust, why we choose what we choose\. When something in your company looks fine and is not, that is my favourite kind of conversation\. So is the one where you just want to think out loud about why people and teams do what they do\. Different doors, same person\. P\.S\. My superpower is I can taste a dish and name most of the ingredients\. More useful than it sounds\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

notion

Fireflies\.ai

## Work experience

Operator & Builder \| Founder at The One Labs, Jan 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, India, An operating and research lab built around the decisions that set everything else in motion\. I turn operator judgment into AI\-native products and behavioral research\. Shipped The One Fix, a paid founder execution diagnostic that scores founders against an eight\-archetype model\. Live at yashasvishailly\.com/diagnose\. Built The One Job, a job\-search system for people with nonlinear careers moving into operator roles\. Live \- https://yashasvishailly\.com/theone\-jobsearch/ Building The One Hire, a classifier that judges candidate evidence against a hirer's defined ICP\. Ran The One Labs' first behavioral study on why people choose what they choose, 350\+ computed matches, and published the findings\. \(Linked below\) Partner with founders on operating cadence, AI adoption, and cross\-functional execution\.

Chief of Staff, Social Media and Customer Experience at AstroSure AI, Apr 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 9 mos, Delhi, India, Walked into a company with no owned CX function\. Feedback was scattered across channels with no owner and no path into product decisions\. Built the system that gave it both, the response loop nobody had named as a problem yet\. Replaced fragmented escalation across teams with a single weekly cadence that turned scattered signal into prioritised executive decisions\. Stood up the cross\-functional operating model across product, CX, legal, and finance so the company could scale without the org scaling to match\. Replaced agency\-led social and influencer execution with accountable internal systems\. Alongside operating systems, I regularly reviewed customer journeys, proposed onboarding improvements, documented implementation requirements, and surfaced customer\-facing issues before they reached scale\. While my role wasn't Product, I often worked at the intersection of customer experience, operations, and execution\.

Community and Growth Consultant @ Grapevine at Independent \(Operator and Execution Systems Advisor\), Apr 2024 \- Feb 2025 · 11 mos, India, Worked on growth and product execution for a consumer social platform, running experiments and supporting feature rollouts alongside product and engineering teams\. • Ran growth experiments contributing to scale from 150K to 500K users • Worked closely with product and engineering teams on feature launches and iteration readiness • Identified and resolved edge cases and usability gaps through hands\-on testing prior to release Product launches I was part of: • Redesigned Salary • News AI\+ • Distilled \(AI search\) • Round1 AI Interviews One of the highlights of my work was contributing to the user tagging feature, from early ideation and internal advocacy to execution and launch, collaborating closely with the product team as it moved from concept to production\. Other contributions included identifying customer\-facing production issues, improving Android rating flows, validating launch readiness, and surfacing user experience improvements through hands\-on testing\. I also contributed ideas that later shipped, including user tagging and notification personalization\.

Chief of Staff at Revv Growth, Mar 2024 \- Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, India, Inherited an underperforming four\-person sales function\. Tried PIPs, coaching, and a full cold\-outreach methodology first\. When none of it worked, made the call to let the team go, the manager included, then personally wrote proposals, ran client conversations, and built an AI\-led outreach system to replace the function\. In Q1, inbound leads came in 38% above the entire previous year's total\. Lead conversion ran 60%\+ ahead year over year\. Spotted that cross\-border collection costs were quietly leaking, wrote about it publicly, and turned an inbound referral into an Xflow integration that recovered 15% on previously lost transaction costs\. Built HR, finance, and project\-management functions from zero, plus financial tracking that cut invoice delays by 50% and gave leadership real\-time cash visibility\. Hired and scaled the team from 7 to 22 in 8 months\.

Advisory projects for clients across steel, fintech, and manufacturing at Independent \(Operator and Execution Systems Advisor\), Dec 2023 \- Apr 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, India, Scoped execution and growth engagements run alongside full\-time operating roles: leadership decision cadences, revenue visibility, cross\-functional execution, and operational infrastructure across HR, finance, and operations\. Diagnosed an agency founder's repeated delivery slippage as a missing operating layer, not a talent problem\. He was closing clients and delivering the work at once, so neither held\. Recommended a dedicated delivery owner\. He made the change a year and one lost marquee client later, exactly as scoped\. Other engagements included founder community strategy, GTM planning, marketing systems, startup positioning, and operating cadence design across early\-stage companies\.

Brand Collaborations @ Arey Pata Hai?\! at Independent \(Operator and Execution Systems Advisor\), Nov 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 4 mos, India, Built and executed brand partnerships for a content platform, expanding its monetisation pipeline and collaboration formats\. • Closed brand partnerships with Google India and Zomato, built a Rs 7\.2M revenue pipeline, and executed campaigns end\-to\-end from outreach to delivery\. • Developed collaboration formats integrating brand messaging with platform content • Executed campaigns end\-to\-end from outreach to delivery This was a short\-term, project\-based engagement focused on partnerships and monetisation\.

Chief of Staff @ Tiny Studio \(a Tiny\.com venture TSE: TINY\) at Tiny, Jun 2023 \- Nov 2023 · 6 mos, India, Led GTM for Methinks and Capito across US, UK, Canada, and India, with workflows and execution cadence for distributed teams and 1,500\+ early users onboarded\. On Capito, an automated collections product, the inbound flow worked\. Every payout on the other side was still manual and fragmented\. Spotted that the infrastructure was broken at the seam between product and operations, and that observation became a strategic input to the roadmap\. Built cross\-border financial reconciliation and prepared board and investor\-facing operational summaries\. Ran end\-to\-end hiring for new portfolio startups\. Beyond GTM, I regularly documented execution gaps, proposed operating improvements, and translated customer and operational observations into roadmap discussions\.

Key Account Manager at Fashinza, May 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 1 y 1 mo, Gurgaon

Business Development Manager at Writer Business Pvt\. Ltd, Jun 2019 \- May 2022 · 2 y 11 mo, Gurgaon

Account Executive at Shahi Exports Pvt Ltd, Jul 2015 \- Jun 2017 · 1 y 11 mo, Faridabad

## Education

MBA \- International Business, Marketing, Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University

Bachelor of Fashion Technology, Apparel Production, National Institute of Fashion Technology India

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