About
Technology matters because of what it lets an institution do.
We look beyond the technology itself: who controls it, what it depends on, which capabilities it creates, how it is financed, and what choices it leaves open.
Stratessence began in New Delhi in 2009 as a strategy practice for early-stage companies. Its original concern was practical: help founders make better choices about product, markets, organisation, and execution.
Technology choices now reach far beyond the product team. They shape supplier dependence, industrial structure, capital requirements, regulation, and the freedom an organisation retains when conditions change.
Stratessence reads the technical architecture closely, then follows its consequences through the institution. We want to know what the client is trying to achieve, what it can do for itself, where it relies on others, and which facts should govern the decision.
Dipankar leads each assignment and brings in specialist expertise when the question requires it. At the outset, we agree what is in scope, who may see the work, where conflicts could arise, and what would count as a reliable answer.
Dipankar's work
The firm sits alongside three separate bodies of work.
They inform one another, but they serve different readers. Keeping them separate makes authorship, purpose, and responsibility clear.
Institutional strategy
Stratessence
Advisory work on technology, institutions, industrial capability, strategic diligence, and geopolitical exposure.
Personal publication
Dipankar.net
Dipankar Sarkar publishes research, essays, methods, directories, and talks in his own name.
Research projects
MarineAware and IndiaStand
Public projects used to examine evidence, institutions, state capacity, and the limits of open data.
Investment research
Esploro
A separate research activity with its own disclosures, compliance boundary, and financial focus.
Founding partner
Dipankar Sarkar
Dipankar is a computer scientist, software builder, and strategy practitioner. His technical background allows him to examine the architecture beneath a strategic claim; his current research connects that architecture to institutions, industrial capability, capital, state capacity, and international relations.
He created MarineAware and IndiaStand, works on long-horizon investment research through Esploro, and publishes his personal research at Dipankar.net. Stratessence is the institutional advisory expression of that work.
Tell us what you are trying to decide.
We will tell you plainly whether the question fits our work.