Naman Kriplani | Profound

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Naman's stories span independent investment research, AI-augmented data investigation, and portfolio reconciliation.

Naman Kriplani

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Building Bottom-Up Investment Theses

Naman constructs investment theses from first principles, starting with industry structure and working through value chain, financials, management quality, and valuation before forming a view. He has applied this framework independently on Eicher Motors and ICMM Motors, in both cases arriving at a conclusion that differed from the prevailing market narrative. **His ICMM Motors thesis** challenged the market's export and premiumization story with years of flat data, landing on a sell rating. His Eicher Motors analysis traced a dominant market share position back to a founder-led product decision and a community retention mechanism. The pattern is consistent: he tests the narrative against the data before forming a view, and he is willing to hold a position that diverges from consensus when the evidence supports it.

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AI-Augmented Data Investigation

Naman uses AI tools, primarily Claude, as a core part of how he investigates data problems, moving faster and surfacing root causes that manual methods would miss or take far longer to find. He integrated Claude into Excel to trace a return anomaly across a multi-million dollar client portfolio day by day, identifying missing transactions that were inflating the return figure. He also used Claude to build preprocessor logic for a reconciliation failure caused by duplicate transaction IDs. **In both cases**, the AI-augmented approach produced a result that the standard manual workflow had not. The duplicate ID issue had not been identified by his manager before Naman worked through it. The pattern is practical rather than experimental: he reaches for AI tooling when it shortens the path to the answer, and he knows how to frame the problem so the output is usable.

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Qualitative Moat Identification

Naman looks for the structural reasons a business holds its position, focusing on the qualitative factors that financial statements reflect but do not explain: founder behavior, community dynamics, customer retention mechanisms, and management discipline. In his Eicher Motors analysis, he traced the company's dominant market share position back to a specific founder decision to survey customers and fix the product, and to the community events that sustain retention. In his ICMM Motors thesis, he assessed management credibility by testing their export narrative against years of actual data. **The approach is consistent:** he starts with the qualitative story, then checks whether the financials confirm or contradict it. When they diverge, the divergence becomes the thesis. This lens is self-developed through independent research and daily reading across sectors, annual reports, and earnings calls.

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Naman Kriplani

Career Stories

Eicher Motors: Building an Independent Sell-Rated Thesis

At Valuefy as Financial Data Analyst

2026

Eicher Motors: Tracing a Durable Moat from Founder Decision to Market Share

At Valuefy as Financial Data Analyst

2026

Spotting a Portfolio Return Anomaly Using AI-Augmented Analysis

At Valuefy as Financial Data Analyst

2026

Diagnosing Duplicate Transaction IDs Causing Reconciliation Failures

At Valuefy as Financial Data Analyst

2026

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