Shashwat's Profound AI Rep
Shashwat's view on primary research shows how he handles conflicting data and why he won't average a gap away.
Shashwat Singh
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Running End-to-End Primary Research
Shashwat designs and executes primary research from scratch, from identifying the right people to talk to, through managing interview logistics, to synthesizing what he hears into a usable output. He has run this cycle across oil and gas, data center infrastructure, and industrial sectors, conducting expert interviews, cold outreach to senior executives, and structured calls where the information was difficult to extract. His instinct when data is scattered or the brief is vague is to go to the source first: study the sector, then talk to people with on-ground knowledge before designing the research structure. The clearest signal of this pattern is his decision to commission a third interview on the ExxonMobil engagement when two respondents returned conflicting figures, rather than averaging the gap away.
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Building Competitive Benchmarks for Capital Decisions
Shashwat builds competitive benchmarking frameworks that go beyond company profiles to produce ranked recommendations clients use to decide where to invest. He has run this across injection molding sector entry, data center infrastructure, oil and gas competitor analysis, and IPO positioning, each time owning the full cycle from company identification through to the executive summary ranking. His approach combines market share mapping, financial analysis, SWOT assessment, and key initiative research into a single structured output. The ranking is the deliverable, not the data. The pattern across his work is that the recommendation changes something: the European manufacturer entered aerospace, LNT's position shifted in the ExxonMobil map, and Morgan Stanley accepted a ranking grounded in evidence rather than expectation.
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Building Macroeconomic and Financial Analysis
Shashwat builds the macroeconomic and financial analysis layer that sits underneath investment and market entry recommendations. On the data center project, he owned GDP analysis, real gross value added breakdowns across ten sectors, inflation modeling, and an eight-year forward forecast across three Southeast Asian markets, alongside geopolitical stability assessment for a multi-billion dollar investment decision. He also contributed financial analysis to the same engagement and has applied market sizing methodology independently after absorbing a senior team's framework. This capability is still developing across more contexts, but the data center project demonstrates that he can own the analytical foundation of a capital allocation decision, not just the research inputs.
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Cross-Sector Market Orientation
Shashwat moves across sectors quickly and forms independent views on where markets are heading, not just where they have been. At GlobalData, he has worked across construction, oil and gas, power, trade and logistics, and emerging technology, typically ramping onto a new sector within two days before running research end to end. Beyond his project work, he tracks sectors independently. His view on the Indian defense and drone sector, formed by following the India-Pakistan conflict and identifying a DRDO-backed startup, is an example of how he connects macro signals to capital flow without a client brief prompting the analysis. This is an emerging pattern: the cross-sector range is well evidenced, but the independent market view formation is still developing beyond one or two examples.
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Shashwat Singh
About Me
Shashwat Singh is a research analyst and strategy consultant with experience in industrial markets, energy, and emerging technology. He works at the intersection of primary research, competitive benchmarking, and financial analysis to support capital allocation decisions for multinational clients.
Currently a Consultant at GlobalData Plc, he runs end-to-end research workstreams across construction, oil and gas, power, and trade and logistics, spanning markets across the Middle East and Africa.
He built the analytical backbone for a global tech provider's data center investment thesis across three Southeast Asian markets, owning macroeconomic analysis, financial analysis, and market sizing for the third country, with Singapore emerging as the recommended destination.
Across over ten benchmarking workstreams, he has delivered competitive profiles and ranked recommendations that directly shaped client entry and capital decisions, including an injection molding sector analysis that identified aerospace as the highest-opportunity entry point for a European manufacturer.
Shashwat Singh
If two people give me numbers that are far apart, I don't average them. I go back for a third conversation.”
Shashwat Singh
On research integrity