Hi, I’m Suvam Sahoo.
I love solving problems. Especially the messy business kind.
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I love solving problems. Especially the messy business kind.
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Looking for real problems to work on
Give me something messy, slow or held together by one overworked person, and I’ll probably start asking why it works that way, what could be simpler, and what could run without anyone touching it. I’ve been doing this to my own businesses since I was a teenager. Now I want to do it inside someone else’s.
I’m not an experienced operator yet. I’m still learning, so this page is mostly about how I think.
It’s here (IST (UTC+5:30)). The sky outside the window follows the real time.
Where I can work: Remote, or in Bhubaneswar.
How I think
For a long time I thought I was confused about what I wanted to do. Marketing, maybe. Sales. Startups. Tech. AI. I kept starting things to find out.
Then I noticed the same thing kept happening in everything I built. I’d run into something slow, repetitive or stuck on one person, and I couldn’t leave it alone.
And I’d ask the same questions, pretty much in the same order.
That’s basically it. The rest of this page is me doing that in real businesses.
Notes on problems, systems and work
An experiment
A small game about the elevraa problem. You get the business as it was in February 2026, twelve weeks, and twelve possible moves. Six are what I actually did; six are things we were genuinely tempted to do instead. Spend the quarter and see if yours beats mine.
I use whatever fits the problem.
Before that
Most of these failed because I couldn’t sell them. They did show me which parts of a business I actually like.
Problem #0
We had a lot of power cuts at home and no inverter, so I tried to build one out of whatever I could find in the house. It wasn’t proper engineering. It was jugaad. I still start most problems the same way: what do I have right now, and how do I make this work?
What’s next
I want to work on messy operational problems inside a company that’s growing faster than its systems.
I don’t want to pick a specialisation from a job title yet. I’d rather sit with founders and operators, work on real problems, and find out which part of operations makes me think “I could do this for years.”
An internship, a project, or an early full-time role. I’m flexible on the format.
“Quick TATs, easy communication, work done is great!”
“Ethical in his practices, proactive in his approach, and genuinely supportive of the team throughout the project.”
Founder · Nov 2022 – Present
I started Knox on my own, building Shopify stores for Indian D2C brands. The more clients we took on, the more everything depended on my time and attention, and I was running out of both. Honestly, I also didn’t enjoy the repetitive delivery work, so I really wanted to stop doing it.
Most of our growth came from referrals. I’m not good at sales and I won’t pretend I am. Where I’m useful is after the client says yes.
Head of Operations · Feb 2026 – Jul 2026
Every escalation, pricing call and delivery problem went through the founder, so the business couldn’t grow faster than one person’s calendar. Cash came in slowly, and nobody could say which role was responsible for what.
This was the first time I’d done this inside someone else’s company, and it’s where I realised the thing I’d been doing for years had a name: operations. I want a lot more of it.
Founder · Jun 2026 – Present
Running an agency meant the same finance admin every month: categorising, reconciling, GST, ITR. The books, the compliance and the actual work sat in three places that didn’t talk to each other. It had been annoying me for three years.
Launched. It’s early days and I’m still learning.
I’m not a hardcore programmer. I know enough to build what I want, and AI tools have made that a lot easier than it was two years ago.
Tick the ones that sound like your company
Remote, or in Bhubaneswar · IST (UTC+5:30)
Books I’ve read