The room where design meets business.

    Dais is a curated gathering for businesses in India's architecture and design industry seeking growth — in operations, team, and revenue. Not design talks. Business conversations.

    30+
    Decision-makers per room
    3 Pillars
    Operations · Team · Revenue
    Bangalore
    Current city

    Dais is a platform on which design businesses come to grow.

    01

    Operations. Team. Revenue.

    No portfolio presentations or aesthetic debates. Dais is about the business side of design — scaling your team, improving profitability, fixing operations, and growing revenue. The stuff that keeps a practice alive.

    02

    Small rooms, real talk

    30+ decision-makers — firm founders, studio principals, and design-adjacent businesses. Intimate enough for honest conversation, diverse enough to spark ideas.

    03

    For businesses seeking growth

    If you're a decision-maker serious about growing your operations, team, or revenue, this room is for you.

    What happened so far.

    Dais #1 — Completed

    Form Follows Finance

    10th February, 2026BathStory, Koramangala, Bangalore

    The first-ever Dais brought together architects, designers, and design-adjacent businesses for a candid conversation about the business of design — the stuff the industry rarely talks about openly.

    Fee negotiationProfitabilityPractice scalingTeam buildingClient management
    25+attendees
    10+architecture firms
    5+lifestyle brands
    Photos from the day

    What's next.

    Dais #2 — March 2026

    Business Operations

    Built for interior design firms. Dais #2 walks through the full lifecycle of a project from a business lens — how you get leads, how you nurture them, how you select and procure materials, and how you manage site execution all the way to handover.

    Venue TBAMarch 2026 — date TBA30+ decision-makers
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    Topics we'll cover

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    Leads & Nurture
    Getting clients, keeping them warm
    🧱
    Material Selection & Procurement
    Systems that don't break at scale
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    Site Management to Handover
    Execution without the chaos
    Dais #3 — Coming soon

    Scaling Your Design Firm

    From solo practice to growing studio — the systems, people, and decisions that get you there. Details coming soon.

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    Find your way in.

    Whether you want to attend, speak, sponsor, or host — there's a seat for you.

    Join as a participant

    Dais is for decision-makers in the design ecosystem who are actively working on growing their business — whether that's streamlining operations, building a stronger team, or increasing revenue.

    • Firm founders and studio principals
    • Design practice managers
    • Interior designers scaling their business
    • Design-adjacent business owners