Case study · GAIL (India)
One authoritative view across thirty companies.
GAIL holds stakes in close to 30 subsidiaries and joint ventures — city gas, LNG, petrochemicals, fertilizers, cross-border pipelines. A forward-deployed BLG engagement became the Samuhika Portal: governed performance data, instant comparison, and board-ready reporting for the whole portfolio.
- Client
- GAIL (India) Ltd · Maharatna PSU
- Engagement
- Forward-deployed engineering
- Product delivered
- Samuhika Portal
- Scope
- ~30 subsidiaries & JVs
The challenge
Thirty companies, reported through spreadsheets.
Each entity operates independently, yet GAIL’s leadership is accountable for the group’s financial health, physical performance, and governance activity. Quarterly numbers arrived through disconnected channels, were consolidated by hand into spreadsheets and slide decks, and reached decision-makers slowly — with no guarantee they’d been consistently reviewed.
What leadership needed
- Standardised submissions on a recurring cycle
- A review and sign-off chain before data counts
- Instant comparison and trending across entities
- Board governance tracked alongside performance
How it was delivered
Forward-deployed: the workflow first, the product after.
Understand
Forward-deployed engineers started in the workflow itself — how a number travels from a JV accountant's ledger, through review, into a board deck — and where weeks disappear along the way.
Identify
One governed pipeline could carry it all: standardized performance submissions, a real review chain, analytics, and board governance in a single system.
Deliver & integrate
The Samuhika Portal — built around GAIL's own approval chain, connected to its reporting rhythm, with the review rules configurable as governance evolves.
The Samuhika Portal
Performance and governance, one system.
Accountable data collection
Every submission moves through a defined review chain — JV preparer and reviewer, then GAIL-side review and final approval — before a number is treated as authoritative. The chain lives in configurable rules, not code.
Decision-ready analytics
Cross-JV benchmarking, quarter-over-quarter trends, contribution views, and an executive summary with auto-generated insights — comparisons that took analysts days, available instantly.
Board-ready reporting
Native, editable PowerPoint and PDF decks generated straight from the data — GAIL-branded, widescreen, and schedulable — so recurring reports build themselves.
Governance in the same system
Board agendas and minutes per entity with OCR-assisted classification, meeting calendars, and a live directory of nominee directors with tenure and succession timelines.
Enterprise-grade access control
JV-scoped role-based access — each entity sees only its own data; GAIL-side roles get portfolio-wide visibility — with JWT authentication and a full audit trail.
Stack
Why it matters
From backward-looking roll-ups to continuous visibility.
- ~30
- Entities, one authoritative lens
- Days → instant
- Cross-JV comparison time
- J1 → G3
- Governed review chain per figure
- Auto
- Board decks generated from data
- Data integrity built into the process, not bolted on after
- Governance and performance oversight live in one system
- A single standardized lens across gas, LNG, petrochemicals and international ventures
- Recurring board reports build and distribute themselves