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Experience by Design — Rebuild GharSe's Two-Sided Marketplace

A four-round, advanced services-marketing and digital-platform simulation set inside GharSe, a four-year-old Indian home-services marketplace headquartered in Bengaluru that connects 1.9M households with 48,000 vetted professionals across six cities (540,000 bookings/month, ₹850 average order value, 18% take rate

4 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

A four-round, advanced services-marketing and digital-platform simulation set inside GharSe, a four-year-old Indian home-services marketplace headquartered in Bengaluru that connects 1.9M households with 48,000 vetted professionals across six cities (540,000 bookings/month, ₹850 average order value, 18% take rate, ~₹5,500 crore run-rate GMV).

Over one quarter consumer NPS has fallen from 46 to 31, match-success from 88% to 79%, repeat-usage from 62% to 54%, and — most alarming — monthly churn of top-rated professionals has doubled from 4% to 8% while rival UrbanReady dangles ₹45,000 earnings guarantees and two viral posts (a no-show and a safety complaint) knocked 9 points off trust.

The board gives the CX team one quarter, ₹9 crore and 6 engineering sprints to reverse all of it, or it cuts the budget 40% and pauses two city launches.

Playing the CX Manager you (1) map the multi-actor journey and diagnose where value is leaking and FOR WHOM — your own T+7 payout delay and slow resolution, not a price war with UrbanReady; (2) build a costed touchpoint-investment portfolio under the hard ₹9 crore / 6 sprint cap that must protect supply, not just polish the consumer funnel; (3) tune the matching algorithm (speed vs quality vs supply-fairness vs price) and engineer ONE targeted trust mechanism rather than stacking every mechanism into trust theater; and (4) read the mixed end-of-quarter results and pick a single rebalancing move — a pro-earnings floor or a consumer-trust booster — while handling the viral incidents with a fast, visible recovery and defending a genuine two-sided trajectory to the board.

The math rewards value co-creation across consumers, professionals and platform infrastructure and punishes the five classic errors — consumer-only optimization, speed-at-all-costs matching, trust theater, neglecting service recovery, and chasing the competitor instead of fixing your own diagnosed leaks.

Final KPIs track Consumer NPS, Match-Success Rate, Repeat-Usage Rate and Supply Health, against the ₹9 crore budget and 6-sprint capacity caps.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • How do you frame the diagnosis of where experience is leaking?
  • Which leak is GharSe's single highest-leverage, uniquely-yours problem?
  • How rigorously do you ground the diagnosis in funnels, verbatims and the matching dashboard? (%)
  • Build the touchpoint-fix portfolio — stay within ₹9 crore and 6 sprints
  • Tune the matching algorithm — choose the primary objective
  • Engineer the trust mechanism — match it to the risk that actually broke trust
  • Defend top-pro earnings against UrbanReady's ₹45,000 — how much do you lift effective pay? (%)
  • Trust friction budget — extra verification steps you are willing to add to the booking flow
  • Results are in and mixed. Pick ONE rebalancing move within your remaining budget
  • Two posts went viral — a no-show and a safety complaint. How do you handle recovery?

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Two-Sided Health Trajectory

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Specialized Marketing.

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