Localization Fireside Chat

Sameer Narkar: Turning Multilingual Customer Signals into Boardroom Strategy

Episode Summary

Sameer Narkar, founder of Konnect Insights, built a $180M bootstrapped CX intelligence platform serving 500+ brands in 35 countries. He explains how AI transforms raw customer signals into boardroom-ready strategy—beyond dashboards and NPS scores.

Episode Notes

Most companies think they're listening to their customers—but dashboards and NPS scores only tell part of the story. Sameer Narkar built a platform that turns omnichannel, multilingual customer signals into strategic intelligence that belongs in the boardroom, not just the support queue.

In this episode:

• Why dashboards alone fail leaders—and what CX intelligence delivers instead

• How Konnect Insights handles multilingual sentiment across 35+ countries with 90–100% accuracy

• The case for proprietary AI over off-the-shelf LLMs in regulated industries like banking and telecom

• Why silence from a customer is a signal—and how AI catches what human teams miss

Sameer Narkar is the Founder and CEO of Konnect Insights, a bootstrapped SaaS platform he built over 12 years without a single dollar of external funding. Starting as a software developer with a background in finance, he identified a gap between the volume of customer data brands collect and the strategic value they extract from it. Today, Konnect Insights serves 500+ brands across 27 industries in 35+ countries, processing signals from 30+ channels in real time.

Connect with Sameer Narkar:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameernarkar

Website: https://konnectinsights.com

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