Each Xiaomi product launch needed a different cultural lens. Cricket couldn't sell appliances. Chefs couldn't sell speed. We learned to read all four.
What started with the Xiaomi 11 Lite NE 5G smartphone became a sustained relationship across four launches in 2021 to 2022, spanning smartphone, gaming, smart home, and kitchen. The brief stopped being a single-product KPI. It became this: know Xiaomi's catalogue well enough to ship culturally-tuned activations for whatever's launching next, in a year when Chinese-brand sentiment in India was still volatile.

