Years in technology and engineering, before and alongside marketing.
AI-Powered Digital Marketing & AI Adoption
I help businesses grow with data, and now with AI.
I'm Kabir Khanna — a digital marketer with an engineer's brain. For 10 years I've run A Billion People, a data-driven marketing agency. Today I help companies do two things well: market smarter and use AI in practical, measurable ways.
Years running A Billion People, a data-driven digital marketing agency.
Teaching Digital Marketing & Analytics to senior executives at IIM Indore and ISB.
Services
Three ways I can help
Digital Marketing & AI Consulting
Strategy and hands-on help to build marketing that actually uses your data — and uses AI properly, not as a gimmick.
Learn more →Corporate AI Adoption Training
Practical workshops that get your team using AI in their actual day-to-day work — not another slide deck nobody remembers.
Learn more →Course Content Development
Full course builds for Digital Marketing & AI — structure, slides, speaker notes, reading lists, quizzes. Built for top BSchools like IIMs
Learn more →Story
From writing code to writing strategy
I started as a software engineer — 25+ years ago, building everything from real-time image processing software to R&D at Quark. Somewhere along the way I fell into digital marketing, then stayed because the best marketing is really an engineering problem: measure, learn, improve.
Read my full story →First job — real-time image processing in C++
Director of R&D at Quark
Co-founded ChalkPad Technologies
Started A Billion People
Programme Leader at ISB, then IIM Indore
Founded Inbox Pros
Newsletters
I write two newsletters, every week
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AI in Plain English
No-jargon breakdowns of what's actually useful in AI, for people who have a business to run, not a PhD to finish.
Subscribe on LinkedIn →Digital Marketing in Plain English
The same, for marketing. Real tactics, explained simply.
Subscribe on LinkedIn →Let's talk about what you're trying to do.
Consulting, training, or a course to build — tell me what you need and I'll tell you honestly if I'm the right fit.
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