Your expertise, grown into an audience that buys.

Gentle Mango is an end-to-end growth studio for creators. We grow your Substack, Medium, YouTube, LinkedIn and X, from the first post to paid subscribers and revenue.

Aakash GuptaRecommended by Aakash Gupta

Good experts, quiet accounts.

If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place.

I post every day, but nothing grows.

More posts won't fix the topic. We find what your audience rewards.

I have no time to run my channels.

Share your stories and opinions. We handle the writing and posting.

I get likes, but no paying clients.

Likes don't pay. We build the path from content to paying customer.

Growth, the way a mango ripens.

Four steady stages that turn what you know into an audience, and an audience into revenue.

STAGE 01 · SEED

Find what your audience wants

We study your past content, comments and the top creators in your niche, so every topic starts with evidence.

STAGE 02 · GROW

Create it in your voice

Posts, newsletters, articles and video ideas built from your real stories, in formats that already work.

STAGE 03 · RIPEN

Turn attention into subscribers

Lead magnets, profiles that explain what you sell, and links that move readers to your newsletter or offer.

STAGE 04 · HARVEST

Measure and grow revenue

A weekly look at subscribers, paid conversions and views, so growth compounds instead of resetting.

I tested all of it on my own LinkedIn first.

My own numbers from the past 365 days, straight from LinkedIn analytics.

7Mimpressions, up 692%
17.8Kfollowers, up 342%
2.75Mmembers reached
76.6Kengagements, 28K saves
LinkedIn analytics: 7,012,003 impressions in the past 365 days, up 692%
LinkedIn analytics: 17,804 followers, up 342% versus the prior 365 days

What I did inside Aakash Gupta's creator business.

Almost two years across Substack, YouTube, LinkedIn and partnerships.

Substack
130K→240K

Subscribers, thousands paying

Chose topics, helped draft issues, promoted every send on LinkedIn and ran the Substack analytics.

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YouTube
6.6K→45K

Subscribers in 12 months

Ran the channel data, researched topics and worked on the guest side of the interview show.

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LinkedIn page
22K→60K+

Product Growth page followers

Ran the Product Growth LinkedIn page day to day, sharing Aakash's best-performing posts with its audience.

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Partner brands from zero

Pitched 25 brands cold and built the bundle that gives paying subscribers their partner tools.

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What Aakash wrote about working with me.

Aakash Gupta's LinkedIn recommendation for Ashutosh Singh, 12 September 2026

Guides to read before you hire anyone.

For creators, coaches, founders and experts who sell what they know.

Ashutosh Singh, founder of Gentle Mango
🥭 Founder

Hi, I'm Ashutosh. A product manager who fell for distribution.

I've spent my career deciding what to build, first on B2B marketplaces and CRMs, then inside a creator business where every post, newsletter and video had to earn its place.

Gentle Mango is how I bring that to creators and experts: research before writing, your voice over a template, and numbers that tell us what to do next. I work from India with clients around the world.

Questions people ask.

What does Gentle Mango do?

Gentle Mango is an end-to-end growth studio for creator-led businesses. We grow your Substack, Medium, YouTube, LinkedIn and X: strategy from your data, content in your voice, lead magnets, and the funnel that turns readers into subscribers and paying customers.

Who is Gentle Mango for?

Founders, coaches, consultants and experts whose business runs on what they know: product and AI creators, career and negotiation coaches, newsletter writers and YouTubers who want to grow and earn from their audience.

Which platforms do you work on?

Substack, Medium, YouTube, LinkedIn and X. Most clients start with one or two channels and connect them, for example LinkedIn posts that grow a Substack newsletter.

How is this different from a ghostwriter?

A ghostwriter delivers posts. We start with data: your past content, your comments and the top creators in your niche. Then we build the whole path from content to subscriber to customer, and measure what brings revenue, not only likes.

Will the content sound like me?

Yes. Everything is built from your own stories, opinions and examples, and you approve it before it goes out. We never invent experiences, numbers or client results.

How do you measure growth?

We track what matters for each channel: subscribers and paid conversions on Substack, views and subscribers on YouTube, followers and engagement on LinkedIn, Medium and X, plus enquiries and revenue.

Where is Gentle Mango based?

We are based in India and work with founders, coaches and creators around the world.

How do I get started?

Send a DM on LinkedIn with a link to your profile or channel. You'll get an honest view of what to change first, and if it's a fit, we plan your first month together.

Ready to grow an audience that buys?

Send me a DM with a link to your profile or channel. I'll tell you honestly what I'd change first.

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