About Rise Rift

We are a creative-tech studio for ambitious brands.

Rise Rift was built to collapse the gap between strategy, creative and technology. We don't hand off — we operate.

Rise Rift founder
Our Story

Born in Pune from a frustration with vendor-style agencies, Rise Rift assembles creative directors, performance marketers and AI engineers under one roof. We move like a product team — sprints, dashboards and tight feedback loops.

Vision

A world where ambitious brands have an operating partner — not a vendor — to design, ship and scale the next chapter of their digital existence.

Mission

Create digital shifts that compound. Make every campaign, asset and AI agent we ship raise the bar for what 'good' means in the category.

The Founder

The mind behind Rise Rift.

Sandesh Misal — operator, cinematographer and founder. He built Rise Rift to make agencies feel like product teams again.

Sandesh Misal
Founder & CEO

Sandesh Misal

Operator turned founder. Obsessed with patterns, revenue and what makes brands inevitable.

Sandesh Misal
Founder & CEO

Sandesh Misal

Cinematographer at heart. Leads the studio, ad films and the visual language of Rise Rift.

Core Values

What we refuse to compromise on.

Revenue First

Outcomes over outputs. Every shift maps to a number.

Customer-Centric

Strategies engineered around the user, not the brief.

Digital Scaling

Built to compound — content, code and channels.

Pattern-Based

Frameworks proven across categories and stages.

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