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ABOUT FBE

We engineer the business behind the fitness.

Most fitness and wellness businesses buy technology one project at a time — an app here, a CRM there — and never quite close the gap between what they built and what actually grows the business.

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One systemDiagnosis → product → growth → data → AI
ManchesterRemote-friendly, working globally
1 business dayWe reply within one, every time
Part of DigiRyteBacked by a full UK engineering practice

HOW WE WORK

Four things we don't compromise on.

Business first, technology second

We start with the constraint that is actually limiting growth. The technology gets chosen to fix that — never the other way round.

Industry depth, not a generalist template

Fitness and wellness businesses lose value in specific, recurring places. We work from patterns built for this industry, not a generic playbook.

One connected system

Diagnosis, product, growth, data and AI work as a single engagement — not separate vendors handing off half-finished context to each other.

Honest about AI

We use AI where the data supports a real prediction or automation, and we say so when it wouldn't change the outcome — no AI theatre.

Ramesh Raja

Engineer by trade. Operator by instinct. Athlete by practice.

Ramesh Raja

Chief Fitness & Wellness Business Engineer

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CHIEF FITNESS & WELLNESS BUSINESS ENGINEER

Ramesh Raja

Engineer by trade. Operator by instinct. Athlete by practice.

Ramesh brings together product engineering, growth engineering, digital transformation and business-engineering thinking with a personal connection to fitness and performance. His professional work focuses on designing and improving digital products, technology systems and commercial growth environments.

His fitness background includes strength training, hybrid training and boxing, with an ongoing interest in Muay Thai and performance culture. That combination shapes the central idea behind Fitness Business Engineer:

Fitness companies should be engineered with the same discipline used to engineer high-performing products.

Product EngineeringProducts, platforms, architecture and technology.
Growth EngineeringActivation, retention, lifecycle and commercial experimentation.
Business EngineeringOperating models, transformation, franchising and scale.
Fitness ContextTraining culture, member behaviour and fitness-industry realities.

FULL CAPABILITY, NOT ONE PERSPECTIVE

More than one discipline sits behind a fitness business.

Dr. Baskar Raju

Provides appropriate healthcare and wellness perspective where engagements cross into health-related contexts.

Dr. Baskar Raju

Medical & Health Innovation

Karthik Kumar

Enterprise systems, technology transformation and large-scale delivery perspective.

Karthik Kumar

Enterprise Technology & Transformation

Where specialist legal, data, health or regulatory advice is required, appropriate qualified advisers are engaged — FBE does not replace regulated professional advice.

PART OF DIGIRYTE

Specialist focus. Full engineering capability.

DigiRyte Limited is a UK software consultancy building web and mobile applications and providing access to engineering talent. GrowRyte is its growth practice. Fitness Business Engineer is the specialist initiative applying that same capability to fitness and wellness businesses specifically — so you get deep industry focus without giving up engineering depth.

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Tell us where growth feels stuck. We'll help you find the constraint before we talk about any technology.