Saurav Mishra was born into humble circumstances and escaped them by earning an engineering degree from IIT. That education carried him from India to London and into capital-markets technology, where he has worked for two decades — the last nine as a director at an investment bank, leading architecture and reporting to the chief information officer.

He developed the framework presented in this book over the last decade, and now uses it, through Dhruv, to deploy his own capital. The Missing Map is his first book — the first step in a longer intention: that serious investing should be learnable by anyone willing to give it a few honest hours a week, not a privilege of birth, training, or a team behind you.

You were not born into wealth. You escaped the gravity of the lower middle class the only way open to you: a hard degree, an even harder profession, and years of establishing yourself in it. Today you earn well, and the discipline of your upbringing turned saving into habit. So, for the first time, there is real capital with your name on it.

And yet you feel something is missing. Your capital runs on autopilot — and you could not say what it is doing for you. You sense the people born into wealth understand something you don't. They are not smarter, but they handle capital with an ease you have never felt, as if they were given a map at birth that you were never shown.

Wealth rests on three skills — earning it, keeping it, deploying it. You have two of the three, and the one you are missing is the one that compounds. This book is that missing map.

Investing usually starts with three questions, in this order. How should I allocate my capital right now? Is this sector worth playing in? Is this security worth owning?

Dhruv has one companion for each question. The first looks at the economic and market cycle. The second looks at a sector. The third looks at one company. If you use them in order, each one passes useful information to the next.

It is free: no purchase required, no sign-in, no proof you own the book. It runs on your own AI account, and nothing you enter comes back to me.

Start broad, then narrow down

You do not need to redo everything for every company. Your view of the economic and market cycle changes relatively slowly, so do that work once and reuse it: the first companion gives you an asset allocation and a macro summary, and you paste that summary into the second. Understand the sector when you are thinking about investing in it; the second companion hands the third a short sector summary in the same way. Only then do the detailed work on an individual company — with the wider market and the sector already in view.