AI Micro-Internships
Each internship is a bite-sized, real-world AI work task — complete it, get instant feedback, earn a verified certificate.
The on-ramp. Learn to prompt, judge, and build with AI tools — no coding needed.
Field-test voice AI on real Indian tasks
Voice is how the next billion users will use AI — and it still stumbles on Indian names, places, and code-switching. Run a structured 10-task field test of a voice assistant and report like a QA engineer.
Read the fine print: what 2 AI tools do with your data
"Free" AI tools are paid for with something. Actually read the privacy policy and terms of 2 AI tools you use, quote the clauses that matter, and translate them into plain language a classmate would understand.
One day with AI, one day without — time it honestly
Everyone claims AI saves time. Test it on yourself: do comparable work on two days — one fully AI-assisted, one AI-free — time every task, and report what the stopwatch actually says, including where AI made you slower.
Use AI to plan campaigns, write copy, and make content a brand would ship.
Find the right price with 10 real people
Pricing is marketing’s scariest decision — so marketers test it. Design an offer, survey 10+ real people on willingness to pay across 3 price points, and recommend a price backed by your data.
Tear down 3 real festival campaigns, plan your own
Festival moments (Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, Eid, Christmas) are when Indian brands spend most and compete hardest. Study what 3 real brands actually did last festival season — from their real posts — then plan a 2-week festival campaign for a brand of your choice.
YouTube thumbnail lab: study 10, design 3, test with 5 people
On YouTube the thumbnail+title IS the marketing. Study 10 real high-performing thumbnails in one niche, extract the patterns, design 3 thumbnail+title pairs for one video concept, and run a real preference test with 5 people.
Turn messy data into insight with AI — clean, analyse, and visualise.
Answer 5 business questions in SQL
SQL is still the most-demanded data skill in job listings. Load a real dataset into SQLite or DuckDB, write queries that answer 5 genuinely useful questions, and document where the AI’s SQL suggestions were wrong — because they will be.
Design a "best value" score — and stress-test it
Every "Top 10 phones under ₹15k" list hides a formula. Build yours in the open: define a composite value score, apply it to 10 real products with real specs and prices, crown a winner — then stress-test whether your winner survives when the weights change.
Full EDA in a real notebook — code, charts, narrative
Graduate from spreadsheets: do a complete exploratory data analysis in a Google Colab notebook — pandas for the wrangling, matplotlib for the charts, markdown cells for the story. AI can write code with you, but every cell must run and you must be able to explain it.
Ship real AI apps and automations — chatbots, RAG, workflows.
Security-audit your own shipped project, fix 3 holes
Vibe-coded apps ship with vibe-coded security. Audit one of YOUR own deployed projects like an attacker would — exposed keys, missing input validation, doors left open — then fix the three worst holes and prove the fixes.
Build a robot that works while you sleep (GitHub Actions)
The best engineers automate themselves out of chores. Build a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow that does something useful every day without you — fetch and commit a data snapshot, open a reminder issue, update a README stat — and show at least 3 real scheduled runs.
Add Hindi or Marathi to something you shipped
India’s next hundred million users won’t use English-only apps — localization is a real engineering skill with real judgement calls. Take a project you already shipped and add a working Hindi/Marathi language toggle, done properly, not machine-dumped.
Design logos, posters, UI, and brands with AI — and test them on real people.
Publish your first design case study
A portfolio of pretty pictures says "I can decorate"; a case study says "I can think". Take your best design micro-internship and publish it as a proper case study — problem, process, decisions, evidence, outcome — on a public page.
One message, three brutal constraints
Anyone can design with unlimited freedom; professionals design inside constraints. Take ONE message and design it three times: for black-and-white xerox, for a tiny WhatsApp DP-size circle, and for a roadside banner read in 3 seconds from a moving bike.
Tear down a famous rebrand, then refresh a local one
Rebrands are design decisions with public receipts. Study one real famous rebrand — what changed, why the company said they did it, how people reacted — then apply the lessons by refreshing a real local business’s look.
Understand money and sell for real — pricing, selling, and the maths behind offers.
The unit economics of a street vendor
The pani-puri thela near you is a business with margins, volumes, and working capital — run entirely in one person’s head. Interview a real street vendor (respectfully, buying something first helps), reconstruct their unit economics, and offer one genuinely useful suggestion.
Your 12-month money plan — with a live tracker
The commerce capstone: turn everything you’ve learned into YOUR working money system. Set real 12-month goals, build a living tracker in Sheets, and prove the system works by running it for a real week.
Package yourself: launch a real freelance gig
You now have sellable skills from your micro-internships — poster design, data cleaning, caption writing. Package ONE into a real freelance offer: research the market rate, create the gig, and pitch it to 3 real potential clients.