Run a ₹300 micro-business for one day
One day of real trade teaches more than a semester of theory. Take ₹300-500 of starting capital (with family sign-off), plan your one-day micro-venture with AI, verify its break-even maths yourself, run it for real, and account for every rupee in a real P&L.
Posted by The AI Internships
The work brief
- 01Plan it with AI: what to sell, where, to whom, at what price. Estimate costs and break-even BEFORE you start — and redo AI’s break-even maths by hand.
- 02Run it for real: buy stock, set up, sell. Take a photo of your setup. Note every sale as it happens.
- 03Account for everything: capital, costs (including transport!), revenue, leftover stock, profit/loss.
- 04Compare plan vs. reality: what sold, what didn’t, what you’d change. The learning is in the gap.
What you’ll produce
Submission standard
Submit your pre-plan with break-even, the setup photo, the full P&L as CSV, and the plan-vs-reality analysis. Losses pass; fiction fails. Include your AI workflow: your planning prompts and where the plan survived contact with reality. Add a second photo taken during or right after trading (customers or leftover stock), distinct from your setup shot, and make sure the P&L totals reconcile with your plan and reality notes.
Your pre-plan: product, place, pricing, estimated costs, break-even point
Written responseRequiredPhoto of your actual setup/stall/stock
Photo of your actual stall/stock with a hint of the real place and, if possible, you or a dated note in frame.
Image uploadRequiredThe full P&L as CSV: every cost line, every sale, closing stock, net result
P&L means profit and loss. Start with a header row, then list every cost and sale on its own comma-separated row; include closing stock and the final net result.
CSV dataRequiredPlan vs. reality: what surprised you, and your 3 biggest lessons
Written responseRequired
You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.
What you must submit as proof
This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.
A second photo taken during or right after trading (your stall in use, or leftover stock at close) — distinct from your setup shot
Should show a different moment of the same venture, so a single staged photo isn’t enough. Shoot the stall and the stock, not customers’ faces — blur any that appear.
Image uploadRequired
Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.
Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.
How your work is evaluated
The passing benchmark is 70/100.
Really ran
29%The venture genuinely happened — photo, live sales record, honest leftovers.
Complete accounting
29%Every rupee is accounted for, including forgotten costs like transport.
Gap learning
14%The plan-vs-reality analysis extracts real commercial lessons.
Ran for real, numbers reconcile
29%Two photos from different moments (setup + during/after) show a real venture, and the P&L totals reconcile with the plan's break-even and the reality write-up. A single generic photo or numbers that don't add up = fail.
How we grade your AI usage
Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.