TAI Math, Coding, Analytical, soft Skill & Career Solution

TAI is an AI-powered online skilling application that pinpoints and solves career-mapped skill and performance gaps in adult learners. In four months, 90% of our learners achieved better job. 

84% LATAM adult-learners do not complete a single upskilling module and renounce career-goals. That's 220M people.

TAI completely solves skill and performance gaps very fast. TAI ensures learning and career outcomes at 1/5th of the cost and 1/10th of the time than other skilling or career solutions. The result is the achievement of immediate career-goals and happier societies.

Students from the TAI career track get a ‘pay later’ option to pay our tuition fee only after securing a job. 

Students start with an online assessment, then our AI engine automatically creates a personalized online learning roadmap including carefully-mapped skill-activities, in-demand technical, analytical and housewife-friendly skill courses, and online tutoring sessions. Local TAI franchisees conduct free local career workshops regularly.

220M LATAM and Carribean higher education and adult learners are suffering from basic analytical, math, technical, tactical, performance or soft skills gaps. In India that number is 386M people.

Existing skilling & career solutions are very slow, or make presumptions about the student’s learning abilities, they don't solve the basic analytical, technical, tactical, soft or performance skills. Rote skill training through videos, workshops or project based work doesn't prepare learners for real world jobs. 

These solutions are very costly, not outcome based, fool learners with deceptive clarity of concepts temporarily, but when it comes to the ability to remember, assimilate or apply concepts the next moment, they fail miserably. You must have heard this common notion from students “I learnt this just yesterday, but I forgot”.

For example, Sarah learnt product-management on Coursera, which doesn’t necessarily help her master product-management. Sarah is still not confident of her learning i.e. given a new kind of problem-statement, she feels stuck. Now imagine, if Sarah had the mental-frameworks for design-thinking, analogy-mapping, logical-reasoning, pattern-recognition, leadership & communication skills required for product-management - she would become a confident product manager very fast even on getting exposed to never seen before problems.

Currently, we are serving School, University students and adults from emerging markets (Starting with India and Mexico) who

(1) Have limited or no exposure to formal or professional education or who had a long gap in career due to personal or health reasons.

(1) Is fluent in English or Spanish. 

(2) Has an immediate learning or career goal in specific learning or career areas that we are currently serving.

(3) Who is committed to achieving better learning or career outcomes.

We’ve basically created a playbook for full stack computer science engineering, Data Analytics, Product management, UI-UX design, English Communication and Corporate training job roles, now we need to apply it to other engineering and non technical disciplines to cater to a larger audience. 

We can translate our entire platform into other languages like Portugese as we expand into the LATAM market. We are already available in English, Spanish and 5 Indian languages.

We also empower local teachers, education entrepreneurs by converting them into TAI entrepreneurs to run a proven business model in their localities. 

TAI ensures dramatically high performance at company job-roles and solves underlying skill and learning gaps of a learner completely. TAI accurately develops the fundamental ability to think through and apply concepts and prepares the brain to automatically know what to do in a specific learning or job situation through mental frameworks. It’s an outcome-based solution where learners can immediately track outcomes on learning and performance (with various difficulty level content practice) unlike other existing substitutes. TAI is a very convenient solution even for underprivileged learners who cannot afford to invest into career development. TAI 'Pay Later' option allows the learners to complete the job-guaranteed courses for free and pay only when they are placed in a company job role. Our job-guarantee courses are like a no investment ticket to better quality life for every student who qualifies irrespective of their financial background, caste, creed, ethnicity, or educational background.

TAI starts with an online assessment that captures 209 data points and generates a detailed learner profile. After that our AI engine automatically creates the shortest learning roadmap comprising of skill activities, in-demand technical, analytical and housewife-friendly skill courses and live tutoring sessions. TAI seeks to match lifelong learners core skills with U.S-based Masters degree course requirements in computer science engineering, Data Analytics, English Language and/or employers requirement directly depending on the learner's immediate career or learning goals.

TAI is a far more effective and complete way of upskilling for career than other skilling-solutions because TAI ensures that a learner can perform and improve at their current role due to strong core fundamental skills based learning. 

Our franchise model helps us onboard and support learners from every locality. It also creates job-creating and thriving local entrepreneurs with growing monthly revenues. 

TAI is a far more effective and complete way of upskilling for career than other skilling-solutions because TAI ensures that a learner can perform and improve at their current role due to strong core fundamental skills based learning. TAI does it through covering upskilling content, requirement based immediate core skill development, mental frameworks and next level personalisation in its one online learning application.

TAI completely solves skill and performance gaps very fast. TAI ensures learning and career outcomes at 1/5th of the cost and 1/10th of the time than other skilling or career solutions. TAI skill activities are derived from 150+ Neuroscience research. The result is the achievement of immediate career-goals and happier societies.

Students from the TAI career track get a ‘pay later’ option to pay our tuition fee only after securing a job. 

After 90% job success rate so far and after working with thousands of students closely, we have learnt:

Career Success = f (C*S*M) + x 

C:= Access to High Quality Learning & Development 

S:= Core Skills (e.g. reading, comprehension, brain response time, attention-span, etc.) 

M:= Mental Frameworks to make the job-performance easy and stress free 

x:= Experience / Practice / Luck

C, S, M are binary where 1 represents minimum requirement, 0 represents below minimum requirement, i.e. if any one is 0 the C*S*M becomes 0. A student either has all or none. 

Existing skilling solutions only provide content but miss developing fundamental core skills & competencies and mental frameworks required for a specific job. This makes upskilling difficult for students with little or no formal education or who had a huge gap in learning or career.

Mental Frameworks = strategies, mental models, techniques. Experience and skills doesn't necessarily develop frameworks. This is a major factor but completely missed. Having mental frameworks will ensure every performance opportunity is fun and stress free as student's brain will automatically know what to do in specific problem situations. Lack of knowing what to do or not able able to solve or remember causes stress and frustration. Frameworks should solve that part completely.

2. Students are willing to pay premium over skilling content when they realize how much skill and performance gaps can cost them for life.

3. Students cannot perform poorly at job when their underlying skill gaps are corrected to job requirements.

1. We have served 7500+ paid subscribers in the last one year. Each subscriber paid us $180-$450.

2. We have strategic partnerships in pipeline through which we have a growth target to reach ~100000 paid subscribers by the year end.

3. Our goal is to reach 1M subscribers by December 2021.

We currently have 6000+ students and project to reach 1M students by December 2021. Estimating, if our Annual Revenue Per User normalises to $150 with scale, our Annual Recurring Revenue will be $150 M. That is just the beginning.

We believe that TAI has the potential to achieve a subscriber base of 100M users and a multi-billion dollar global enterprise this decade. 

We want to make sure that TAI students are better prepared and are more confident for their career or learning goals than their peers irrespective of their background or educational qualification.

Resources are our biggest barrier. As we close our current funding round, we will be able to bring a few key resources in-house which will speed up our execution and growth tremendously. We have already found a strong product market fit and we are growing very fast (we have grown 30X in the last 16 months).

We will overcome the barriers as soon as we close our ongoing funding round. We are seeking $500,000 to $1M in funding. We will use the money to hire 2 key positions and build a team of support staffs who can upgrade existing accounts. We also will invest money to close 4 major strategic partnerships to reach 100000 students within this year.

We have around 200 students in Mexico through our franchise partner in Monterrey City, Mexico. We have also been in discussion with a team of professors from Computer Science department at Tech De Monterrey, Mexico to implement our program when the University reopens.

We are already in talks with prospective franchise partners from multiple countries. We want to achieve our first target of achieving a revenue of $300,000 from Mexico, and then expand to Chile, Argentina and Peru and release our product in Portugese. We are aggressively looking for suitable business partners who can help us set up TAI country operations and building our pipeline for future partnerships.

TAI is our own patent pending solution.

• 17 people in the Solution and product development team:
• 6 Developers
• 1 Product Manager 
• 1 graphic designer
• 4 full time market research and developer interns
• 1 tester
• 4 Content Developers

We also have 5 more full time team members including me in business development, execution and support.

Kalyan Kuramana (CTO & co-founder, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetaiguy/) and I bring in the perfect ingredients to build TAI:

- I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetaigirl/) have ten years experience on working on ground with students. Starting as physics-tutor from a very small village in India, I have built an education company with 86+ learning centers across 8 countries in 2 years.

- We have built and evolved our product together and trained over 11000 students in my previous company and impacted over 160000 students with TAI.

- Our work has been recognised by President Barrack Obama at the White House as “Impactful founders in Education under 25”, we made it to the EO GSEA fastest growing student entrepreneurship ventures, Forbes 30U30 Asia 2019, was awarded “Best Product in Technology & sustainable development” by IIT Mumbai, and “Edupreneur of the year 2019” by World Education Summit.

- As we both come from very humble backgrounds, we deeply understand the segment we are building for - infact we both have our family members from our villages using our product.

- Our core team comprises of Harvard, Stanford Alumni, highly renowned product-manager and Data-scientist.

- Our board-member and our angel-investor Prashant Malik used to be the Global tech lead at Facebook. He have led products like facebook messages and multiple-products for billions of users. He is also the creator of Apache Cassandra on which 60% of Silicon Valley companies run. 2 of our existing Angel-investors who are very closely involved in our company have built Unicorns themselves. 

We have multiple strategic partnerships in place. We are partnered with 3 large school chains in India, one school chain in Mexico, 6 Colleges in India. For career upskilling job placements we are partnered with 100 Open Startups, Entrepreneurship Embassy, Unicef, Government of Rajasthan and course creators.

TAI makes money from student course subscriptions. We are partnered with micro loan partners to help break our course fees of $180 - $450 into 12 monthly installments for students.

For our pay later courses, we have nominal expenses upfront as the courses are highly automated and personalised. Once they join a company, they will pay us 15 percent of their salary for two years. Our tuition will be capped at a maximum of $20,000. They can alternatively pay us only $10,000 upfront one time within 3 months of getting placed in a company.

We are operationally profitable. The high product development costs are upfront but once we start distributing our product, most of our processes becomes highly human-independent and automated thus making our business highly profitable going forward.

We feel fundamentally connected to the TPrize philosophy. Our goal is to fast track our progress by building a partnership with Tech-De-Monterrey and Mit Solve become Series A ready during the next 3 months. We are very selective with every person and organization we work with and we are applying to TPrize with a lot of hope, we feel a strong synergy. With your track record of building legendary solutions across the world, we couldn't have asked for more. We are a team of highly passionate people with a strong background track record, who, with your mentorship can build something legendary for the generations to come. 

We have started TAI with a strong mission. When I began this journey from a small village, I was afraid, I didn't have any money, connections and struggled a lot with passion and purpose; But today we have a vision, a vision to change the world's learning for the better. And I believe, this is what TPrize and MIT Solve is all about, backing fearless founders who have the potential and the courage to change the world for the better.

Market outreach and strategic partnerships.

1. Schools, after school tutorial centers, learning centers

2. Lifelong learning departments

3. Job and upskilling platforms

4. Vendors or platforms selling to schools

5. Media targeting education

6. Startup community, investors

7. Corporates that targets students as mass consumers

8. CSR division of companies

9. Education Departments, Governments

10. Colleges and Universities

11. Teacher networks & parent networks

12. School students & parents