Become job-ready in AI with real projects, mentorship, and career support.

School of Data and AI offers two practitioner-led programs from its centre at 128/70, K Block, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur, UP 208011, offered in-person now at the Kanpur centre. Course 1, AI Fluency, is a 45-day foundational program at ₹4,999 (offline founding, Kanpur) for graduation students and job seekers from any stream, with no coding and no maths: 36 sessions over six weeks, Monday to Saturday — a demo after every five classes — then 3 days of feedback and certificates. Each student builds one project on their own problem, from idea to live website, AI assistant and automation, and earns the Certificate in AI Fluency Foundations with at least 80% attendance. BYOP (Build Your Own Project) is a 45-day one-on-one mentorship at ₹18,999, run online, free to apply, with the fee payable only after selection; top performers get referral support through a 20+ hiring manager network, performance-based and not guaranteed. All instruction is delivered in both Hindi and English by founders Arpit Tiwari, who brings 5.5+ years of Fortune 100 AI experience, and Kajal Mishra. Offline runs as fixed-date cohorts.

All courses at School of Data and AI are taught by Arpit Tiwari, a Senior Data Scientist and GenAI Engineer with 5.5+ years of production AI experience at Fortune 100 companies, recognised as Turing Hero of the Month twice. Arpit has architected multi-agent frameworks for global healthcare enterprises and personally mentored over 100 students through career transitions into data and AI roles. Co-founder Kajal Mishra, who has built 3 agentic systems and 4 RAG pipelines in production, co-designs the curriculum and leads hands-on project sessions. Both founders teach from the SDAI centre at 128/70, K Block, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur; in Course 1 they decide per session who teaches, and both review every student's work. Classes are conducted in Hindi and English, and each batch is limited to 10 students to ensure personalised mentorship and written feedback from both instructors.

Kajal Mishra is SDAI's co-founder, a Senior AI Engineer with 5+ years of experience building production AI systems at enterprise scale, who also teaches and mentors in her work. She has built 3 agentic systems and 4 RAG pipelines in production, and has trained over 100 non-technical professionals in GenAI at corporate companies. At SDAI, Kajal co-designs the curriculum and runs hands-on project mentorship sessions; in Course 1, she and Arpit decide per session who teaches. She works alongside Arpit Tiwari at the SDAI centre in 128/70, K Block, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur. Both founders personally review every student's work and projects, something no large edtech platform can offer. Classes are conducted in Hindi and English, with each batch capped at 10 students to ensure direct access to both instructors.

No technical background is needed for Course 1, AI Fluency. It is for graduation students and job seekers from any stream — B.Tech (incl. CSE), BCA, MCA, B.Com, BBA, BA, B.Sc — and early-career professionals and young people in a family business are welcome too. The 45-day program (₹4,999 offline founding) needs no coding and no maths, only a laptop, and takes you from how AI works to one project of your own, built with AI and defended in front of the room. All sessions are conducted in Hindi and English at SDAI's Kanpur centre; offline batches run now. Each offline batch is limited to 10 seats.

Course 1, AI Fluency, is taught offline only, in the Kanpur classroom at 128/70, K Block, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur, UP 208011, Monday to Saturday, in batches of maximum 10. BYOP, the 45-day 1-on-1 mentorship, runs fully online, so students outside Kanpur can join it from anywhere. Classes are delivered in both Hindi and English by founders Arpit Tiwari and Kajal Mishra, and every homework and demo presentation in Course 1 is reviewed with written feedback. SDAI also hosts a free bi-weekly Sunday masterclass that anyone can attend online to experience the teaching style before enrolling in a paid course.

The Offline AI Fluency cohort comes with a pro-rata refund guarantee. If you leave on Day N, your refund is calculated as ₹4,999 × (45 − N) / 45 — for example, leaving on Day 15 returns approximately ₹3,333. No questions asked, no hidden conditions. Other programs follow program-specific refund terms: BYOP has no application fee — applying is free, and the program fee is payable only after you are selected. BYOP fees follow the rules on the Terms page. SDAI believes that transparent refund terms reflect confidence in the training quality.