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AST Ventures · Jalandhar, Punjab

AI enablement for schools, colleges and universities.

AST — AI Skills & Training — gives institutions the labs, the curriculum and the trained teachers to teach AI properly. And we practise what we teach: Intellistudio, our AI platform, runs inside manufacturers, and we bring global capability centres to Punjab.

2026‑27
AI becomes compulsory in CBSE schools
50,000
New tinkering labs funded nationally
10M
Teachers to be trained on AI

Training and programs delivered at

  • Atria University, Bengaluru
  • Gulzar Group of Institutes
  • NIT Patna
  • NIFT Panchkula
  • GNA University
  • Lovely Professional University
AI enablement for education

Schools, colleges and universities

Three kinds of institution, three different problems. Each gets a model built for it — delivered by people who use these tools for a living.

For Schools

AI Campus-in-a-Box

The lab, the curriculum and the trained teachers as one package. Meet the 2026–27 mandate properly, not on paper.

  • Lab specified, installed and run on our platform
  • Grade-wise curriculum mapped to the CBSE framework
  • Teachers trained, certified and supported in class
The school program →
For Colleges

AI & blockchain, for credit

Credit-bearing courses inside your degree and diploma programs under NEP 2020, with your faculty trained alongside.

  • Mapped to your credit and semester structure
  • Blockchain, applied AI and data skills, hands-on
  • Students assessed on what they built
The college model →
For Universities

Centre for Applied AI

An industry-grade AI centre on your campus, badged with your institution and run on our curriculum and platform.

  • Co-branded centre with applied electives and capstones
  • Faculty development and train-the-trainer tracks
  • Industry projects — including on Intellistudio
The campus model →

Every program runs on

  • Curriculum updated as the tools change
  • Teachers trained until they can run it alone
  • Labs specified for real use, at tier-2 cost
  • Portfolios of built work, not just marks
  • Mandate-aligned by design
  • English, Hindi and Punjabi
Students & parentsThe 6-month AI Career Program and Young AI Innovators weekend batches at our Jalandhar flagship.
Practical implementation

We don't only teach AI. We run it inside factories.

Intellistudio is our AI company brain for manufacturers. It connects to the systems a plant already runs, learns how the business works, and takes over the repetitive work people do by hand every day.

It is deployed with manufacturers today — and every deployment feeds straight back into what we teach.

Worked example

A plant with 10 people on manual office work

Each spends 15 hours a week on data entry, reports and follow-ups. The plant bills ₹50 lakh a month.

~260 hrsfreed every month
₹5.25 lakha year of staff time put back to work
₹8.33 lakhof cash released by billing five days sooner

Assumes 40% of that work is automated. Run it with your own numbers →

ProductionDaily reports, plans and downtime logs, compiled without anyone chasing them.
SalesEnquiry to quotation to dispatch, with every follow-up remembered.
ProcurementVendor quotes compared, POs drafted, reorder points watched.
FinanceReconciliations, receivables and payment follow-ups on autopilot.
Running account billsRA bills prepared from work done and tracked to payment.
Ask the company brainPlain-language answers about your own business — in English, Hindi or Punjabi.
GCCs in Punjab

We bring global capability centres to Punjab.

The talent was never the problem. Punjab produces builders — and for decades they have left the state to find this work. We bring the work here instead.

We build capability centres for global companies, staff them from the campuses we already teach on, and hand them over running.

Build

Feasibility, location and hiring plan — and a team recruited and trained on your stack before day one.

Operate

We run the centre alongside your managers until it delivers on its own.

Transfer

Team, processes and leadership handed to you on a date agreed up front.

Not ready for a full centre? Start with a pilot pod, or a hire–train–deploy batch into your existing one.

Active projects

What we are running right now

Not a roadmap. These are programs currently being delivered, with named people accountable for them.

Live Under NEP 2020

Blockchain course at Atria University

A full blockchain course delivered under the National Education Policy at Atria University, Bengaluru — credit-bearing, hands-on, and taught by practitioners rather than from a textbook. Students work through the stack from first principles to deployed contracts.

  • Credit-bearing course delivered within the NEP framework
  • Fundamentals through to smart contracts and deployment
  • Project-assessed — students leave with work they built
  • Faculty involved throughout, not handed a recording
Blockchain NEP 2020 Bengaluru

Program team

Palakpreet Singh Palakpreet Singh Chief Coordinator
Prakash Shelar Prakash Shelar Trainer
Run this at your campus →
From the field

Sessions we have already delivered

Teacher training, faculty development and student workshops across campuses in Punjab, Haryana and beyond.

The AST Ventures team at Gulzar Group of Institutes
Latest · Student session

AI careers and the NASSCOM FutureSkills platform

Gulzar Group of Institutes

A session for students on where AI is taking the jobs they are training for — with a walkthrough of the NASSCOM FutureSkills platform, so they leave knowing exactly where to start building certified skills.

Advisory board

The people we take counsel from

Academics and practitioners who have built programs, run departments and taught the students we are building this for.

Dr. Rachit Garg Dr. Rachit Garg Advisor
Anita Venaik Anita Venaik Advisor
Prof. Ajay Prof. Ajay Advisor
Talks & media

Where our work shows up

Our founder, Harman Puri, has spent the last several years teaching this material and talking about it publicly — on television, on stage, on campuses and in print.

Television Tokenization with Blockchain Crypto Masters · 3.0 TV
Report launch Web3 & Metaverse Connect Launching the NASSCOM metaverse report
Podcast Blockchain, IoT & RWAs With the Chief Product Officer of Vodafone
Certification

Credentials that travel

Learning is only half of it. What a student can show afterwards is what changes their options.

  • NASSCOM certification pathway for select programs, under a signed memorandum of understanding
  • Co-branded certificates with partner universities for campus centres
  • A public project portfolio for every graduate, not just a certificate PDF
  • Assessment records schools can produce for inspection and reporting
NASSCOM MoU CBSE AI framework University co-branding

At a glance

HeadquartersJalandhar, Punjab
EducationSchools · Colleges · Universities
IndustryIntellistudio for manufacturers
GCCsBuild–operate–transfer in Punjab
LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · Punjabi
CertificationNASSCOM pathway, select programs
Questions

Frequently asked

Do we need existing computer labs to start?

No. We assess what you have and specify the smallest viable setup that will actually support the curriculum. Many schools start with a single room and expand once teachers are confident.

Who teaches the classes — your staff or ours?

Both models exist. For schools we usually train your own teachers and certify them, with our support in the classroom during the first term. For college and university programs, an AST trainer leads the course while your faculty are trained alongside — as we do on the blockchain course at Atria University.

What is Intellistudio, and who is it for?

Our AI platform for manufacturers. It connects to the systems you already use and automates the repetitive work across production, sales, procurement, finance and billing. It works alongside your existing software rather than replacing it. See how it works →

Can you help us open a centre in Punjab?

Yes — that is what our GCC practice does, usually on a build–operate–transfer basis, or as a smaller pilot pod first. How a Punjab GCC works →

What does it cost?

It depends on what you need — an education program, an Intellistudio deployment or a capability centre — and on what already exists. Tell us where you are and we will send a written proposal with the full breakdown.

How does the NASSCOM certification work?

NASSCOM issues certificates in select areas under a prior agreement. Which of your programs qualify is confirmed in writing before enrolment opens, so nobody is promised a credential that has not been signed off.

Punjab's next decade gets built in its classrooms — and its factories.

Tell us who you are — a school, a college, a university, a manufacturer or a company looking at Punjab — and we will tell you exactly what the first ninety days look like.