Punjab has the talent.
We're building the AI skills infrastructure.
AST Ventures — AI Skills & Training — puts the right tools, curriculum and teaching into the hands of Punjab's raw, extraordinary talent. Labs in schools. Centres on campuses. Career programs for students. Franchise centres in every district.
Four ways to work with AST
2026–27- 01SchoolsAI Campus-in-a-Box — lab, curriculum and teachers, run on our platform.
- 02UniversitiesA Centre for Applied AI on your campus, badged with your institution.
- 03Students & ParentsThe 6-month AI Career Program and Young AI Innovators weekend batches.
- 04Franchise PartnersLicense the model and we help you set up your own AI centre.
The proof exists. The infrastructure doesn't.
Three models have already been proven at scale, in three different countries. None of them has been built for tier-2 and tier-3 India, in its own languages. That is the gap AST Ventures exists to close.
State infrastructure
China made AI education state infrastructure — mandatory K–12 AI curriculum and a national network of designated AI base schools.
The AI-native school
The United States proved the model — campuses where AI tutors compress academics into hours and free the rest of the day for building real things.
Centres that scale
China's Squirrel AI proved that physical AI-learning centres scale as a network — thousands of them, in cities most tech companies never visit.
One platform. Four ways in.
Whether you run a school, a university, a family's education decisions or a business you want to build — there is a way into the AST network.
AI Campus-in-a-Box
The lab, the curriculum and the trained teachers — delivered as one package and run on our platform. Meet the 2026–27 mandate properly, not on paper.
- Hardware, software and lab layout, installed
- Grade-wise AI curriculum mapped to the CBSE framework
- Teacher training and ongoing classroom support
- Student portfolios, assessments and school dashboards
Centre for Applied AI
An industry-grade AI centre on your campus, badged with your institution. Your name, your students, our curriculum, platform and delivery engine.
- Co-branded Centre for Applied AI on campus
- Applied electives, capstones and industry projects
- Faculty development and train-the-trainer tracks
- Placement-ready portfolios and certification pathways
Learn at the flagship
Our Jalandhar campus runs two flagship programs — one for graduates who want an AI career, one for school students who want to start early.
- 6-month AI Career Program for graduates
- Young AI Innovators weekend batches for school students
- Project-first: you leave with things you built, not notes
- Taught in English, Hindi and Punjabi
Run an AST AI centre
Buy a licence and we help you set up your AI centre — curriculum, platform, teacher training, brand and launch playbook, all included.
- Territory licence for your city or district
- Centre setup, lab spec and launch support
- Trainer certification and continuous curriculum updates
- Marketing, admissions and operations playbooks
The talent was never the problem.
Punjab produces builders. What it has not had is the delivery layer — labs that work, teachers who have been trained properly, curriculum that keeps up, and a path from a classroom in Jalandhar to a job that pays like one in Bengaluru.
For decades that gap has been solved by leaving. We think it can be solved by building instead — starting with the schools and campuses that are already here.
From first conversation to a running centre
The same four steps whether you are a school principal, a vice-chancellor or a franchise partner.
Assess
We visit, look at what you already have — space, devices, staff, student mix — and map it against what the mandate and the market actually require.
Design
You get a written plan: lab specification, curriculum map by grade or semester, teacher-training schedule, timeline and commercials. No surprises later.
Install & train
We set the lab up, load the platform, and train your teachers until they can run a class without us in the room. Then we certify them.
Run & improve
Curriculum updates, classroom support, student assessments and a dashboard that shows you what is actually happening in the lab, term after term.
What every AST centre runs on
Curriculum that ships
Grade-wise and semester-wise AI curriculum, updated continuously as the tools change — not printed once and left to age.
Teachers, trained properly
Train-the-trainer tracks with certification. A lab without a confident teacher in it is just equipment.
Labs specified for real use
Hardware and software specified for the work students will actually do, at a cost a tier-2 institution can carry.
Portfolios, not just marks
Every student leaves with built work — projects, prompts, models, deployed things — that an employer can look at.
Mandate-aligned
Mapped to the CBSE AI framework and the tinkering-lab push, so compliance is a by-product of teaching well.
Local languages
Delivered in English, Hindi and Punjabi. Instruction in a language that is not yours is a tax on learning.
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
At a glance
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 university centres and franchise centres, a mix of certified in-house trainers and AST faculty is typical.
Is this only for Punjab?
Punjab is where we build first and prove the model, starting from Jalandhar. The franchise model is how the network extends to other states — partners license the platform and we help them set the centre up.
What does it cost?
Commercials depend on the model, the size of the cohort and what infrastructure already exists. Tell us what you have 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.
Tell us who you are — a school, a campus, a parent, or someone who wants to run an AI centre in their own city — and we will tell you exactly what the first ninety days look like.