Applied AI Foundations
The fastest way to go from AI-curious to AI-capable. Eight weeks of structured, project-first learning that leaves you with a portfolio, a workflow, and a credential.
- Format
- Live online · 3 evenings/week
- Duration
- 8 weeks · 64 contact hours
- Seats
- Cohort 14 · 36 seats
- Published fee
- ₹24,999
Quick answer
Applied AI Foundations runs 8 weeks, 64 contact hours; classes are live online, 3 evenings/week. The published fee is ₹24,999 (all-in — certificate & alumni access included), with No-Cost EMI available. You can enrol and pay online; need-based financial aid is available by application through LearnPact Foundation.
Fees reviewed October 2026.
Eight weeks. Five projects. One portfolio.
This is the Applied AI Foundations, module by module. Every week ends in something you built — not a quiz. Learn by doing, not watching.
- 64 hrs
- live contact time
- 5+
- portfolio projects
- Lifetime
- alumni access
- 1:1
- faculty mentorship
01 Week 01 The Applied-AI Landscape
- 01 Your first 'aha': producing genuinely useful output in under 10 minutes
- 02 How modern models actually work — the mental model that matters
- 03 Setting up your practitioner toolkit (free & paid tools)
Capstone — Mini-project: a one-page AI brief for your own role.
02 Week 02 Prompt Craft as a Discipline
- 01 Structured prompting: roles, constraints, and evaluation
- 02 Prompt patterns that work in practice, and why
- 03 Building a reusable prompt library for your work
Capstone — Ship: a personal prompt library with 15 tested prompts.
03 Week 03 Working With Your Own Data
- 01 Retrieval basics: grounding answers in your documents
- 02 Cleaning and structuring messy real-world data with AI
- 03 Spreadsheets to insight: analysis without code
Capstone — Project: a 'chat with your documents' assistant.
04 Week 04 Generative Media
- 01 Image generation & editing for real deliverables
- 02 Brand-consistent visuals at speed
- 03 Ethics, rights and provenance — doing it responsibly
Capstone — Project: a complete brand visual kit, AI-assisted.
05 Week 05 Building Your First Agent
- 01 From prompts to workflows: chaining tasks
- 02 No-code agent builders, compared and applied
- 03 Connecting tools: email, sheets, and the web
Capstone — Build & deploy: an agent that automates one weekly chore.
06 Week 06 Automation That Sticks
- 01 Designing automations your team will actually trust
- 02 Guardrails, review steps and failure handling
- 03 Measuring time saved — proving the ROI
Capstone — Project: an automation with a measured before/after.
07 Week 07 Portfolio & Positioning
- 01 Packaging your projects into a hireable portfolio
- 02 Telling your AI story in interviews and reviews
- 03 The Kolkata & remote AI job market, decoded
Capstone — Publish: your portfolio site and case studies.
08 Week 08 Capstone & Demo Day
- 01 Final build week with 1:1 faculty review
- 02 Live Demo Day in front of hiring employers
- 03 Certification, next steps and alumni network
Capstone — Demo Day: present your capstone to the partner network.
Skills you can put a number on.
Two kinds of payoff: a new role and a raise if you're switching in — and hours back every week, applied at the job you already have, if you're not. We track both.
The earning ladder
Median compensation reported by Foundations & Diploma alumni (CTC, ₹ LPA).
Self-reported by alumni; individual results vary.
Placement report
Foundations Cohort 12 · Reported March 2026, 90 days post Demo Day- 31
- graduates in cohort
- 27
- actively job-seeking
- 23
- in a new or expanded AI role
- 85%
- of job-seekers in a new or expanded role within 90 days
Self-reported by alumni; individual results vary. We publish a dated, auditable outcome report per cohort.
Where talent gets hired
Representative employers we prepare you for — not a confirmed-placement list.
Learner stories, before and after.
Illustrative composite stories, not quotes from specific learners.
Account manager, terrified of being automated out.
Now runs the AI workflow her whole agency depends on.
“ I came in able to write a prompt and nothing else. By Demo Day I'd built an agent that drafts our entire weekly client report. My manager asked me to teach the team.
Freelance marketer competing on price.
Sells an AI content engine as a premium retainer.
“ The AI Marketer Diploma paid for itself before I even finished. I closed two retainers on the strength of the capstone alone. The scholarship made it a no-brainer.
Final-year student, no work experience.
Fully-funded fellow, hired before graduating.
“ The fellowship was free for me — sponsored entirely. I worked on a real logistics problem, got mentored 1:1, and had three interviews lined up by week 20.
School teacher, AI felt like another world.
Automates her admin and teaches AI literacy on weekends.
“ I started at a ₹99 Sunday Series session, nervous I'd be the oldest person there. The faculty made it click. I've now done two paid tracks.
Operations manager, 17 years in, left out of every AI conversation.
Now owns her plant's automation roadmap — no career restart needed.
“ I wasn't trying to switch jobs. I needed to stay relevant in the one I have. I automated three weekly reports and a vendor follow-up flow. It bought me back about a day a week.
First in my family to finish college, from Asansol, no network.
Junior data analyst — the credential opened the first door.
“ I came in on a scholarship fee I could actually afford and worried I'd be out of my depth. The projects were real, not toy demos. I had a portfolio link to put on my CV — that's what got the call.
One transparent fee, No-Cost EMI.
All-in fees, no surprises, with No-Cost EMI. Genuine financial need? Need-based financial aid is available via LearnPact Foundation, our affiliated charitable trust — awarded by a separate application and a short assessment.
All-in fee: certificate and mentorship included, with a No-Cost EMI option.
Our Fee Protection Promise
Try us before you commit, and step back if it isn't right. We'd rather you find the right fit than feel trapped by a fee.
- 7-day cooling-off
- Try the first sessions. If it's not for you, withdraw within 7 days of payment and before your cohort's second live session and we refund your fee minus payment-gateway charges and any GST. No forms to chase.
- Clear terms after that
- Once that window closes, fees are non-refundable, because we commit cohort seats, faculty time and materials in advance. The full terms are on our Refunds page.
- Try before any track
- The ₹99 Sunday Series lets you experience our faculty and method before you commit to a paid track.
- Transparent, all-in fees
- Your final fee, after any scholarship, covers tuition, materials, certificate and alumni access — no hidden add-ons later. A few weeks use optional paid AI tools alongside free ones; where that comes up, we tell you the free alternative too.
Fellowship places are funded by LearnPact Foundation and sponsors; fellows owe no fee, so refunds don't apply.
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Build it. Ship it. Show it.
No slides-only theory — every week turns into something real you keep.
Every module ends in something you make — a working project, not a quiz.
You deploy and publish real work to a live link or repo you own.
You graduate with a portfolio you can put in front of an employer or client.
We're honest about who this is for.
We'd rather you join the track that actually fits than the loudest one. Here's the straight read.
- You already work — in an office, shop, clinic or back-office — and want AI you can actually use at work this Monday, not theory.
- You can give three evenings a week for eight weeks and want to finish with five real projects, a portfolio and a certificate to show.
- You're comfortable using a computer and the internet day-to-day, and you're ready to move from 'just watching videos' to building things yourself.
- You want to automate the dull, repetitive parts of your job and bring a useful skill back to your team.
- You learn best with a clear weekly plan, hands-on practice and mentors who answer your questions in plain language.
- You've never tried AI tools at all and just want to taste it first — start lighter with the Sunday Series at ₹99, then come back.
- Three evenings a week for eight weeks feels like a lot right now — the one-day Sunday Series is an easier, low-commitment first step.
- The fee is a stretch this month — try the Sunday Series first, and ask us about need-based support when you're ready for the full course.
- You're not sure this is the right path for your goals — take the free 2-minute path finder at /counsel and we'll point you to the right starting place.
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- 7-day cooling-off refund (see our Refunds page)
- Financial aid available via LearnPact Foundation
- Taught in English — explained in Bangla & Hindi when you need it
- A ₹99 Sunday Series seat while you decide