Learn AI by building agents, selling with it, launching brands and shipping products.
Lyzr AI
Ubona
Reo.Dev
Magppie
Flosync
Nugget
Nurix
KorrAI
Tradl AI
Bluecopa
ZyLabs
Ctruh
Humantic AI
Passionfruit
SolarSquare
AiStudio
Modveon
Ringg AI
At Mesa, your background is your starting point, not your limit. See how students use AI and no-code tools to build products and solve real problems.
Took a live Zomato problem through the Business Strategy Lab. It became an internship at Nugget. Built an AI SDR engine there, learning from 100+ AI founders.
The internship became the job.
Nidhish Lakhinana
Nugget by Zomato
Founded Lumora, a D2C home-decor brand: ₹2L in eight weeks, off 80+ customer interviews. Built seven AI workflows across sales, outreach and ROI tracking.
Won the role over global B-school and MBB candidates.
Darshana R
zylabs
Co-founded SEENAI, an AEO platform for D2C brands. LLM citations: zero to 500 a month. Built four AI agents for reputation, lead generation and distribution.
Topped Term 1. Won the Replit Hackathon.
Ashish Jangra
Lyzr AI
Won four case competitions, pitching CXOs at Karkinos and Urban Company. Co-founded Guiltee: ₹40K in a day. Second of 5,000 teams at a national AI × MedTech hackathon.
Joined as an intern. Managing growth three months later.
Dr. Anushtha Singh
NuPlay AI
Launched Alter-native Homeware: ₹4L in four weeks at 40% margin. Built six AI agents for lead qualification, invoicing and reputation.
Pitched Blume Ventures. Top six of twenty-five teams.
Sadhvi Vanjare
Magppie Luxury Kitchen
Built an AI marketing engine for Mosaic Wellness: costs down 66%. Shipped a student platform 40% of his cohort used. Co-founded a protein-chocolate business: ~₹1L and five B2B deals in two months.
Won the role on execution discipline.
Somharsh Ghuge
AiStudioYour AI learning journey is shaped by your baseline assessment, experience, and target role—so you build the skills and solutions most relevant to your goals.
Term 1 · Both tracks
Term 1 · Both tracks
One starting point for all.
A baseline test decides your trackYou will be able to
For professionals looking to bring AI into their functional roles. Build AI fluency, automate workflows, and create simple tools to work smarter.
Built on no-code tools like n8n, Make.com, Zapier and Lovable — no coding needed.
Automate real processes with AI agents.
You will learn
You will build
Take an AI pilot to rollout and prove it was worth it.
You will learn
You will build
Think in AI features and tell the ROI story.
You will learn
You will build
Potential roles
AI-first Sales, AI-first Marketing, AI-first Operations, AI-first Supply Chain, AI-first GTM
See who cracked these rolesFor professionals targeting AI-native roles across product, engineering, automation, growth, and GTM. Go deeper into AI architecture and ship real-world AI products.
Architect and run multi-agent workflows.
You will learn
You will build
Prove quality and take AI products to market.
You will learn
You will build
Integrate, monitor and ship a real product.
You will learn
You will build
Potential roles
AI Generalist, Product Builder, Automation Lead, AI PM, FDE, GTM Engineer, Growth Engineer
See who cracked these rolesFrom your first automation to production AI apps.
OpenAI
Gumloop
Apify
Firecrawl
Lovable
Python
SQL
Vapi
Twilio
LangChain & LangSmith
Pinecone
Helicone
Clay
Apollo
MoEngage
ClickUp
How you learn
Two ways you build with AI, every term.
Marketing
Turns product stills already on the site into short, conversion-focused video. No shoot, no week of turnaround.
Built with
Gumloop
OpenAI
Lovable
Ops
Reads live warehouse status and holds the gate until billing and QC have both cleared. Dispatch stops chasing confirmations.
Built withGumloop
Twilio
SQL
Marketing
Blends live trends, past performance and brand rules into push copy. Ready to send while the trend is still running.
Built with
MoEngageOpenAI
Apify
Product
Runs market research, synthesis and spec-writing as one system. The research and the spec stop being two jobs.
Built with
FirecrawlOpenAI
ClickUp
Marketing
Reads marketplace reviews continuously and returns structured product signal. Ranked by what to fix first.
Built withApifyOpenAI
Pinecone
Finance
Turns a month of raw numbers into variance analysis and a leadership-ready deck. The close stops eating the week.
Built with
PythonSQLOpenAI
Ops
Lifts commitments and next steps off the call recording and routes them on. The CRM is updated before anyone forgets.
Built with
VapiOpenAIClickUp
Sales
Scores every influencer against brand fit and audience data, then cuts the list. The shortlist stops being a hunch.
Built withApify
ClayOpenAI
Category
Pulls forecast, stock, margin and complaints out of four sheets and ranks what needs doing. No one opens four sheets to decide.
Built withGumloopSQLOpenAI
Ops
Lifts vendor, date, amount and tax straight out of email attachments and files them. Two people get the week back.
Built withGumloopOpenAISQL
Connects marketing data across platforms, reads the video creatives themselves, and automates creator selection and ad generation. Man Matters finds winning ads faster, and creative scales across brands.
Built by
Somharsh Ghuge, Ayush Lahoti
Benchmarked the leading AI wellness platforms, mapped what users want and what puts them off, and turned it into a coaching concept, a UX framework and a launch roadmap.
Built by
Avnish Mishra, Pranjal Tiwari
Predicts which stores need attention, writes the visit plan before the trip, and covers the rest remotely. Field time goes to the stores that actually need it.
Built by
Chinmay Agrawal, Ranganadh Kollapureddi
Reads customer feedback at scale, surfaces the pain points that repeat, and flags churn risk early. Retention teams act before renewal, not after.
Built by
Major Akash Vashishta, Khush Bajaj
For those looking to move closer to technology and transition into AI-first roles. Build and deploy a real AI product, test it with real users, measure its impact, and develop a business model to monetise it—creating proof of work for your next role.
Judged at the AI Showcase by VCs, startup founders and operators
Pick a problem you have seen yourself: at work, in an internship, in your BSL project.
Design the workflow, add a simple front end and a database.
Deploy it as a live link anyone can open.
Find real users. Report what worked, what broke, how many used it.
Work out how it could earn, and present the business model.
Startups founded by Mesa students and alumni, building with AI from day one.
By Varun, Raghav & Dhairya
Proactive AI for mass-affluent Indians: reads the whole financial picture, recommends the next move, then executes it.
By Param Jain & Abhinav Vashisht
An AI system that runs an online store end to end — selling, retention and support — for growing brands.
By Surya Maddula
Open-air active noise cancellation without headphones, using neural networks on real-time edge hardware.
By Jeremy Abraham & Pranav Hegde
Connects job seekers with verified hiring managers at their target companies, so a CV reaches the person who decides.
By Arjun M S
Software for veterinary hospitals that turns one-off visits into a lifelong record for every pet.
By Ashutosh Lath
An AI red-teaming agent that tests systems for vulnerabilities continuously, for teams without an elite security programme.
By Annashri Mahato & Roosafeed Koya
Restaurant reservations, growing into an AI operating system for hospitality.
By Yashovardhan Pareek & Utkarsh Chandel
Institutional equity research on a graph-based intelligence layer — auditable insight into supply chains and commodities.
Operators who build with AI every day run the workshops, sit in on hackathons and judge the AI Showcase.
Explore workshopsFounder, BlitzAI
AI expertise
AI & Analytics Consultant with experience in applied AI and analytics; associated with IIM Bangalore.
Head of AI Research, Domyn
AI expertise
Leads financial AI research and mentors learners in Generative AI, LLMs, and machine learning.
Seasoned AI Practitioner
AI expertise
Works with LLMs, conversational AI, and AI security, with experience exploring frontier AI technologies.
AI & GenAI Product Leader, Haleon
AI expertise
Builds and scales AI-powered products, from early-stage innovation to enterprise-level deployment.
Product Manager & GTM Lead, Zivy
AI expertise
Builds technology products and supports AI founders through buildathons, product demos, and builder communities.
Business & Growth Operator, Lokal
AI expertise
Teaches practical applications of AI in business, growth, and operational decision-making.
Product Lead, Grapevine
AI expertise
Built AI-powered hiring products, including a job discovery agent that reached 100K users.
Founder & Chief Architect, 302Labs
AI expertise
Builds AI-powered business automation systems and has delivered AI training at Mesa School of Business and IIM Bangalore's NSRCEL.
Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
AI expertise
Builds production-scale AI/ML solutions and award-winning AI agents, including an AI education copilot.
AI Product Manager, Swiggy
AI expertise
Builds enterprise GenAI products and agentic AI workflows for large-scale business operations.
Every term, founders and operators unpack real AI products, sharing how they’re built, deployed, and scaled.
See how a live AI product really works, and what broke.
Tear down a real AI product’s stack and moat.
Build a working voice agent, from speech-to-text to speech.
Position and sell an AI product the AI-native way.
Handle AI objections and run a POC that closes.
Find where AI is creating roles in finance, health, legal, ops and more.
See it in action
No. Term 1 is shared and starts from the basics of AI, ML and LLMs. Python and SQL are built up in the Advanced track from Term 2.
A baseline assessment at the end of Term 1 places each student. The Beginner track is for functional roles that are not AI-centric. The Advanced track is for AI-centric roles such as AI PM, Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM Engineer and Growth Engineer.
Building. Every build is deployed as a live link, and the AI Building Test at the end of each term is practical, not theory.
Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity; n8n, Make.com and Zapier for automation; Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable for building; Vapi and ElevenLabs for voice. We go deep on a few and show the rest for comparison. The stack is reviewed each cohort.
Practicing operators who build with AI. A business mentor and a technical mentor attend every workshop and hackathon, and outside founders judge the AI Showcase each term.
AI Generalist, GTM and Growth Engineer, AI Product Manager, Founder's Office, Forward Deployed Engineer, sales and customer success roles at AI-native companies.
An AI Building Test every term, a baseline assessment after Term 1, and an AI Showcase each term. Credits depend on attendance and submissions.
AI Generalist at Nugget
NuggetBuilt an AI SDR engine for Nugget that automates outbound sales.
AI Generalist at Nugget
NuggetBuilt an end-to-end outbound engine for Nugget by Zomato.
GTM Engineering at Reo.Dev
Reo.DevCut influencer campaign turnaround from days to under an hour.
Tech Product Manager at KorrAI
KorrAIAI automation for resumes and video, plus an AEO strategy for Zuddl.
Growth & Marketing Manager at NuPlay AI
NuPlay AIFrom dentist to Growth Manager at NuPlay AI in three months.
Founder’s Office at Magppie Luxury Kitchen
Magppie Luxury KitchenLaunched Alter-native Homeware and built 6 AI agents.
AI Generalist at AiStudio
AiStudioAI marketing engine that took output from 2–3 to 8–12 videos a week.
AI Special Projects at Modveon
ModveonCo-founded a GenAI interior visualisation tool.
GTM Engineer at Lyzr AI
Lyzr AICo-founded SEENAI and built 4 AI agents.
AI PM at Ubona
UbonaHolds a Government of India patent and ₹22L in grants.
Founder’s Office at Bluecopa
BluecopaBuilt a fintech product, then joined a funded company in that space.
Founder’s Office at zylabs
zylabsFounded a D2C brand and built 7+ AI workflows.
Forward Deployed Manager at Flosync
FlosyncBuilt 5 AI agents and launched a D2C perfume brand.
Founder’s Office at Tradl AI
Tradl AIDrove user acquisition for an AI trading intelligence platform.
AI Product Manager at Ringg AI
Ringg AIVoice AI for SuperK and a CX chatbot for Wishlink.
