What is Learners Cohort
 

🎯 What’s the Problem we are attempting to solve?

In India and many emerging markets:

• Young professionals and graduates lack practical, real-world experience.

• Bootcamps and online courses often fail to deliver employable skills—most are passive, isolated, and non-contextual.

• Employers can’t verify actual skills from degrees or certifications, leading to hiring mismatches and frustration.

• Millions are underemployed or stuck, unsure how to upskill in a meaningful, career-relevant way.

Learners don’t need more videos.
They need accountability, mentorship, and real work experience.

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⏱️ Why Now?

• The traditional education system is collapsing in credibility—even top colleges are producing unemployable grads.

• Startups and new-age companies prioritize skills over degrees but struggle to find truly job-ready candidates.

• AI disruption is accelerating demand for continuous upskilling—especially in hands-on fields like GenAI, product, and full-stack.

• A new wave of global Indian learners wants practical learning, community, and mentorship—but current platforms are too expensive, passive, or impersonal.

The “online course” model is saturated.
The next revolution in education will be cohort-driven, hands-on, and trust-based.

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💥 Our Solution

Learners Cohort is a skill-first, mentor-powered platform where:

• Learners join cohorts that meet daily to work on real projects.

• They get guidance from trained mentors, not pre-recorded content.

• Projects are reviewed and skills are verified via a system (Skillverify), making their learning visible and credible to employers.

• Cohorts are grouped by goals, languages, and technologies, and learners build real GitHub portfolios along the way.​

 

It’s like gym + mentor + GitHub — but for your career.

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🧬 What’s Our Unfair Advantage?

• Founder’s deep clarity & long-term commitment: Pradeep is fully dedicated to building this over the next 3 years, not treating it as a side hustle.

• Clarity on monetization and mission: Not another edtech startup; this is a mission-driven platform with a community-first engine.

• Live experiments already in motion: Daily cohorts are being tested; early learners are already growing under this model.

• Unique positioning: Not a course. Not a bootcamp. Not freelancing. It’s structured learning via contribution — which builds skills + network + proof of work at once.

• Future IP potential: Skillverify is a defensible moat—creating a data-backed skill verification layer that startups and recruiters can trust.\

🚀 Call to Action

We’re looking for a mission-aligned co-founder who can build with us and help shape the core platform.
Tech + product vision + grit required.
Let’s disrupt education—one skill cohort at a time.