AI for the Workplace · 4-day hands-on workshop · For MBA students

Use AI at work.
Know when not to.

A hands-on workshop for the next generation of business leaders. Four stages — AI that predicts, AI that reads and writes, AI agents that act, and what it takes to run any of it safely — with something built every day and a demo day to finish.

No programming, AI or data-science background needed · Free tools · Nothing to install

4
days, about 6 hours each
4
projects on real business data
1
demo day to finish
₹0
in tools — free student plans only
Why this workshop is different

Not another chatbot demo

At every stage we study how real companies are using that kind of AI, and where it has failed them. Then students build something with it, on real business data.

BY THE END, STUDENTS CAN

  • Identify AI use cases in a business, and spot the ones that will not work
  • Build AI-powered workflows, not just use a chatbot
  • Evaluate AI outputs, and judge when they are good enough to act on
  • Demonstrate an AI project they built themselves
  • Explain the business impact of an AI system to the people who fund it
The curriculum

Three kinds of AI. One question: will it work here?

One kind predicts, one reads and writes, one acts. Each day takes one of them from concept to a working project, then the last day is about running it in a real business.

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Opening · the landscape

How AI is changing business jobs

What is changing in marketing, sales, finance, HR, consulting, operations and product. The three kinds of AI — one predicts, one reads and writes, one acts. And which business problems suit AI, and which do not.

AI by business functionpredict · read & write · actgood and bad fits
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Day 1 · AI that predicts

Prediction and business decisions

How AI learns patterns from a company's past data, and why “90% accurate” can still be a bad result. What a wrong flag costs the business, and what a missed case costs. Where to draw the line, what to do when AI is unsure, and what to ask when a vendor or an internal team hands you a model.

Project: predict which sales quotes will become orders, and plan factory workload.
learning from datacost of errorsthresholdsvetting a model
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Day 2 · AI that reads and writes

Working with LLMs

How a chatbot actually works, and why it invents facts. How to brief AI properly, and how to check its answer. Reading hundreds of customer messages and finding what matters — and the tasks where a chatbot should not be trusted.

Project: find what customers are really complaining about in their reviews.
how LLMs workhallucinationbriefing & checkingtext at scale
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Day 3 · AI that acts

AI assistants and agents

Making AI answer from your company's own rules, prices and policies (RAG), and why it still gets things wrong even with the right documents. What an AI agent is: an assistant allowed to take action. What it may do alone, what needs a signature, and what it must never touch.

Project: build an assistant from a sales handbook, and count its wrong answers.
RAGAI agentsapprovals & limits
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Day 4 · run it & show it

Running AI in the business Capstone

Owning an AI system: who is responsible, and what “working well” means. Launching safely — test quietly first, then a few users, then everyone. What to measure after launch, and how to tell when AI has gone stale. What AI costs to run, and why the bill grows with use. What you can and cannot put into AI tools under India's data privacy law.

Demo day: each team shows what it built, and how it would launch and monitor it.
ownershipstaged launchmonitoringrunning costdata privacy
Straight answers

What this workshop is not

Worth saying plainly, so nobody signs up for the wrong thing.

Not covered
  • A programming course. No code is needed going in, and nobody is graded on it.
  • A tour of chatbot tricks. Students build workflows and judge the output, not collect prompts.
  • AI hype. Every stage covers where companies have been let down by AI, not just where it worked.
What students learn AI can't do
  • Be “90% accurate” and still be safe to act on — it depends on what a wrong answer costs.
  • Stop inventing facts just because it sounds confident.
  • Get everything right even when it has the right documents.
  • Keep working well on its own after launch — it goes stale, and someone has to own it.
Who it's for

Built for business students, not engineers

Designed for MBA students with limited technical background. No prior programming, AI or data-science experience required.

MBA students

Leave with a project you built yourself, and a clear way to talk about AI in any interview or boardroom.

Every specialisation

Marketing, sales, finance, HR, consulting, operations and product — each sees what AI is changing in its own work.

Business schools

A ready-to-run workshop on your academic calendar. All it needs from you is a lab room with Wi-Fi.

WHAT YOU NEED

  • No programming, AI or data-science experience
  • Your own laptop
  • The free Google AI plan for students
  • From the institute: a lab room with Wi-Fi
Format & tools

How it runs

Start with a short conversation, try a two-hour pilot if you like, then run the full workshop on your academic calendar.

Pilot session

2 hours optional
Before you commit to the full four days
  • Starts with a 30-minute conversation on audience, dates and emphasis
  • A two-hour session so faculty and students can see the format first-hand
  • Then the full workshop, scheduled around your calendar
Ask about a pilot →
Who's teaching

Taught by people who put AI into production

Grokking builds production document AI for industrial workflows.

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Viswarup Misra

Co-founder, Grokking · Ex-Amazon

IIT engineer, Master's in the US, ex-Amazon data scientist. At Grokking he builds the document-extraction pipelines behind agents in use at NHPC, Indian Oil and Maruti Suzuki.

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Viswapriya Misra

Co-founder, Grokking · Ex-NIH

Master's in Data Science from NJIT, and a data scientist working on pipelines and analytics before Grokking. Leads product and customer work, shaping what gets built around how business teams actually work.

Questions

Good to know

Do students need to know how to code? +

No. The workshop is designed for MBA students with limited technical background. No prior programming, AI or data-science experience is required.

Which tools does it use? +

Gemini and NotebookLM, through the free Google AI plan for students, and Google Antigravity, which is free to use, for building the agent.

Will it cost students or the institute anything for tools? +

No. There is no paid cloud account and nothing for the institute to install. Students bring their own laptops, and the institute provides a lab room with Wi-Fi.

What do students actually build? +

A project every day, on real business data: a quote-to-order prediction for factory planning, an analysis of customer reviews, and an assistant built from a sales handbook. On the last afternoon, each team demos what it built and how it would launch and monitor it.

Does it cover data privacy? +

Yes. Day 4 covers what you can and cannot put into AI tools under India's data privacy law, alongside ownership, safe launches, monitoring and running cost.

How long is it? +

Four days of roughly six hours each, mixing live sessions with project work, ending with a demo day on the final afternoon. An optional short demo video can follow.

Can we try it before committing? +

Yes. We start with a 30-minute conversation on audience, dates and emphasis, and can run an optional two-hour pilot session before the full workshop.

Bring it to your campus

Tell us about your students and the dates you have in mind. We’ll set up a 30-minute conversation on audience, dates and emphasis.

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