I run a water infrastructure business, and AI quietly became part of how I do it.

I lead Jal Pravahika, a water supply and treatment company my family has run for three generations — my grandfather started it in 1995, my father grew it, and I joined in 2010 after my management studies in Mumbai, with the job of modernizing how we operate.

"Modernizing a traditional business" mostly meant a lot less glamour than it sounds — better documentation, cleaner reporting, systems that didn't live entirely in someone's head. That's actually how I started using AI tools in 2022: not for anything fancy, just to get through SOPs, reports, and admin work faster.

It didn't stop there. The more I used it, the more uses I found — and I ended up going a fair bit deeper than I expected, learning to set up and run AI tools myself and build small tools and automations for my own use. I'm not a trained developer, but I got comfortable enough under the hood to know what these tools can actually do, not just what they're supposed to do.

I do this because most AI training I came across was built for developers, or so vague it wasn't useful for anyone. I wanted something different: practical AI coaching for business owners, working professionals, complete beginners starting fresh, and students — from someone who actually uses this stuff to get real work done every day, not someone explaining it from a slide deck.

I'm based in Kolkata, and I run sessions in deliberately small groups — so every person gets real attention, not just a seat in a room.

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