Builder & Researcher
Apurv Mehra
Ex-researcher who got tired of papers nobody read. Now building AI for education and sharing unfiltered learnings from India's startup ecosystem.
Past life: Founder Fellow @ South Park Commons, Research @ Microsoft Research, Student @ IIIT Delhi
Featured Projects
A selection of my recent work in AI and product development
AI Tutor for Test Prep (UPSC)
Affordable AI Tutor for Test Prep in India
Byte-sized AI-powered Skilling
Affordable AI Tutor for everyday professional skilling in India
Sovereign AI Learning Platform
AI-enhanced learning management platform built on Microsoft Community Training—deployed securely inside a customer's Azure environment for data/model sovereignty, affordable skilling, and community training at scale
Latest Thoughts
Writing about AI, product management, and entrepreneurship
2026-04-2710 min read
Why Agency, Not Skilling, Is the Real Bottleneck for Indian Students
Five years of work across career counselling for teens, AI-powered career navigation for engineering students, and LLM-mentored learning at IITs, and what it taught us about how AI can expand human agency in low-resource settings.