Practical AI education

Learn to use AI without it using you.

Live, hands-on AI sessions for working professionals, business owners, students and parents. Plain language, real tasks, and something you can use the same day.

Taught live by our founders, Sandeepa Karkhanis and Ruchita Malhotra.

Our Navratri AI workshop, live on Zoom.

What's on now

Live sessions where you work on your own material as we teach. Pick one, or start with the free Sunday session.

Masterclass · Sunday 25 October

Make Diwali Campaigns with AI

For business owners, sellers and marketers who make their own festive content.

Turn your product photos into a finished Diwali campaign, with festive images, short videos and captions, using free ChatGPT.

Sunday 25 October, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm IST
Live on Zoom, with the recording for life

Masterclass · Wednesday 28 October

Inbox Chaos to Inbox Calm

For anyone whose inbox takes up too much of the day.

Clear out the junk, put every important email in its place, and set up a daily email brief that shows your top three priorities. Works with ChatGPT or Claude.

Wednesday 28 October, 8 to 10 pm IST
Live on Zoom, with the recording for life

Free

Every Sunday, 11 am IST

Free · Every Sunday

Sunday AI Sync

For anyone curious about AI, whatever their starting point.

Our free weekly session. We look at what is new in AI, answer questions and try things out together. Bring a question or just listen.

Every Sunday, 11 am IST
Live on Zoom

What we do

Find your starting point

Everything we teach, in one place. How does AI show up in your week right now?

Professionals · For work

Work Smarter with AI

From winging it with AI

to a way of working you can repeat

The tools and habits that turn AI into hours saved every week, not party tricks.

Learn more →

Professionals · 1 hour, live

NotebookLM Workshop

From the report you keep not reading

to answers in two minutes

Turn your own documents into something you can question, with answers traced back to the source.

Learn more →

Professionals · One-to-one

AI Consulting

From generic AI advice

to a setup built around your job

We look at how you actually work, then design the tools, prompts and habits around it.

Ask us on WhatsApp →

Made in our sessions

Real work, made live

Campaigns participants build with AI during our sessions, for fashion, food, fitness, sport and hospitality businesses, in English, Marathi and Malayalam.

From people who have done a session

“Not having to see a inbox full of unread mails every morning is such a huge relief. Everything now is labelled, and navigating the inbox in the morning has become a lot less stressful and time consuming.”

SK

“I rate this course 5 on 5. It's given me the confidence to use AI effectively for my daily tasks.”

Raman, CEO

Not another AI hype channel.

There is no shortage of AI content. Most of it is too technical to follow or too breathless to trust. We sit in between.

01

Plain, not technical

We explain things the way you would to a friend, not a developer.

02

Calm, not alarmist

Straight answers about the risks, without the scare stories.

03

Practical, not theoretical

Methods you can use the same day, in real work and real life.

Taught by Sandeepa and Ruchita

We are the co-founders of Socho AI in Pune. We run AI programmes for children, parents and working professionals, and we teach every live session ourselves.

Sandeepa Karkhanis

Co-founder, Socho AI

Sandeepa spent ten years as a design engineer before moving into brand, content and digital product consulting. She also co-founded SandeepaChetan's Travels, a blog on slow and sustainable travel.

Ruchita Malhotra

Founder, Socho AI

Ruchita Malhotra is an AI educator, entrepreneur, and corporate trainer dedicated to helping individuals and organisations use artificial intelligence effectively, responsibly, and productively.

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