Three things ran in parallel this year, and each one made the others better rather than competing for the same hours.
SCULT INDIA
As CTO and Co-Founder alongside Saksham Gupta and Raman Shukla, and mentored by Gaurav Gupta, we shipped 5+ paid production products, built SCULT Studio to run our own operations, and generated roughly ₹1 lakh in revenue in the first six months — with our first team meet, a Diwali gathering in October 2025, marking the point where it stopped feeling like a side project.
TechVerse Enclave
The community I founded in 2023 crossed 500+ developers and 200+ mentored students this year, mostly through consistent, unglamorous sessions rather than any single viral moment.
NextUpgrad
Between February and July 2026, I independently designed, built and shipped five production AI applications end to end — RAG, fine-tuning, computer vision, document intelligence, and OCR/speech — each with real deployment, tests and observability.
What ties the three together
Every one of them is the same underlying habit applied at a different scale: scope tightly, ship something real, and tell people about it honestly, including the parts that didn't work.
Pranjul Rathour · GenAI engineer, 3x hackathon winner, campus mentor. Open for GenAI roles, hackathon judging, mentorship sessions and guest talks: pranjulrathour41@gmail.com · Invite me to your campus
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