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PRANJUL RATHOUR
PRANJUL RATHOUR

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Building an internal AI tool for your own team: a lower-stakes way to ship something real

#shipping #internaltools #career

An internal tool built for your own club, team or small company has real users — actual people with actual feedback — without the stakes of a public-facing product. It's a genuinely good way to practice the full build-to-deploy loop at lower risk.

Good candidates for an internal AI tool

  • Summarising meeting notes or long documents your team already produces.
  • A searchable Q&A bot over your team's own internal documentation.
  • A triage or classification tool for whatever repetitive manual task your team already complains about.

What makes this a stronger portfolio piece than a toy demo

Real users mean real, sometimes uncomfortable feedback — 'this is slower than doing it manually', 'this misses context I care about' — and responding to that feedback is exactly the skill a recruiter is trying to assess when they ask about your projects.

See side project ideas that teach production skills.

About Pranjul Rathour

Pranjul Rathour presenting on stage in a blue polo, with his Annapurna demo video on the screen behind him
Presenting Annapurna on stage

Pranjul Rathour giving a talk titled 'How and what I do', with demo videos of his products Vaidya and Annapurna on screen
Talking through the products he has shipped

Pranjul Rathour in a black t-shirt holding a microphone in front of a chequered wall
On the mic

Pranjul Rathour pitching with a microphone in front of a projector slide at CSJMU, Kanpur
Pitching at CSJMU, Kanpur

Pranjul Rathour speaking from the podium at VSICS, Kanpur
At the VSICS podium, Kanpur

Pranjul Rathour is a GenAI engineer from Kanpur, India, and CTO at SCULT INDIA, currently shipping production RAG,
fine-tuning and agentic AI systems, mentoring 200+ students through TechVerse Enclave, and judging and speaking at
student hackathons across India. Updated 2026-09-11.

Reach out if you want to talk GenAI, book a campus session, or invite him to judge:

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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