Four of your five options are cheaper

The options

What schools actually choose between.

Not brands — models. Almost every AI offering a school is pitched falls into one of these, and the model matters far more than the logo on it.

Option one

The textbook chapter

AI as a unit in the computer science book, taught in a handful of periods, assessed by a written test.

No additional cost
Fits the timetable perfectly
Students can define AI and have built nothing

Option two

Your own CS faculty

Ask the computer science department to build and teach an AI program themselves.

Your staff own it completely
Costs a training budget, not a licence
Asks a teacher to write a curriculum in a field that changes every few months, on top of a full load

Option three

A robotics or STEM lab vendor

Kits, equipment and an activity curriculum, often tied to an Atal Tinkering Lab.

Genuinely good for hands-on engineering
Visible, and parents like seeing the lab
Mostly hardware and electronics; the AI content is usually thin

Option four

One-off workshops

An external trainer for a day or a week, once or twice a year, often ending in certificates.

Cheap, easy to arrange, photographs well
Low risk and low commitment
Nothing compounds between visits, so nothing is built

Option five

A generic online course licence

Seats on a self-paced video platform, assigned to students to work through.

Scales to any number of students
Low cost per head
Completion rates without a live human in the loop are the well-known weakness

What we do

A gamified, grade-wise in-school curriculum

Three distinct years of game-based lessons and labs in one existing period, designed by product engineers — with a working engineer on campus monthly and a capstone per grade.

Every student in Grades 7–9, not a club
Children learn by playing; every mistake comes back until it's fixed
Your teacher facilitates and is trained, not replaced
The most expensive option on this page

Side by side

The comparison that matters at a board meeting.

	Textbook only	Workshops	Online licence	AI Kids Lab
How children learn	Read and memorise	Listen and try	Watch videos	Play missions and labs; mistakes re-taught until mastered
Who it reaches	Whole class	Whoever attends	Whoever finishes	Every student in Grades 7–9
Runs for	A few periods	A day or a week	Until interest fades	Three years, in sequence
Student builds	Nothing	A demo, sometimes	Exercises	A capstone each year, presented live
Live expert contact	None	Once or twice	None	A working engineer on campus monthly
Your faculty	Carry it alone	Sidelined for the day	Administer it	Trained to facilitate and grow into it
AI account per student	—	Often required	Often required	Never — managed gateway
Assessment	Written test	Certificate	Completion %	Written rubric, feeds internal marks
Route beyond school	None	None	None	Competitions, then incubation labs
Cost	None	Low	Low per head	Highest on this table

This table describes delivery models, not any particular supplier. Individual vendors within each model vary a great deal, and a well-run workshop beats a badly-run licence every time.

Being straight about it

When you should not pick us.

We would rather lose a school honestly than onboard one that will be unhappy by December.

If you only need to satisfy the syllabus, a textbook unit and a well-chosen online licence will do that at a fraction of the cost. Do not pay for a three-year program to tick a box.
If your computer lab cannot get reliable internet, nothing here works. Fix the connectivity first; we will still be here.
If you cannot protect one period a week, the program will quietly die by December and you will have paid for it. This needs a slot on the timetable, not goodwill.
If nobody on staff will own it, it will not survive. A named coordinator is not optional, and it is the one thing we cannot supply for you.
Pick us if you want every student in three grades to finish each year with something they built and can defend — and you want the strongest of them to have somewhere real to take it.

The five real differences

If you remember nothing else from this page.

Learning that feels like play

Gamified missions and labs designed by engineers from Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Try a free lesson.

Three grades, three curricula

Grade 7, 8 and 9 each run different content and a different capstone. Most alternatives run one program with three labels.

A practitioner on campus monthly

Not a guest lecture. A doubt clinic, a live build sprint, and a showcase before they leave that day.

No student AI accounts, ever

Every model call runs through our managed gateway. No twelve-year-old signs up for anything.

A route out of the building

Build-a-thon, then national competitions, then the student incubation labs we collaborate with.

See what that produces on our young innovators page.

You have five realistic options. Four of them are cheaper than us.