A practice, not a programme

The Apprenticeship

At most three people at a time. You learn the craft on a live Koher build and walk away owning a public, credited contribution to a tool anyone can read. When there is paid work going, you are the first person asked.

Small and honest, so read it plainly: three at a time is the ceiling and not a target, the build phase is unpaid learning, and there is no guaranteed job. What you are certain to get is the craft and the credit. Paid work follows good work when there is paid work to give — some months there is none, and that is about Koher’s means, not your ability. Strongest routing in design-technology and responsible-AI roles. If that is not enough on its own, this is not for you — and that is a fair answer.

Who it is for

One bar, and only one: you are a final-year student or a graduate, of any university. Nothing else is filtered on paper — not your discipline, not your marks, not where you studied. Past that, it is the work itself that decides, never a form and never a rubric.

How it works

  1. Take a guided tour

    Free, for anyone. A curated path through what Koher already gives away — the canon, the live tools, the code — so you can see the what and the why. It is free knowledge and it stands on its own — taking it is not a step towards anything.

  2. Learn the craft

    A short, focused apprenticeship — your own work at roughly eight to twelve hours a week over a six-to-eight-week sprint, with a light hand on the tiller from Prayas. No money changes hands here, in either direction. You are being taught.

  3. Build something real, credited

    You own one bounded facet of an actual Koher build — named in the tool, in the repository, your commit history yours. The work is Koher’s and public; the credit is yours, and it is heavy on purpose. This is the thing you walk away with.

  4. First call on paid work

    If the work is good, a real, paid, bounded test project follows — Koher’s or routed through Prayas’s contacts. Good output earns more work. The output judges, not the name.

Two ways in

Two pathways, because the work has two faces — and each leads to a real, active job market. Pick the door that fits how you think.

Pathway · toward design-technology & AI-product roles

Engineering for designers

Engineering concepts for designers — how Koher’s tools are actually built, explained for people who design rather than engineer. The three-layer architecture and the code that carries the judgement, enough of the making to build and prototype an AI tool yourself. Leads toward design-technology, creative-technologist and AI-product roles.

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Pathway · toward responsible-AI / governance

Ethics

What Koher refuses, and why — the verdict it will not pass, the data it will not keep, the scale it will not chase. Leads toward responsible-AI, governance and policy work.

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What you get, and what you do not

You get

  • The craft, taught on real work
  • A public, credited contribution that stands without Prayas
  • A certificate — given only to the three, a true account of what you did
  • First call on paid work when there is any, and an honest vouch

You do not get

  • A wage for the learning phase
  • A guaranteed job at the end
  • A place that depends on anything but the work being real
  • A certificate for taking the tour — that is free knowledge, not a credential

There is no application

No form, and no call for applications. The people who end up here are already in some relation to the work — a room, a piece of teaching, something they made with a Koher tool. The apprenticeship names that relation rather than being the way into one. So there is nothing to apply for and nothing to wait on, at either end.