A practice, not a programme
The Apprenticeship
Three people a year. You learn the craft on a real Koher build, walk away owning a public, credited contribution to a tool anyone can read — and, if the work is good, a paid test project on the other side.
Small and honest, so read it plainly: three a year, the build phase is unpaid learning, and there is no guaranteed job. What is real is the craft, the credit, and a paid test project that follows good work. 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 graduate of any university. Nothing else is filtered on paper — not your discipline, not your marks, not where you studied. Who becomes one of the three is decided by how seriously you engage with the tours below and the work itself, not by a form.
How it works
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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 before either of us spends an hour. The three are chosen from those who take it seriously.
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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.
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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.
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A paid test project
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.
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.
Take the tour →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.
Take the tour →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
- A paid test project if the work is good, 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
Say you are interested
Take a tour first. If it is for you, tell me why — in your own words, not a cover letter. I read these myself.