From "AI is for IITians" to building a startup that employs them.
Sarthak was a Class 11 student from Bhadohi — a town better known for carpets than code. Like many students, he believed something limiting: AI was for IITians. For people with technical degrees and powerful laptops. He had none of that. Just curiosity.
He joined the Wasabi AI Builder Lab one Saturday. By Sunday evening, he had built his first chatbot — not a tutorial, not a copy-paste. His own. Then one idea stuck. Tourists struggled to navigate local routes and stories around nearby cities.
Sarthak wondered if AI could guide them. That small experiment became AI Margdarshak — a travel app designed to help people explore places through AI.
A few weeks earlier, he thought AI was only for IITians. Now he was building with it. That's what Wasabi does. Not just teach AI — it helps students discover what they're capable of building.
Sarthak was from Bhadohi — a town known for carpets, not code. He assumed AI was only for engineering students with expensive laptops and technical degrees.
By Sunday evening he had built his first chatbot — not a tutorial, not a copy-paste. His own. He texted his dad: "I actually made something."
Tourists struggled to navigate local routes and stories around nearby cities. Sarthak wondered if AI could guide them. That small question became his mission.
He built AI Margdarshak — a travel app helping people explore places through AI. A few weeks after doubting himself, he had a real product in the world.
The student who thought AI was only for IITians now runs a startup that hires them. Wasabi didn't just teach him AI. It changed what he believed was possible.
