Build the brand
Brand, Content & Storytelling
8 sprints · The creative engine
Roles you train for
- Brand Manager
- Content Strategist
- Social Media Manager
- Creator IP
Brand, performance, AI ops, and entrepreneurship — 25+ sprints taught through live challenges and operator-led sessions. AI-native from day one.
06
Months
4+2
Curriculum + placements
25+
Intensive sprints
10
Live challenges
Curriculum structure
Four tracks. One complete marketer. Brand (8 sprints), performance (10), AI ops (7), and entrepreneurship running parallel throughout.
Build the brand
8 sprints · The creative engine
Roles you train for
Why this is different

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A normal marketer would think of Performance Marketing like a Meta Dashboard concept. But Top 1% marketer would think of creating a storyline for a brand that can sell organically and reduce CAC’s. Just like these students are doing here.

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Branding is not a concept that can be learned in a lecture. For us, Branding is actually creating the most different brand that people will actually buy.

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Positioning is not just a 4 matrix framework. It is understanding how can we build a brand even in a fragmented market like Perfumes. Hey btw, we're building India's First Female Sensual Perfume Brand. Go buy from us.

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We learnt performance Marketing by actually running Meta Ads for our product. Already generated X sales btw.

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A normal marketer would think of Performance Marketing like a Meta Dashboard concept. But Top 1% marketer would think of creating a storyline for a brand that can sell organically and reduce CAC’s. Just like these students are doing here.

02
Branding is not a concept that can be learned in a lecture. For us, Branding is actually creating the most different brand that people will actually buy.

03
Positioning is not just a 4 matrix framework. It is understanding how can we build a brand even in a fragmented market like Perfumes. Hey btw, we're building India's First Female Sensual Perfume Brand. Go buy from us.

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We learnt performance Marketing by actually running Meta Ads for our product. Already generated X sales btw.
Choose your path
Entrepreneurship is integrated throughout the programme. In Month 1, you choose a venture direction. Every sprint thereafter applies directly to that choice.

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Take a product from concept to shelf — covering sourcing, branding, marketplace listing, paid acquisition, and customer growth with measurable outcomes.
Live storefront, verified revenue, and marketplace operations experience

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Build and grow an audience from the ground up through content strategy, platform mechanics, format development, and monetisation — executed hands-on throughout the programme.
Engaged audience, repeatable content engine, and a defined personal brand

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Acquire clients, deliver professional marketing engagements, and graduate with a portfolio supported by live work and commercial outcomes.
Paying clients, documented agency playbook, and placement-ready portfolio
Practitioners, not professors
Industry mentors — not professors. People building India's fastest-growing brands. They teach the way they work, by example.
Agencies, D2C brands, consumer tech — or your own freelance practice. Either way, you leave with work that got judged in the room.
Live challenges
Culture Circle — live brand challenge
SaaS & AI challenge — GTM in practice
MVP challenge — ship and pitch
Orientation week — how learning starts
On the Ground at Dohful
Fix My Curls ft. Anshita Mehrotra
The journey
Scroll through each phase — foundations on the left, live output on the right.
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Month 1
In programme
What you ship
Choose your venture, define the niche, and ship your first challenge.

Month 2
In programme
What you ship
Run your first real campaign on real budget and chase first revenue.

Month 3
In programme
What you ship
Scale the venture, deploy your first AI agent, and go deeper on funnels.

Month 4
In programme
What you ship
Finalise your portfolio and pitch your venture to a practitioner panel.

Months 5–6
In programme
What you ship
Interview prep and recruiter processes — or continue your venture with Incubation support.
Challenge-based learning
Every challenge is a live problem from a real brand. Brief drops at 10 AM. Teams pitch to a practitioner panel by 8 PM.
Scroll through all 10 builds — each one ships into your interview portfolio.

Marketplace
Listing + visibility for a cookie brand against Oreo and Parle.

Quick commerce
Dark-store entry plan, pricing, 4.2 stars in 60 days.

Content
1M impressions in 30 days, zero ad spend.

Performance
The ₹5,000 ad showdown — real budget, real Shopify store. Lowest CAC wins.

E-commerce
Conversion dropped 23%. Audit it. Present the fix.

Brand
Pivot from product-led to education-led content.

Retail
Trade pricing, shelf strategy, online-offline loop.

Lifecycle
5-message sequence to win back cart abandoners.

AI ops
No-code system that monitors 5 rivals daily.

Analytics
ROAS fell 4× → 1.8×. 48 hours. Find the leak.
The tool stack
Foundation stacks for performance, brand, and AI — the tools you'll use from week one in a modern marketing team.
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By Month 5, you walk into interviews with real work — not theory, not case competitions, not group projects on slides.
Deliverable 01
Listing + visibility for a cookie brand against Oreo and Parle.
A week in the life
Sessions Monday–Tuesday, challenge day Wednesday, depth sprints Thursday–Friday, and First Principles Saturdays — off-campus inside real businesses.
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Applications open for the AI Marketing & Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Limited seats per cohort.
Class of 2024–25
Real quotes and video stories from the cohort — in their own words.
What surprised me most was how personalised everything was. My career coach knew my target companies better than I did. The prep felt like it was built just for me.
FAQs
Everything you need to know about the AI Marketing & Entrepreneurship Fellowship.
Answer
Anyone with the drive to learn — there's no age bar or background requirement. College students, graduates, working professionals, career-switchers, even a 70-year-old who simply wants to learn AI marketing are all welcome. Whether you want a marketing job, a freelance practice, or your own D2C brand — the programme is built around building, not sitting in lectures.