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CurriculumAI Marketing Fellowship · Curriculum

Four tracks. One complete marketer.

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

Three business models. Three revenue paths.

Four tracks. One complete marketer. Brand (8 sprints), performance (10), AI ops (7), and entrepreneurship running parallel throughout.

Build the brand

Brand, Content & Storytelling

8 sprints · The creative engine

PositioningContentVideoRetail

Roles you train for

  • Brand Manager
  • Content Strategist
  • Social Media Manager
  • Creator IP

Why this is different

We built the coolest AI marketing and entrepreneurship program India has ever seen.

Performance vs Storytelling

01

Performance vs Storytelling

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.

Branding beyond lectures

02

Branding beyond lectures

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.

Positioning is not a framework

03

Positioning is not a framework

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.

Real Performance Marketing

04

Real Performance Marketing

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

Choose your path

Select the venture you will build and develop over six months

Entrepreneurship is integrated throughout the programme. In Month 1, you choose a venture direction. Every sprint thereafter applies directly to that choice.

Build a D2C brand

01

Build a D2C brand

Take a product from concept to shelf — covering sourcing, branding, marketplace listing, paid acquisition, and customer growth with measurable outcomes.

AmazonFlipkartBlinkitShopify

Live storefront, verified revenue, and marketplace operations experience

Start a content channel

02

Start a content channel

Build and grow an audience from the ground up through content strategy, platform mechanics, format development, and monetisation — executed hands-on throughout the programme.

InstagramYouTubeLinkedInCreator IP

Engaged audience, repeatable content engine, and a defined personal brand

Build a freelance agency

03

Build a freelance agency

Acquire clients, deliver professional marketing engagements, and graduate with a portfolio supported by live work and commercial outcomes.

D2C clientsSaaS clientsRetainersCase studies

Paying clients, documented agency playbook, and placement-ready portfolio

Practitioners, not professors

Industry mentors. Not professors.

Industry mentors — not professors. People building India's fastest-growing brands. They teach the way they work, by example.

Portfolio-first learning

Proof of work, not a promise

Agencies, D2C brands, consumer tech — or your own freelance practice. Either way, you leave with work that got judged in the room.

Live challenges

Real brands, real briefs.

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

Six months, told in five chapters

Scroll through each phase — foundations on the left, live output on the right.

Scroll to walk the programme

Month 1

Foundations & first move

In programme

  • Learn: Positioning, growth, content, AI foundations
  • Build: Choose your venture
  • Prove: First brand visit + opening challenge

What you ship

Choose your venture, define the niche, and ship your first challenge.

Month 2

Performance & first revenue

In programme

  • Learn: Meta, Google, YouTube, Shopify, e-comm, q-comm
  • Build: First live campaign
  • Prove: The ad showdown

What you ship

Run your first real campaign on real budget and chase first revenue.

Month 3

Depth, B2B & AI

In programme

  • Learn: Programmatic, SEO/AEO, B2B, AI workflows
  • Build: Scale venture · deploy AI agent
  • Prove: Marketplace + dashboard challenges

What you ship

Scale the venture, deploy your first AI agent, and go deeper on funnels.

Month 4

Capstone & pitch day

In programme

  • Learn: Personal branding, offline retail
  • Build: Finalise portfolio
  • Prove: Founder's Track Pitch Day

What you ship

Finalise your portfolio and pitch your venture to a practitioner panel.

Months 5–6

Placements — or keep building

In programme

  • Learn: Interview craft, recruiter prep
  • Build: Continue venture with Incubation
  • Prove: Mock interviews & hiring processes

What you ship

Interview prep and recruiter processes — or continue your venture with Incubation support.

Challenge-based learning

Wednesday isn't a class. It's a deadline.

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.

Dohful on Zomato
01
Live brief

Marketplace

Dohful on Zomato

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

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
Goat × Blinkit strategy
02
Pitch deck

Quick commerce

Goat × Blinkit strategy

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

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
Protein Party viral content
03
Organic growth

Content

Protein Party viral content

1M impressions in 30 days, zero ad spend.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
Mamaearth vs WOW
04
Real budget

Performance

Mamaearth vs WOW

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

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
Fix PeeSafe's Amazon listing
05
Conversion

E-commerce

Fix PeeSafe's Amazon listing

Conversion dropped 23%. Audit it. Present the fix.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
Fixmycurls content calendar
06
30-day plan

Brand

Fixmycurls content calendar

Pivot from product-led to education-led content.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
Sleepy Owl modern trade
07
Omnichannel

Retail

Sleepy Owl modern trade

Trade pricing, shelf strategy, online-offline loop.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
WhatsApp re-nurture funnel
08
Automation

Lifecycle

WhatsApp re-nurture funnel

5-message sequence to win back cart abandoners.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
AI competitor price tracker
09
No-code

AI ops

AI competitor price tracker

No-code system that monitors 5 rivals daily.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece
The broken dashboard
10
DiagnosisFinale

Analytics

The broken dashboard

ROAS fell 4× → 1.8×. 48 hours. Find the leak.

Live deliverablePortfolio piece

The tool stack

Tools revenue teams actually use.

Foundation stacks for performance, brand, and AI — the tools you'll use from week one in a modern marketing team.

01

Performance & growth

Performance & growth
  • Meta Ads
  • Google Ads
  • YouTube Ads
  • Shopify
  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager

02

Brand & content

Brand & content
  • Figma
  • Canva
  • CapCut
  • Notion
  • Buffer
  • Instagram / YouTube

03

AI & automation

AI & automation
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Zapier
  • Make
  • Clay
  • Perplexity

Your proof of work is your credential.

By Month 5, you walk into interviews with real work — not theory, not case competitions, not group projects on slides.

Deliverable 01

Dohful on Zomato

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

A week in the life

A glimpse into a week at Hive.

Sessions Monday–Tuesday, challenge day Wednesday, depth sprints Thursday–Friday, and First Principles Saturdays — off-campus inside real businesses.

Monday

Monday schedule at HiveSchool

Tuesday

Tuesday schedule at HiveSchool

Wednesday

Wednesday schedule at HiveSchool

Thursday

Thursday schedule at HiveSchool

Friday

Friday schedule at HiveSchool

Saturday

Saturday schedule at HiveSchool
October 2026 intake

You can read about marketing for six months. Or spend six months doing it.

Applications open for the AI Marketing & Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Limited seats per cohort.

Class of 2024–25

Where our alumni are now.

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.

Tanishq

Tanishq

Account Manager · Kaseya

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Student voiceTanishq

FAQs

Questions you're probably asking

Everything you need to know about the AI Marketing & Entrepreneurship Fellowship.

Answer

Who is this fellowship for?

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.