I run a water infrastructure business. AI quietly became part of how I do it.

I lead Jal Pravahika, a water supply and treatment company my family has run for three generations. My grandfather started it in 1995, my father grew it, and I joined in 2010 after my management studies in Mumbai, with the job of modernising how we operate.

"Modernising a traditional business" is less glamorous than it sounds. It mostly meant better documentation, cleaner reporting, and systems that didn't live entirely in someone's head. That is how I started using AI tools in 2022: not for anything fancy, just to get through SOPs, reports and admin faster.

It didn't stop there. The more I used it, the more uses I found. I ended up going a fair bit deeper than I expected: learning to set up and run AI tools myself, and building small tools and automations for my own use. I'm not a trained developer, but I got comfortable enough under the hood to know what these tools can do, not just what they are supposed to do.

I do this because most AI training I came across was built for developers, or was too vague to be useful to anyone. I wanted something different: practical AI coaching for business owners, working professionals, complete beginners and students, from someone who uses it to get real work done every day.

I'm based in Kolkata, and I run sessions in deliberately small groups, so every person gets attention and not just a seat in a room. For businesses that want the work done for them, I take on a small number of consulting projects.