Since 2004 · ISO 9001:2015 · Lucknow & Noida

Softpro LaunchPad

AI LaunchPad

Zero to deployed AI Engineer in 6 months — with 20+ shipped projects, not certificates.

6 months · 24 weeksBeginner-friendlyClassroomHybrid20+ projects₹55,000 · GST incl.
24weeks, ship-every-week
20+deployed projects
30seats per batch
2demo days with real clients

Who this is for

  • Final-year B.Tech / BCA / BSc students who want to be on the right side of the AI shift
  • Working engineers (1–4 yrs at service companies) planning the switch to AI roles
  • Complete beginners — no CS degree required, Month 1 is built for you

What you'll be able to do

  • Build and deploy LLM apps — chatbots, RAG assistants, multimodal tools
  • Design agent systems with OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, LangGraph and MCP
  • Fine-tune and self-host open-source models
  • Ship a public portfolio: 20+ GitHub projects, a deployed AI resume, a rising Hireability Score

Tools & technologies

PythonOpenAI & Anthropic APIsLangChainLangGraphCrewAIHugging FaceRAG / ChromaFastAPIDockerMCP

The syllabus

Phase 1 — Learn & Build

Months 1–3 · 4 instructor-led sessions + Build Friday every week

Month 1 — Python for AI EngineersWeeks 1–4
  • Zero to confident Python — taught through AI projects, never in isolation
  • Your first LLM API call in the first 3 hours; Git, GitHub and the pro toolchain
  • Prompt engineering, conversation memory, files and JSON
  • Pandas + data literacy; how LLMs actually work; first deployment to Hugging Face Spaces

You ship: A CLI chatbot with personality, a study buddy, and a live Data Analyst Bot on a public URL

Month 2 — LLM EngineeringWeeks 5–8
  • Multi-model apps across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and local Ollama models
  • Tool calling, structured outputs and production conversation memory (SQLite → Postgres)
  • Embeddings, vector databases and RAG — from first pipeline to production patterns
  • Multimodal AI (vision, speech), Hugging Face, QLoRA fine-tuning, self-hosted LLM services

You ship: A customer-support agent with tools, a RAG knowledge worker over your own notes, a fine-tuned model

Month 3 — Agentic AI EngineeringWeeks 9–12
  • Agent design patterns from Anthropic's Building Effective Agents — from-scratch agent loops
  • OpenAI Agents SDK: handoffs, guardrails, parallel agent teams
  • CrewAI autonomous crews with memory; LangGraph state machines; your own MCP server
  • Phase 1 Grand Hackathon on real problem statements from Softpro corporate clients

You ship: Your Career Digital Twin (a deployed AI version of you), a Deep Research agent, a business automation agent

Phase 2 — Build & Ship

Months 4–6 · studio format: standups, sprints, mentor checkpoints

Month 4 — The Guided Industry BuildWeeks 13–16
  • Teams of 3–4 build a real brief from the Industry Brief Bank, run as software sprints
  • FastAPI, Postgres, auth, background jobs, cost control, caching
  • LLM evals, guardrails, tracing and red-teaming your own app
  • Client Demo Day — presented to an actual client or guest panel

You ship: A production-grade team project, deployed with Docker, demoed to a real client

Month 5 — The Individual CapstoneWeeks 17–20
  • One flagship solo project — your interview centerpiece, mentor-reviewed at every step
  • Production deployment, monitoring, prompt-injection defense
  • Build-in-public on LinkedIn with weekly progress posts
  • Capstone Demo Day — public event with external judges, professionally recorded

You ship: Your capstone: a deployed AI product a recruiter would actually care about

Month 6 — Career ConversionWeeks 21–24
  • Portfolio & presence: GitHub cleanup, portfolio site with your Digital Twin embedded
  • Interview bootcamp: AI engineering patterns, DSA essentials, mock interviews with real engineers
  • Placement sprint: Hireability Score finalization, profile sharing with hiring partners
  • Freelancing track: package AI automations into sellable services

You ship: A hiring-ready profile — and your first interviews

Batches

Weekday batch

Mon–Fri, mornings/afternoons — for students and fresh graduates. Offline at Lucknow & Noida centres.

Weekend + evening batch

Sat–Sun long sessions + 2 weekday evenings — for working professionals. Hybrid (offline + live online).

The engagement system

Demo Friday

Every student demos something, every week. Shipping and public speaking become normal.

LaunchPad Leaderboard

Points for commits, demos, hackathon wins and helping peers — with monthly prizes.

Monthly hackathons

Themed hackathons every month, plus a full-weekend Grand Hackathon to close Phase 1.

Hireability Score

Monthly practical exams feed a score you watch climb for 6 months — motivation engine and placement credential.

Upcoming cohorts

New cohort dates are announced regularly — send an enquiry and we'll reserve you a seat in the next one.

Frequently asked questions

I have never written code. Can I really do this?

Yes — the program assumes zero prior coding. Month 1 takes you from your first line of Python to a deployed AI app, and you code with AI assistants from the first hour, the way working engineers do in 2026.

What do I actually leave with?

A GitHub profile with 20+ projects, a deployed personal AI portfolio, a capstone you built solo, a Hireability Score backed by monthly practical exams — and interview preparation with mock interviews by working engineers.

Is there a batch for working professionals?

Yes. The weekend + evening batch runs Sat–Sun with two weekday evenings, in hybrid mode, designed for people currently employed at service companies.

Do you guarantee a job?

No one honestly can — and we won’t. What we build with you is proof employers trust: shipped projects, a public portfolio and interview readiness, plus profile sharing with our hiring partners in the placement sprint.