Building human capability

People become capable by building.

Wasabi works across Bharat to turn intimidation into confidence, curiosity into creation, and AI into a means of agency.

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15,203
People have learned and built with Wasabi
4,995
Products live · community tools, apps, websites, games, and more
100+
Districts represented by builders across Bharat

Designed for Real Bharat

Capability begins in context.

AI matters when it speaks the language people think in, works on the devices already in hand, and begins with the problems people know best.

Begin with the words people use to express their own ideas.

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Technology becomes useful when it begins with the life already being lived.Illustrative image

The Wasabi idea

We create the conditions for people to discover what they can do—and who they can become—with AI.

Confidence precedes capability. So every Wasabi experience moves toward a real act of creation—the moment an idea becomes a working thing and a person begins to see themselves differently.

The Wasabi MomentThe Wasabi Moment is when something shifts within you—when you suddenly see yourself differently, and realise you are capable of more than you ever imagined. The world hasn’t changed, but the way you see your place in it has—and you know you’re not here just to consume it, but to build it.

Evidence through creation

What people build matters more than what we say.

The proof is in what builders can open, show, use, and continue shaping.

  1. Community tools

    Local knowledge turned into something people can use.

  2. Apps

    Everyday problems met with working tools.

  3. Websites

    Ideas made public and useful.

  4. Games

    Learning made playable.

  5. Many more

    Songs, videos, learning materials, and other forms builders imagine.

Inside the work

Real people. Real contexts. Real things built.

Communities, classrooms, builders, and the small moment when something finally works.

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Yashashvi MukeshFounder, Wasabi AI

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From the founder’s desk

From feeling “technologically handicapped” to “I can win the world.”

I had ideas, but no clear way to build them. What should have taken weeks became six months of dead ends—technical complexity, prohibitive costs, intimidation, and a lack of belief. I had no agency, no technical partner, and no money.

So I sat down alone. In three days, starting from zero, I learned to build an entire platform end to end. Within 24 hours of launching it, 12,000 people had signed up.

That was my Wasabi Moment. The numbers were proof that something built by hands I had once considered incapable could matter to thousands of people. That feeling—a quiet voice saying “I can do this”—is what Wasabi exists to make possible for others.

People behind Wasabi AI

Advisors

01 / 06Prof. (Dr.) C Krishna Mohan
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Prof. (Dr.) C Krishna Mohan

  • Dean and Professor, IIT Hyderabad
  • Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
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Prof. (Dr.) Shailendra Singh

  • Former Director, IIM Ranchi
  • Former Dean, IIM Lucknow
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Prof. (Dr.) A. D. Sawant

  • Former Vice Chancellor, Mumbai University
  • Former Deputy Director, Higher Education
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Dr. Rinchen Chophel

  • Director General, SAIEVAC
  • United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
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Rajiv Sikka

  • Former CEO, Indian Oil–Adani Gas
  • Startup mentor, IIT Kanpur
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Rupesh Mishra

  • CFO, Indus Tower Africa
  • Former VP, Finance and Treasury, Bharti Airtel

Collaboration

What could we build together?

Wasabi works across communities, institutions, and global platforms without losing sight of the person doing the building.

A few useful answers

Building with Wasabi AI

What does Wasabi AI do?

Wasabi AI builds human capability through practical AI literacy and real acts of creation. We work with communities and institutions across Bharat so people can move from curiosity to building something of their own.

What do people build with Wasabi?

Builders create community tools, apps, websites, games, songs, videos, and learning materials. The focus is a working creation that people can use, show, and continue shaping.

How can an institution collaborate with Wasabi AI?

Institutions can bring Wasabi into a community, support the work, build capability within a team, or co-design an initiative. Start a conversation at connect@thewasabiai.com or on WhatsApp at +91 96194 38489.

An invitation

Let’s build what’s next.

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