Infinitude

Infinitude aims to digitally provide holistic growth and passion exploration opportunities to diverse fields to let students explore their passion and become competent individuals.

Some of the world’s ancient learning systems such as those of gurukuls are found within the Indian subcontinent. The speciality of these systems was their holistic nature and emphasis on the development of character. Inspired by our ancient systems, we designed a modern framework for a student’s holistic development.

Infinitude is an app powered by AI which uses psychological tests and geography to understand a student’s personality and available opportunities, providing a platform to explore various fields and personalized recommendations. The student receives inputs on various fields and aspects of life (covering social, physical, mental, financial, spiritual, creative and intellectual spheres), with the ability to set personal goals. 

Based on the user’s activity, fields related to their interests appear in their feeds more often, with the depth of information increasing gradually. The app follows the various stages of learning starting from curiosity to interest to passion. Information presented in creative ways develops curiosity. Exploring further into the spheres builds specific personal interests and over a period of time, a passion develops. 

What if Rakesh Jhunjhunwala had not known about stock markets? What if Abhinav Bindra had never tried shooting? What if Dan Brown had never explored writing. What if Gordon Ramsay had never stepped in the kitchen? 

What if the world’s top 1% of individuals had never been exposed to their passions or prepared for success? The world would be a very different place today. Everyone is in pursuit of their passions, but everyone does not know where to look. A study in India shows that 93% of Indian students are aware of just seven career options because they don’t have adequate exposure to different fields. Another survey states that only 20% of employees are satisfied with their jobs because in many cases, they either identify their interests too late or never find their passions. 

Many fields need interdisciplinary knowledge but most graduate students have limited skills and lack resources for holistic growth which is leading to the increasing rate of unemployment in India. We work on this issue of lack of exposure and holistic development of students with a specific focus on the Indian demographic.

Our target population are school and college students. Our purpose is to give them exposure to different fields so that they can make informed decisions related to their career, interest, and skills accompanied with character development holistically.

As students ourselves, we discussed the changes that we want to see in our education system and identified a major issue of not getting exposure to different fields. We did our fact check, data analysis, and market research with the help of surveys conducted by numerous companies, also keeping the data up to date.

We have witnessed that many great ideas do not fulfil their required objective and reach their full potential as they might not have expert guidance and tools to execute them in the real world. Being at the conceptual stage our foundations can be strengthened so that we can eventually unfurl to maximise our assumed capacities.

AI is at the core of the Infinitude Mobile Application, which would be used to observe the patterns around user behaviour. It would enhance the efficiency and predictability of the user’s passion and help us cater to their niche preferences. We will also use machine learning to enhance the AI integrated predictive capabilities, setting users on a goal-oriented path. We would obtain multiple data points to understand the user's choice-making patterns, follow-ups, biases and distractions. 

The architecture of our application is designed in such a way that any student can use it freely. The application also includes the following technologies. 

• An activity manager - It will track the user learning. The AI will observe these user interest patterns.

• Embeddable web browser - Experts will be given special access to put in content into the application of their specialised field. 

• Linux kernel - It will be used to provide the core system services such as security, process management, stacking up network and a driver module. 

• The developers will also use a software development kit (SDK) for developing the application as it is very useful to test and debug.

Infinitude is still in the conceptual stage, but in the coming years, Infinitude looks forward to entering a market of 75 million internet users ranging from the age of 9 to 17. Indian youth account for 14% of the internet users in the country. 

Out of this huge population, the niche serviceable market that we presume would be around 300 million which is around the age group 10-19. One-fourth of the market has direct internet access. The numbers would grow in the near future, considering the rapid growth of internet connectivity. 

In the next year, our solution plans to launch a beta version of the application as part of our pilot project. Through this, we plan to reach a minimum of 10,000 students in order to get feedback. If the beta project goes as planned we plan to enter the market and reach out to millions of students across the country.

We will be conducting a beta launch to test the app in a preliminary stage. Based on the results, we will refine the experience. We aim to reach as many children as possible locally and strengthen our venture with constant feedback and updates before opening it at a global level.

We plan to track the User-Growth Rate and the Retained User Percentage to measure growth.  

In order to implement this, once we have a great cloud service provider, AI algorithms to recognize the patterns around peoples’ interests, to scale it across any country or the entire world we need to synchronize it to the socioeconomics of the geography we are targeting if we need to cater to the cultural and linguistic diversity. It acts as a great barrier because we would need to synchronize to the cultural necessities and preferences of the target population.

Again since we are having a digital solution, we lack proper digital outreach to make a behavioural shift across the people’s mindset. They need to get open to the diverse opportunities that we are offering.

The major barriers are -

a) Catering to Socioeconomic affordability
b) Synchronizing our content and resource across multiple linguistic and cultural necessities.
c) Driving a behavioural mindset shift across conservative societies.
d) Planning out alternate outreach channels where we would be facing digital literacy and lack of internet penetration across geographies.

So In order to acquire customers, we need perfect financial planning and market strategy so that the enterprise resource planning syncs with the objective to which we subscribe.

Our team comprises students with a diverse range of interests and skills. We have personally faced the issue of lack of holistic education around us. Each one of us has an area of interest and specialisation which we have found by various unconventional ways and we want to make this process much more accessible to the students across our country. 

The Infinitude team is very well balanced. We have members assigned to handle the technical aspects, business model and finances and the brainstorming and features for the application.

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