The information was always free.
The map was missing.
RoleGPS is a free, public map of what AI jobs in India actually require — built from real job postings and the recruiters who fill those roles, and turned into the shortest self-taught path for anyone willing to put in the hours.
Everything you need to become AI-ready is already public — the docs, the papers, the repos, the talks. What a driven person in India lacks is not access. It is a straight answer to what does the job actually ask for, and what should I skip. RoleGPS is that answer, and it costs nothing to use.
A million people in India who taught themselves into AI work, with proof — and the country’s AI talent gap closed from the bottom up, not the top down.
Keep one public map of what AI jobs in India actually require — read from real job postings and corrected by the people who fill the roles — and turn it into the shortest self-taught path, free for anyone willing to put in the hours.
Supply is not the problem.
Neither is content. The missing piece is the translation between the two — a plain reading of what the job postings say, and an honest reading of where you stand.
Four rules we don’t break
One question, answered properly. Not the whole job hunt.
RoleGPS answers one question: what do Indian employers ask for in this AI role, and what am I missing. That is the whole product. It is not a job board, not a course, and not interview drill — DSA, CS fundamentals and aptitude rounds are not on this map, because job postings almost never name them and the platforms built for them drill them better. One capability points at the coding round so your path does not pretend it isn’t there; the practice happens elsewhere.
Final year, placement season? Use RoleGPS for the AI-skill and project part of the ask — what to build, what it proves, what to skip — next to the JDs your placement cell circulates and whichever DSA platform you already grind on.
Working, and switching into AI? It tells you which of the skills you already have count toward the role, and what to build next. It will not find you the opening or negotiate the offer — that part is still yours.
Nothing
The material is already out there and already free — we select it, we don’t produce it. What we add is knowing which parts the market actually asks for. A map to things you can already reach isn’t something to charge for.
No paid tier, no ads, no affiliate links.
Postings say what. People say why.
A posting tells you what a role asks for, in the employer’s own words, and there are enough of them to count. What no posting tells you is which of those lines actually decides an offer. That comes from the recruiters, headhunters and hiring managers who fill the roles. So the map uses both: the postings for what is asked, counted deterministically, and the people for what it weighs.
That is one ask, of one group: a short read on demand, per role, from the people who actually screen for it. Nobody else is positioned to give it. What we never ask for is candidate data.
Twenty years, on both sides of the table.
I started as an engineer — Siemens, then the founding teams at HealthKart and 1mg, then my own company, JoeHukum, which Freshworks acquired; there I led Freddy, its AI product line. Along the way I have written a lot of code, and hired, interviewed and worked alongside more engineers than I can count.
In the last few years the ground under that work moved. With a capable coding assistant in every editor, what a company needs from a first-year engineer has changed faster than any syllabus, any course or any placement cell can follow. I see the gap every week — in the interviews I run, in the interns I mentor, in the job postings I read. Bright people learning the wrong things, in the wrong order, at full effort.
This is not a new problem for me. Seekify and Seekho, the two companies I co-founded before this, were both about the same distance: what the job asks for, what the candidate has, and the shortest honest bridge between them. RoleGPS is that idea again, rebuilt for the AI era — and stripped of everything that used to make it a business.
It is free because the gap is a public problem. The job postings are public. The learning material is public. The only thing missing was a plain reading of one against the other, and that is something I can build and give away.