Partnership · Education & Skilling

Gradeless AI signs Tata Indian Institute of Skills

By Startup Enthusiast · 25 September 2026

What they do

Gradeless AI builds Rehearsal, an app that makes students record, question and revisit their own reasoning

Tata Indian Institute of Skills becomes its first corporate customer, with access given to students and faculty

The team will also coach students and teachers on using generative AI, and help design reflective coursework

Gradeless AI has tied up with the Tata Indian Institute of Skills to put its app in front of students there.
Students and teaching staff at the institute get access to Rehearsal, the company's reflective learning app.
The institute is the first corporate customer Rehearsal has signed.
The company's team will coach students and faculty on fitting generative AI into daily study.
It will also work with teachers to shape reflective exercises around the institute's industry-facing programmes.
Access to the app and the simulation set will run over the coming years for taking part students.
The stated purpose is to build judgement, adaptability and problem solving alongside employability.
The company says this is the first institution outside its own campuses to try the approach.

Generative AI can hand a student a polished answer in seconds, but cannot tell them whether they understood it.
The company's argument is that procedural knowledge has become cheap while reflection has not.
Its head of business says the job of universities now is to encourage tinkering, self-teaching and looking back at one's own reasoning.
Rehearsal is built around that gap: using AI to reach an answer rather than merely collect one.

Rehearsal is a mobile app that works from a student's own material instead of a general knowledge base.
After a class or a viva a student can leave a voice note; within a minute it comes back as a tidy written note.
Students can also send in PDFs, screenshots, YouTube videos and files shared over WhatsApp to be summarised and saved.
They can then have it explain a point, set two ideas side by side or quiz them, with answers pointing back to their own material.
The app replies with follow-up questions rather than closing off the conversation.
A daily feed called Signals breaks news from a student's field into what happened, what changed, a precedent, both sides and a prompt to take a position.
Mock interviews can be run against an AI questioner or with friends, and come back with notes on delivery plus a model answer to measure against.
A connector lets students query their own reflections from inside Claude and ChatGPT.
Alongside the app sits a set of simulations, from a consulting partner clearing an inbox against the clock to a founder defending a pitch, a B2B renewal negotiation, an editor spotting manipulation and a retail analyst auditing a shelf.

The Rehearsal team will train Tata IIS students and faculty on using generative AI in study.
Faculty and the company will design reflective learning tasks around the institute's programmes.
More simulations are to be added, and institutions can choose the ones that suit their courses.