For undergraduates · India

Real work.
Real pay.
Before you graduate.

Campus is the student side of our two ventures: paid, mentored project work on live software products and custom AI data programmes. Cohorts form when a real brief lands. You're picked for the skills that brief actually needs.

New programme · First cohorts forming · No fees, ever
The desk: briefs, pay, proof
What you'd actually do

Not busywork.
Briefs.

The work changes with the project, but it's always the same kind of thing: a real task from a real product or AI programme, and someone waiting on it. These are the brief types that come through.

Brief type

Evaluate AI models

Probe a model where it's weakest. Answer its outputs, grade them, help break it on purpose so it can be fixed.

Brief type

Create data in your languages

Write and review prompts, answers and translations in the languages you actually speak, including ones the internet barely has.

Brief type

Rank & critique

Compare model outputs, argue for the better one, and defend your judgment to a reviewer. Taste is a skill here.

Brief type

Red-team

Think like the person trying to make the system fail. Then document exactly how it fails, so it can be fixed.

Brief type

Test real software

Break NuvaLabs products before customers do, and file reports a developer can act on the same day.

Brief type

Review others' work

Experienced contributors adjudicate disagreements and check quality. It's the step that turns a contributor into a reviewer.

What you get out of it

What's in it
for you.

/ 01

Money in your account

Every accepted hour of work is paid. Rates are agreed in writing before you start. No unpaid "training periods", no registration fees, ever. This is the headline, not the fine print.

/ 02

Work you can point at

Briefs from live products and real AI programmes, with a deadline, a reviewer and a standard. The kind of experience you can describe in an interview without bluffing.

/ 03

Mentorship & review

Your work gets read by people further along. You learn how professional work is actually judged, and how to meet that bar.

/ 04

Documents that say something

When an engagement closes, you get a certificate and a letter describing the work you actually did, issued by a real company (the venture's founding circle includes a US-linked one). Longer engagements get an internship-style letter. These are an addition to your pay, never a substitute for it.

/ 05

A network that knows your work

Students from other campuses, reviewers, founders. People who've seen what you delivered and can say so when it matters.

Certificate of work — what the paperwork looks like Illustrative placeholder
HolderYour name, your project
Work performedDescribed specifically, not "participated"
EngagementProject-based; duration and review standard stated
Issued byA real, registered company · signatory named
VerificationRecords kept; a referee who can confirm the work
Final format TBD. Shown so you can judge the idea, not the graphic design.
How it works

No portal. No lottery.
Just briefs and people.

Step 01

Tell us who you are

College, year, languages, what you're good at. One email is enough.

Step 02

We match briefs to people

When a project needs your skills or your language, we write to you. Nothing moves without a real brief.

Step 03

Show a sample

A short task so both sides can judge fit before either commits.

Step 04

Work with a reviewer

Clear instructions, an agreed rate, real deadlines, feedback on every deliverable.

Step 05

Get paid, get documented

Payment for accepted work; certificate and letter when the engagement closes.

The ground rules

Rules we'd want
if we were you.

Rule 01

Paid means paid

A certificate is never a substitute for money. It's an addition to it. Any programme offering paper instead of pay is telling you what your work is worth to them.

Rule 02

No fees, ever

No registration fee, no training fee, no deposit, no "kit cost". Anyone asking for money in our name is not us. Tell us and we'll act on it.

Rule 03

College comes first

Work is project-based and fits around semesters and exams. Pausing for a month costs you nothing and no one keeps score.

Rule 04

You can say no

Decline any task, any time, without losing standing for work already accepted. Consent applies to students too.

Rule 05

You join as yourself

We don't claim tie-ups with your college, and your participation has nothing to do with your grades. You join as an individual. Your work is yours.

Rule 06

Your name stays yours

No public contributor lists, no photos, nothing published with your name on it without your explicit yes.

No brochure promises

What we
won't promise.

This programme is new. The first cohorts are forming now. We'd rather you hear the honest version from us than the polished version from a poster.

Ask us anything
Won't promiseA fixed stipend figure on a website. Rates depend on the brief, and we'll state yours before you start.
Won't promiseA guaranteed internship, placement or job. Anyone who guarantees those is selling something else.
Won't promiseAcademic credit. That's between you and your college, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Won't promiseLogos of partner companies or colleges we haven't signed. You'll never see your college's name here without its written yes.
Will doAnswer every one of those questions plainly, by email, before you commit an hour.
Who this is for

Probably you,
if you've read this far.

Any year, any branch Writers & language natives Engineers who ship Detail-obsessed reviewers Tulu, Sanskrit & regional-language speakers People who'd rather earn than collect certificates
Your move

Put your name on the list.

One email is enough. When a brief matches what you're good at, you'll hear from a person, with the task, the rate and the timeline in it.

Tell us: name · college & city · year & branch · languages you write or speak · what you're good at · a link to anything you've made