Rishi Jain is an AI corporate trainer based in Chennai, India. He is the Founder and CEO of Digital Scholar, India's most-trusted AI and digital marketing institute, with campuses in Chennai and Mumbai. He has trained over 1 lakh professionals across 66+ batches since Digital Scholar was founded, and he runs corporate AI training engagements for Indian and APAC teams across BFSI, FMCG, manufacturing, IT services, SaaS, healthcare, education, and operating businesses.
This article is the practical Q&A version of "who is Rishi Jain as a corporate AI trainer", written for L&D heads, CHROs, CXOs, and procurement teams shortlisting trainers for an Indian corporate engagement in 2026.
What companies hire Rishi Jain for
Three engagement types make up most of the corporate work:
Leadership briefings. 3 to 4 hour closed-door sessions for CXO teams and senior leadership groups. Outcome is alignment and 3 to 5 specific decisions before the room leaves. Past examples include Axis Bank strategic team and Atlas Copco APAC leadership.
Operator workshops. 1-day or 2-day hands-on sessions for function-level teams (15 to 60 people). Outcome is working AI workflows shipped and adopted, not just learned. Lakme's brand team, Publicis Sapient's engagement team, and several D2C operating teams have gone through this format.
Multi-cohort programmes. 4 to 8 week rollouts across multiple functions, with shared frameworks and function-specific labs. The fit for companies with 100+ employees rolling out AI org-wide.
Why Rishi Jain rather than a Big-4 firm
Big-4 engagements (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC) are excellent when assurance, multi-quarter rollout structure, and procurement paper trail matter more than session-level depth. They are not better when the goal is "the team leaves with working AI workflows by the close of day".
The honest comparison: a Big-4 engagement bills ₹50 lakh+ for a year-long advisory + training package, with workshop delivery often handled by junior consultants rather than partners. Rishi Jain bills ₹3.5 lakh to ₹18 lakh per engagement, with the senior trainer in the room for every session, and the team leaves with prompts, workflows, and a 30-day plan.
For mid-sized companies, the choice is usually Rishi Jain or another senior independent trainer. For very large enterprises, both options often run in parallel: Big-4 for the broader advisory structure, an independent for the workshop quality.
Frameworks Rishi Jain teaches
Four proprietary frameworks make up the technical content of his corporate sessions:
CRAFT. A 5-part prompt structure: Context, Role, Action, Format, Tone. Replaces every other prompt template. Used by 12,000+ Digital Scholar students and adopted across corporate training rooms.
Brain Imprint. A 79-question voice extraction system. The output is a custom system prompt that makes any AI write in your brand voice. The lesson D2C and brand teams talk about most after the workshop.
3 Levels of AI Mastery. The framework Rishi presented at TEDx in 2024 (280K+ views in 4 months). Level 1 is prompting. Level 2 is building a stack. Level 3 is designing agents. The framework that gives teams a map for what to learn next.
CAST. A 4-part workflow design pattern: Context, Agent, Skills, Tools. Used in Level 3 sessions for teams designing AI agents and automations.
Past corporate engagements
- Axis Bank: strategic team advisory and AI corporate sessions
- Atlas Copco: APAC leadership AI workshop
- Lakme: brand team training on AI for content and creative scaling
- Publicis Sapient: engagement team AI workflows
- JITO: members programme on AI for business
- SSVM Institutions: faculty AI training
- Indus Club: leadership programme AI module
- Government of Sikkim: department-level AI literacy sessions
- Republic TV: panel and editorial AI sessions
The pattern across these is consistency. Each engagement was customised to the industry and the team's seniority, each ended with workflows shipped, and each had post-workshop follow-up that produced measurable adoption.
Where Rishi Jain delivers
On-site delivery in 9 Indian cities: Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Pune, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Kolkata, Ahmedabad. On request: Dubai and Singapore. Virtual delivery for distributed teams. Hybrid format for teams that split across cities.
Chennai is the home base (Digital Scholar is headquartered there), which means Chennai engagements get the fastest scheduling and the most senior facilitation by default.
The broader Digital Scholar ecosystem
Corporate training is one of three things Rishi Jain runs through Digital Scholar:
30 Days AI Mastery. A self-paced course on AI for professionals, priced at ₹1,499, with 36+ videos and 4.8★ from 427 reviews. The fastest entry point to the frameworks.
AI Marketer Pro. A 4-month live cohort for marketing professionals across Chennai, Mumbai, and online. The deeper programme for individuals.
AI corporate training. Custom workshops for companies, which is the subject of this article.
The corporate training feeds the institute (corporate trainees often send their teams to Digital Scholar afterwards), and the institute feeds the corporate training (Digital Scholar's curriculum produces the frameworks that go into corporate rooms). The ecosystem is the reason quality stays consistent across formats.
Beyond the institute
Rishi Jain is also the co-founder of echoVME Digital, a performance marketing agency that manages ₹400+ crore in annual ad spend across 500+ brands. The agency work is the source of the practical AI workflows taught in corporate sessions. The frameworks are not theoretical. They are running on real money in production.
He is a TEDx Speaker 2024 (the talk on the 3 Levels of AI Mastery), a strategic advisor to Axis Bank, and an AI Influencer with 200,000+ followers on Instagram at @rrishijain. He posts daily AI breakdowns and case studies, which is the public sample of the teaching style for L&D heads who want to see the work before booking.
Honest admission
Not every company is a fit. Companies that want a Big-4 paper trail, multi-quarter advisory structure, or formal procurement framework are better served by a Big-4 firm. Companies that want generic AI awareness for under ₹1 lakh are better served by a junior trainer or an agency intermediary. Rishi Jain's price band (₹2 lakh to ₹18 lakh per engagement) and delivery style (workflow-first, hands-on, senior-led) fits a specific segment: mid-to-large Indian companies that want measurable behaviour change in a single function or across the org.
How to book
The fastest path is the corporate training enquiry form. The team responds within 48 hours on weekdays with available dates and a custom proposal. For format details, see AI corporate training programmes. For city-specific availability, see any of the 9 city pages (for example Mumbai, Bengaluru, or Chennai). For the comparison against other Indian AI corporate trainers, see Best AI corporate trainers in India 2026. For more context on Rishi himself, see the about page.
