Hi, I'm Avneesh.
I spent a decade building inside the education system for 600+ schools. Now I'm taking those insights into agency and leverage with Permissionless Academy.
For many years I thought that our schools are broken and need fixing. I’ve since realized that isn't the case. Schools aren’t failing. They are still successfully producing the same outcomes they were built for. The problem is that the world they were built for no longer exists and the economic contract between school and student has expired.
Many have spent the last decade trying to revitalize this contract, but with little success. With the advent of AI, by applying first principles to feedback, iteration, and human agency at scale, we finally have a real chance to engineer a way through.
This is the most important work in education right now. This is my work.
If you're building in education + AI — research, product, platform, or schools — I'm open to comparing notes. .
Principles that guide my work
Incentives shape behavior
Systems change only when the payoff changes.
Structure beats motivation
Progress comes from feedback loops, not inspiration.
Agency over compliance
The goal is people who can build without permission.
AI as leverage, not shortcut
Used well, it sharpens thinking. Used poorly, it replaces it.
Interested in my life's work — start with these 3 essays.
Education
Transforming K12 by focusing on the Context
An alternate tech-driven approach for schools to measure success without using test-scores. If we fail to measure the right things, we will land up growing and making the wrong thing better. If you hear someone say out loud “School Success” – what comes to your mind? Maybe a picture of a hustling and bustling school […]
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Expanding Your Luck Surface Area: The Game-Changer You Didn't Know You Needed!
Luck isn’t random,it’s engineerable. We’ve all heard “Luck = preparation + opportunity.” But what if you could dramatically increase the surface area where luck actually lands on you?
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The Eve of a New Journey: Permissionless Academy's First Cohort
Today is May 14, and the air is thick with anticipation. Tomorrow, we kick off
Read →Current work
Things I'm spending my time on.
Permissionless Academy
2024–PresentAI-native learning platform focused on helping people build real skills and income-generating assets.
- Learners build real projects and assets, not certificates or grades.
- Progress is shown through finished work and public proof, not degrees.
- Practice happens by doing, improving, and repeating, with AI feedback.
- Goal is to help learners build recurring financial value, typically in the $3K–$20K/month range.
Schoolze Labs
2024–PresentAn AI-native experimentation layer focused on fundraising, incentives, and system-level tools for education.
- AI-driven fundraising workflows designed to reduce friction and increase participation.
- Experimentation with incentive-aware features for schools and communities.
- Beta testing new tools, including RaiseAI, in real-world environments.
- Operating as a lab to explore where AI can meaningfully shift outcomes without relying on institutional reform.
Side gigs
Because I love building.
EditorMode.ai
PermissionlessGhostCMO.ai
PermissionlessAI for marketing operations.
Hellodesk
MarketplaceMarketplace for meeting rooms and offices.
Art Abilities
Non profitMonterey AI Labs
AI research and product.
Education is changing. Quietly. From the outside.
I share essays and experiments on incentives, AI, and building real-world skills beyond credentials.