Shared all of my ideas on CTC to Arul in a pdf format to his whatsapp number.

The "Applied Learning" Premium TierTwo-tier model:Standard (₹1,000/month): Live sessions + communityApplied (₹2,500/month): Above + monthly 1:1 with teacher + personal business application worksheet reviewedAnnual Business RetreatOnce a year, top 20 members (by attendance + engagement) get invited to a 1-day in-person event. They can apply everything learned across all 13 books to real business problems.Price: ₹5,000 – ₹10,000 for the day. Waiting list for next year starts immediately after.

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1. Publishing a 1-page Tamil-language business playbook for CTC this acts as a decision tool. Let me explain this with an example,"If you're facing X problem in your business → here's the 3-step approach from this book, adapted for Tamil SMEs"So, 13 books per year, literally you build a proprietary Tamil SME business toolkit nobody else has.2. Give every single member a digital badge/token that tracks:Books they completedConcepts they appliedPeer endorsements from other membersAfter 6 months, a member has a verifiable learning record something no other Tamil platform offers. These are the ideas I was thinking recently for Cost To Company.

Thinking of multiple solutions for CTC.  Solutions for more audience engagement, “Participation is the key”. Yes making the audience participate either in the way of filling forms (Google sheets) or direct live interaction (80-90% success rate) in between the session or after the session. How can we face copycat/replicate issue A copycat can steal the format in a day. They cannot steal your 500 hours of Tamil business wisdom, your member network, or your outcome data. "Pause & Apply" momentsEvery 15 minutes, in between the session pause the teaching and ask something like this,"If you were running your team/business what would you do with this idea right now?"Members can type answers live in the chat. Teacher responds to 2–3 of them. This turns passive listening into active co-creation.  Member's personal business storyBefore teaching each book, collect one-line real problems from members: For eg. if a member says,"I can't get my employees to take ownership"During teaching, place those real problems into the teaching session. Members feel seen. Outsiders can't replicate your members' stories.

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Recently I’m applying a learnt technique in differentiating my thoughts vs AI ideas into my portfolio work.

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Attended the live session today. Today's session is really good, concept deep down with simple explanation and examples stands out from Pavithra. My thoughts/suggestion/questions on today's session:Question: How about sharing the presentation doc as a pdf. to learners? Will it be a good idea or bad idea?My thought: Giving more examples in simplifying the concepts (already a good sign) and makes it easy to remember the concepts of the book.My suggestion can be, can implement story telling method wherever needed.

Most of the features looks admiring because of the typography, design patterns and breathable spaces used. I also request you to add features and its purpose of it. Like it can be self explanatory, on what we are doing and why it’s been here.

Continuation of yesterday’s points in finding the right solution:Building an eco system with cost to company. I don’t know how but this idea emerges day by day when we make use of it repeatedly.. why the name cost to company- does it connect the audience or the audience can connect with it?Research in cognitive psychology (such as studies from Harvard Business School Online) shows that peer discussion transforms learners from passive consumers into active problem-solving resources. Discussing a book's chapter live makes the information stick(this concept is similar to what Arul Murugan said to make the product sticky) Thinking of building an integrated system which combines online attendance (with that day’s CODE)+noting down the relevant questions from that chapter(taking notes)+feedback on the teaching methods or the teacher

Few ideas after today's discussion, For engaging factors:1. Rewarding the users with level concepts, like the user has completed level 1 and by making them answer few questions (4-5 qns. max) with four options for each will make them engage this platform.2. A quick reward will make them feel satisfied that they have learnt something useful today and quick implemented it by answering these questions from level 1. "Duolingo" (language learning app) is an great example for this.

Few ideas after today's discussion, For engaging factors:1. Rewarding the users with level concepts, like the user has completed level 1 and by making them answer few questions (4-5 qns. max) with four options for each will make them engage this platform.2. A quick reward will make them feel satisfied that they have learnt something useful today and quick implemented it by answering these questions from level 1. "Duolingo" (language learning app) is an great example for this.

My doubts regarding yesterday's hackathon:Whether the user has limitations for subsrcibing more than one learning/book?Do the teachers have backup?My solutions:The entire model is dependent on the teaching method of the teacher. So, I suggest we can bring an ideal method for teaching method, which we can keep it as a template. So, teachers can follow the template (success mantra) and implement the method. For eg: 1. Unique story telling technique.2. Adapting the great teaching habits and implementing it. (This acts like referring their friends for quality learning)3. Milestone badges for people attending the sessions without missing. (This can encourage that individual to continue with the platform) Also this is just my initial thoughts, ready to share my thoughts on this.

Attended hackathon meeting with Cost to Company today. It went like More than understanding their problem it also went like knowledge Sharing with the founder.

Preparing for a Product Design interview today. And also as an admin of the proof, invited for the Cost to Company - kickoff meeting @ Sat May 16, 2026. Clearing the queries of proof members regarding the hackathon and the purpose of logging in proof platform.

Today I updated my resume and was applying to jobs related to my niche.

Today because of travelling and applying to UX Design jobs I put my project on hold.

Working on the design system of my bank transaction flow project

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I took a decision to proceed with the hi-fidelity designs for my bank project  over because It’s good to proceed with the flow.

Updated my resume and applied to companies for the past two days. So, kept my portfolio work on hold.

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Mid fidelity wireframes fixations. Adding all the ideas to improve the user experience by balancing business decisions. For this I personally downloaded the Bank’s Annual Report of 2024 - 2025 and Corporate Presentations, to understand where do they ready to spend and where they limit the spending. So, that I can design balancing between user experience and business decisions.

I learnt few learnings from Vijay's political success and shared my learning as a linkedin post today. It reminded me of 4 things I keep re-learning: ↗ Whatever you took seriously once will eventually become just a life lesson. Stay as a student always. ↗ Never underestimate a startup playing its own game. Early-stage silence is often compounding momentum. ↗ Build your audience before you build your brand. The product comes second. ↗ When the audience is strong enough to support, launch your product. They'll carry it. The formula isn't new. It's just rarely executed this cleanly. Whether it's for Elections or Products or Brands - Same game. Sharing the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishmano_letsbuildtogether-brandstrategy-audiencefirst-share-7457374623119216640-VOij?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAwsXb8BwNMSeYibLdX9KcqVd-uVD2gmH8I

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I was travelling