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Mentorship programmes
Mentorship, eight weeks, four people or one to one

Seven programmes. You need one of them.

Each one is eight weeks of live mentorship on a single problem, taught small. They are separate because the audiences do not share pricing, buyers, contracts or timelines, and one programme covering all of it would be thin in every direction.

8 weeksEvery programme. Live sessions with assignments in between.
4 maxOr one to one. Never a room of two hundred.
₹60,000Shared batch, four people maximum.
₹1,75,000One to one, built entirely on your work.
1 formOne application covers all seven. Pick the programme inside it.

Not sure which one

Two questions. Taking the wrong programme wastes ₹60,000, so it is worth ten seconds.

What do you need most right now

Where is that happening

Start here

Read the programme

All seven, grouped by the question in your head

Four rules about the order

These are the confusions that cost people money. Read them before you pick.

01

Career Guidance Abroad comes before Portfolio for Admissions. One decides whether a degree abroad is the right route at all. The other builds the portfolio once you have decided. Doing them the other way round is how people spend a crore answering a question they never asked.

02

Business of Design India comes before International Clients, but only if you have never had a paying client. If you already earn from Indian clients, go straight to the international one.

03

Portfolio for Hiring and Portfolio for Clients are not interchangeable. A hiring panel buys a person for three years and reads for how you think. A client buys one outcome and reads for whether it will land. The same file cannot do both jobs well.

04

Portfolio programmes do not cover pricing, and business programmes do not cover portfolios. That separation is deliberate. Mixing them makes both thinner, and you would be paying for half a programme twice.

Who teaches what

Prashant Gupta

Founder, Beryl Agency · Co-founder, HireDesigners · CII National Committee on Design Innovation and Design Policy

Runs an agency that pitches for client work and hires freelancers, so he sits on both ends of the link. Every rate, clause and compliance step he teaches is one he has used.

  • Business of Design, India
  • Business of Design, International Clients
  • Portfolio for Clients

Akshat Raghava

Creative Director and co-founder, Beryl Agency · RISD alumnus · Co founder, HireDesigners

Receives the shortlist rather than sends it, and through HireDesigners sees hundreds of design careers at the moment they are being priced by someone with a budget. Took the education route abroad and came back.

  • Portfolio for Hiring
  • Portfolio for Admissions
  • Career Guidance, India
  • Career Guidance, Abroad

Questions that apply to all seven

Why seven programmes instead of one?
Because a freelancer pricing for a Delhi founder, a designer applying to RISD and someone deciding whether to leave India need almost nothing in common. One programme covering all of it would be a survey. These are each eight weeks on one problem.
Can I take more than one?
Yes, and some pair naturally. Career Guidance Abroad then Portfolio for Admissions. Business of Design India then International Clients. Never two at the same time.
What is the difference between the two prices?
The shared batch is four people maximum with your real work reviewed in the room. One to one is built entirely on your situation, with direct access between sessions and reviews continuing after the eight weeks end.
Does the batch run if fewer than four apply?
Yes. Four is the ceiling, not the requirement.
Do any of these guarantee a job, a client or admission?
No, and none of them will claim to. Each one changes the part you control and says plainly which part you do not.
Is there one application for all of them?
Yes. One form, and you choose the programme inside it. If you pick the wrong one, that gets sorted before payment rather than in week three.
What if I am not sure which one I need?
Use the two question chooser above, or apply and say so. Applications are read personally and you will be told if a different programme fits better, including if the answer is that none of them do.

One form. Seven programmes. Four seats each.

Apply for the next batch

Applications reviewed personally as they arrive. Next batches start 15 October 2026.

Beryl Agency, Sector 11, Noida. info@hiredesigners.in

Eight weeks · four seats · ₹60,000 shared or ₹1,75,000 one to one Apply