Inside a Provd Cohort: How the 4-Week Master Simulation Works
A Provd cohort runs 4 weeks: 3 weeks of preparation, 1 week of simulation.
The first cohort is Growth Marketing, capped at 25 seats, priced at ₹4,999 one-time. Every cohort follows the same shape: lean practical content, progressive tasks that build in difficulty, a live Founder AMA, and a final Master Simulation that's scored and folded into a Talent Report.
Week 1 & 2 — Learn, and start proving it
Content is recorded by a working practitioner, not a professor — 3 to 4 hours total across the full 3 weeks, built specifically around what the simulation will test. There's no padding and no filler modules; every module exists because Week 4 requires it.
Task 1 and Task 2 land here — progressive, individually scored deliverables that build the specific skills the Master Simulation will demand. Every task gets individual written feedback, regardless of score.
Week 3 — Task 3 and the live Founder AMA
Task 3 is the last checkpoint before the Master Simulation. Week 3 also includes a live, 45-minute Founder AMA — direct, unscripted access to the startup founder who co-designed the simulation from their own playbook, not a generic guest lecture.
Week 4 — The Master Simulation
This is the heaviest week and the actual product: a real job simulation modeled on the founder's own work, evaluated against a rubric the practitioner built specifically for it. It's scored individually, not curved against classmates.
What happens after Week 4
Every student gets a Talent Report — a performance score per task, a rubric-based skill breakdown, an AI tool proficiency read, and a Provd tier: Ready to Hire, High Potential, or Developing. The top 5 performers in the cohort get an additional layer: their submissions are personally reviewed by the founder, and those written notes go directly into their report.
The simulation itself is co-designed with the startup founder from a 3-hour session on their actual playbook — not written from a textbook. That keeps the bar tied to what a real company needs, which is also why the resulting Talent Report means something to hiring teams outside the cohort.
Why the structure is 3 weeks of prep to 1 week of simulation
Most of the value in a job simulation comes from performing under realistic constraints, not from consuming content. Three lean weeks exist to make sure every student has exactly the tools the Master Simulation requires — no more, no less — so Week 4 measures ability, not how much material someone managed to sit through.