About OPC
One person, three jobs: publish, build, teach.
TechSambad (OPC) Private Limited is an AI learning company. It publishes a daily, sourced ledger of frontier AI news, builds agentic systems that do real work, and teaches with those same systems. The company is one person, and that is a design decision, not a limitation to be explained away.
What the company does
Three things, one loop
Most AI training is written by people who read about AI. This one is written by someone who ships it, and the shipping is public.
Publishes
A daily Global AI News Daily Ledger with sources under every item, a weekly analysis essay, and a newsletter. Reporting and Analysis are labelled separately so a reader always knows which one they are getting.
Builds
Agentic AI systems that run in production, not slideware. An autonomous teaching assistant, an HRIS simulation platform running a live university course, a from-scratch transformer, a newsroom pipeline.
Teaches
Enterprise HRIS and agentic AI at university level, simulation-first and exam-free. Every session produces an artefact a student can point at, not a set of notes.
Why the loop matters
The agent that assembles the morning news brief is the same machinery that assembles a class brief. Nothing taught here is theoretical, because it is all in daily use.
By the numbers
All verifiable
What has been built
Production systems, not prototypes
- HR Flow Lab — full-stack HRIS simulation running a university course in live production: role-based login, a 10-week scenario engine, per-player scoring, admin analytics.
- Aihra — an autonomous AI teaching assistant that grades quizzes, reconstructs attendance, syncs journals and runs student communication.
- Ask MG3003 — in-app LLM study companion with cost-governed routing that runs a whole class for near-zero token spend.
- GyanaChat — a 16M-parameter GPT-style transformer, built and trained from scratch on a laptop CPU with a custom BPE tokenizer.
- DHA Prep LMS — a learning platform with dynamically generated exams and a grounded study assistant.
- AI Newsroom — the automated daily news and weekly newsletter pipeline that produces this site.
Who runs it
Subhankar Pattanayak — founder and director
I spent two decades inside enterprise technology, and the last few years pointing AI at my own work to see what actually survives contact with reality.
Subhankar is an AI strategist and transformation leader with 20+ years in enterprise technology, now focused on enterprise agentic AI — designing, shipping and teaching systems that do real work. He founded TechSambad and runs it as a one-person company, which means the person who writes the analysis is the person who teaches the session.
Commercially, that career includes leading bid and proposal management across India, SEA, Japan, Korea, ANZ and Greater China, supporting 700+ APAC pursuits contributing €200M in closed business, delivering 100% AI adoption across global bid teams with 40–100% productivity gains in deliverable creation, and reskilling 30+ team members through an APAC-wide AI literacy programme. He has been recognised in the top global percentile for performance and leadership, and has keynoted APMP India on AI adoption and the transformation of proposal functions.
Career
- Apr 2025 — present Director, Bid and Proposal Management Gurgaon, India. Bid strategy, governance and operational execution across six APAC regions. AI-led modernisation of the function.
- Jul 2022 — Apr 2025 Head of Bid Management, ANZ & India 400+ bids annually, +40% win rate year on year, a 15-member team at 92% engagement, automation-driven productivity gains.
- 2013 — 2022 Program & Product Leadership — Digital, Content & Industry Marketing Industry marketing. 200%+ website traffic growth, social presence from 0 to 10,000+ followers, content platforms used by 1,000+ salespeople.
- 2007 — 2013 Value Engineering, TCO Benchmarking & Sales Enablement 50+ value benchmarks, global Value Management Tool launched to 100% sales adoption.
Education
- Fellow Programme in Management (doctoral) — IMI Bhubaneswar. Research: vibe coding and AI-assisted programming, with lanes in agentic AI and AI-in-education.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management — Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 2003.
- Bachelor of Engineering, Metallurgy — National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, 2001.
- 50+ certifications across AI and related domains.
Teaching experience
One full course, mini courses, and a workshop
AI taught inside management and engineering programmes at three institutions — a full course, short intensive courses, and a specialist workshop. Not talks about AI in the abstract: sessions where the cohort has to use it.
Enterprise HRIS Architecture & Implementation
A 10-session, 42-topic course for fifth-semester engineering students with no HR background, run entirely as a team-based simulation of a fictional enterprise. Exams replaced with weekly quizzes, peer evaluation, learning journals and team sprints.
Agentic AI and cloud HCM
Short, hands-on courses for working professionals: a two-day “Agentic AI Training for Military Professionals” running from LLM foundations to deployed, working agents; and a four-hour simulation-first cloud HCM course where participants play consultants and leave with three real artefacts.
AI security
A workshop on AI security for a management audience — what securing AI actually means once it stops being a demo and starts touching real business systems and data.
How the classes run
Simulation-first and exam-free. Students take a role inside a fictional enterprise, make decisions that move live metrics, and present real work. Every session produces an artefact — a document, a model, a working workflow — not a set of notes.
The courses are built as redeployable systems: application, database, content and delivery packaged so the whole thing can be rebuilt end to end for a new institution. That is what makes a pilot possible — it is not a bespoke favour, it is an existing product with a delivery process behind it.
Contact
One person, one inbox
For a pilot, a guest session, a workshop or a teaching enquiry, write to:
Tell us the institution, the module or topic, and roughly when. Every enquiry is read by the person who would teach the session — there is no sales team in between.
Bring this to your campus
A single module, one cohort, 90 minutes of live teaching, and a written outcome report — so your faculty can judge it on evidence instead of a pitch.
See the AI Learning Pilot →