
Quest
Kickstart your career with a grand challenge
An alternative to grinding entrance exams and placements. Demonstrate your skills by solving a problem—for the public good.
quest
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/kwɛst/
क्वेस्ट
noun. A journey in pursuit of something consequential.
noun. A hard technical challenge that takes a fortnight to solve, and demonstrates skill and excellence in an area, while creating public goods.
Who is it for ?
All with the right spirit are welcome to complete a quest!
We’re most focused on unlocking high quality early career opportunities for students in schools and colleges
We’re most focused on unlocking high quality early career opportunities for students in schools and colleges
Who are we ?
We curate quests. And we match the best talent we find with the finest companies we know Other than that, we are founders with full time jobs.
Why are we doing this ?
We think talent in India is undervalued and misallocated. Many good people never get a chance due to their background. 
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Identify a quest from our library that stirs your interest. Think about the problem, and build what's needed.
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We will reach out to you, and help you publish your work. It's important that Quests result in outcomes (apps, websites, research, etc.) that are useful to people, and not merely a capstone project
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We find you an opportunity!
If we like your work, we will introduce you to founders or senior leaders at startups where you'd be a good fit. You will skip directly to the final stage of the interview.

Quest Library

A Digital Organizer For Medical Reports
April 20, 2025 · Arnav Bansal
Patients under ongoing treatment end up with gigantic folders full of prescriptions, bills, and test reports. This is very painful for both patients and doctors to deal with, both for doctors understanding a patient's treatment history, and for medical insurance disbursal.

A website to view government announcements in simplified language
April 20, 2025 · Arnav Bansal
The Indian government makes announcements and releases circulars in an extremely inaccessible variant of bureaucratic English. Regional governments sometimes only publish announcements in regional languages.

A tool to figure out who's responsible for a civic problem
April 20, 2025 · Arnav Bansal
The governance structure of Indian cities is quite complex. People only have a proximate idea for which governing body is responsible for a particular problem, and very rarely know an individual's name.

A Scientific Roadmap for Research Progress
April 20, 2025 · Shruthi Badri
Scientific progress often happens in bursts when key bottlenecks are unlocked. Create detailed roadmaps to analyze opportunities and technical paths forward in a research area you care about.

Finetune a model in your local dialect
May 17, 2025 · Shruthi Badri
Create a benchmark of how well transcription or text-to-speech models perform in your local dialect, and finetune a model that does better

A Recipe Transformer for Better Health
May 17, 2025 · Shruthi Badri
Build something that helps Indians find variants of recipes to improve their health