How we work, what we hold true.
Six values. They sit on the wall of the Bangalore office and the Slack channel of every distributed teammate. We test every decision against them.
Dignity is non-negotiable.
Every learner, mentor and partner is met as a peer. We never reduce a person to a beneficiary case study.
Evidence over instinct.
We measure what we ship. If a pilot underperforms, we say so — out loud, in the next quarterly letter.
Craft matters.
A curriculum, a report, a Whatsapp message to a learner — they all get the same care. The medium doesn't change the standard.
Defaults to public.
Salary bands, financial statements, board minutes, program failures. We publish first, get asked never.
We work with, not for.
Local schools, district admin, the families themselves. Plans get co-designed; we leave when the community can run it.
Boring beats brilliant.
Reliable systems, on-time reports, paid stipends. We optimise for the second-most-impressive option that actually works.
What “work at Anshumat” actually looks like.
- 01Stand-up at 09:30 — five minutes per team, no slides, just numbers from yesterday.
- 02Field team in Jharkhand shares a voice note: 47 learners showed up to the morning circle.
- 03Curriculum team ships a v3 of the Skill Dossier module — reviewed by two mentors and a learner.
- 04Partnerships team takes a 30-min call with a CSR lead. No deck. A budget on a Google doc.
- 055pm: someone posts a small win in #stories. Someone else posts a hard thing in #blockers. Both get read.