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Retail & ecommerce AI curriculum

Balances growth experiments with customer trust—especially for loyalty data.

About the Instructor

Yash Thakker

AI Instructor & Product Leader

Yash Thakker has 12+ years of experience building AI products and has taught 160,000+ students across 50+ courses. He facilitates corporate AI training for enterprises including Tata, PayPal, and Fortune 500 teams. Yash holds an MBA from SIMSREE and a B.Tech in Information Technology. Based in Mumbai, he delivers programs globally, specializing in Claude AI, generative AI, and practical AI implementation for regulated industries.

Credentials

  • MBA, SIMSREE (Sydenham Institute of Management Studies)
  • B.Tech, Information Technology, University of Mumbai
  • 12+ years building AI products
  • 160,000+ students trained across 50+ courses

program objectives

  • Design personalization with explicit consent and measurement.
  • Align store ops and ecommerce analytics on shared metrics.

how we deliver

  1. 1

    Discovery call & problem framing

    We align on sponsors, success metrics, and constraints (2026 tool landscape, data rules, procurement gates) before anything is scheduled company-wide.

  2. 2

    Stakeholder interviews & day-in-the-life context

    Short conversations with practitioners (not only leadership) so scenarios reflect real workflows—not generic slide demos.

  3. 3

    Curriculum design & artifacts

    Modular agenda, exercise scripts, evaluation rubrics, and governance checkpoints matched to your vocabulary (banking, FMCG, engineering, etc.).

  4. 4

    Engaged, hands-on delivery

    Facilitation-led sessions with live exercises, breakout prompts, and documented failure modes—minimum passive lecture time.

  5. 5

    Post-session support: documentation & next steps

    Written recap, pilot backlog, links to explainx.ai courses for scaled upskilling, and optional office hours so momentum doesn’t stop at the workshop.

modules

Experiment design at store vs. online pace

Avoid polluted A/B reads.

session outline

  • Holdout design
  • Inventory coupling

labs

  • Plan a two-week test

beyond-catalog topics (custom)

  • Franchise vs. corporate-owned rollout differences in APAC

quick contact

Scope or pilot this curriculum

Share sponsor, headcount, and cities — we reply with timing and options. Rough budget helps us match the right depth.

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faq

Global vs. local assortments?

We split exercises when your taxonomy differs materially by region.

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