Saikat Basu has been an entrepreneur for nearly two decades, exploring different businesses before dedicating himself fully to technology. Today, his focus lies on two ambitious goals: building customized AI solutions through bgai.tech and shaping the future of education with the world’s first AI courses for children.

While rolling out these tutor-led classes across India, Poland, and beyond, Saikat discovered another need: how to create short, engaging videos from his talks and lessons without spending hours editing and minimal efforts from his end. That’s when he found AI Video Cut, a tool that helped him transform long speeches and classes into bite-sized content for social media. 

We sat down with Saikat to talk about his experience with our tool and his noble endeavor of educating kids about artificial intelligence.

“I tried to find AI courses online & to my utter surprise, I couldn't find anything for kids.”

I've been into entrepreneurship for eighteen years. I did different types of businesses, but now solely focused on technology. 

What I do now is creating an AI ecosystem from scratch, and there are two different verticals. The first one is that we develop, configure and deploy different types of customized tools, agents, assistants, and projects. We also do AI and IT back-end projects, and that is under the brand called bgai.tech. 

Another vertical is about AI education. I've designed the world's first AI courses for children, where they actually learn AI as a subject, not stuff like how to use ChatGPT, Grok, or any of these assistants. It's a comprehensive annual course for kids from grade three to grade twelve but we have adult courses as well. This is being rolled out as I speak in different parts of the world. These are the two main verticals, which I have been working on with my teams in India, Poland, and in some other parts of the world as well. 

These classes are online but tutor-based, so they're not e-learning platforms: you get a real human tutor.

And to my utter surprise, I couldn't find any. There was none available. And they're all for adults, there are quite a few, but for children—nothing at all. And some of them were more about how to use a particular tech, short, one-week course, two-week course and things like that. So I thought that could be an interesting vertical and decided to design those courses, starting from the youngest one, like grade three and all the way to grade twelve. 

When it comes to IT education or tech education at school, particularly in Europe, or let's say in Poland, they barely exist, particularly in elementary schools. Whereas in Asia, there are a lot more kids who know much more about technology, and it's not just AI; I'm talking about technology as a whole, IT, AI and all other things as well.

The inspiration was as if you have math as a subject and you build up on your math skills as you grow older—the same way, it starts with fundamental concepts when it comes to a nine-year-old kid. 

I have a daughter who just turned ten, so I experimented with her a little bit, too and I found that she could pick it up without using a proper mathematical foundation, because AI has a lot of mathematics when you are trying to learn AI, not use it. So I saw that it was possible for kids to comprehend it. 

Obviously, the courses I made are designed in such a way that all the students will be able to understand. They have a lot of engagement activities as well, like cookie jar mystery, which is a kind of a puzzle they’ll have to solve using AI in their third grade. It’s like Simon Says and Scavenger and all those games for children but with an AI twist, so that they can relate to those things. Only then they start different types of coding and actually learn artificial neural networks. 

How the Team Promotes AI Courses for Kids 

In terms of promotion of these courses, we are just starting out. Right now, I have signed an agreement with a company in India, and they are trying to put together the entire curriculum in Indian schools through different regions, because India is such a huge country. So we’ve got regional channel partners as well here in Europe, Poland. My business, marketing and operations partners are taking care of rolling them out because they have a lot of experience in these kinds of fields and in education in general.

They are doing that bit of marketing through reaching out to schools and also social media. We have our websites and social media handles on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Instagram and TikTok—all of them.

So my partners handle the posts and different types of videos on a regular basis. Besides, I did a lot of workshops; I do that on a pro bono basis for kids online and did a few of them offline here in Poland. Those workshops are about 45 minutes.

Where AI Video Cut Steps In: "I was looking for a tool that could trim a video fast & without my intervention"

Saikat sent us a few examples of videos he made with AI Video Cut. We couldn't help asking him about his experience.

In the video above, as you might see, there's an event. It's an open air event that occurred last month in Warsaw. I was supposed to give a speech on AI for ten minutes but ten minutes is too long to put up something.

Besides, there were some disturbances here and there because it was an open air event, so I was looking for something more crisp, which I can trim and short. And I was looking for a tool which could do it faster, do it without my intervention or without me actually do the trimming. I found AI Video Cut on Grok or Perplexity. To be honest, nowadays I hardly know anybody in the tech sphere who uses Google search.

Even though back then it did nothing else than just trimming, I liked it regardless and I thought that I'd just give it a shot. I used another similar tool too but it's not that smart like AI Video Cut because your tool does it automatically using the keywords. 

I created three videos out of that 10-minute speech, but I will use AI Video Cut as soon as my online classes start.

The classes last for 45 minutes, and I'm going to use the tool to trim those 45 minutes into lots of Shorts and use them as marketing material. I use a lot of Shorts as a way of marketing on YouTube, Facebook and other socials just to grow organically without paying anything.

The product is pretty good. Besides, I'll also have my own podcast starting this month with a photographer; we'll talk about AI among other things as well. I have some experience in content creation and know how it works, how to sell it because I distributed quite a lot of TV content in the past. I even co-produced features.

But honestly, not with Shorts.

Shorts are a different ball game altogether. But nowadays, a lot of things can be done with them for social media growth.