One programme. Two ways to commit.
I am investing six months of teaching, project feedback and practical guidance. If you join through the tuition-free route, you invest structured internship time that helps us build useful work while you develop experience and portfolio evidence. If you prefer no internship commitment, you can choose a paid seat for ৳9,999.
Classes run at the weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, so they do not collide with study or a job. The internship sits on the weekdays instead: two hours a day, Monday to Friday, which is ten hours a week.
That is the whole model. Everything below is the detail behind it, including the exact hours.
Tuition-free internship
You pay nothing. After a three-week mutual-fit period, you contribute two hours a day from Monday to Friday, which is ten hours a week for twenty weeks, to approved initiatives across Influent Academy, Raisul Builds or Influent.pro. Classes stay on the weekend, so the two do not overlap.
What you get
- All 24 weeks of live teaching, labs and office hours.
- Feedback on every project against a published rubric.
- The academic completion certificate on the same terms as a paid seat.
- Supervised internship work you can put in your portfolio, redacted where needed.
- An experience letter or reference for completed internship responsibilities.
Paid seat
Prefer to focus only on the classes and portfolio projects? Choose a paid seat for a one-time ৳9,999 fee, with no internship commitment.
What you get
- The same 24 weeks of live teaching, labs and office hours.
- The same feedback, rubrics and assessments.
- The same community access.
- The same academic completion certificate.
What is different
- No internship. No contribution hours. No work commitment of any kind.
Here is the honest weekly total, drawn to scale.
A programme that hides its time cost is not free, it is just unclear. So this is the actual arithmetic, and the exact days it lands on.
9 hours a week. Using the midpoint of the 8 to 10 hour range.
19 hours a week during the twenty internship weeks: two hours a day from Monday to Friday, plus the weekend classes. Capped at 200 internship hours in total.
- SatLive class
- SunLive class
- Mon2 hrs internship
- Tue2 hrs internship
- Wed2 hrs internship
- Thu2 hrs internship
- Fri2 hrs internship
You choose when your two hours happen each weekday, any time that works for you. You clock in and out using [time-tracking tool to be confirmed] so the hours are visible on both sides, not just self-reported.
Note: You can miss a day. Illness, exams and family commitments are real, and a day you cannot work is a day you cannot work. Tell us in advance and it is not held against you. What does not work is going quiet: if you miss three consecutive days without telling us, your place on the tuition-free route ends. That rule applies to the internship route only, because a place funded by contribution has to have a floor.
Nothing is committed on day one.
The first three weeks exist so that both of us can find out whether this works before anyone signs up to twenty weeks of anything.
Application and offer
You apply, we talk, and you receive the written agreement for your route with time to read it properly. No payment is taken at application on either route.
Mutual-fit period
You attend, you build and you find out whether the pace is realistic for your life. No internship contribution is owed during these three weeks. If either of us concludes it is not a fit, you can leave with nothing owed.
You choose, knowingly
Now that you have seen the programme, you confirm the internship route or switch to a paid seat. This is the point where the commitment becomes real, and it is deliberately not on day one.
Contribution period
Two hours a day, Monday to Friday, for twenty weeks. That is ten hours a week and 200 hours in total, and the total stops there whatever happens. You can take a day off for illness, exams or a family commitment by telling us first. Three consecutive days with no work and no message ends a tuition-free place.
Completion
Academic completion is assessed on your coursework. Internship responsibilities, if completed, are recognised separately with an experience letter or reference.
What the ten weekday hours may and may not involve.
This is the part most programmes leave vague. Being specific here is the whole point.
What it may include
- Research tasks tied to what you are currently studying.
- Content systems, briefs and production for Raisul Builds or Influent Academy.
- Marketing operations work such as tracking setup, dashboard building or list hygiene.
- Portfolio builds where you are the primary beneficiary of the finished work.
- Internal experiments where the learning is the point and the result is shared with you.
- Community-supporting tasks that help the cohort function.
What it will not include
- Unpaid delivery of commercially billable client work.
- Work beyond your current ability, without supervision or a clear brief.
- Hidden extra hours, or hours added quietly beyond the 200-hour cap.
- A retrospective fee, an exit bill or any penalty for withdrawing.
- Anything you are not permitted to reference in your own portfolio, unless there is a genuine confidentiality reason we explain to you in advance.
- Internship tasks scheduled on a Saturday or Sunday, which belong to your classes.
- Personal errands or tasks unrelated to the curriculum.
If work becomes billable, you get paid
If something you produce is going to be invoiced to a client, or if we ask for work beyond the 200-hour cap, that moves out of the internship entirely and into a separate paid arrangement at a market-appropriate rate. The internship is a learning commitment. It is not a way to get production work done for free.
Bring in a client, share the win
If you generate a lead during your internship, through your own outreach or a referral, and that lead becomes a paying Influent.pro client, you receive 15 percent of that project's total value as a commission. If a lead you bring in becomes a paying client and the project is worth X, you receive 15 percent of X.
This is paid in addition to everything else, and nothing else changes because of it. Your internship hours stay the same, your place in the academic programme stays the same, and the commission is not a substitute for any part of either.
What each side signs up to.
What Raisul commits to
- Teaching all 24 weeks personally, live.
- Feedback on every submitted project against a published rubric.
- Supervision on internship work, with a written brief for each task.
- Scope matched to your ability, and safe for you to attempt.
- Portfolio permission wherever the work allows it.
- Honouring the 200-hour cap without exception.
- Keeping internship work off Saturdays and Sundays.
- Treating a day you flagged in advance as a day off, not a strike.
- Paying you for anything that becomes commercially billable.
- Answering every application, including the unsuccessful ones.
What you commit to
- At least 80% live attendance, with the make-up route when you miss a session.
- Submitting project work by the published deadlines.
- Telling us early when something is not working, rather than going quiet.
- Two hours a day from Monday to Friday during the contribution period, if you take that route.
- Telling us in advance on a day you cannot work, rather than going silent.
- Confidentiality where a task genuinely requires it, explained to you in advance.
- Treating other people in the cohort with respect.
- Doing your own work, and being honest about where AI helped.
Your circumstances can change. The route can change with them.
Switching to a paid seat
You can move from the internship route to a paid seat. Any internship hours you have already contributed are recognised. [Pro-rata arrangement to be confirmed]
Pausing
Illness, exams and family emergencies happen. [Deferral and pause policy to be confirmed before applications open]
Withdrawing
You may withdraw from the internship route with no retrospective fee and no exit debt. [Paid seat refund policy to be confirmed]
The Influent.pro pathway
Influent.pro is my service business for creators and personal brands. Graduates who do strong work may be considered for paid roles, freelance work or other paid opportunities there. Being considered is not the same as being selected. Based on performance, between one and five people from each cohort are offered a role to continue working with us afterwards.
Completing this programme does not guarantee employment, a freelance contract, a role at Influent.pro or any level of income. There is no placement rate on this site because there are no graduates yet, and we will not publish one until it is real and countable.
Transparency and legal review
The internship agreement, its final wording and its label are under review by employment counsel in Bangladesh before applications open. If that review changes any term on this page, the page changes and applicants are told directly.
We are deliberately not using the word “free” on its own, because the internship commitment is real and material to your decision. Anything still undecided appears on this site as an open placeholder rather than a comfortable guess.
Once the first cohort has run, we intend to publish cohort size, applications, starts, withdrawals and completions using stable definitions, rather than only publishing testimonials.
Everything people ask before applying.
If your question is not here, please ask. We would rather answer it now than have you find out in week five.
The internship route is free of tuition. You pay no money at any point. In exchange, after the three-week mutual-fit period, you contribute two hours a day from Monday to Friday, which is ten hours a week for twenty weeks and 200 hours in total. We call it tuition-free rather than free because that second part is a real commitment and you should be able to see it before you apply, not after.
Two reasons, and both are honest. First, six months of live teaching and individual feedback is a significant amount of my time, and the internship is what makes a tuition-free place possible. Second, commitment predicts completion. Programmes that cost nothing and ask nothing have very high dropout, and a cohort that empties out in month two is worse for everyone still in it.
No. It is a supervised learning commitment with a fixed hour cap, and it is not employment. There is no salary, no employment relationship and no obligation continuing after the programme ends. If any work you do becomes commercially billable client delivery, it stops being internship work and moves into a separate paid arrangement. The final wording and label are subject to review by employment counsel in Bangladesh.
Work that is aligned to what you are studying at the time. Research tasks, content briefs and production, marketing operations such as tracking setup or dashboard building, portfolio builds, internal experiments and community-supporting tasks. Every task comes with a written brief and supervision. If you are in month two studying SEO, you will not be handed something from month five that you have not been taught yet.
Not as unpaid internship work. This is the clearest line in the whole model. Internship tasks are approved portfolio, practice, internal or community-building initiatives. If something you produce is going to be invoiced to a client, you are paid for it separately at a market-appropriate rate.
There is no salary, and the internship itself is not paid. Two things can bring money in. If work you produce becomes commercially billable, it moves out of the internship into a separate paid arrangement at a market-appropriate rate. And if you generate a lead, through your own outreach or a referral, that becomes a paying Influent.pro client, you receive 15 percent of that project's total value as a commission. Both are additions to the internship rather than replacements for any part of it, and neither is a promise of income.
Coursework and portfolio projects are yours. For internship tasks, ownership depends on the task and is stated in the brief before you start it, never afterwards. [Final intellectual property terms to be confirmed in the written agreement]
Yes, that is the intention. Internship tasks are chosen so that the output is suitable for a redacted learner portfolio. Where a specific task genuinely cannot be shown, you are told that at the briefing stage, before you spend hours on it.
Yes, at any point. Circumstances change and this should not trap anyone. Internship hours you have already contributed are recognised. [Pro-rata arrangement to be confirmed]
On the internship route you can withdraw without any retrospective fee, exit debt or penalty. You will not be invoiced for teaching you already received. [Full withdrawal policy, including notice period, to be confirmed]
[Refund policy to be confirmed before applications open.] We would rather show you an open placeholder than publish a policy we might have to change. No payment is taken at application, so nothing is at risk while you decide.
Yes. Identical sessions, identical feedback, identical rubrics and assessments, identical community access and the same academic completion certificate. Your route is a commitment choice, not a quality tier, and nobody in the cohort will know which route you are on unless you tell them.
No. Graduates who do strong work may be considered for paid roles or freelance work at Influent.pro, but there is no guarantee of employment, a contract, a role or any level of income. This programme also carries no placement statistics, because there are no graduates yet and we will not invent one.
Eight to ten academic hours a week for all 24 weeks, with the live classes on Saturday and Sunday. On the internship route, add two hours a day from Monday to Friday during the twenty-week contribution period, which is ten hours a week, so roughly nineteen hours in a typical week. The full breakdown, drawn to scale, is further up this page.
Tell us in advance and take the day. Illness, exams, travel and family commitments are all normal, and none of them is treated as a failure. The one thing that does not work is disappearing: if you miss three consecutive days without telling anyone, your place on the tuition-free route ends. It is a hard rule rather than a warning system, because a tuition-free place is funded by the contribution and the rest of the cohort depends on the work being predictable. Paid seats carry no internship and no daily commitment, so this does not apply to them.
No marketing experience is required. What matters is that you can follow technical instructions in English, protect the weekly hours, and keep going when the first version of your work comes back with corrections on it.
A laptop or desktop computer, not a phone alone. Google Tag Manager, Google Ads and Looker Studio are not realistically usable on a phone. You also need a connection stable enough for live video, though recordings exist for the days when it is not. [Minimum device specification to be confirmed]
Sessions are taught in Bangla and English mixed naturally, the way most of us actually talk about this work. Tools, documentation, written assignments and rubrics are in English, because that is the language the industry runs on and pretending otherwise would not help you.
A fair question in this market, and the honest answer is that you should not take my word for it. There is a large body of free work under Raisul Builds you can judge before applying. This site publishes no income claims, no placement rate and no testimonials that do not exist yet. No money is taken at application. And every unfinished decision on this site is visibly marked as unfinished rather than filled in.
Read it all. Then decide.
If the exchange looks fair to you, apply. If it does not, that is a completely reasonable answer.