Learning
Teaching, tutoring, mentoring, curriculum, and learning facilitation.
Pune, India · a civic-first studio
Learning, culture, and care for the commons —
Learning, culture, and care for the commons —
made visible, valued, and regenerative.
Leap of Faith Labs is the human layer on India's digital public infrastructure. An open, evidence-first platform that makes learning, culture, and care for the commons visible, valued, and regenerative.
LOFL Design Rule #1
Agents propose. Policy decides. Evidence before everything.
How value is made
One spine, end to end
Every project we touch traces the same path — from a real human act all the way to value that loops back to the people and the commons. Skip no stage.
1
Activity
A real act: learning, teaching, making, stewarding, caring.
2
Evidence
Artefacts, logs, recordings that show the act happened.
3
Verification
A human or AI-assisted review against clear, agreed criteria.
4
Tokenization
An earned Impact Unit is issued to the contributor's ledger.
5
Exchange
Verified impact moves into recognition, opportunity, support.
6
Regeneration
Value loops back to the contributor and their community.
The currency of contribution
Four kinds of impact, earned not granted
When a verified activity completes, exactly one Impact Unit is issued — a credential, not a security.
Skill
Vocational training, craft development, demonstrated competency.
Cultural
Oral traditions, artistic practice, ritual, language preservation.
Green
Water-body care, agroforestry, ecological stewardship and documentation.
Impact Units are non-transferable and non-tradable — reputation and recognition signals, never financial instruments.
In the field
Programs that produce evidence, not slideware
We measure our work by what persists when the session ends: a working pilot, trained people, and verified impact.
Pilot live
After the Bell
School–community continuity. A 90-day, evidence-producing pilot with teacher-stewards in the Konkan, plus an alumni-led pilot at St. Anne's.
Read more In buildAikā ऐका
A phygital card deck and session instrument, grounded in Indic philosophy, for learners in aspirational districts.
Read more Cohorts openingAI for ALL
Institutional AI-literacy programs for civic platforms, cooperatives, NGOs, and artisan clusters — and an open individual cohort.
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What we hold to
Four principles, when they conflict with convenience the principles win
Systems thinking first
Map the system before proposing the fix. Name the actors, the flows, the feedback loops, and the failure modes. A feature that feels right locally can break the whole.
Indic & ethical lens
Balance, dharma, and care for the commons — paired with modern ethics: informed consent, data minimisation, anti-extraction, and dignity for every contributor.
Open by default
Open protocols, interoperable architecture, and public-good tooling. Creative Commons is the default for what we make. Lock-in must be justified.
Product + capacity
Every engagement leaves behind something that works and people who understand it. A polished document nobody can use is a failure.
The universal quality gate
The Sita Tai Test
It isn't a usability test. It's a justice test. Before any work is done, it has to pass.
We pair it with the 15-minute steward test, evidence before any claim, and deployability as a filter.
Could Sita Tai — a semi-literate woman in a Konkan village who teaches five children in her home — take part in this system, have her contribution verified, and receive real recognition, without humiliation, friction, or dependency on systems she cannot reach?— If the answer is not yet, we name what has to change before the work is done.
Open by default
Built to be reused, adapted, and carried forward.
Our core specifications are published under CC-BY-SA 4.0. If you run a school, a cooperative, an NGO, or a fund — or you just want to help make the commons legible — there's a way in.