Mentorship · one to one · 15 seats
Everything else in BLOOM is built so you can prepare well on your own — the notes, the practice, the evaluation. Mentorship is different. It's me, working through your preparation with you, one person at a time, for as long as it takes to get you ready.
This isn't the Program tier with a bonus call bolted on. It's not a subscription upgrade.
It's a working relationship. You get everything in the Program — the notes, DOJO, PRISM, the test series — and on top of that, you get me. Someone who spent eight years on this exam, three of them full-time and five while working a full-time job, sitting with your actual preparation and telling you the truth about it.
I built BLOOM because I wished something like this had existed when I was preparing. This is the closest thing to that.
I won't pretend this is the same for everyone, because it isn't. This whole thing is built around you — your life, your history, your pace — so the shape of it comes from you, not from a template. But roughly, here's how it unfolds.
Before there's a plan, there are conversations. About your day — what it actually looks like, hour by hour. Your history with this exam — what you've tried, what happened. What you expect from this, and from me. How much time you can genuinely give, not the number you wish were true. And your fears — the ones that show up at 11 pm when the books are open and nothing is going in.
Nothing gets prescribed until I actually know you. A timetable built for an imaginary aspirant is worthless; one built around your real week is the whole point.
Once I know you, you get a schedule — yours, built around your life. We're on calls once or twice a week, working through it together: your writing, your plan, whatever the week actually threw at you. And between calls, everything runs on WhatsApp — questions, doubts, a photo of an answer, a bad day. You don't wait for the next call to be stuck.
As your timetable settles and your system starts holding on its own, the fixed rhythm loosens. Calls become on-demand — whenever you feel the need, you tell me, and we schedule one around you. That's not me stepping back; that's the plan working. The goal was never to keep you dependent on the calls. It was to get you to the point where you call the calls.
And through all of it — nothing here is rigid. If your life changes, the plan changes. If the rhythm isn't working, we change the rhythm. This accommodates you; you don't contort around it.
Everything in this program starts with knowing you, so the application starts the same way. Five questions, and I read every answer myself. They're also a preview of the conversations we'll have if you join — how you react to reading them will tell you whether this is for you.
If answering these felt uncomfortable in a useful way, apply. If it felt like paperwork, this probably isn't your program — and that's fine. The rest of BLOOM was built for you too.
One more thing: if you're already writing in DOJO or getting evaluated in PRISM, I've likely seen your work before your application arrives. That's the best introduction you could give me.
15 seats. That's it — no countdown, no "almost full" banner. It's fifteen because that's how many people I can actually do this properly for. When a batch closes, it closes, and the next one opens when there's room.
Everyone pays the same rate — there's no founding-batch discount here, because unlike the rest of BLOOM, this isn't something that grows to hundreds of people later. It's fifteen seats, this cohort, and that's genuinely all there is. The price doesn't move because the thing itself doesn't scale.
Two ways to pay: in full, or half now and half at the checkpoint. If you pay in halves and decide to step back at the checkpoint, you've only paid for the part you used.
Refundable in full before you're admitted. Not after — by then, I've set aside a seat for you.
Most structured coaching for this exam runs ₹1.5–2.5 lakh, for a seat in a room of a couple hundred people, where the "personal attention" is whatever's left over after everyone else gets theirs.
This is one person, who knows your writing, your week, your actual obstacles — for a fraction of that. You don't need me to spell out the math. You'll do it yourself.
I can't promise you'll clear the exam. Nobody honest can promise that. What I can promise is that for as long as you're in this with me, you won't be preparing alone, and you won't be guessing whether what you're doing is working.
Your attempt count, your optional, your hours, whether this cycle is realistic. A real person answers, usually within 48 hours. No payment, no pitch.