RiseWithJeet was born from a deep love for governance, a fascination with public service, and one IIT engineer who believed every aspirant deserves a fair shot, regardless of geography or income.
In February 2025, Abhijeet Soni, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus and AI Data Scientist, started something deceptively simple: a free YouTube channel about UPSC. No institute backing. No coaching brand. Just comprehensive content, honest teaching, and a genuine belief that every aspirant deserved better than scattered PDFs and inaccessible classroom coaching.
The channel spread fast. His style was different. Complex topics simplified without dumbing them down, methods that actually work, and an energy that felt less like a lecture and more like a conversation with someone who genuinely cared. His video on remembering all 108 National Parks in just 20 minutes became a UPSC community favourite, the kind of content that travels through Telegram groups at midnight with a simple message: "bhai ye dekh le national park ho jayega."
A Telegram community formed naturally. Aspirants started sharing notes, clearing doubts, reviewing each other's answers. Within weeks, thousands of students had joined, not because they were marketed to, but because the content was genuinely useful and the community felt real.
"The exam doesn't just test what you know. It tests how clearly you think, how fairly you analyse, and whether you're ready to serve. You can't prepare for that with a PDF alone."
But as the community grew, Abhijeet saw a structural problem no YouTube channel alone could fix: the quality of UPSC preparation in India is still largely determined by where you live and what you can afford. A student in a small town in Bihar or Andhra Pradesh was starting from a fundamentally different position than one in South Delhi. Same ambition, wildly unequal access.
He knew AI could change that equation. But he also knew that AI alone, without deep UPSC domain knowledge and genuine mentorship, would miss everything the exam really demands. So he decided to build both. AI for speed. Humanized experience for depth. Community for the accountability that turns good intentions into daily habits.
One more thing has guided every decision from the very beginning: radical transparency on pricing. Running this platform, data storage, AI model training on UPSC-specific content, evaluation engines, infrastructure, it all costs real money. RiseWithJeet will only ever charge what it genuinely takes to run and improve this platform. Not a rupee more. That promise is non-negotiable.
Traditional coaching worked well if you lived near a major city and had ₹2–3 lakh to spare. For everyone else, preparation was an uphill battle fought with unequal tools.
We set out to fix the three deepest structural failures, not with incremental tweaks, but by rethinking the entire approach from first principles.
Abhijeet Soni graduated from IIT Kharagpur, built a career at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. On paper, his path was clearly set. But something else had always been running in parallel.
During his college years, Abhijeet developed a deep fascination with governance, policy, and the real-world impact of public service in India. He didn't study Polity and History merely as exam topics, he studied them as windows into the soul of the nation. The Constitution wasn't just syllabus; it was architecture. Current affairs wasn't just revision; it was citizenship.
While his professional path led deeper into AI, building systems that learn, adapt, and scale, his passion for UPSC, for lifelong learning, and for empowering others never dimmed. He saw up close how transformative the right preparation could be, and how inaccessible it still was for millions of aspirants outside a handful of cities.
In February 2025, he stopped waiting and started building. A simple but powerful question guided the journey: what if the same AI-driven approaches used to personalize learning and solve complex problems could make high-quality UPSC preparation accessible to aspirants in every town, without the high costs traditionally attached to it? The YouTube channel became the first step. The platform that followed was built to take that vision further.
Today, Abhijeet personally reviews the AI evaluation models, curates the content roadmap, and continues to show up in the community the same way he did on Day 1, answering doubts, recording lectures, simplifying learners' journeys. The channel may have grown. The intention hasn't changed by a single word.
Everything you see today, the platform, the community, the AI tools, was built in under a year, from zero, by people who genuinely believe every aspirant deserves a fair shot.
Smart preparation, structured planning, and AI-powered insights, everything serious aspirants need, in one place.