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Add hands-on AI experience to the years you already have.

Join Rowanbridge Data Systems, a simulated AI company, and work in its team in sprints: around your job, or full time while you are between jobs.

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I'm moving from Manual QA to AI Evaluation Engineer

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Your résumé · counted

QA Lead · 7 years

Test designDefect triageSQL

Manual QA → AI Evaluation Engineer

370 open roles · ₹5L–₹24L

Sample
To closeLLM / Agent Output Validation79%
To closeEvaluation Framework & Regression Suite Design64%
To closeBenchmark & Golden Dataset Design64%
12 sprints · about 21 weeks at 8 h, 9 at 20 hReady to join
Your years count, career gap or not
Roadmap ready

32 AI-era roles in the free report

32 training simulations open

60 sprints across the simulations

10 free job-ad checks a day

Why it's hard right now

No AI experience, no interview.

Experienced people aren't short of ability. They are short of AI work they can show.

Maya: Which of these sounds most like you?

Then do the AI work before the interview.

In Rowanbridge's sprints you build and ship AI work, and every sprint project is reviewed on each criterion.

Take a seat in a sprint meeting

What AI roles pay

I work in:

Every family: its lowest to highest pay band

Testing & QA · 4 AI roles

₹1L–₹49L

Data & analytics · 7 AI roles

₹7L–₹60L

Business, product & design · 6 AI roles

₹8L–₹46L

AI & software engineering · 8 AI roles

₹5L–₹46L

Cloud, infra & ops · 4 AI roles

₹4L–₹50L

Security & governance · 3 AI roles

₹10L–₹38L

Low to high end of each pay band, from current job postings where you are.

How it works

From your résumé to recruiters.

Six steps, in order. Each one starts from what the last one gave you.

Step 1 · AssessLive

We read your résumé the way a hiring manager does.

The skills you list, how recently you used them, your certifications and your level, compared with what employers ask for in the role you want. Then you join Rowanbridge for that role (sprints are open for testing roles today).

  • PDF, read in under 10 seconds
  • Gaps ranked by how often employers name them
  • Free pivot report, no card

Résumé read

Sample

Rahul Sharma

QA Lead · 7 years

Extracted

Test designDefect triageSQL
Skills matched3
Recency weighted2024–26
Gaps to close3
Manual QA → AI Evaluation EngineerReady to join

See it up close

Try the work, not just the lessons.

One live, three previews of what is coming. Pick one.

Live · piloting in the Agile sprint

Don't just watch. Take your seat in the meeting.

In the Agile sprint, the video pauses at a decision and the stand-up starts. You give your update, Maya tells you what landed, then Priya hands you a ticket.

  1. 1 · The video pauses at a decision

    Agile & Scrum: the Tester's Seat

    Paused at 11:55
    7:38 Who decides?11:55 Daily Scrum13:29 Poker17:18 Only a prompt
  2. 2

    2 · Your turn in the stand-up

    Daily Scrum: your update

    Day 5 of sprint 2. Fifteen minutes. Everyone gives an update, and it's your turn.

    Scrum Master, David and Harry are waiting
  3. 3
    3 · Maya's feedbackWhat landed in your update, and what to say next time
  4. 4
    4 · Priya hands you a ticketYour seat at sprint planning · about 45 min

Demo with scripted replies. In your sprint you type your own answer and the team responds to what you said.

Maya · AI coach · Meeting · Day 5

Turn 1 of 3
Scrum MasterDavid · DeveloperHarry · AutomationYou · Tester

Scrum Master

Day five. Quick round, please.

David Developer

Language detection is merged. Today I'm on the fallback when detection isn't sure. Nothing blocking.

Harry Automation

Regression's green on 17.1. Today I'm adding the Hinglish cases to the nightly run.

Scrum Master

Tester, over to you.

Your situation: the Hinglish reviewer has checked 24 of 60 answers. Your HLF-402 acceptance tests are written. Build 17.2 was due on QA yesterday and isn't there.

Your reply as the tester · 3 turns left

Not scored · Maya gives feedback at the end

Two ways in

Which one are you this month?

Working and changing careers, or between jobs and moving fast. Pick yours and see the first three steps.

1AssessFree pivot report from your résumé
2Join and sprintRowanbridge sprints at your pace
3Prove itGraded projects, then your certificate

No sign-in needed

Find your role. Or check a job ad.

Pick your family. The free gap analysis covers all 32 AI roles; roles marked Full path have their sprints open today.

Applying this month?

Paste a job ad. The JD Checker compares it with your resume and shows your match and your top gaps for that one job.

  • Works without an account (your top gap)
  • Free account: 10 checks a day, top 3 gaps each

Pricing

Start free. Go Pro when you join a role's team.

Prices are shown in your own currency.

  • Free

    Your gap analysis, top gaps and every task in your first sprint — no card.

  • Pro

    Every sprint, the sprint deliverables and the job-search tools, for 1, 3 or 6 months. No auto-renewal.

  • UpModel Work Track

    One real AI project, reviewed by a named expert. Opening soon.

Before you start

Questions people ask first

Is UpModel free to start?

Yes. Upload a resume and get your gap analysis with your top three gaps, check up to 10 job ads a day, and do every task in your first sprint. No card. You pay only for the rest of your sprints.

What is Rowanbridge?

Rowanbridge Data Systems is the simulated AI company you join. Your lead, the scrum master and Maya, your AI coach, work with you in sprints. It is a training simulation, not employment: the work is real practice, the company is not a real employer.

Can I do it while I work, or full time?

Both. Your roadmap shows the total hours before you start: around 8 hours a week fits around a job, around 20 hours a week if you are between jobs.

Are the meetings and tasks graded?

No. Meetings end with feedback from Maya, and tasks check themselves, with unlimited attempts. The graded parts are the sprint deliverables; the capstone review opens soon.

I'm not in testing. Is UpModel for me?

Yes. The free pivot report and the JD Checker cover all 32 AI-era roles in testing, data, business and product, engineering, cloud and ops, and security. Sprints are open for the testing family today, and more families are being built.

What is the Work Track?

It opens after certification: one real AI project in three milestones (build, evaluate, ship), each reviewed in writing by a named reviewer within 72 hours. It is training, not employment, and it adds a Verified Project Record to your profile. Opening soon.

What can employers see about me?

Only what you publish or share. Your Verified profile is private until you publish it, you choose each section, and your email is never shown. A credential link you share shows that you passed, not your score.

How long does it take?

Each sprint lists its hours, and your roadmap shows the total in weeks at the pace you choose, before you start.

How does certification work?

When every sprint for your role is passed, a timed exam opens: 50 questions in 90 minutes, with tab switching monitored and 75% to pass. Pro includes 2 attempts. The credential sits at a public link anyone can open. We don't claim endorsement by any employer.

Are the figures for where I live?

Pay and job figures come from the job markets UpModel tracks and are shown for the market where you are. Prices are shown in your own currency.

Start with your résumé. Leave with AI work you can show.

Free pivot report, no card. Then sprints at Rowanbridge, graded projects and a certificate.

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