An Exclusive Interview with Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu, CBO & Co-Founder of Oratrics, an emerging EdTech venture focused on redefining youth skill, personality, and career readiness in India
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu, CBO and Co-Founder of Oratrics, is reshaping India’s EdTech landscape. This emerging venture redefines youth skill-building, personality development, and career readiness. In this interview, he shares bold strategies for equipping the next generation with real-world success tools.
How did your partnership form, and what personal experiences inspired you to co-found Oratrics in 2018 as a platform blending personality enrichment with skills like public speaking?
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu: I began my career in academic ed-tech with Byju’s and later transitioned into non-academic and exam-preparation platforms such as Unacademy. This journey eventually led me to build a new vertical focused on 21st-century skills at Dalham.
Across these experiences, one insight became increasingly clear: academic excellence alone is insufficient without strong personality development and communication skills.
My years of UPSC preparation further reinforced the process which highlighted how articulation, clarity of thought, confidence, and presence often determine outcomes just as much as knowledge itself.
When I connected with Samad, his visionary thinking strongly complemented my own views on personality development. Together, we recognized a persistent and widespread gap in education.
Time and again, we saw bright children and capable adults held back – not due to a lack of intelligence, but because they struggled to express themselves with confidence. Samad’s personal journey of overcoming stage fear deeply resonated with this problem, and we continued to hear similar stories from families across geographies.
At that point, the gap was impossible to ignore. Most education systems excel at teaching facts and formulas, but very few equip learners with the ability to speak up, tell their story, and truly own a room.
As chief business officer, what key strategies have driven Oratrics’ expansion to over 15 countries and 25,000+ confident communicators trained?
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu: The foundation was always results-driven word-of-mouth. When a child starts raising their hand in class, or a professional closes a deal because they finally spoke with clarity and presence, parents and participants tell everyone they know.
That natural advocacy carried us from India to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, UAE, Australia, and more.
We kept programs accessible and priced reasonably so families worldwide could join online live classes. Thoughtful digital outreach helped us reach homeschooling families, international schools, and expat communities.
Because we stayed bootstrapped and disciplined, we could focus obsessively on parent testimonials, rapid iteration from real feedback, and digital-first scaling before opening physical studios. That mix had undeniable transformation plus borderless access which took us beyond 15 countries and past 25,000 confident communicators trained.
Oratrics offers programs like Public Speaking, Creative Writing, MathX, financial literacy and AI skills. How do you integrate personalized coaching to make them effective for young learners?
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu: We rely entirely on expert, live human coaching to make every program powerful for young learners. In public speaking sessions, the work is done in one on one and small group activity sessions and workshops, where mentors correct posture, tone, pauses, and structure in the moment, not later on paper.
Writing sessions begin with conversation, not instruction. Children talk through ideas, listen to others, write, revise, and receive direct notes that help them recognise their own voice. MathX is built around conceptual learning, discussion and problem-solving, where concepts are explained differently until they click, without rushing or pressure.
What matters most is the child’s ability to use the concepts in real life situations, naturally. Mentors earn trust, acknowledge effort, rehearse real situations, and nudge children gently past hesitation.
Confidence doesn’t come from theory. It grows from repetition, patience, and someone believing in the child before the child believes in themselves.
What role does global recognition and a 4.8/5 rating play in refining your curriculum for emotional intelligence, leadership, and financial literacy?
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu: Every decision is guided by what families see at home. When parents in the US describe their child now speaking up comfortably in group settings, or families, those real-world changes carry the most weight.
The curriculum evolves around the outcomes that actually appear in everyday situations, learning to manage fear calmly, listen with real attention, or lead naturally without needing to overpower others.
The same applies to financial literacy: when parents tell us their children have started saving pocket money on their own, or pause to think before making an impulse buy. This not only makes the child financially aware, but also develops a positive personality.
Awards and external recognition are nice to receive, but they never become the true guide. That ongoing, honest dialogue keeps every part of the learning practical, relevant, and anchored in genuine, lasting growth.
What has been the biggest hurdle in scaling live classes to 50,000+ monthly sessions while maintaining quality across cultures, and how did you overcome it?
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu: The single biggest challenge was preserving the same level of personal impact and consistency as session volume grew rapidly across time zones, cultural communication styles, and thousands of individual personalities.
Early on we saw some variability: one mentor might give very direct feedback while another was more gentle, and that inconsistency could affect the experience. We resolved it by creating a thorough mentor certification and ongoing training program so every coach masters the same core methodology and energy.
We built standardized session structures and progress tracking that everyone follows, while still allowing room for cultural nuance in examples or phrasing.
Most importantly, we track every class through parent ratings and detailed progress notes, then use that data to continuously improve mentor performance. Because of these systems, families in any country still report the same kind of breakthroughs whether the session happened in the US, Singapore, Middle East or India.
As a co-founder in edtech, what advice do you have for entrepreneurs navigating competitive markets like personality development training?
Gautam Jayadeep Kunchattu: In a crowded field where everyone promises “confidence” or “public speaking,” the only thing that truly matters is proven, visible transformation.
Collect Before-and-after stories, video clips of progress, and honest testimonials; those become your strongest marketing. Build everything for retention and referrals: when you deliver such strong results that one family tells ten others, growth happens organically.
Prioritizing human connection over hyped features, parents want to see their child’s mentor genuinely care and know how to bring out the best in them. That authenticity keeps you going when things get hard, and the market always rewards people who change lives for real, not just fill seats.
Gautam Kunchattu’s vision at Oratrics promises a brighter future for Indian youth, blending innovative EdTech with practical skill mastery. His insights empower aspiring professionals to thrive—proving that targeted readiness can unlock limitless career potential in a competitive world.
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