Hyderabad in 2026 is the fastest-growing AI city in India after Bangalore — and unlike Bangalore, it still has room for individual practitioners to make a dent. T-Hub keeps minting AI startups. HITEC City has more AI engineers per square kilometre than anywhere east of Whitefield. The local SME market — clinics in Madhapur, real-estate offices in Kondapur, CA firms in Banjara Hills, coaching institutes in Ameerpet — is hungry for AI that actually works, not AI that looks good in a pitch deck.
I'm VLN Murthy, an AI Trainer, AI Consultant, and Vibe Coding Expert based in Hyderabad. I work with ONROL — India's AI Execution School on practical AI training programmes and run direct engagements with Hyderabad businesses, students, and institutions.
Who I work with in Hyderabad
- Students from Osmania, JNTUH, IIIT-H, IIT-H, BITS-Hyderabad looking to add real AI projects to a campus placement portfolio
- Working professionals at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Accenture, TCS, Wipro, Cognizant who want to pivot into AI engineering or AI product roles
- SMEs in Gachibowli, Kondapur, Jubilee Hills, Madhapur, Banjara Hills — clinics, CA firms, real-estate brokers, coaching institutes, D2C brands, marketing agencies
- Startups at T-Hub, WeWork Krishe Sapphire, Cyberabad startup hubs in early product stages
- Educational institutions designing AI curricula for B.Tech, MBA, and skill-building programmes
What I do in Hyderabad — service breakdown
1. AI Training (1:1 and small cohorts)
Four-to-twelve-week structured programmes that move a learner from zero to three deployed AI projects. Cohorts run online (so any Hyderabad student can join from any neighbourhood) plus periodic in-person sessions in Gachibowli or Jubilee Hills.
2. Vibe Coding workshops
Half-day to two-day intensives where Hyderabad professionals build their first vibe-coded app using Bolt.new + Claude. Especially useful for product managers, designers, and non-engineers at HITEC City companies who want to prototype without waiting on the engineering team.
3. AI Consulting for Hyderabad SMEs
A 90-minute audit of your business + a written AI roadmap: which workflows to automate first, which tools to use, what ROI to expect in 90 days. Most useful for SMEs in the ₹50L-₹10Cr revenue band considering their first AI hire or automation investment.
4. Corporate AI training
Custom 1-3 day training engagements for HITEC City / Cyberabad companies. Recent topics: vibe coding for product teams, prompt engineering for marketing, AI automation for ops, building internal RAG tools for L&D.
5. AI course design for institutions
Curriculum design for engineering colleges, MBA programmes, and skill institutes in Hyderabad. Output: a structured 8-12 week practical AI module with deliverables, assessment rubrics, and tool licences mapped out.
Real Hyderabad case studies (examples)
- A Jubilee Hills clinic — AI patient enquiry chatbot deployed in 3 days. Handles 60+ enquiries per week without human intervention. Setup ₹18,000 + ₹3,000/month.
- A Madhapur real estate office — AI lead scoring + WhatsApp auto-reply system. Reduced response time from 6 hours to 90 seconds.
- A Banjara Hills CA firm — Document Q&A assistant for GST notices and audit reports. Saves the senior partner ~10 hours/week.
- An Ameerpet coaching institute — admission enquiry automation with AI lead qualification + auto-CRM. Increased qualified leads by 40% in 60 days.
Why Hyderabad-specific training matters
Generic AI training from a Bangalore or US trainer is fine until you start trying to build for a Hyderabad business. Then you discover that:
- Telugu-language conversation handling matters for half the customer base
- The local SME budget reality is ₹15-50K, not ₹5L
- WhatsApp Business API is the primary channel, not email or in-app chat
- Google Sheets + Razorpay + WhatsApp is a more realistic stack than Salesforce + Stripe + Slack
This is the stuff a Hyderabad-rooted AI trainer can show you. It is the stuff a generic AI course will skip past.
How to start
- Call or WhatsApp +91 99665 77659 for a 15-minute discovery call
- Or email iamvlnmurthy@gmail.com with a one-line description of who you are and what you want to learn / build
- I'll send you a fit assessment + which engagement type makes sense
If you'd rather read first, the how to pick an AI trainer piece is the right starting point. If you want the 30-day no-coding-required roadmap, start here.