ABOUT ALTIUS
Some lessons you can't afford to learn on the job°
Altius™ is how your people don't have to.
Practise the conversation before it counts.
It feels like messaging a real person. That's the point.
WHY WE BUILT THIS
A surgeon practises on a cadaver before operating on a patient. A pilot practises on a simulator before flying a plane. For the human side of professional work, we still rely on classroom role-plays, e-learning modules, and hope.
Your people often know the model. They have sat through the workshop. Knowing and doing are still different things. Professional training has rarely cracked the second one.
THE GAP
That gap is what Altius is built for.
Practise the conversation. Get a coaching debrief. Every run is private, so adults try harder when nobody is watching. A link, a brief, and a conversation. No app. No LMS maze.
- 40
managers practised retention conversations with
- 42 scenarios live on Altius today
- IN · SG team across India and Singapore
WHAT WE'VE BUILT
This isn't a concept. Altius is live, deployed, and tested.
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Customer-centricity simulations
for a leading Indian automotive OEM. 40 managers across Parts, Sales, and Service practised retention conversations with an AI fleet operator and received individualised coaching debriefs.
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B2B discovery simulation
Learners practise qualification conversations with a C-suite buyer mid-crisis: customs hold, a Diwali deadline, operational chaos. The system evaluates crisis-appropriate tone, probing depth, and stakeholder awareness. Deployed in corporate pilots and with a business school cohort.
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GCC cross-cultural discovery simulation
Client Solutions teams scope a Norwegian client's GCC workplace fit-out: discovery under Nordic directness, honest expectation-setting, and scoping without over-promising. Live as The Nordic Standard on /demos.
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Leadership and governance simulation
Regional banking leaders practise difficult feedback when a star RM kept a borrower green through covenant breaches: SBI, empathy without collusion, and shared accountability before Credit closes the book. Live as The Green RAG on the homepage DemoTeaser and /demos.
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Modular scenario architecture
Each simulation is self-contained: persona, scene, briefing, and rubric. New scenarios can be designed, tested, and deployed in days.
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Production-grade platform
Magic-link authentication, role-based access, organisation-level data isolation, streaming AI responses, and automated coaching evaluation.
WHO BUILDS ALTIUS
The people behind the work
Altius is part of A Degree Above. Go-to-market is shared across the founding team.
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Vidhi Kumar Aiyer
Learning design and client relationships
Owns learning design and client relationships. Every rubric carries her judgment before a learner sees it.
A decade building employee development and talent systems at Agro Tech Foods, then talent acquisition and learning at VE Commercial Vehicles. Hogan Certified Assessor.
Heads A Degree Above. Clients include HUL and Ashok Leyland.
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Arpit Srivastava
Go-to-market, customer success, and renewals
Owns go-to-market, customer success, and the renewal that turns a pilot into a subscription.
Twelve years in go-to-market and market expansion across APAC and the Middle East. Regional brand manager for Lenzing across South Asia, Thailand, and the Middle East.
MBA, NUS Business School. Splits time between India and Singapore.
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Pranesh Nagarajan
Go-to-market, sales, contracts, and technology
Owns go-to-market, sales, contracts, and the technology decisions behind Altius.
Turned around Nestlé India's Maternal Nutrition business with a consultative sales model across 40 cities. At INVISTA, took stretch denim from single-digit to nearly 80% category penetration alongside Levi's and Royal Enfield.
Co-founded A Degree Above.
Advisor
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Anirban Dutta
Advisor
More than 30 years of leadership work in large organisations. Fulbright Fellow. Mentors campus hires and early-career professionals.
Counsel on keeping Altius honest about learning through practice.
HOW WE WORK
You bring the domain. We build the practice.
You know what excellent performance looks like in your organisation or programme. We design the simulation, run it at cohort scale, and hand back coaching debriefs and transcripts you can actually use.