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3-Year Early Access Programme

Find them in Year 1. Watch them for three years. Hire them before anyone else knows they exist.

This changes the campus dynamic completely. Instead of guessing on two hundred strangers in three days, you arrive with twenty-four months of verified performance data on ten students you have been following.

  • Quarterly watchlist updates
  • PPO pipeline tooling
  • Student-controlled, always

How it works

Five steps, spread across three years.

  1. Discovery

    You find a promising student — through a strong hackathon submission, a cognitive-depth search, an innovation project that impressed you, or a genuinely sharp question in a guest lecture Q&A.
  2. Watchlisting

    One click adds them to your watchlist. The student is notified: your company name is visible to them, though the individual recruiter is not. That notification is a powerful motivator — watched students engage far more actively.
  3. Automated updates

    You receive a structured update on each watchlisted student — quarterly, monthly or weekly depending on your tier. Tier changes, attainment movements, completed internships with ratings, competition results.
  4. Internship conversion

    When their profile meets your criteria, extend an internship offer directly from the watchlist. The platform then tracks the internship with mid-point and final rubrics.
  5. The PPO decision

    You are now deciding with three years of watched performance plus a rated internship. Issue a pre-placement offer, or return them to the regular pool. Either way, it is an informed decision.
A quarterly update

What lands in your inbox

CSE Year 3 · Pune

  • Reached Gold tier
  • Design Algorithms attainment: 58% → 78%
  • Completed an internship — rated 4.2 out of 5
  • Second place, IEEE hackathon
  • Readiness score: 71% → 79%

Recommended action

This student now meets your standard internship criteria. Consider extending an offer for your summer programme.

Watchlist capacity

How many students you can follow depends on what you commit to.

Your tierWatchlist sizeUpdate frequencyPPO tooling
Talent Partner25 studentsQuarterlyNo
Engagement Partner100 studentsMonthlyYes
Innovation Partner250 studentsWeeklyYes
Strategic PartnerUnlimitedReal timeYes, plus a dedicated dashboard
24 mo

of tracked, verified performance data before you make the offer

2x

higher PPO rates among students who intern in Semester 4 rather than Semester 6

94%

twelve-month retention among hires with high readiness scores at the point of offer

The PPO pipeline

Six stages, tracked on both sides.

A pre-placement offer is the natural outcome of the early access model. The platform makes every stage of that relationship visible — to you and to the institution's placement office at the same time.

01 Discovery

You viewed the profile, watchlisted them, or met them through your hackathon.

02 Engagement

They applied to your internship, or attended your guest lecture and submitted a reflection.

03 Internship active

Selected and in progress. Your supervisor submits a mid-point rubric.

04 Internship completed

Final rubric in. A score at or above 4.0 out of 5 flags them as PPO-ready to you and the TPO.

05 PPO offered

You extend a formal offer through the platform, with a validity window you set.

06 Accepted or declined

Recorded on both sides. Your acceptance rate over time becomes an employer-brand signal you can act on.

What corporate HR can do

  • Issue a formal PPO through the platform, with an acceptance link and a validity period
  • See which students accepted and which declined
  • Track your PPO acceptance rate over time — a high decline rate tells you your offer is not competitive
  • Hand the whole pipeline to the institution's TPO as a shared view, not an email thread

Why institutions actively want this

The PPO rate is the single most prestigious placement metric an Indian university can report. A partner who systematically produces pre-placement offers is not a vendor to them — it is the relationship their dean will protect. That is why your access improves the longer you stay.

On the student's side

This only works because the student is in control of it.

An early access programme that felt like surveillance would collapse within a semester. Udgam is built so that being watched is something students want.

They know who is watching

Your company name is visible to them; the individual recruiter is not. Students consistently report this as a motivator rather than an intrusion.

They can leave a watchlist

At any time, without explanation. They can also switch off corporate visibility entirely, which is respected absolutely — you will not see them even in aggregate.

They filter by sector

A student can choose to receive watchlist notifications only from sectors they care about. It keeps the signal high on both sides.

A student who did your hackathon in Year 1, interned with you in Year 2 and delivered quality work has a very high probability of accepting a pre-placement offer — before final-year placement season even begins.
Why early access changes the economics
  • Talent Access

    India's verified talent — from Nagpur, Coimbatore, Guwahati, not just IITs.

  • Internships

    Structured, CO-linked, credit-bearing — not informal and forgotten.

  • Placements

    Not more drives. Better matches. Lasting placements.

Early access

The students you'll hire in 2030 are in Year 1 right now.

Sign a letter of intent and your watchlist opens on day one of the platform.