Leap 300 is working with government programmes in Bihar, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to support more than five lakh rural women entrepreneurs through an AI-powered business development model. The aim is to give women business planning tools, personalised guidance and on-ground support through networks that already reach them.
The platform guides each woman through a 300-day journey, from choosing a business to growing her income. A beneficiary app lets participants prepare and submit AI-assisted business plans, learn business skills through a voice-based learning system and track daily finances with digital accounting tools. An AI advisor called Vyapar Mitra offers personalised recommendations and on-demand guidance in local languages. The organisation is also introducing AI-powered training for government field workers so that support is consistent across locations.
According to the organisation, India already has one of the world’s largest networks for reaching rural women, and the next step is using it to make personalised business expertise available to every woman. It says AI can help a first-time entrepreneur identify what her village needs, make better decisions and get guidance when she needs it. Its stated vision is to help governments build millions of rural women entrepreneurs.
Bihar: The initiative runs through a state rural livelihoods programme. According to Leap 300, about 60% of businesses in the wider programme across the same blocks were livestock-based, against less than 1% in its pilot, where women set up retail, food and skilled-service businesses. As of September 2026, 87% of relevant trained participants had used Vyapar Mitra and 95% were regularly recording accounts digitally. Separately, a related state collaboration has a wider roadmap covering three lakh households.
Punjab: The partnership is linked to a credit-based state programme. The organisation reports that monthly loan throughput rose from four to 25 per block, and the time to launch a business fell from about three months to 12 days. The share of first-time entrepreneurs grew from 15% to 45%, with participants running 51 types of business. Women with at least three months of business history recorded about 1.5 times their baseline income, and the organisation reports 100% loan repayment so far. The state’s longer-term target is 1.5 lakh women.
Uttar Pradesh: The organisation is working with the state government’s Planning Department under its Zero Poverty Programme, targeting one lakh households over three years, including 50,000 in the first year. The effort could extend to about 12.36 lakh identified Zero Poverty households.
Haryana: A planned collaboration with the state rural livelihoods mission aims to support 1,200 women entrepreneurs over three years, combining credit access with business planning, AI guidance and trained field support.
Across its broader programme, the organisation reports a 90% graduation rate and average income growth of about three to four times. The four partnerships are meant to carry this support through established public delivery systems.
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