It began with a teacher asking, “and then what?”
P3M.AI is a team of educators and engineers. Our founding idea was simple: a result should explain itself. A mark of 72 tells you where a child landed — not who they are, what they need, or what to do on Monday. sel.p3m.ai brings that idea to the skills report cards leave out.
Nivedita’s vision: every child seen whole.
Nivedita Paul is an educator and the founder of P3M.AI. She shapes the assessment and observation frameworks behind IMPACT — the platform now used across 110+ schools — and leads the thinking behind every SEL test on this site.
[Nivedita’s teaching background — years in the classroom, schools and stages she has taught, and the moment she decided SEL had to be measured.]
Five beliefs behind every test.
Every report names what is already strong before anything else. Children grow fastest when the adults they trust reflect their strengths back clearly.
No jargon, no decoding. If a parent can’t act on a sentence the same evening, we rewrite it.
The child, the parent and the teacher each see something different. Honest SEL needs all three.
Our engine scores and writes; parents and teachers decide what a child needs. No test should label a child.
Reports go to the family or the school who asked for them. Consent is recorded, and data is deleted on request.
Three perspectives. One pencil. One report.
P3M stands for Pen, Pencil, Paper & More — the tools every classroom begins with. Our mark is three people standing together to form a single pencil: different perspectives coming together to write one honest report.
That is exactly how we think about SEL. The child’s own view, the parent’s view and the teacher’s view each see something the others miss. Put together, they describe a child far more truly than any one of them alone.
From one rubric to 110+ schools.
Over 1,000 classroom observations across 250+ teachers, from four perspectives, with a measured 25% growth in teaching practice.
The same observation architecture is used for enterprise verification, hiring assessments and sector audits.
A 100-school pan-India values baseline with the Vivekananda Institute of Values, Ramakrishna Mission, and a financial literacy programme with Rotary at St. James’ School, Kolkata.
Our first SEL self-assessment runs with schools, producing six-page reports for every student, with parents and teachers.
SEL assessments open to every parent in India, starting with the Inner Strengths & Skills Test for Classes 3–10 — and to every school that wants to see the whole child.
Educators and engineers, in Kolkata.
Educator. Shapes the assessment and observation frameworks behind IMPACT and every SEL test.
Runs operations and product, and leads institutional engagements.
Product direction and delivery of school engagements.
Leads school and institutional partnerships. Write to karthik@p3m.ai.
Help us see the whole child.
Start with one test at home, or bring SEL to your whole school.
