You shouldn't have to pay ₹2 lakh upfront to a consultancy that ghosts you after the bank deposit clears. You shouldn't get a generic SOP template that 200 other students used last cycle. You shouldn't find out your "score guarantee" had ten footnotes.
We're a team of dedicated counsellors in Chandigarh. We've collectively been through the IELTS, TOEFL, F-1, Tier-4 and 500 visa systems ourselves. Bandlingo is the consultancy we wish we'd had.
We don't charge until a service is delivered. We don't pre-bill credits. We don't take university commissions — our incentives align with yours, not the institution's.
Our app doesn't show you a 20-screen onboarding flow. Each screen teaches you what to do next, plainly. We bring the same calm-tutor energy to every WhatsApp conversation.
We turn down 1 in 8 prospective students every month — usually because their file is genuinely weak and filing now would damage their record. We'd rather lose a fee than ship a bad outcome.
A 30-month timeline. Some mistakes, mostly the right calls.
Mahi was a senior product engineer at Razorpay. Ananya was a Cambridge-trained examiner who'd graded 12,000+ IELTS scripts. The thesis: most exam prep is built for tutors, not students.
First version of the speaking/writing AI grader. Trained on 80,000 examiner-annotated scripts. Hit 92% agreement with human graders within 0.5 bands.
iOS + Android. ₹0 to start, 5 credits per test. First 1,000 students.
University shortlisting + visa filing. Hired ex-counsellors from IDP and Edwise. Crossed 5,000 students.
Bandlingo's signature feature. Convert any English-test score across all five major exams. ISO 27001 certified. 12,400+ students placed.
Bandlingo is a one-person operation — for now. I handle counselling, application edits and visa paperwork myself, and I lean on a small network of trusted partners (examiners, immigration lawyers, university alumni) when something needs a second pair of expert hands. If you book a call, you'll get me on the other end.
Study-abroad alumnus · Based in Chandigarh · Speaks Hindi, Punjabi, English
I built Bandlingo after my own application year — the consultancy I paid ₹1.8 lakh to ghosted me three weeks before my visa interview, and I had to figure out the rest alone. The plan was always to make the consultancy I wish I'd had.
Right now that means I personally take every counselling call, edit every SOP, and file every visa packet. When something genuinely needs a second pair of expert hands — a Cambridge-certified examiner re-grading a Speaking attempt, an immigration lawyer reviewing a complex Tier-4 financial profile — I bring in a trusted partner. You'll know about it before it happens.
If you book a free call, you'll get me on the other end. No call-centre handoff.
— Founder, Bandlingo1st floor, inside The Social, Sector 7. Coffee on us — call ahead so I'm not on another call.