Vaibhav Sisinty built an ed-tech company that has trained more than 10 million learners. His side project, a free WhatsApp community called Staying Ahead, might now be reaching more people, faster, than the company that made him known.
Here’s the thing about AI newsletters and communities in 2026: there are a lot of them, and most look identical from the outside. Daily digest, a few tool recommendations, a paid tier waiting at the bottom of the email. So when a founder with an actual audience launches a free resource hub, it’s worth asking what’s really in it before you hand over your WhatsApp number.
That’s what this post does for Staying Ahead, the free AI community built by Vaibhav Sisinty, founder of GrowthSchool.
What Staying Ahead Actually Is
Staying Ahead is a free WhatsApp community that sends a short daily brief on what changed in AI, plus an archive of prompts, GPTs, templates, and workflows that members have found useful. According to the platform’s own landing page, it has crossed 100,000 members, all joining for free.
It isn’t a discussion forum where members argue in a group chat. It runs closer to a curated broadcast: Vaibhav and his team send out what they’re seeing and using, and members save what’s relevant to them. The pitch, in the platform’s own words, is one curated space where builders trade what actually works before the rest of the internet catches up.
Who’s Behind It
Vaibhav Sisinty spent close to four and a half years at Uber in growth and marketing roles across India and Latin America, and later worked at Klook, where he says he helped scale revenue from around $6 million to $25 million. After two rounds of layoffs, he started GrowthSchool, a cohort-based ed-tech company that has since trained more than 10 million learners across over 150 countries.
GrowthSchool raised a $5 million seed round from Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India), Owl Ventures, and more than 80 angel investors, according to Sisinty’s own posts. Staying Ahead grew out of that same audience: he started sharing what he was personally learning about AI each week, and it turned into a standalone community with its own domain and daily send.
What You Actually Get Inside
Based on the platform’s public description of its own offering, members get access to a mix of things:
- A daily AI brief: A short PDF sent to WhatsApp each morning covering what shipped in AI that day, meant to be read before your first meeting.
- Prompts, agents, and workflows: Shared only after the team has used them in their own work first. The idea is that you’re seeing what survived internal testing, not everything that was tried.
- Live build sessions: Zoom sessions where the team builds real workflows for real problems, without slide decks.
- Member-built tools: GPTs, agents, templates, and workflows that members themselves have shipped, with the best ones surfaced back to the group.
The All Resources Page, Specifically
The stayingahead.ai/all-resources page functions as the archive for everything above. Instead of scrolling back through weeks of WhatsApp messages to find a prompt someone shared in April, the resources page is meant to be where it’s all indexed and searchable in one place.
One honest note here: the page is fully JavaScript-rendered and sits behind the same sign-up flow as the rest of the site, so it doesn’t expose its contents to a static page read. What’s in this post about the archive comes from the platform’s own public description of what it does, from Vaibhav Sisinty’s other channels, and from independent write-ups, not from browsing the resource library first-hand. If exact resource counts or categories matter to your decision, confirm them after you join.
How to Join Staying Ahead
- Go to stayingahead.ai and enable JavaScript in your browser if it isn’t already. The sign-up form won’t load without it.
- Fill in your details where prompted, typically your name and WhatsApp number, so the community can add you to its broadcast list.
- Confirm the opt-in on WhatsApp. You should get a message or invite link that adds you to the community.
- Watch for the daily brief each morning, and don’t skip it for more than a few days in a row. Digest-style content is easy to let pile up unread.
- Head to the all-resources page once you’re in, and bookmark it. This is where you’ll come back to find a prompt or template instead of scrolling old chat history.
- Save what you’ll actually reuse. Copy prompts and templates into your own notes app as you find them, rather than relying on WhatsApp search later.
Pricing
Staying Ahead is free. There’s no paid tier mentioned anywhere on the platform’s own pages, and the landing page explicitly markets it as free forever. Sisinty’s revenue comes from GrowthSchool’s paid cohorts and courses, and Staying Ahead functions as a way for people to discover that world, not as a funnel with a hidden charge of its own.
Where It’s Actually Useful
You want AI news without opening five tabs: a two-minute WhatsApp read each morning is a lower bar to clear than opening an email newsletter, especially if you already live in WhatsApp for work.
You want prompts you can copy instead of write from scratch: if the archive holds up to its own description, it saves you the trial and error of writing a workflow prompt from zero.
You’re following Vaibhav Sisinty’s content anyway: if you already watch his YouTube videos or podcast appearances, the community is where the tools and links mentioned in those videos usually end up.
Honest Caveats
- It’s WhatsApp-first. You’re handing over a WhatsApp number, not just an email address, and community volume depends entirely on how actively it’s moderated.
- Numbers are self-reported. The 100,000-plus member claim comes from the platform’s own marketing copy. There’s no independent, third-party count to verify it against.
- It’s a top-of-funnel product. GrowthSchool is a paid business, and Staying Ahead sits upstream of it. Expect occasional mentions of paid courses and cohorts alongside the free content.
- The archive’s depth is unverified from the outside. Because the page requires sign-up and JavaScript to render, this review couldn’t confirm exactly how far back the resource library goes or how it’s organized. Treat “all-resources” as a promise to check, not a guarantee.
- Content leans toward a general, work-and-career audience rather than deep technical material. If you want research-paper-level depth, this isn’t built for that.
How It Compares to Other Free AI Newsletters
The closest comparison isn’t another WhatsApp group, it’s the free AI newsletter category. The Rundown AI, for instance, is a free daily email that has grown past 2 million subscribers, with its only paid product being a separate course platform called Rundown University, priced at $84 a month. That’s a far bigger, more established audience, and it comes with a tools directory and tutorial-style breakdowns baked into the format.
Where Staying Ahead differs is distribution and tone. It lives on WhatsApp instead of email, it’s tied to one visible founder instead of an editorial team, and its resource archive is framed as things the team personally used before sharing, rather than a general news roundup. If you already read a newsletter like The Rundown for news, Staying Ahead is more useful as a prompt and workflow archive layered on top, not a replacement for it.
Bottom Line
Staying Ahead is free, it’s easy to join, and the daily brief format fits naturally into a WhatsApp-heavy routine. Whether the all-resources archive lives up to its own billing is something you’ll only know once you’re inside it, since the page itself doesn’t give that away from the outside. If you’re already in Vaibhav Sisinty’s orbit through YouTube or a podcast appearance, joining costs you nothing but a WhatsApp number. If you’re choosing your one AI information source for the year, weigh it against an established newsletter with a longer track record before you commit.
If your inbox is already full but your WhatsApp isn’t, this might be the AI update that actually gets read.
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