Built with Google Gemini: The Story Behind MentorAI

Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge This is a submission for the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge Turning curiosity into action has always been my driving force. For the Kaggle Agentic AI challenge, that drive led me to create MentorAI — an AI system that doesn’t just answer questions, but guides, reasons, and adapts. What I Built with Google Gemini I built MentorAI , an agentic AI system designed to simulate structured mentorship conversations. Unlike most AI tools that simply answer questions, MentorAI guides users through reasoning, asks clarifying questions, and encourages reflection — creating a mentor-like experience instead of a simple Q&A system. When I started building MentorAI, I didn’t start with confidence. I started with doubt . I submitted the project to a Kaggle competition under the Agentic AI track, but internally I kept asking: “Am I ready for this level?” I’m not from a traditional AI research background. I didn’t go through a structured machine le