Technical Track — 3 Courses

Ship Production AI

AI-powered engineering, automation, and intelligent systems for developers, IT, and technical leaders. Build, deploy, and operate AI-native software at the scale and reliability of mission-critical workloads — taught by operators who have shipped AI inside the world's largest platforms.

Duration
3 days
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Courses
3 courses
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Deliverable
Production AI platform blueprint
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Investment
$997 — $3,500
Who This Track Is For
Built for operators.
For engineers and technical leaders who have to make AI work in production — not in a notebook. If you carry a pager, this track is for you.
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Software Engineers

Backend, full-stack, and ML engineers building AI features users depend on every day.

DevOps & SRE

Infrastructure leaders standing up AI platforms with the reliability discipline of mission-critical workloads.

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IT Leaders

Heads of engineering and CTOs deciding what AI capabilities to build, buy, or run internally.

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Technical Architects

Senior architects designing the next generation of AI-native systems for the global ten thousand enterprises.

The Curriculum
Three courses.
One production stack.
Start with the engineering fundamentals every AI feature needs, advance to agents that survive real users, and finish with the platform your enterprise will run on.
Course 1 of 3

AI-Native Engineering Foundations

$997 Self-Paced
Modern AI patterns for engineers — from LLM APIs to evals to shipping safely in production.

Most AI features ship as demos and break on contact with real users. This course teaches the engineering discipline that turns LLM calls into production-grade systems — LLM APIs and SDKs, embeddings and retrieval (RAG), prompt engineering for production, evals frameworks, observability, and the cost and latency basics every team gets wrong on the first try. You'll leave with a working AI feature deployed to a real environment and the playbook to ship the next ten.

What You'll Learn

  • LLM APIs and SDKs: working confidently with OpenAI, Anthropic, and the Vercel AI SDK in real codebases
  • Embeddings and retrieval (RAG): chunking strategies, vector stores, hybrid search, and re-ranking that actually improves accuracy
  • Prompt engineering for production: structured outputs, function calling, and prompts that survive model upgrades
  • Evals frameworks: building golden datasets, regression suites, and LLM-as-judge pipelines you can trust
  • Observability, cost, and latency: tracing, token accounting, caching, and the SLO discipline of mission-critical workloads

What You'll Build

  • A working AI feature deployed to production behind real evals
  • RAG pipeline over a real document corpus with measurable retrieval quality
  • Eval harness with golden set, regressions, and CI integration
  • Observability dashboard with cost, latency, and quality SLOs
  • Production prompt library with versioning and rollout patterns
Duration: 3 days
Format: Video + live workshops + code reviews
Prerequisite: Working software engineering experience
Tools: OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel AI SDK, LangSmith
Course 2 of 3

Agents, Automation & Tooling

$997 Self-Paced
Design and operate AI agents that survive contact with real users.

Agent demos are easy. Agents that hold up under real load, real edge cases, and real budget constraints are hard. This course teaches the engineering patterns behind production agents — agent loops, tool use, internal copilots, customer-facing agents, memory and state, guardrails, and evaluation. You'll ship a real agent end-to-end, instrument it, and operate it under the same reliability bar as any other mission-critical workload.

What You'll Learn

  • Agent loops and tool use: ReAct-style reasoning, function calling, and graph-based orchestration
  • Internal copilots vs. customer-facing agents: where each pattern wins and where each pattern breaks
  • Memory and state: short-term context, long-term memory, vector stores, and structured state machines
  • Guardrails and safety: input filtering, action allowlists, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and rollback paths
  • Agent evaluation: trajectory evals, task success metrics, and offline replay against historical traffic

What You'll Build

  • A production agent with tool use, memory, and guardrails deployed end-to-end
  • Internal copilot integrated with your existing systems and APIs
  • Trajectory eval suite with task-level success metrics
  • Guardrail layer with allowlists, rate limits, and human-in-the-loop hooks
  • Operational runbook covering on-call, rollback, and cost controls
Duration: 3 days
Format: Video + build sprints + design reviews
Prerequisite: Course 1 or equivalent production AI experience
Tools: Anthropic Tool Use, OpenAI Assistants, LangGraph, Inngest, n8n
Course 3 of 3

AI Platform & Operations

$997 Self-Paced
Stand up the AI platform your enterprise will run on.

Every team in the company wants to ship AI. Without a platform, they each ship their own broken version of the same thing. This course teaches you to design and operate the AI platform layer the global ten thousand enterprises are building right now — model gateways, observability, cost controls, security, governance, on-call playbooks, and capacity planning for AI workloads. You'll leave with a platform blueprint your CTO can take to the board.

What You'll Learn

  • Model gateways: routing, fallback, multi-provider strategy, and abstracting model risk
  • Observability and cost controls: org-wide token accounting, chargebacks, and budget enforcement
  • Security and governance: data isolation, secret management, model risk frameworks, and audit trails
  • On-call playbooks: incident response for AI workloads, regression rollback, and provider outage handling
  • Capacity planning for AI: latency budgets, throughput modeling, and procurement for token-based economics

What You'll Build

  • An AI platform blueprint with reference architecture for your enterprise
  • Model gateway design with routing, fallback, and cost policy
  • Org-wide observability and chargeback model for AI spend
  • Governance and security framework mapped to your compliance posture
  • On-call playbook and capacity plan for AI workloads
Duration: 3 days
Format: Video + architecture reviews + mentor sessions
Prerequisite: Course 2 or platform engineering experience
Tools: LiteLLM, Langfuse, Datadog, Snowflake/Databricks, Vault
Your Journey
From first feature
to enterprise platform.
Each course builds on the last. By the end, you'll have shipped a production AI feature, a production agent, and a platform blueprint your enterprise can run on.
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Foundations

Master the engineering primitives behind every production AI system — LLM APIs, RAG, evals, and observability. Ship a real feature, not a demo.

2

Agents

Design, build, and operate agents and automations that survive real users. Tool use, memory, guardrails, and evals — in production, not in a notebook.

3

Platform

Stand up the AI platform layer for your enterprise. Gateways, observability, cost controls, governance — the boring parts that decide who scales.

What You Walk Away With
Production artifacts, not slideware.
Every course produces a real, shippable artifact. By the end of this track, you have the production work product to lead AI engineering inside any enterprise.
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Production-Ready AI Feature

A real AI feature deployed to a real environment, with evals, observability, and the SLO discipline of any other mission-critical workload.

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Internal Agent or Automation

A production agent with tool use, memory, and guardrails — integrated with real systems and operated under real reliability constraints.

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AI Platform Blueprint

A reference architecture for your enterprise's AI platform layer — gateway, observability, governance — ready for board-level review.

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Eval & Guardrail Playbook

A working evaluation harness, golden datasets, and the guardrail patterns that keep AI systems honest as they scale.

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Observability Dashboard

End-to-end tracing, cost accounting, and quality SLOs across every model call — instrumented to the standard of mission-critical workloads.

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AI Impact Certification

Complete all 3 courses + capstone to earn the AI Impact Foundation Technical Track Professional Certification.

Pricing
Choose your pace.
Both formats deliver the same curriculum, projects, and deliverables. The difference is support structure and community.

Course 1

$997
Self-Paced

AI-Native Engineering Foundations. Ship your first production-grade AI feature.

Course 2

$997
Self-Paced

Agents, Automation & Tooling. Operate agents that survive real users.

Course 3

$997
Self-Paced

AI Platform & Operations. Stand up the platform your enterprise runs on.

Full Track Bundle

All 3 courses + AI Impact Foundation Certification + 6-month community access. Save $491 vs. buying separately.

$2,991
$2,500
Save $491
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Live Cohort — Full Track

All 3 courses run as a live cohort with instructor feedback, code reviews with operators who have shipped AI at scale, and peer accountability through every project.

$3,500
Live cohort, all-inclusive

Founding member pricing: First 200 enrollees get an additional 30% off. Join the waitlist to reserve your spot.

Frequently Asked Questions
Got questions?
Here are the ones we hear most from engineers and technical leaders.
Do I need ML experience to take this track?

No. This track is built for engineers, not ML researchers. If you can read and write code in any modern backend or full-stack language, you have what you need. We focus on the production engineering around AI — APIs, evals, observability, agents, and platform — rather than model training or research-grade ML.

What languages and stacks do you use?

Python is primary for examples and labs, with TypeScript on the application side via the Vercel AI SDK. The concepts — RAG, evals, agent loops, gateways, observability — are language-agnostic. Engineers from Go, Java, Rust, and C# backgrounds report the patterns transfer directly to their stack.

Can I take just one course instead of the full track?

Yes. Each course is designed to stand alone while also building toward the full track outcome. Many engineers take Course 1 to ship their first production AI feature, then continue with Agents or Platform once they hit the next problem. The bundle discount applies if you upgrade later within 90 days of your first enrollment.

What's the time commitment per course?

Plan for 3 intensive days per course — roughly 6–8 hours per day. Each day blends short video lessons, hands-on labs, and live workshops or code reviews. The format is built for working engineers who want a sharp, focused sprint rather than a slow weekly cadence stretched across months.

Will I deploy something live during the track?

Yes. Every course has a real deployment requirement. Course 1 ships an AI feature to a real environment with evals and observability. Course 2 ships a production agent end-to-end. Course 3 produces a platform blueprint reviewed by operators who have shipped AI at scale. These are working artifacts, not slideware.

Does my enrollment fund a student scholarship?

Yes. Every professional course enrollment directly funds a full scholarship for an underserved student through the AI Impact Foundation (501(c)(3)). It's not a separate donation — it's built into the model. You learn AI. A student gets access to AI education, a laptop, mentorship, and meals. One enrollment, two futures.

First course starts June 5, 2026

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