Four weeks. Twelve people. You ship something real.

There’s a gap between understanding AI conceptually (which a podcast can give you) and being able to build with it as a working tool (which requires shipping something). The cohort exists for working operators who want to cross that gap quickly, with structure, alongside other people who’ll push each other.

The format is hands-on and project-based. By the end of week 4, you ship a working agent or AI-leveraged workflow that runs in your actual job — not a toy demo. The curriculum is calibrated for working operators, not engineers — the math and theory get translated; the focus is the patterns and decisions that matter for shipping.

Mixed-company cohort means you’re learning alongside operators from different industries: a B2B SaaS PM, a healthcare ops lead, a marketing director, a startup founder, an agency principal. The cross-pollination is half the value.

Open cohorts run quarterly. Applications open ~6 weeks before each cohort starts. The application includes a short paragraph on what you’d build during the cohort — used for both fit and project selection.

The application matters because the cohort works best when participants are all genuinely going to ship. Spots aren’t first-come — they’re calibrated for diversity of industry and intent, both because that mix is more interesting and because it’s the precondition for cross-pollination to actually happen.