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Escape Velocity: Your 100k AI Idea Validation Sprint

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4 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

Nail your first profitable AI product idea in 30 days—before you waste 6 months on the wrong one.

Escape Velocity: Your 100k AI Idea Validation Sprint

New

4 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

Nail your first profitable AI product idea in 30 days—before you waste 6 months on the wrong one.

Hosted by

Yuying Chen-Wynn and Polly Allen

Former developers turned AI executives turned multi-six figure entrepreneurs

Yuying Chen-Wynn and Polly Allen

Former developers turned AI executives turned multi-six figure entrepreneurs

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Course overview

From stuck in meetings to selling your AI idea—validated in 30 days.

Go from scattered ideas to a confident, AI-powered product concept—without coding, guesswork, or months of wasted time.

Here's what you DON'T need:

- You don’t need to code.

- You don’t need to quit your job.

- You don't need to spin your wheels wondering if the extra work you're putting in will be all worth it someday.

You just need one good idea—and a proven system to know it’ll work that leverages the latest AI tools.

Whether you've been: dreaming of your own AI product company, longing for the security of a profitable AI-powered side-hustle, or just want to dazzle your friends (or yourself!) with what's possible with AI today, this 30-day sprint gives you the clarity, tools, and proof to finally start.

NOTE: This course is part of 'Escape Velocity: The 100k AI Product Fast Track', a 12-week program where you'll validate, build and launch an AI product on the path to your first 100k in revenue.

Escape Velocity:

- Part 1: Code to Cash: Your 100k AI Idea Validation Sprint (4 weeks)

- Part 2: Code to Cash: Build and Launch your 100k AI Product (8 weeks)

Who is this course for

The Stuck Visionary: You have bold AI ideas but zero time to waste. You’re tired of watching others launch while you’re trapped in meetings

The Strategic Escape Artist: You’re ready to plot your exit—from corporate, from chaos, or just from burnout. You know an AI is the way out

The Builder Without a Dev Team: You see the opportunity in AI but don’t code—and don’t want to. You need a system to ship something real.

The Stuck Visionary: You have bold AI ideas but zero time to waste. You’re tired of watching others launch while you’re trapped in meetings

The Strategic Escape Artist: You’re ready to plot your exit—from corporate, from chaos, or just from burnout. You know an AI is the way out

The Builder Without a Dev Team: You see the opportunity in AI but don’t code—and don’t want to. You need a system to ship something real.

What you’ll get out of this course

Pinpoint an AI product idea with real market potential, rooted in your strengths and unfair advantage

Validate it fast using AI tools—think landing pages, waitlists, and demos—without writing a line of code

Refine and evolve your idea through smart testing, then leave with a clear plan and timeline to build, pre-sell, or fund your MVP

Cut through the hype to focus on what actually works—so you don’t waste time chasing shiny AI distractions

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Yuying Chen-Wynn & Polly Allen in a real-time, interactive format.

Weekly Office Hours

Ample time for Q&A after you've applied each week's learnings

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

8 live sessions • 15 lessons • 4 projects

Week 1

Sep 8—Sep 14

Ideation and AI

6 items

Sep

Find Your Angle (and Filter the Noise)

Mon 9/84:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Sep

Office Hours

Thu 9/114:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Sep 15—Sep 21

User and Value Proposition Validation

5 items

Sep

Gathering Proof: Validate and Iterate

Mon 9/154:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Sep

Office Hours

Thu 9/184:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Week 3

Sep 22—Sep 28

Business Model Validation

5 items

Sep

Define Your MVP and Monetization Model

Mon 9/224:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Sep

Office Hours

Fri 9/264:00 AM—5:30 AM (UTC)

Week 4

Sep 29—Oct 3

The Path Forward: Planning for Build and Launch

3 items

Sep

Capstone Presentations Day 1: Investor Feedback

Mon 9/294:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Oct

Capstone Presentations Day 2: Entrepreneur Feedback

Thu 10/24:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Meet your instructor

Yuying Chen-Wynn

Yuying Chen-Wynn is the former Head of AI at PEAK6, a private equity powerhouse where she led GenAI strategy across the board: buy, build, invest, and risk-manage. From evaluating AI startups for acquisition to scaling AI capabilities across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, she knows what makes an AI idea fundable—and what gets it shut down in the first five minutes.

Before that, she was Chief Product Officer at Barnes & Noble Education and has spent over 20 years building products—13 of them deep in AI across Big Tech, FinTech, and EdTech. She’s built AI that sells, AI that saves money, and AI that passed more executive reviews than she’d care to count.

Yuying got her start in computer vision back when AI was barely pronounceable—and yes, she really did end up at MIT by accident, thinking she was just applying to schools in Boston.

Today, she co-hosts the no-BS podcast “AI After Hours” with Polly Allen, where they call out hype, hallucinations, and high-risk optimism. Her popular Substack cuts through the noise for product leaders who don’t have time to chase shiny objects.

With Yuying in this sprint, you’re getting investor-grade filters, real product roadmaps, and the blunt honesty you need to figure out: is this thing worth building—or funding?

More at: Wittingly Ventures — Commit acts of AI, wittingly.

Polly Allen

Polly Allen is a former Principal PM at Amazon Alexa, where she led the launch of the first generative AI answers on Alexa in 2020. With over two decades of experience across software engineering, machine learning, and product leadership, Polly knows exactly how to turn cutting-edge AI into real-world products that ship—and scale.

But she’s not just a corporate success story. Polly is also the founder of AI Career Boost, a multi–six-figure AI training company helping professionals leap into AI leadership without needing a PhD or a dev team. Her students have launched AI side hustles, landed dream jobs, and even raised funding—thanks to her unique ability to break down complex AI concepts into clear, strategic action.

Polly built her own profitable AI business from scratch—and now she teaches others how to do the same. Whether you’re dreaming of startup freedom or a fundable idea, she’s your shortcut to skipping the fluff and finding what works.

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