AI-Native Builder: 16 Day Accelerator for Product Builders and Leaders
Avthar Sewrathan
AI Founder | Prev Staff PM, GM for AI
The missing playbook for how to build, lead, and thrive in the AI age
➡️ Note from Avthar: Cohorts are capped at 32 students to ensure a tight-knit experience. Enrollment will close once we've reached the limit (no exceptions).
➡️ Note 2: I've added $2000+ worth of bonuses for the September cohort (see the full list of bonuses), including a 45-min "Make It Stick" post-course consultation.
➡️ Note 3: If you're self-funding, save $450 with code OUTOFPOCKET
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Product builders (PM, Eng, Design) got given access to AI tools but not a playbook for impact, instead left to figure it out on their own.
Leaders are expected to accelerate their teams, but lack of hands-on experience with AI tools and best practices keeps them (and their teams) from reaching their full potential.
If you’re nodding your head at what you just read, I built this for you.
In 16 days, you can learn the skills, workflows, and mindsets to confidently embrace AI in your work as a builder: You’ll master Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex and Grok Bot and walk away with (1) a complete project (2) Agent Skills and automations for you and your team.
Join the next cohort and become AI-Native.
“Helped me go from hacking around with AI to actually shipping things that work.”
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What you’ll learn
The missing playbook to build, lead and thrive in the AI age
Build what you want the way you want it, with structured planning, issue-based, and spec-driven development workflows
Apply testing and verification methods to find and fix bugs automatically
Ship higher quality features more predictably with the RPIT and GDV agentic building loops
Create your own set of Agent Skills to enable Agents to take action armed with your unique workflows, processes, and company knowledge
Enable Agents to build and do work with context of your team's tools and data with Plugins and MCPs
Build automations and routines to execute complex, multi-step tasks on a recurring schedule freeing you up to focus on high-leverage work
Learn how to adapt and re-invent your existing operating processes while protecting against AI-slop
Understand the security, privacy and data access considerations when using Claude Code, Codex and GrokBot and make more informed trade-offs
Learn best practices for working effectively with coding agents at team, org, and company scale (for enterprises and startups)
Use multi-agent development workflows to do more work in parallel and work on multiple bugs/ features at the same time
Learn how to develop with multiple models so you can use Claude, Codex and GrokBot all on the same project
Give bigger, more ambitious tasks to agents with Goals and Agent Loops
Learn directly from Avthar
Avthar Sewrathan
Founder @ Alpha Clarity | Prev: Staff PM @ MongoDB, GM for AI @ Timescale
Who this course is for
Product Builders (PMs, Engineers, Designers) who are expected to embrace AI in their role but never got a playbook for how
Founders who want to transform their company to become AI-Native and want to lead by example
VP and Director level leaders who want to become more hands-on with AI and help guide their teams to embrace AI-Native ways of working
Prerequisites
Willingness to try and learn by doing
The magic comes from applying what you learned in your own projects and work
AI Tool access (via work or subscription)
Access to Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex and Grok Bot for use during the course
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Avthar Sewrathan in a real-time, interactive format.
US / UK / EU / India Timezone-Friendly Group Office Hours and Q&A
Get your questions answered and get help with assignments, no matter where in the world you’re located. Plus a slack community for async help from instructors and your cohort peers.
Skill Gym + MVP Sprint Workshops
2 x 60 minutes intensive group sessions to (1) audit your workflows, teach agents your processes and preferences, and encode it as an Agent Skill and (2) brainstorm, plan your project, and build your MVP with Claude Code or Codex.
Bonus 1: 45 minute “Make It Stick” post-course consultation call ($750 value)
1 on 1 call to help you put what you learn into practice. Claim within 30 days after the cohort ends.
Bonus 2: Avthar’s Agent Skills ($700+ value)
Straight from Avthar’s .skills folder to you. Includes the latest versions of Avthar’s Skills for development (planning, testing, auto-documentation, creating issues, git workflows) and knowledge work (ideation, reflection, research, learning a new tool / topic etc).
Bonus 3: High-Signal AI Toolkit: Curated Skills, MCPs and Plugins ($300 value)
A curated collection of the best 3rd party skills, plugins and MCPs for you and your team to try. Includes Skills for UI/ UX design, planning and project organization, getting rid of AI slop in writing and code and more hidden-gems.
Bonus 4: S-Tier Stack ($200 value)
Research-backed, coding agent-friendly recommended stack to use when building (includes databases, deployment, authentication, payments, email, AI models etc).
Bonus 5: Avthar’s Template Library ($300 value)
Lightweight templates for project brainstorms, project specs, individual feature specs, and github issues to help you build with more structure, yours to use and adapt to your team / company.
Bonus 6: “Watch Me Build” Watchalongs ($700 value)
Live build sessions that are too long / in the weeds for Youtube. Watch me create and iterate on a Skill from a workflow, and plan, build, and test a new feature end to end. Ask questions along the way. Learn practitioner tricks to adapt and apply to your own workflows
Bonus 7: Technical Foundations 5 Hour Workshop Recording ($449 value)
“Non-technical”? No problem. Learn the essential concepts behind how software works to help you build with AI.
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Course syllabus
16 live sessions • 25 lessons • 2 projects
Week 1
Sep
19
AI-native Builder Course Class 1 with Avthar
Sat 9/193:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Sep
20
AI-native Builder Course Class 2 with Avthar
Sun 9/203:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Coding Agent Foundations (Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex)
Agentic Coding Workflows: How to Plan, Build, Test and Verify
Projects you'll build with Claude Code, Codex and Grok Bot
Optional But Recommended Workshops
Week 2
Sep
22
Build Together: Group Help + Q&A (UK / EU/ US friendly)
Tue 9/224:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)OptionalSep
22
Build Together: Group Help + Q&A (US / APAC friendly)
Tue 9/2211:00 PM—12:30 AM (UTC)OptionalSep
24
Build Together: Group Help + Q&A (UK / EU/ US friendly)
Thu 9/244:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)OptionalSep
24
Build Together: Group Help + Q&A (US / APAC friendly)
Thu 9/2411:00 PM—12:30 AM (UTC)OptionalSep
23
AI-Native Builder Course Class 3 with Avthar
Wed 9/2311:00 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)Sep
26
AI-Native Builder Course Class 4 with Avthar
Sat 9/263:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Sep
27
AI-native Builder Course Class 5 with Avthar
Sun 9/273:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Build Together Week 1: Group Help + Q&A
The Context Rule: Skills, Plugins, MCPs and Automations
Schedule
Live sessions
8 hrs / week
Live sessions for core concepts and demos
Sat, Sep 19
3:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Sun, Sep 20
3:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Sep 22
4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Build your course project, Agent Skills and automations
4-8 hrs / week
Includes optional build time during live sessions and optional group building workshops, in addition to time you make outside of scheduled classes
Live session comments and reactions from students
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