Cohort 3

Build permanent AI muscle, master the foundations of how AI actually works, and adopt future-proof tactics for the highest quality outputs.

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO @ Free Agency; Product Leader @ Stella (AI job matching), Toptal

AI Fluency Bootcamp

OpenAI

Midjourney

Anthropic

Google

🚨 NOTE: The next cohort (starts Oct. 20) will be the last in 2025. Don't fall behind -- sign up now! The challenge in this new AI era: new AI models are released weekly and new applications are released daily. There's so much to learn, yet so little time. Right? All students receive:• ♾️ Lifetime access to all materials, including recordings, slides, and projects• 🎦 6 hours of live Zoom instruction and 3 hours of collaborative Office Hours• 🏫 22+ projects, worksheets, and resources to turn fluency into best practice If you're like most ambitious professionals, you're not new to AI. You try the new models as they're released. You attempt to use the tools daily, whether you're in operations organizing your team's work, a doctor attempting to find and reference a medical study, or an engineer using Cursor. But you know that you're only scratching the surface. • Your usage feels ad-hoc, high effort, and low ROI. Using AI is a job in itself.• You don't trust the outputs you get, but you don't know why or how to fix it.• You see others use AI in a way that gives them superpowers you haven't yet felt. The AI Fluency Bootcamp is the only course designed for beginners and advanced users alike. Learn model mechanics, AI system design, and agent foundations -- so that you get elite results across any tool or model. You'll be able to use AI more often, better than your peers, and in a way that puts you ahead -- whether you're in a conversational app like ChatGPT or an agentic tool like Claude Code. 300+ students across courses and cohorts, 4.9 stars ⭐Course Content--Lesson 1: Inside the Black Box: How LLMs &amp; Transformers Really ThinkUnderstand the fundamentals: how do LLMs really work, and what is the attention mechanismSteer models by understanding hallucinations, prompt sensitivity, and system designCompare models and releases by understanding how they are trained, rewarded, and released Lesson 2: Token-Use Mindset: Future-Proof Mental Models for AIMaster context engineering and a token-use mindset to get 10x better outputs from AIChoose the right tool for the job with a task-specific mindset for first and third party toolsAdd feedback loops to your AI work for almost-automated refinement of your prompts Lesson 3: Agents: What, How, Today's Reality, Tomorrow's PromiseUnderstand the architecture of AI agents, how they are built, and why they're magicAdopt scaffolding strategies that make agents like Claude Code, Lovable, or Manus work 10x harderUse agentic workflows for non-code and code use cases, regardless of your technical background Lesson 4: Agents in Practice: Scaffolding, Integration, Evals, &amp; MorePractice building a mini AI agent as a personal, integrated copilotExperiment with RAG, evals, fine-tuning, multi-modal, and multi-model agent capabilitiesExplore long-time-horizon tasks and agentic environments to understand the future of AI Lesson 5: Your Personal AI Tech Stack: Get and Stay AheadDevelop your personalized toolkit to help you organize your AI workflows and habitsAdopt a personal AI repo and tech stack to make it easy for you to move between tools &amp; updatesExperiment with image, video, audio, and adjacent AI toolkits for expansive capability Lesson 6: Future-Proof: Emerging AI Models, Research, and Your CareerLearn about the latest model development, incl. world models, diffusion, and embodied agentsAnalyze your career in the OSD framework for the future of work; become truly AI-enabledUnderstand key frameworks in AI integration, incl. MCP, A2A, RLHF, and the latest research PLUS, 2 office hours sessions (1.5 hours each) with Sherveen (who leads all lessons and sessions):hands-on Q&amp;A, troubleshooting, agent demonstration, project assistance, etc. Other topics covered:- Foundational model comparison (GPT-5 Pro, Gemini w/ Deep Think, etc.)- Use of third party tools (Manus, Gamma, Napkin, Replit, Devin, etc.)- Functional-area specific models (ex. OpenEvidence, Harvey)- Image &amp; video gen (incl. Midjourney, Sora, Veo, Kling, Runway, Suno, etc.)- Nuances between reasoning, agentic, task-based, and primitive models (incl. how to benchmark)- How to continue to learn and stay ahead an ever-changing AI landscape It's No-BS as a philosophy. My hot takes incl. (explanations within):- You should never use Perplexity- Sometimes, say "love ya" at the end of your prompts- Everyone should pay OpenAI $200/month I'll share my theory on&nbsp;the future of work.And the&nbsp;OSD Framework&nbsp;I've developed to help people get ahead of the curve.You'll learn about the 3 core muscles I believe every job will distill down to:•&nbsp;Orchestration, the architect of AI-enabled systems•&nbsp;Supervision, the human-in-the-loop steering or polishing outputs•&nbsp;Delivery, the last-mile getting AI value to its end-user By the end of this course, you'll:- Be a master of advanced AI use across chat products and agents, capable of integrating them into your workflow, getting results that others won't believe, and understanding the nuances so that you stay ahead with every new model update.- Be familiar with the latest in frontier, state-of-the-art AI research and product development, understanding the latest in autonomy and long-task evals, world models, and reinforcement learning -- your boss will turn to you whenever AI adoption is on the table.- Have a personal AI tech stack with tools and methods that will completely revamp how you work, with a deep understanding of how foundational apps, third party tools + integrations, and proper frameworks will make you 10x in your field. (optional) Projects include:- 11 'experiences' to turn AI prompt and tooling theory into reality- 4 projects to experiment w/ AI agents, including code and non-code use cases- 7 worksheets and challenges to help you build permanent AI muscle and habits This course is for:Professionals, builders, operators across industries seeking want durable fluency --PMs, founders, engineers, designers, analysts, marketers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, chefs, studentsAnd power users who already use AI daily but want 10x reliability, speed, and quality This course is not for:- People seeking a prompt template library- Those who want tutorials for yesterday's tools (like n8n or Zapier)- Individuals who don't care about how it works, and just want the shortcuts The point is...Most courses teach you what to say to an AI chatbot. This course teaches you how to think about AI foundationally. It's the difference between learning to order coffee in French versus understanding why French speakers structure their thoughts the way they do. Want a taste of the course? Check out my video on why I think you're being&nbsp;lied to&nbsp;about AI agents: https://youtu.be/MoMxKF5duXI

Everything's changing. Become top 0.5% at using AI to future-proof yourself.

Non-technical, semi-technical, or technical professionals (throughout knowledge work) looking to gain an upper hand in this AI moment.

Anyone who has felt the gap between AI's potential, what they think it can do, and their ability to access the upside.

NOT for people who already read arXiv papers and know who roon is. NOT for people looking for quick prompt templates.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

You'll learn about the cognitive architecture that underpins not just LLMs, but the way that products and apps are built around them. These patterns will work across AI models and will continue working as systems evolve.

Ditch prompt templates, get elite output on-demand across AI tools

It's hard for even the most AI-passionate people to integrate and reliably, consistency use AI products. I'll give you systems, shortcuts, and methods for making it second nature -- we'll build your AI muscle.

Build permanent AI muscle through systems and mental models

You'll know why even non-engineers should use Claude Code, how you should judge new tools, methods for integrating AI into your workflows, and feel in command of the future rather than chasing fake Zapier or n8n workflows that overpromise and underdeliver.

Adopt an agent-forward framework to get the best of what AI has to offer in 2025

You'll master the art of progressive refinement, building complex outputs and systems, and be able to leverage all of this to be top .5% in your field -- whether that's at work, with a hobby, with a side project, or with something personal.

Instead of being left behind, you'll get and stay ahead of the AI curve

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6 days of live classes

Can't make it to the live classes or want to watch them again later? We'll make each day's content available same-day for all students.

Access recordings forever

There will be several projects and optional group workshops to turn the content into usable muscle - attend live for instructor feedback, or access projects, examples, and templates at your own pace - including permanent access after the course ends.

Daily projects (optional)

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

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