Executive Playbook for AI in Engineering, Product, and Design
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Claire Vo
3x CPTO | CEO, ChatPRD | Host, How I AI
Zach Davis
Principal Engineer | Prev. Dir of Eng
Learn how to jump from AI tool adoption to team impact and product velocity.
Everyone wants their team to work AI-native, but change doesn't come from buying licenses and individual heroics.
🚨 Leaders: you must restructure your team operates or you will not be able to drive AI transformation beyond shallow tool adoption.
This is a executive-level intensive for CPOs/CTOs, VPs, and staff level engineers, designers, and product managers, especially leaders being tasked with accelerating AI in your team.
Taught by Claire Vo (3x CPTO/Host of How I AI) and Zach Davis (Principal Eng @ LaunchDarkly), this course is by and for experienced EPD operators.
After two days, you'll leave with data-backed assessments, specific strategies, technical examples, and an elite peer group for accountability and inspiration.
100s of execs have taken the learnings from this course back to their teams.
Here's what they love: "Clear frameworks, strong faculty, sharp peer group, and—most importantly—practical enough that I walked out with a plan for how to accelerate AI transformation in my org. Rare to find an exec course that respects your time and assumes you're already past the 101. Highly recommended."
Join the next cohort to immediately accelerate your team's AI transformation.
What you’ll learn
You leave with frameworks for real organizational change, the kind you can start putting to work the week you get back.
Sort your team's work into what to delegate to agents, what to augment, and what stays human, mapped to your real workflows.
See where AI transforms product and design work, not just code.
Tell real leverage apart from hype, so you invest where it actually pays off.
Make the case for AI investment to your board, your skeptics, and your budget owners.
Anticipate the objections you already know are coming, and answer them with confidence.
Decide what to invest in, what to stop doing, and how to sequence the change.
Recalibrate timelines and expectations built back when implementation was the expensive part.
Navigate role evolution: engineers as reviewers, PMs building prototypes, designers shipping front-end.
Rethink the spec-to-ship cycle when prototyping is nearly free, and decide what to stop doing.
Diagnose whether your repo is holding agents back, and where the highest-leverage fixes are.
Understand how to use skills, fast feedback loops, and guardrails to make agents effective.
Learn how background agents can help unlock your team, and whether to build or buy them
Convert skeptics by engineering their first win, not by mandating tools.
Build a network of champions instead of leaning on one person, pairing top-down tone with grassroots energy.
Make AI use visible and contagious across every function, not just engineering.
Learn directly from Claire & Zach
Claire Vo
3x CPTO, Founder ChatPRD, and Host of How I AI. Expert on AI transformation.
Zach Davis
Principal Engineer who implemented AI across a 100+ person org at LaunchDarkly.
Who this course is for
VPs of Engineering and CTOs
who need a real answer when the board asks "what's our AI strategy?", not just "we bought licenses."CPOs, VPs of Product, and Design leaders
driving AI change across the whole org as prototyping goes nearly free and roles blur.Staff and Principal Engineers
tapped to "figure out AI" for the org, who need both the playbook and the leverage to make it work.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Claire Vo & Zach Davis in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Access to recordings, up-to-date course content, and more.
Personalized pre-work
Self-assessment, personalized readings, watches, and listens curated to your role and situation, a detailed prep doc so we skip the basics and get to work.
2 guest firesides
Hear from senior engineering and product leaders at the cutting edge of scaling AI inside their orgs.
Optional Q&A after each day
Open conversation with Claire, Zach, and the rest of your cohort to get answers to all your burning questiosn.
3 follow-up office hours over 90 days
Learn what's working for others, troubleshoot what's not, stay accountable.
Private cohort Slack community
Async support and peer exchange between sessions and beyond.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Jun
27
Welcome & Kickoff
Jun
27
Session 1: Where AI Creates Real Leverage
Jun
27
Session 2: Building a Culture That Actually Adopts
Jun
27
Guest Fireside: Jon Noronha, CPO of Gamma
Jun
27
Optional: Q&A
Jun
28
Reflect & Welcome
Jun
28
Session 3: Making Your Codebase Agent-Ready
Jun
28
Session 4: The New Operating Model
Jun
28
Guest Fireside: Chintan Turakhia, Head of Coinbase Wallet
Jun
28
Optional: Q&A
Schedule
Live sessions
7 hrs
2 half-days of live sessions. 4 classes taught by Claire & Zach + 2 fireside chats. Short teaching, honest conversation, structured peer discussion.
Sat, Jun 27
3:45 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)
Sat, Jun 27
4:15 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Sat, Jun 27
5:15 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
Spiky Points of View
Access to tools isn't enough. Without culture, codebase readiness, and operating model changes, tool rollouts create activity without momentum.
Everyone will be writing code. PMs are shipping PRs. CEOs are reviewing agent output. Designers are pushing front-end. "I'm blocked" is an outdated idea.
Your codebase is the bottleneck. Not the models. If a new hire can't get productive in your repo, agents can't either.
Background agents are here — and most orgs aren't ready. Autonomous agents that open PRs, run tests, and ship code while your team sleeps are production-ready. But they require infrastructure, guardrails, and trust systems that most codebases don't have yet.
You can go way faster than you think. The processes you trust are built on assumptions that are no longer true.
How I AI: Claire & Zach on making AI work in large enterprise code bases
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