Scale ROI-Positive AI Transformation

Elena Luneva

3X CPTO |Braintrust, Nextdoor, Opentable

Turn your AI transformation into a scalable operating model with measurable ROI

If you’re a Director, Head, or VP of Product, Technology, Data, or AI with multiple AI initiatives already in flight, this course helps you

  • Diagnose Your AI Transformation

  • Build the ROI model and communicate true costs

  • Translate to the CFO, CEO, and Board that the work is creating measurable value.

  • Allocate which bets to scale, fix, stop, or explore

  • Build the AI-first Operating model: SIGNAL, decision rights, Super-IC leadership

  • Rebuild the SDLC for Agents: Agent-ready workflow, memory/context, PR/review, mission-based QA, release, observability, stakeholder management

  • Operate Non-Deterministic Systems: MTB, evals, risk tiers, monitoring, human review, production drift, incident response

This course helps you build the operating and financial system for the AI transformation scaling job. You’ll diagnose where your organization sits on the AI adoption curve, build the business case for your portfolio, model the fully loaded cost of AI, decide what to scale, fix, or stop, and redesign the SDLC for teams working alongside agents.

Why learn from me

3X CPTO; launched numerous AI Transformations and non-deterministic systems. Practical application and direct project feedback from me.

What you’ll learn

Lead AI initiatives with clear goals, defensible evaluation, explicit risk decisions, and exec updates that drive alignment and investment.

  • Diagnose where AI is creating leverage, waste, and operating risk

  • Map your AI maturity, adoption gaps, and bottlenecks across product, engineering, designn, data, and operations

  • Separate useful automation from local optimizations that create more complexity elsewhere in the system.

  • Model the fully loaded cost of AI: people, tokens, infra, tooling, data, QA, and production runtime.

  • Translate AI initiatives into financial outcomes: revenue, capacity, cost reduction, quality, and risk.

  • Run base, upside, and downside scenarios so leaders can see assumptions, payback, and investment risk.

  • Score each initiative on business value, evidence, cost, risk, and strategic importance.

  • Turn a list of pilots into a portfolio with clear funding decisions, owners, and decision gates.

  • Create criteria for when to scale, redesign, pause, or stop an initiative.

  • Define decision rights, team shape, management layers, and ownership for AI-enabled product delivery.

  • Use SIGNAL, Elena's proprietary model, to replace Agile assumptions that break when agents increase speed, volume, and parallel work

  • Upgrade the team culture and processes for high-leverage ICs, managers, and leaders.

  • Redesign how work moves from product intent to agent context, coding, review, QA, release, and learning.

  • Build shared memory and context so agents work from current decisions, constraints, and product strategy.

  • Add mission-based QA, review gates, observability, and release controls that match higher development throughput.

Learn directly from Elena

Elena Luneva

Elena Luneva

Led AI Transformations | Built AI-Native Product & Tech Teams

Braintrust 🧠
Nextdoor
LiquidSpace I Work from where it works.
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BlackRock
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Who this course is for

  • CPOs, VPs, and Heads of Product accountable for AI portfolio decisions, business value, team design, and executive buy-in.

  • CTOs, VPs, and Heads of Engineering who modernize the SDLC, manage agentic teams, and control quality, risk, and spend.

  • AI Transformation & Data Leaders running cross-functional AI transformation, proving ROI, prioritizing investments, and scaling what works.

What's included

Elena Luneva

Live sessions

Learn directly from Elena Luneva in a real-time, interactive format.

Templates, prompts, skills

Playbooks, prompts, system design docs and templates that you can always access.

Video Modules

Watch at your own pace. Modules include live scenarios, practice and come with tools and templates. Lifetime access to rewatch anytime.

Personal Project Review

Direct async project review from me on all submitted projects, including the Capstone.

Lifetime Access & Unlimited Re-enrollment

Access to recordings, up-to-date course content, and re-enrollment

Office Hours to get in the specifics of your work

Q&A to get into the specifics of where you or your company is getting stuck, framework application, and group coaching on the spot.

Alumni Advantage

Alumni enjoy exclusive rates for future programs and executive labs.

1:1 Matching with accountability partner

Meet others working through what you are working on, and have an additional sounding board for your questions, and an accountability partner.

Maven Guarantee

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Course syllabus

7 live sessions • 3 projects

Week 1

Nov 16—Nov 22

    The Finance of AI Transformation

    • Nov

      16

      Build the AI Transformation ROI Model

      Mon 11/165:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    • Nov

      16

      Allocate the AI Portfolio

      Mon 11/166:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

    Nov

    18

    (Optional) Office Hours and Financial Model Project Review

    Wed 11/185:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Nov 23—Nov 29
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Free resources

Schedule

Live sessions

6 hrs / week

    • Mon, Nov 16

      5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, Nov 16

      6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Wed, Nov 18

      5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

4 hrs / week

Async content

6 hrs / week

From Agile to SIGNAL: launching AI products without the chaos

From Agile to SIGNAL: launching AI products without the chaos

The Hidden Costs of an AI-Transformed Team

The Hidden Costs of an AI-Transformed Team

A traditional engineer is still constrained largely by their own time. An agentic engineer is not. Their agents can consume model tokens, CI minutes, test environments, code-review agents, cloud sandboxes, and third-party APIs while the engineer starts additional work and spins up additional agents in parallel.

Loops Are Not Systems

Loops Are Not Systems

Here is how to think about the distinction

  • Prompts automate a task

  • Loops automate repeated work

  • Systems improve outcomes and adapt as conditions change

What Changes When Your Team Builds With AI

What Changes When Your Team Builds With AI

“…what about teams who are not building AI products but are heavily using AI to build products? Agile is also not totally working for us anymore. We're doing smaller teams and stepping away from typical scrum ceremonies, and gaps exist in this cycle as well. Would love to hear thoughts!”

Super Leader

Super Leader

Five traits leaders need to thrive right now.

What Agile Gets Wrong About AI Teams

What Agile Gets Wrong About AI Teams
  • 85% had no clear path from prototype to production

  • 75% had no evaluation process tied to launch decisions

  • 43% handled AI risk reactively. One doc at kickoff, never revisited

  • 33% had no post-launch monitoring for drift or degradation

Frequently asked questions

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