Lead AI Without the Chaos

Elena Luneva

CPO, GM xBraintrust, Nextdoor, OpenTable

Polly Allen

Ex-Alexa AI Principal PM

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Get the operating system used by high-performing AI-native teams

AI increases what your ICs can do. It also breaks the management systems most teams rely on.

Prototypes multiply. Quality becomes subjective. Risk ships quietly.

You end up in every review because no one is sure what "good" looks like — or who's accountable for evals, failure modes, and rollout decisions.

If you're a Director, Head of Product, or VP with multiple AI initiatives in flight: you're managing something you didn't build a system for yet. Execs keep asking "How do we know it's good?" and "What's the ROI?" — and you're the one fielding it.

This two-day workshop gives you the operating system. Not theory. Not frameworks. The actual playbooks, artifacts, and rituals high-performing, AI-native teams use — built during the workshop so you leave with real deliverables, not homework.

Leave with:

1. A 90-day AI portfolio — clear bets, owners, and decision gates so nothing gets orphaned

2. A repeatable risk review process your team can run without pulling you in

3. A shared quality bar — examples, acceptance criteria, and review gates so "is this good enough?" stops being a judgment call

4. Reusable operating artifacts built during the workshop — actual deliverables, not slides

What you’ll learn

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

  • Because without it, you stay in every decision and become the bottleneck.

  • Because risk that ships quietly is the thing that ends careers and kills roadmaps.

  • Because "we'll know it when we see it" isn't a quality bar your engineers or execs can work with.

  • Because the goal isn't to step back — it's to finally feel like you're running the work, not just reacting to it.

Learn directly from Elena & Polly

Elena Luneva

Elena Luneva

f-CPO. Product executive (Braintrust, Nextdoor, OpenTable, LiquidSpace)

Braintrust 🧠
Nextdoor
LiquidSpace I Work from where it works.
OpenTable
BlackRock
Polly Allen

Polly Allen

Ex-Alexa AI PM turned founder at AI Career Boost

Amazon
Elsevier
Schneider Electric
MIT

Who this course is for

  • Director/Head of Product: Leads AI initiatives; turns prototypes into production with clear quality, gates, and exec updates.

  • Eng leader (Sr Mgr/Dir/VP): Ships AI fast while managing reliability, security, and cost with consistent eval + risk reviews.

  • Data/ML leader (Dir/Head): Owns evals and performance; aligns product and execs with shared language and decision-ready tradeoffs.

What's included

Live sessions

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

Templates and prompts playbooks

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.

Alumni Advantage

Alumni enjoy exclusive rates for future programs and executive labs.

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

4 live sessions • 19 lessons

Week 1

Mar 21—Mar 22

    The AI-First Operating System

    • Mar

      21

      The AI-First Operating System

      Sat 3/214:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
    5 more items

    360° Risk Framework

    • Mar

      21

      360° Risk Framework

      Sat 3/215:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

    Upgrading Agile to SIGNAL for the AI Era of Building

    • Mar

      22

      Upgrading Agile to SIGNAL for the AI Era of Building

      Sun 3/224:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
    7 more items

    Evaluation for Launch Readiness & Beyond

    • Mar

      22

      Evaluation for Launch Readiness & Beyond

      Sun 3/225:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    3 more items

Week 2

Mar 23
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Schedule

Live sessions

6 hrs / week

    • Sat, Mar 21

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Sat, Mar 21

      5:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Sun, Mar 22

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Sun, Mar 22

      5:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

4 hrs / week

Async content

6 hrs / week

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