Build AI-Ready API Products With MCP
Emmanuel Paraskakis
Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products
Forget how you build products. You're not building for humans anymore.
You've spent years perfecting your UI. Flowing experiences, beautiful screens, users glued to your product. Now your users are sending agents instead. The agent doesn't see your UI. It wants the most essential, irreducible form of your product's value - and if it can't get it, it moves on. To a competitor. To scraping. To telling the user it couldn't help.
Your only choice is to give agents what they want: APIs, MCP servers, and the interfaces that deliver outcomes without a screen. You may have APIs, but they were built for developers who read docs and ask questions. Agents don't do that.
This 3-day intensive course gets you building what agents actually need. Hands-on, not theory. You'll design agent-ready APIs, build and evaluate MCP servers, and ship an MCP App. Taught by a practitioner with the deepest background in APIs and developer products.
You'll walk out as the person who's done this, not read about it. The architect who builds for humans and machines. The PM who shipped a working MCP server. The leader others come to when they need to know what's real and what's hype.
What you’ll learn
Everything you need to make your product work for agents. Designed, built, evaluated, and shipped in 3 days.
Map how APIs, MCP, CLI and Skills enable agents.
Select the right mix for your product and use cases.
Why you should avoid depending on scraping.
Test what works and what doesn't work for agents - in Claude, live.
Deliver a good API design using AI, Markdown and OpenAPI.
Craft a checklist for your organization so you can share with others.
Decide when to publish an MCP server and when not to.
Design Tools, Metadata and Prompts as agent instructions.
Spot the security and consumption pitfalls of MCP before they bite you.
Generate an MCP server from an existing API using Zuplo.
Build a clean MCP server from scratch using Replit.
Put in place an Eval framework with MCPJam so you optimize success rate.
See how your product can reach +1.3B AI users across platforms.
Build a shippable app for ChatGPT with Fractal (no code).
Get ready to submit your App to OpenAI and know the gotchas the docs don't tell you.
Develop a concrete plan to evolve your existing products for the agent economy.
Build a prioritized roadmap, assessment checklist, and presentation materials.
Lead the agent-readiness conversation with your team and executives with confidence.
Who this course is for
Software Architects & Engineers who want high-quality, scalable tools that Agents will use long into the future.
Product Managers who want to stay ahead of the curve and quickly deliver API and MCP products that win in AI-dominated markets.
Founders & Executives who want to transform their companies and fully leverage AI opportunities and a market of +1.3B users.
Prerequisites
Some API knowledge is required
This is a fast-paced, hands-on course, and while you don't need to be a coder, it helps to understand HTTP basics or to have shipped an API.
If you need to brush up on your API skills:
Consider taking API Fundamentals for Product Managers first: https://maven.com/emmanuel/api-pm-fundamentals
Little or no AI experience is expected
We'll walk you through building with LLMs and AI Codegen tools, even if you've never used them before.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Emmanuel Paraskakis in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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
3 live sessions • 27 lessons
Week 1
Mar
25
Session 1
Wed 3/254:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Mar
26
Session 2
Thu 3/264:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Mar
27
Session 3
Fri 3/274:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Module 1 - Build What Agents Want
Module 2 - MCP Deep Dive
Module 3 - MCP Apps
Free resource
Master MCP Essentials for PMs
Explain MCP in plain PM language
Understand clients/servers, tools/resources, and how MCP lets agents and LLMs "see" your data.
Spot product bets MCP unlocks
Map MCP to agents and connected apps, API strategy, and what it enables for ChatGPT experiences and Store-ready apps.
Assess spec maturity and risks
Know what’s stable vs evolving, plus auth, security, and how governance is shaping the protocol.
Try MCP inside an LLM (hands-on)
Add a remote MCP server, and run a few tool calls end-to-end, so you can brainstorm product ideas for the future.
Where to find the best next resources
Leave with the key docs, links, resources, and communities to follow as MCP evolves in 2026.
Schedule
Live sessions
9-10 hrs
Wed, Mar 25
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Mar 26
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Mar 27
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Frequently asked questions
$799
USD
7 days left to enroll