Forward Deployed: Applied AI for PMs, BAs, QA, and Delivery Leads

One complete AI project on your real use case, taken through 11 stages from first question to executive presentation. You leave with a behavioral contract, an evaluation report with a go/no-go recommendation, and a 5-minute brief ready to deliver to a VP.

The 11-stage workspace at the center of this course. It takes your AI project through every decision it needs before it ships: assessing whether AI is the right tool, designing and specifying the system, evaluating it against a threshold, and writing the executive brief. You work through it on your real project.

The AI Development Lifecycle tool that runs alongside the Studio. It explains why each stage exists and includes two built-in tools: Grill Skill for constrained agent orchestration, and the Specify tab for scoring how precisely your behavioral contract is written.

The agent orchestration tool inside the ADLC Application. Describe what you need in plain English. It reads your behavioral contract, spins up the right agents, checks every constraint before acting, and blocks violations. Every session produces a full audit trail. Runs on Groq.

The behavioral contract you write for your AI system. It defines what the AI must do, what it must never do, when it routes to a human, what score it needs to pass evaluation, and what it does when it fails. Your engineering team builds from it. Grill Skill reads it before every agent dispatch

The evaluation tool included with the course. Build test cases covering your AI's real decision space, run them through a scoring rubric you design, and get a score distribution rather than just a headline number. 20 cases scored in under 30 seconds on Groq.

The go/no-go decision where your evaluation score is compared against a threshold you set before running the eval. Meet the bar and you advance to production. Miss it and you fix what failed before re-running. The threshold is locked in before results come back, not adjusted after.

A template project is provided at enrollment: a realistic insurance claim triage scenario with full context. Complete every stage on the template and swap in your own project at any point. What you build on it is still a usable artifact.

No. The Studio, ADLC Application, Grill Skill, and EvalForge are all designed for non-engineers. The only setup is a free Groq API key, which is a single copy-paste into a text field.

Self-paced gives you all tools and async content. Cohort adds 4 live sessions: critique workshops where your behavioral contract is peer-reviewed, your test cases are red-teamed, and you deliver your executive brief to the group playing skeptical VP.

Finish all 11 Studio stages and your enrollment email unlocks pre-built reference projects in healthcare, insurance, fintech, logistics, and HR. Each includes a behavioral contract, evaluation report, and executive brief from a completed project in that domain.