GP, Musa Capital · ex-Microsoft operator

There's a canyon between an agent that works in your notebook and one that survives real users, real edge cases, and real money on the line. You've felt it: the demo lands, everyone's excited — then it breaks the moment it hits production, and nobody quite knows why.
Crossing that canyon is the single most valuable skill in AI right now. And almost nobody teaches it, because almost nobody has shipped it.
Over six weeks, you'll build a production-grade agent system end to end — architecture, tool orchestration, memory, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, deployment. Not a toy. Your own real project, the kind you can demo to a hiring manager, a CTO, or an investor.
What makes this different: you're learning from an active investor and former big-tech operator who builds agentic systems as part of how Musa Capital develops its thesis. Not theory from someone who read the papers — the patterns that separate funded companies from prototypes.
You'll leave with a system that ships, an eval discipline most teams never build, and the judgment to know what's actually production-ready.
Go from building agent demos to shipping production-grade agent systems with the eval rigor, guardrails, and judgment real teams rely on.
Apply the core agent loop and patterns — ReAct, plan-execute, reflection — to real problems.
Choose single- vs. multi-agent designs, and recognize when an agent is the wrong tool
Scope a real agent project with a clear spec: goal, tools, success criteria, failure modes
Design tool schemas and structured outputs an LLM can use reliably
Apply orchestration patterns — sequential, parallel, router — with error handling and retries
Wire multiple real tools into your agent and handle failures gracefully
Manage short- and long-term memory and context-window limits
Use retrieval and state machines to keep agents coherent across turns
Add a persistent memory layer to your own agent
Design offline and online eval strategies, including LLM-as-judge and trajectory eval
Build a regression suite and test set for your agent
Ship an eval harness you run on every change
Implement input/output guardrails and prompt-injection defenses
Add human-in-the-loop gates, audit logging, and cost controls
Make your agent safe to put in front of real customers
Instrument agents for observability, tracing, and cost monitoring in production
Apply a hyperscaler-aware GTM lens to position and sell agentic products
Present a shipped, production-grade agent to peers and an investor lens

General Partner, Musa Capital (ex-Microsoft, NFL, Stanford)

Technical Founders — shipping agentic features and need production patterns that scale beyond the demo.
Engineers & Eng Leads — building with LLMs at companies and need governance, eval, and deployment rigor.
Technical PMs — scoping production-grade agents and need to speak the language of what's actually possible.

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Certificate of completion
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A shipped capstone project
Build your own production-grade agent end to end — architecture, tools, memory, evals, guardrails, deployment. Leave with a system you can demo to a hiring manager, CTO, or investor.
Production-grade patterns
Tool orchestration, memory and state, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, monitoring, and cost control
Investor + operator perspective
Learn from an active VC and former big-tech operator who builds agentic systems as part of Musa Capital's thesis work. Get the patterns that separate funded companies from prototypes.
Hyperscaler-aware GTM
Understand how to position and sell agentic products, and how hyperscaler partnerships (Microsoft, AWS, Google) reshape go-to-market — the commercial lens that makes your technical work fundable.
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3 hrs / week
Tue, Jul 14
12:00 AM—1:30 AM (UTC)
Fri, Jul 17
12:00 AM—1:30 AM (UTC)
Tue, Jul 21
12:00 AM—1:30 AM (UTC)
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