Ship Like AI-Native Builders
Cohort-based Course
Level up your AI-native critical reasoning skills and learn first principles to save time and ship value faster
Ship Like AI-Native Builders
Cohort-based Course
Level up your AI-native critical reasoning skills and learn first principles to save time and ship value faster
Course overview
Ship Like AI-Native Builders (With First Principles)
Executives keep saying it: “Be more AI-native.” But what does that actually mean when you’re the one building?
This course turns that fuzzy mandate into a repeatable workflow for founders, PMs, and tech leads who want to ship faster—and smarter—with AI.
Over three weeks, you’ll go from mapping your team’s workflows to launching a working AI prototype. You’ll learn how to identify the right problems to automate, turn vague ideas into precise specs AI tools can execute, and integrate lightweight evaluation systems to ensure quality and trust.
Each session blends first-principles frameworks, live demos, and hands-on build time. Between sessions, you’ll post Loom updates, collect user feedback, and get rapid, actionable critiques.
By the end, you’ll have:
A shipped AI prototype solving a real workflow pain point.
A reusable Prompt + Spec System for high-quality AI collaboration.
A measurable ROI case study to present to leadership or investors.
This isn’t another “prompting 101.” It’s a builder’s course for people who want to lead the AI-native transformation in their org—and prove it with something real, shipped, and working.
First principles thinking and frameworks for how to build and ship like AI-native builders
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Talented product managers, engineers, designers and other tech professionals who want to level up in thinking like AI-native builders
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Startup founders who are super busy and want clear signal from the frontlines of AI-native building
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Tech executives who want to learn the art of the possible with building software products as an AI-native team, to bring back to their orgs
What you’ll get out of this course
Design an AI-Native Build Loop for your current product that cuts iteration time by 50% within the first month.
Translate one vague product idea into a developer-grade spec that AI tools can execute with minimal rework.
Construct a Prompt + Spec System tailored to your workflow to ensure consistent, high-quality outputs from AI.
Redesign one repetitive or low-risk workflow into an AI-Native system that saves measurable time or increases output consistency.
Map and evaluate your team’s top workflows from first principles to identify the highest-ROI opportunities for automation.
Build and test a working, high fidelity AI-assisted prototype—from user interview to usable feature in 1/10 the time.
Quantify time and cost savings from one redesigned workflow, building a simple ROI model to justify further AI investment.
Learn a repeatable process for gaining adoption for AI at your company.
Gain critical reasoning abilities and thinking frameworks to problem solve like an AI-native builder in any given situation.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Robert Ta & Kia Fathi 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.
Prompt library
A library of the best prompts we use in the real world, building with AI on the frontlines of innovation
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
Week 1
Jan
5
Kickoff + The AI-Native Mindset
Week 2
From Idea To Spec
Jan
12
Prompt + Spec System
Week 3
Build Fast, Learn Faster
Jan
19
AI-Assisted Build Lab
Jan
22
Rapid Discovery & Demo Loops
Week 4
Meet your instructors
Robert Ta
Robert is an AI startup founder & entrepreneur at Epistemic Me, an AI startup specializing in hyper-personalization and alignment, with staff-level product leadership experience in big tech.
He has proven experience and patented work in product analytics, having led product architecture at Workday and Dayforce and has shipped 10+ products in his career generating millions to billions in revenue.
He has taught functional and technical workshops of hundreds to thousands of technology and product professionals in his career. Teaching is his passion, and he loves sharing knowledge just as much as he loves staying cutting edge on the latest and greatest productivity workflows for product building.
Robert brings lessons from the frontlines of building an AI-native tech startup directly with experience in going 0-1 and getting your first customers. He specializes in AI education and transformation, having proven experience championing AI adoption in enterprise.
Career highlights
Patented analytics work, growing Workday from 2B to 4B+
Bootstrapped first startup to 1.5 million in revenue in 4 months
Has taught 1000s+ of people how to use AI
Kia Fathi
Kia leads engineering at Fifty Years (50Y), a Venture Capital firm specializing in deep futuristic technological breakthroughs, building products for frontier founders and advising on technical strategy, system architecture, and more.
At Google, he was Tech Lead for the company-wide Web Application Management Platform and a cross-functional Business Process Automation Platform.
A former Founder and Head of Engineering at Mira, he scaled ARR to ~$500k in year one and engineered 99.99% uptime systems.
He’s taught multiple internal courses at Google, and won several top innovation/demo awards in his career.
Kia brings hard-earned patterns for AI-assisted coding in real teams with viral products: small composable services, strict testing, and CI that keeps AI-generated code trustworthy.
Career highlights
Scaled tech startup ARR to +500k in 1 year
Taught 100s+ of students at Google
Helps 100+ portfolio companies build AI-native
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you