Gain foundational understanding and build your personal AI operating system.
Stop relearning AI every month. In 3 weeks, master the mechanics and systems that make AI output reliable, high-trust, and portable -- across ChatGPT, Claude Code, CLI agents, and whatever comes next.
Most people are "AI literate" (they can ask for things). This bootcamp makes you AI fluent. You'll be able to reliably steer, debug, and compound results, even as tools change.
The course centers around 3 pillars:
1. Gain a foundational understanding of how LLMs and agents work that will keep you ahead of the game moving forward. It's durable literacy.
2. Build an AI operating system around your particular personality and workflow that will make using AI low-friction, high-trust, and high-impact across tools.
3. Develop an initial set of habits to help you build muscle over time, because it's your reflexive ability to reach for and use AI that will make this all matter.
If you already use AI but any of these feel true, this course is for you:
• Your results are inconsistent – sometimes gold, sometimes garbage
• You can't get an AI agent to do what others can, but you can’t diagnose why
• You spend too much time rewriting and re-prompting
• You keep trying new tools, but nothing compounds
What you’ll learn
Build permanent AI muscle, master the foundations of how AI actually works, and adopt future-proof tactics for the highest quality outputs.
You'll learn about the cognitive architecture that underpins not just LLMs, but the way that products and apps are built around them.
These patterns will work across AI models and will continue working as systems evolve.
If you don’t understand those layers, you’ll keep blaming the model, chasing tools, and starting from scratch.
You’ll learn how models actually work (tokens, attention, context windows), enabling a durable system for steering outcomes across tools.
I'll give you systems, shortcuts, and methods for making it second nature -- we'll build your AI muscle.
Build permanent AI muscle through systems and mental models
Gain key frameworks for model steering, result and context engineering, and the tooling to make it easier over time.
Build a compounding loop where each output improves the next. Output quality becomes a process, not luck.
A framework for the future of work that ties it all together: Orchestration, Supervision, Delivery.
You'll know why non-engineers should use Claude Code, how you should judge new tools, and methods for integrating AI into your workflows.
Feel in command of the future rather than chasing fake Zapier or n8n workflows that overpromise and underdeliver.
You’ll understand what an agent is (and isn’t), when workflows beat agents, and how to supervise agentic work so autonomy isn't chaos.
You'll master the art of progressive refinement, building complex outputs and systems, and be able to leverage all of this to be top .5%...
... whether that's at work, with a hobby, with a side project, or with something personal.
You'll walk away with a suite of surrounding tools -- pocket models, specialists, optimizers -- to give you Iron-Man-like AI capability.
Plus, methods for evaluating new models, agents, and tools as they come so you know what to adopt and what to ignore.
Learn directly from Sherveen
Sherveen Mashayekhi
Founder & CEO of Free Agency. AI Product Leader, Investor, & Applied Researcher.
Who this course is for
This is for ambitious professionals who already use AI weekly (or daily), and want reliability and leverage.
That includes founders, operators, product leaders, PMs, engineers, analysts, designers, finance, and GTM leaders.
No technical experience required. This is primarily aimed at non-technical individuals, though engineers also love this course.
Prerequisites
This course is NOT for you if...
• you want a PDF of “50 magic prompts” • you’re not curious about how AI actually works • you already live inside arXiv
If you are non-technical...
This course is made for you. We'll mostly stay outside of coding tools, except guided projects where they'll be useful even in your context.
If you're already good at using AI...
... but you still want a foundational understanding of how LLMs and agents work, you'll enjoy this course (a lot)!
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Sherveen Mashayekhi 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
11 live sessions • 8 lessons • 8 projects
Week 1
Feb
23
Inside the Black Box: How LLMs & Transformers Really Think
Feb
24
Token-Use Mindset: Future-Proof Mental Models for AI
Feb
25
Agents Masterclass: What, How, Today's Reality, Tomorrow's Possibilities
Projects: Models & Conversations
Projects: Advanced AI Use Cases
Feb
27
Optional: Office Hours
Week 2
Mar
2
Your Personal AI Tech Stack: Integration & Implementation
Mar
3
Scaffold and Context Engineering: Advanced Concepts
Mar
4
Building with AI: From Personal Software to Market-ready Applications
Projects: Agents & Workflows
Mar
6
Optional: Office Hours
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AI for PMs: 10x Your Design Exploration
Build systematic exploration workflows with AI agents
Learn a 'theory explosion' framework: use Figma Make + agents to generate divergent concepts, coded prototypes, + flows.
Structure component-level experiments for deep learning
Nested explore: use subdirectories of variations on single elements -- hero sections, dashboard UX -- and auto-remix.
Shift from iteration to radically exploratory systems
Learn to build on top of your existing products or on new projects in a way that makes this all easy, fun, + impressive!
Schedule
Live sessions
4 hrs / week
Mon, Feb 23
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Feb 24
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Feb 25
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
4 hrs / week
Async content
4 hrs / week
Testimonials
Within 1.5 weeks, this course propelled me from "AI curious" to "AI confident" that I'd give it a 20 out of 10 rating if I could. It's one thing to be knowledgeable, but Sherveen has the perfect combination of credibility, enthusiasm, and generosity (especially with time and resources) that made this my best AI learning experience thus far. If you're lucky enough to chance upon this course and slots are still open — run, don't walk. It's 100% worth it.
Nicola V.
Lead PMI took Sherveen’s AI Fluency Bootcamp and it ended up being one of the most formative courses I’ve done. What clicked for me is that Sherveen doesn’t just teach a single, tool-specific playbook (like “build an agent in ChatGPT”). He gives you a real mental model for the whole ecosystem: how transformers/LLMs fit together with foundation models, coding agents, and the product layers (the scaffolding) built on top of them. Beyond the fundamentals, I also picked up a few practical habits - especially around speech-to-text and generally improving how I communicate with machines - that changed how I work day to day. I’ve recommended the course repeatedly, and I’m planning to keep following his work as I go deeper into AI product and development.
Adam W.
Senior PM
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