Crack the 2026 AI Interview: AI Engineer, Applied AI and FDE

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

PhD in ML | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Manu Jayawardana

Exited AI Founder | Founder, TAI Labs

In the next 24 hours we have discounted the pricing by 80%

The selling and persuasion skills nobody teaches PMs, founders, and operators even though you sell every single day. Frameworks you can use on Monday morning. 10,000+ students trained | Alumni from Google, Meta, and OpenAI | One-day live intensive You sold something today. You just didn't call it that. You'll learn how to sell across every context: getting exec buy-in and pitching your roadmap in 15 minutes discovery conversations that surface real pain and budget handling pricing objections without flinching cold outreach that actually gets replies telling your own story in a way that opens doors You'll learn through 2 sessions and leave with a repeatable pitch. No sales background needed What you'll leave with A repeatable pitch structure (context → insight → proposal → ask) The persuasion framework for any argument, budget requests to partnership proposals Cold outreach templates , email, LinkedIn, and DMs Internal selling frameworks , budget approved, roadmap prioritised, leadership aligned Certificate of completion for LinkedIn
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available for applicants facing real financial hardship. See if you qualify.

What you’ll learn

Leave with a repeatable system for selling and persuading in every context you actually face.

Understand why PMs, founders, and operators sell every day without realising it
Learn why most pitches fail in the first 30 seconds, and how to fix that
The mindset shift that makes every conversation more persuasive

How to structure any argument so people move from sceptical to committed
The difference between convincing and compelling
Why logic alone never closes anything and what to pair it with

How to structure a pitch for a time-poor exec and get buy-in in 15 minutes
How to sell a controversial decision to your own team
How to handle "what's the ROI?" on the spot without freezing

How to run a discovery conversation that surfaces real pain and budget
How to handle pricing objections without flinching
The follow-up sequence that actually closes deals

The structure behind cold emails, LinkedIn messages, and DMs that get responses
How to personalise at scale without sounding like a template
What to say in the follow-up when they don't reply

How to tell your story in a way that makes people want to hire, work with, or buy from you
The "what do you do?" answer that opens doors instead of killing the conversation
- How to position yourself in promotion conversations and high-stakes interviews

Learn directly from Aki & Manu

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

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AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Manu Jayawardana

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AI Advisor | Founder, TAI Labs

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Who this course is for

Founders, Operators, Marketers, Product Managers running teams
Non Tech professionals with no prior coding/technical expertise
Consultants and agency owners who want to productize their delivery & Anyone who's bought tool subscriptions they never actually set up

Prerequisites

No coding, no technical background, no prior AI certification needed
No coding background, technical expertise required. Skills taught from scratch
Just bring the willingness to build something real
Your eagerness and passion

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Dr. Aki Wijesundara & Manu Jayawardana 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

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jul 14—Jul 15

Session 1 — The Art of Persuasion and Selling as a Skill

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Session 2 — Selling Externally and Selling Yourself

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Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs / week

Projects

2 hrs / week

Each week you will have a project that skill stacks week by week to get you building agentic GTM workflows by week 4. Every project includes step-by-step guides. Time invested depends on your familiarity with AI.

Lifetime Access to All Recordings, Materials and Async content

5 hrs / week

Revisit the materials and lectures anytime. Recordings and slides are made available to all students. Learn in your own time & get a tonne of support in live sessions and homework huddles.

Testimonials

The AI training approach is outstanding. Our team learned to build practical AI solutions that we could implement immediately in our educational platform. The hands-on methodology made complex AI concepts accessible to our entire development team.
Kavi T.
CEO of Tilli Kids / Stanford PhD
Not only are the instructors experts in their field, they're incredibly skilled at breaking down complicated AI concepts so students can grasp them quickly. Anyone interested in building foundational AI knowledge should take this training - it's worth the investment.
Dr. Elizabeth Creighton
Founder & Principal at Brazen
The instructors help break down AI model development and clearly have plenty of experience to help others learn about complex concepts like infrastructure setup. The practical approach to NLP and LLM applications was exactly what our team needed.
Alissa Valentine
NLP & LLM Real World Data Scientist
I sent my team through this training for upskilling, and the results have been remarkable. Within weeks, they became much more efficient at building automations and deploying AI agents at work. This program bridges the gap between theory and practice and it’s had a real impact on our productivity.
Aamir Faaiz
CEO of Bayseian