Turn Your Side Project Into a Business

Manu Jayawardana

Exited AI Founder | Founder, TAI Labs

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

AI Advisor | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Your Side Project Should Be Paying You By Now

Stop tinkering. Start earning. The one-day playbook for turning what you've built into something that pays. Your side project has been sitting in limbo, this course gives you the push to turn it into something that makes money. In 1 day, you'll learn how to turn your side project into a business: evaluate whether you've built something people will pay for write the pitch that makes someone say "I need that" get your first 10 paying customers set a price when you have no data and no competitors build revenue that runs on 10 hours a week without burning out By the end, you'll have a 90-day plan to go from "thing I'm working on" to "business that pays me." What you'll leave with A clear yes/no on whether your project is worth pursuing and what to fix if not yet A one-sentence pitch, positioning statement, and landing page structure An outreach plan for your first 10 paying customers A pricing framework with zero market data A 90-day plan with weekly milestones All templates, frameworks, and record

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 clear plan to go from side project to paying business, built around your actual project.

The three signals that separate a real business from an interesting hobby
How to assess whether you've built something people will pay for or whether you're solving a problem only you have
What to fix if the answer is "not yet" and when to kill it and move on

How to write the one-sentence pitch that makes someone say "I need that"
How to turn a vague project into a clear offer with a name, a price, and a page that converts
The MVP version of your brand, just enough to look legitimate without spending weeks on design

Where to find the people who need what you built when nobody knows who you are
The first sales conversation when you have zero social proof

Learn directly from Manu & Aki

Manu Jayawardana

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AI Advisor | Founder, TAI Labs

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Dr. Aki Wijesundara

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AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

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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

Lifetime Access to All Recordings & Materials

Revisit the materials and lectures anytime. Recordings and slides are made available to all students.

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.

Complimentary Access to a Future Cohort

If you’re unable to fully participate or complete the program during your current cohort, you’ll have the option to defer and join a future cohort at no additional cost, allowing you to properly complete the experience.

Tool Workshops

Curated talks from industry experts working on growth, as well as workshops with vendors building growth tools.

24/7 On-Demand AI Support

Receive instant guidance, explanations, and help across every course and module.

Every template, workflow, prompt, and automation, yours forever

Every template, workflow, prompt, and automation becomes permanently yours, meaning you keep the exact systems used to generate content, find leads, send emails, run ads, and automate operations. You can reuse, modify, and deploy them anytime for new products, clients, or businesses without starting from scratch.

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Jul 12

Session 1 — Is This a Real Business? Honest Evaluation

1 item

Session 2 - Position, Package, and Price What You've Built

1 item

Session 3 - Get Your First 10 Paying Customers

1 item

Templates and Resources - Yours to Keep

1 item

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