14 Days to Building AI Systems & Agents
Vivian Aranha
Founder & AI Instructor at School of AI
Build Real AI Systems & Agents in 14 Days — Not Just Prompts
Most AI courses teach you prompts. This course teaches you how to build real AI systems.
Right now, professionals face a critical challenge: AI is everywhere — but very few people know how to turn it into working, deployable applications. Watching demos isn’t enough. Copy-pasting prompts isn’t enough. Employers and clients want people who can design, build, evaluate, and deploy AI-powered solutions that actually solve problems.
If you’ve felt overwhelmed by the noise — new tools every week, agent frameworks, RAG, automation — you’re not alone. The real gap isn’t intelligence. It’s structure.
This course matters because it gives you a complete, end-to-end mental model of modern AI systems. In 14 days, you move from understanding how AI works to deploying your own AI-powered application with memory, tools, automation, and evaluation.
By the end, you won’t just “know AI.”
You’ll have built and shipped a real product — and that changes your confidence, credibility, and career trajectory.
What you’ll learn
Learn to design, build & deploy real AI systems—become a portfolio-ready AI builder, not just a prompt user.
Map real problems into AI system architectures
Build backend logic + connect frontend UI
Deploy a live AI-powered application
Call LLM APIs using Python
Tune tokens, temperature, and system prompts
Manage cost, latency, and performance
Use few-shot & structured prompting
Enforce JSON schema outputs
Validate and parse responses in code
Generate embeddings & semantic search
Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Add short-term and long-term memory
Design tool-enabled agents
Implement execution loops
Automate real multi-step workflows
Deploy apps to the cloud
Write professional READMEs
Record demos and polish GitHub repos
Learn directly from Vivian
Vivian Aranha
AI architect with 2.2M+ learners, building enterprise-grade agentic systems
Who this course is for
Aspiring AI builders who want real projects, not just prompt tricks, and need a structured path to ship their first AI app.
Developers or engineers curious about AI who want to add LLMs, agents, and automation to their existing skill set.
Product managers & tech professionals who want to understand AI systems deeply enough to build, deploy, and lead AI initiatives.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Vivian Aranha in a real-time, interactive format.
Build a Real AI App in 14 Days
Go from zero to deployed. You’ll design, build, test, and launch a live AI-powered application — not just write prompts.
Systems Thinking, Not Tool Hype
Understand how modern AI systems actually work — models, APIs, memory, RAG, agents, automation — and how they fit together.
Agents, Memory & Automation
Build AI systems that take actions, persist conversations, use tools, and execute multi-step workflows.
Hands-On, Portfolio-Driven Learning
Every day includes a practical lab and a tangible deliverable — GitHub repo, deployed app, documentation, demo.
Deployment & Career Leverage
Ship your project live, write a strong README, record a demo, and turn your build into real career credibility.
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
Day 1 – Foundations: How AI Systems Actually Work
Day 2 – Environment Setup for AI Development
Day 3 – Working with APIs & LLMs
Day 4 – Prompt Engineering That Actually Works
Day 5 – Structured Outputs & JSON Responses
Day 6 – Working with Documents (RAG Basics)
Day 7 – Building a Simple AI Web App
Week 2
Day 8 – Memory & State in AI Apps
Day 9 – AI Agents: From Chatbots to Doers
Day 10 – Automation & Workflows
Day 11 – Evaluating & Improving AI Systems
Day 12 – Deployment & Sharing
Day 13 – Capstone Build Day
Day 14 – Portfolio, Documentation & Next Steps
Schedule
Live sessions
1-2 hrs / week
Projects
15-20 hrs / week
Async content
10-15 hrs / week
$200
USD
4 days left to enroll