Cohort 01 · Starts October 5

Lead AI at work.No code required.

An eight-week live program for business students, recent grads and career changers who want the roles companies are actually hiring for. You learn to lead the work and to build it — every week you ship a real automation, system or agent of the kind businesses are paying for right now. No code required.

20 seats total · 14 seats left · Balance of $399 due September 25

John Karras, who teaches The AI Leadership Program
The program at a glanceCohort 01Live online
01 · Format

8 weeks

One live 2-hour session per week

02 · Starts

October 5

Runs through late November

03 · Cohort

20 seats

Small enough to be asked a question

04 · Founding price

$599$1,999

First cohort only

Every session is recorded. Finish the eight weeks and you receive a certificate of completion.

05 · Who this is for

You don't need a CS degree. You need a point of view.

University students

Business, econ, policy, design. Graduate with something on your résumé that hiring managers are searching for right now.

Recent grads

Six months into a first job, watching AI rewrite it. Learn to be the person in the room who can scope the work and judge the output.

Career changers

Marketing, finance, ops, consulting, teaching. Your domain knowledge is the scarce part — this is the vocabulary and the portfolio to go with it.

06 · Curriculum — draft outline

Placeholder outline for the first cohort — the shape is fixed, the weekly detail is still being written.

01

What AI actually is at work

Placeholder — the landscape in plain language: models, agents, copilots, and where each one earns its keep.

02

Finding the work worth automating

Placeholder — how to walk into a business, find the repeated task that costs it real money, and size the fix.

03

Build: your first automation

Placeholder — build one end to end, live: a trigger, a model step, a check and an action that lands somewhere a human sees it.

04

Build: a system on your own documents

Placeholder — put a company's own knowledge behind an assistant, and learn why retrieval beats a longer prompt.

05

Build: an agent that uses tools

Placeholder — multi-step work, real tools, and the human approval step that makes it safe to turn on.

06

Making it trustworthy

Placeholder — evaluating output, handling failure, and the privacy, bias and policy questions a client will ask.

07

Selling it in

Placeholder — pricing the work, writing the one-page case, and bringing a sceptical team along.

08

Capstone and career

Placeholder — demo what you built to the cohort; positioning, portfolio and interview practice.

Sessions are live and recorded; every week ends with a short applied assignment reviewed in the next class.

07 · What you'll build

You leave with things that run, not notes.

Half the program is taught and half is built. Each project is the kind of work businesses are hiring for right now — and each one is yours to keep, demo and put in front of an employer or a client.

Project 01

An automation that removes a task

Take a job somebody does by hand every week — sorting inbound requests, chasing paperwork, writing the same summary — and hand it to a workflow that runs without you.

Ships as: A live automation, running on a schedule or a trigger

Project 02

A system that knows the business

Point an assistant at a real set of documents — policies, product notes, past tickets — so it answers from what the organisation actually knows rather than from the open internet.

Ships as: A working internal assistant, grounded in real source material

Project 03

An agent that does the work

Something that plans across several steps, uses the tools it needs, knows when to stop, and asks a person before it does anything it cannot take back.

Ships as: An agent with tools, guardrails and a human approval step

08 · Included

Live, not a video course

Sixteen hours of taught time with a real instructor, questions answered as you ask them. Miss one? Every session is recorded and yours to keep.

09 · Included

A certificate that says what you did

Complete the eight weeks and the assignments and you receive a certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn.

10 · Included

Things you built, not notes you took

You leave with three working builds and a capstone — an automation, a system on real documents, and an agent — plus the templates behind them. A portfolio you can demo in an interview.

11 · Cost and dates
Founding cohort price

$599

Regular price $1,999. This price exists once, for the first twenty people.

Deposit to hold a seat$200
Balance, due September 25$399
Classes beginOctober 5

Card payment opens shortly — until then I hold seats by email.

Questions people ask first

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You will build real automations, systems and agents, but you'll build them the way most companies now do — with tools that don't require programming. If you can build a spreadsheet and write a clear memo, you're equipped.

What will I actually have built by the end?

Three working projects and a capstone: an automation that removes a recurring task, an assistant grounded in a real set of documents, and an agent that uses tools with a human approval step. They're yours to demo.

What happens after I pay the deposit?

Your seat is held. You'll get the syllabus, the session calendar and an invoice for the $399 balance, due September 25.

What if I miss a session?

Every class is recorded and posted the same week, with the slides and the assignment.

How much time per week?

Two hours live, plus roughly one to two hours on the applied assignment.

Is the deposit refundable?

TODO — placeholder policy, confirm before launch. Suggested: fully refundable up to two weeks before the start date.

12 · Reserve a seat

Twenty seats. One cohort. October 5.

Seats are held in the order deposits arrive. The $200 deposit holds yours; the $399 balance is invoiced and due September 25.

14 seats left of 20

Email to hold a seat.

Card checkout goes live once payments are provisioned. Until then, write to me and I’ll send the deposit link and the syllabus by hand.