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Build and ship real AI applications

Practical AI courses for developers, founders and professionals learning AI agents, RAG systems and automation workflows — with hands-on projects, not lecture reels.

Project-based

Every course ends with a real project you can put on GitHub.

Production focus

Evaluations, observability and cost controls — not toy demos.

Built for today

Curriculum reflects how AI is actually shipped in 2026.

Why learn with us

Focused on what actually ships

We're a new platform. That means a tight curriculum, direct feedback and no filler.

Practical projects

You'll build things like RAG pipelines, agents and automation workflows — end to end.

Hands-on coding

Every lesson has runnable code. No 40-minute intros to what an LLM is.

Real AI workflows

Retrieval, evaluation, tool use, observability — the parts that decide if it ships.

Community support

Ask questions, share projects and get feedback from the instructor and other members.

Learning paths

What are you building?

Seven curated learning tracks that map to how AI actually gets shipped.

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Courses students are shipping with

Real projects, real evaluation. Not a series of hello-worlds.

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New · Practice quizzes

Prove it with 5,400+ practice questions

Every module now ships with a 100-question bank. Each attempt draws 10 fresh questions in a random order — so you can retake as often as you like without ever memorising the answer key.

  • 100 questions per module
    Hand-authored across every course — Agents, RAG, LLMs, Workflows and more.
  • 10 random each attempt
    Answers are reshuffled too. Every retake is a new test of your understanding.
  • Built into every lesson
    Open any course and hit the module quiz — instant feedback, no signup gate.
Module quiz · Question 3 of 10
00:42

Which technique reduces hallucinations in a RAG pipeline most reliably?

Increase model temperature
Ground answers in retrieved context with citations
Add more few-shot examples to the system prompt
Switch to a larger base model
Drawn from a pool of 100Shuffled every attempt
What you'll build

Real projects, not toy demos

Every course ends with a shippable project you can push to GitHub and show to a hiring manager.

Python · pgvector · OpenAI

Production RAG assistant

A retrieval-augmented assistant with hybrid search, reranking, citations and offline evals wired into CI.

  • Hybrid search + reranker
  • Faithfulness evals
  • Cost & latency dashboard
Python · LangGraph · Tavily

LangGraph research agent

A multi-step agent with tool use, human-in-the-loop approvals, replayable traces and hard cost caps.

  • Typed state machine
  • Interrupt & approve nodes
  • Trace-based debugging
TypeScript · n8n · Webhooks

AI workflow automation

An event-driven workflow that triages inbound leads with structured LLM output, retries and idempotency.

  • Structured JSON output
  • Retry & DLQ handling
  • ROI measurement

Sample capstone projects from the curriculum. Student project gallery launches with the first cohort.

Who's teaching

Learn from a working practitioner

Every course is taught by someone who ships AI systems for a living. Bring your hardest questions.

UY
Founder & lead instructor

Usman Yaqoob

Applied Machine Learning · Production LLMs & AI Systems

Usman leads the AI Academies curriculum, teaching engineers and builders how to design, evaluate and ship AI applications end-to-end — from prompt architecture and retrieval to agents, evals and cost-aware production deployments.

Founding members

Join the first cohort

We're brand new. Founding members get early access, discount pricing, direct feedback with the instructor, and a say in which courses we build next.

  • Early access to every new course
  • Founding-member pricing, locked in
  • Direct feedback and code review
  • Vote on the next course we build
  • Join founding members
Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

Free to explore. Upgrade when you're ready to ship.

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$0/ forever

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  • Access to all previews
  • Community discussions
  • Weekly AI news digest
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$29/ per month

Everything you need to ship real AI projects.

  • Full course library
  • Project reviews & feedback
  • Certificates on completion
  • Live cohort access
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Team
Custom/ for your team

For engineering orgs adopting AI in production.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Team analytics dashboard
  • Private cohorts
  • SSO & invoicing
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The Free AI Starter Kit

A short, opinionated pack to help you actually start building. Drop your email and we'll send it over — no spam, unsubscribe anytime.

  • Curated AI tools list
  • Prompt engineering starter guide
  • AI agent architecture roadmap
  • RAG production checklist