A new AI learning platform for people who build.
AI Academies is a practical, project-based AI school for developers, founders and professionals. We're just getting started — and we'd rather earn your trust with real work than borrowed credibility.
Close the gap between AI hype and AI in production.
Most AI content stops at a toy demo. Most courses teach yesterday's tricks. We're building AI Academies for the practitioners in the middle who need to ship systems that actually work.
Every course pairs concepts with runnable code and a real project. Every workflow reflects how we'd build it for a paying customer. Every learner has a place to ask a question and get a real answer.
We're launching with a small, focused curriculum. It will grow with our founding members' input.
“Build something you're proud to put on GitHub by the end of your first course.”
Our promise to every learner
What we hold ourselves to
Clarity over cleverness
Every lesson explains the why, not just the how. We ship examples you can actually run.
Ship, don't lecture
You should build something real in your first course, not watch a 40-minute intro.
Rigor by default
We cite sources, evaluate outputs and refuse to demo anything we wouldn't put in production.
Small, honest community
We're new — that means direct feedback, real questions and no vanity metrics.
Who's behind AI Academies
AI Academies is founded and led by Usman Yaqoob. Instead of a made-up team page, here's who's actually building the courses and answering your questions.
Usman Yaqoob
Founder & lead instructor
Applied ML engineer building production LLM and agent systems. Teaches the design, evaluation and deployment side of AI — the parts that decide whether something actually ships.
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