I've spent my life building things — software, podcasts, community projects. Started teaching this because the workflows operators ask me about are the same ones I use to run everything I've built.
stategov.io — a political-intelligence platform for state legislatures, used by lobbyists, government-affairs teams, and nonprofits. Town Square Podcast Studio. A handful of community projects in Russellville, Arkansas. And now this academy.
Every one of them had the same constraint: more decisions than capacity, less time than work, no team to delegate to. The workflows in this curriculum are the ones I built and still use to run all of it — not from a coaching practice, not from a course-launch playbook, from the builder who has to ship the work himself.
"The audience is operators, not engineers. The job is to leave with working proof you can use, demo, and extend — not with a lesson watched."
I started experimenting with the tools in 2023 the way most operators did — cleverly, then sporadically, then frustrated. The pattern that became this curriculum showed up about six months in: the operators around me who got real leverage out of AI weren't the ones with the best prompts. They were the ones who took a specific workflow, sat down with the tool until it ran, and then moved on to the next one. Reps, in your own business, on your own time.
That's also when I started running workshops for the operators in town. The cohort is the structured version of those sessions — opened up nationally, built around becoming an operator who runs their work with AI, proven by four real builds — and the community is where the longer-tail projects keep going after week four.
One four-week cohort that turns you into an AI-native operator. You prove it by shipping four real builds: a website, a social agent, an open brain, and your own AI agent. Lifetime access to the community of builders who came through it before you. One price, one time. No tiers, no renewals, no upsells.
I also host the AI in Action podcast — operators putting AI to work in their own words, with the workflows specific enough to copy. If you want to know what the cohort sounds like before you sign up, the podcast is the cheapest free preview there is.
Fifty dollars, once — lifetime access. Your first AI agent running this week, real builds recorded end-to-end, and a room of operators comparing notes. When you're ready to go all-in, the four-week cohort is by application.
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