Cohort 1 · Classes from Tue 1 Dec
Learn how AI really works, build AI systems businesses pay for, and pitch your first client.
No payment to apply. Applications close Sun 22 Nov.
Sort 40 real customer messages on three models.
You measure accuracy, time and tokens on Gemini, an OpenRouter model and Ollama, then write a one-page memo on which one you'd pay for.
Real messages from Banking77 by PolyAI, CC BY 4.0. Lab 1.
An assistant that answers from one business's own documents.
Customer: Can I cancel an order after it ships?
Assistant: Yes, within 7 days of delivery. [returns-policy.pdf, section 2]
Customer: Do you ship to Dubai?
Assistant: I don't know. The documents don't cover shipping outside Pakistan.
Illustration of Lab 2: answers with sources, and "I don't know" when the documents don't say.
Prove it works, with numbers.
Lab 3, Measure and improve.
Let it act, but only with a person's yes.
write_booking(name="Ayesha", slot="Tue 10:30") → bookings.sqliteThen you attack it with three prompt injections, fix it, and run the attacks again.
Illustration of Lab 4: one real tool through MCP, an approval step before any write, a red team test.
Put it live, and keep the bill in check.
Lab 5, Live, monitored, handed over.
Pitch it to a business.
Week 6 and the capstone.
You pick one real business in Week 1, from our sector packs or a business whose documents are public. The same project grows every week.
Pick a week to see its lessons, its lab and the real task you build.
This week's real task
One Python script that gets an answer from three models: one on the Gemini free tier, one free model on OpenRouter and one on your laptop with Ollama. It prints each reply with its tokens and time.
Week 1 · Tue 1 to Fri 4 Dec
This week's real task
Sort 40 real bank messages from Banking77 on three models, measure accuracy, time and tokens, and write a one-page memo on which model you'd pay for. In lesson 1.1 you price a clinic answering 3,000 messages a month.
Week 2 · Mon 7 to Fri 11 Dec
This week's real task
An assistant over one business's documents that cites the passage behind every claim, and says "I don't know" when the documents don't cover a question. In lesson 2.8 you turn 10 scanned invoices into checked rows.
Week 3 · Mon 14 to Fri 18 Dec
This week's real task
Read 50 traces of your assistant, count what went wrong, check a judge against your own labels, then fix the biggest failure and score it before and after.
Week 4 · Mon 21 to Fri 25 Dec
This week's real task
Your assistant writes a booking to a sheet or SQLite only after a person says yes. You package one procedure as a Skill, for example how a clinic handles a reschedule, and attack your agent with three prompt injections before and after your fix.
Week 5 · Mon 28 Dec to Fri 1 Jan
This week's real task
A public URL with sign-in, a cost cap and a monitoring dashboard. In lesson 5.4 you build a browser voice receptionist that hands over to a person, and in 5.5 you price 3,000 conversations a month on WhatsApp and on web chat.
Week 6 · Mon 4 to Fri 8 Jan
This week's real task
A workflow audit and an ROI sheet for a real business you can talk to, with its permission, then a one-page pilot proposal.
Labs run at $0, on the Gemini API free tier, free models on OpenRouter and Ollama on your own laptop. Client data never goes through a free tier.
Final exam for the verified certificate: Mon 11 and Tue 12 Jan. Demo day: Sat 16 Jan. Exam retake: Tue 19 Jan.
Cohort 1 has 50 seats and no degree filter. Everyone who passes the gates is ranked, and the top 50 start on Tue 1 Dec. The bar never drops to fill a seat. If fewer than 50 pass, the class is smaller.
Pick a gate to see what it asks and when.
On Mon 23 Nov we email your Gate 1 invite from SkillMatch, our testing platform, to the email you applied with.
A 60 minute timed test on SkillMatch. No AI, camera on, on a laptop, because the coding parts don't run on a phone. Pass mark 60%. Results on Thu 26 Nov.
A 48 hour mini build from a brief on your status page. You may use AI if you say where. Run every line you hand in. Scored on four criteria from 1 to 4. You pass with 10 of 16 and no criterion at 1.
A 10 minute call for some applicants: scores close to the line, builds a reviewer has a question about, and a random 25% of everyone else. You explain your build and change something in it live.
The top 50 get seats. Everyone else who passed joins the waitlist. Classes start Tue 1 Dec.
Gate 1 runs on
Be up to date on AI for Professionals and Freelancers at 11:59 PM PKT on Sun 29 Nov. All four conditions must be true.
Not on the free course yet? Join it by Sun 22 Nov. That leaves you time to finish Week 1.
Tick "I'm on the free AI course" when you apply, with the same email you use there, and you go straight to Gate 2. You still get the Gate 1 invite, so take it too, in case the check doesn't come through.
Get in this way and your verified certificate is also 30% off the launch price. The certificate section has the details.
The free course needs no coding. This one does, so you still need basic Python and a laptop. See the free AI course
PKR in Pakistan, US dollars outside Pakistan.
The verified certificate is optional. It needs all four:
You pay only if you want the certificate, when you register for the final exam between Mon 30 Nov and Fri 8 Jan. One retake is included.
The fee is PKR 9,999 in Pakistan, or $49 outside Pakistan, the Cohort 1 launch price. From Cohort 2 the price is PKR 14,999, or $79. You pay the fee when you register for the final exam. Registration opens Mon 30 Nov and closes Fri 8 Jan. One retake, on Tue 19 Jan, is included. Until you register, you pay nothing.
Came in through the fast track? Your certificate is 30% off the launch price: PKR 6,999 in Pakistan, or $34 outside Pakistan, when you register and pay by Sun 13 Dec, 14 days after the fast-track check.
The final exam only counts for the certificate. Demo day finalists are picked on the capstone and labs only, so anyone who finishes can be picked, paid or not.
Anyone can check a certificate at web3geeks.co/verify.
Founder and lead instructor, Web3 Geeks
Founder of Netixsol, SkillMatch and Web3 Geeks. Built Netixsol across Pakistan and the UAE, shipping blockchain and AI agent products for clients in the US, Europe and the Gulf for 7+ years. Started teaching blockchain for free during COVID, taught at PIAIC, and has taught AI and Web3 to working professionals since 2020. Has trained 80+ engineers and builds AI agents every day.
LinkedIn profile of Mirza UsmanNo payment to apply. Applications close Sun 22 Nov.
Get ready for Gate 2 now: set up your $0 lab.
Yes. Every lesson, lab and build-along video is free. You pay only if you want the verified certificate: PKR 9,999 in Pakistan, or $49 outside Pakistan, the Cohort 1 launch price (PKR 14,999 / $79 from Cohort 2).
When you register for the final exam, between Mon 30 Nov and Fri 8 Jan. One retake, on Tue 19 Jan, is included. If you don't want the certificate, you never pay.
You should be able to read basic Python: variables, functions, loops, lists and dictionaries. No ML maths. The setup lessons in Week 0 get your $0 lab running before Gate 2.
You need to be 18 or older, and to have a laptop with a camera and a steady internet connection. A small local model needs 8 GB of RAM or more. If yours has less, you use a second free API model instead.
Recorded lessons and build-along videos, released week by week, with a lab, a quiz and a project step every week. We check every lab each week, for everyone, certificate or not. Demo day on Sat 16 Jan is live.
Not in Gate 1 or the final exam. In Gate 2, the labs and the project, yes, if you say where. Work that was never run scores low.
About 2 to 3 hours of video and 3 to 6 hours of lab a week, for six weeks.
If you pass the gates but aren't in the top 50, you go on the waitlist. If someone drops out in Week 1, we offer their seat to the next person on the list. If no seat reaches you, you're the first to hear when Cohort 2 opens, and you apply and sit the gates again. If you don't pass a gate, you get your score and the pass mark for that gate, so you know how far off you were. Our free AI course stays open, and you can apply again for the next cohort.
Nobody can promise that, and we don't. Week 6 teaches how to find a problem a business will pay to fix and how to pitch it. What happens next is your work.
No. There's no degree or CGPA filter. The gates decide.