AI Automation Agency Bootcamp: 3-Week Evening Edition (Aug 10)

You want to build an AI automation agency — or add automation as a high-value service to your existing business — but you can't take a week off work to do it. This is the same bootcamp curriculum, rebuilt for evenings. Three weeks, Monday through Thursday, 6:00–9:00 PM PT, in person in San Francisco's Mission District or live on Zoom.

Not theory. Not demos. You build it, you own it, you deploy it.

What You'll Walk Out With

• A deployed portfolio site you built yourself with Claude Code — no developer hired
• A private AI assistant (OpenClaw) running on your own machine, hardened against real prompt-injection attacks
• A chatbot trained on your own company documentation via RAG
• A voice agent answering a real phone number (VAPI + ElevenLabs + Twilio) that books to your calendar
• A working n8n automation stack and content production pipeline
• A packaged AI automation agency offer: niche, pricing, and first-client outreach
• A breach-response playbook and the security credibility to serve clients safely

The Three Weeks

Week 1 — Aug 10–13: Foundations & Your Private AI

Lex Mustafin · Bogdan Red

• Mon & Tue — AI Command Center + Claude Code. How LLMs actually work, where they fail, prompting frameworks, image generation, project structuring. Then your first Claude Code session: build a real tool, put it on git, deploy a portfolio site.
• Wed & Thu — Your Private AI Assistant, Locked Down (OpenClaw). Install, configure, and harden it — sandbox isolation, gateway lockdown, tool restrictions, an injection-proof SOUL.md, and a Telegram bot only you can message. Thursday closes with a live red-team session where attendees try to break each other's assistants.

Week 2 — Aug 17–20: Security & Your First AI Employee

Bogdan Red (Bogdan Barchuk) · Kheir Lazaref

• Mon & Tue — Cybersecurity for Non-Technical Founders. How attackers profile a business before touching a system: Shodan, WHOIS, Google dorking for exposed backups and .env files. Live attacks against a DVWA sandbox on your own machine — brute force, SQL injection, and an XSS session-stealing demo you watch happen in real time.
• Wed & Thu — Build Your First AI Employee. A voice agent in VAPI with a locked-down system prompt, a cloned ElevenLabs voice, and a real Twilio number — so a caller gets an agent that checks your calendar and books the appointment. Then n8n orchestration, multi-agent architecture, and RAG on your own documents.

Week 3 — Aug 24–27: Content Machine & Agency Launch

Lex Mustafin + guest instructors

• Mon & Tue — Content Machine + AI Media Stack. Your media production system: video editing, short-form pipelines, AI video agents, and a framework that turns one piece of content into ten. You publish your first piece live.
• Wed & Thu — Launch Your AI Automation Agency. The business sessions most bootcamps skip: agency model principles, niche selection, ROI-based pricing, running a real Business AI Audit, and your first client offer and outreach.

Who This Is For

• Working professionals who want the full bootcamp without taking a week off
• Founders and business owners automating operations — and selling that as a service
• Students and business majors who want deployable AI skills, not coursework
• Anyone ready to launch an AI automation agency from scratch

No coding required. Beginners welcome. Bring a laptop (16GB RAM recommended).

Instructors

• Lex Mustafin — Founder & CEO, AI Start Academy. Serial founder and AI integrator; builds AI automation for businesses and mentors at Draper University and 500 Global. Teaches AI foundations, Claude Code, the media stack, and the agency business model.
• Bogdan Red (Bogdan Barchuk) — CTO @ CQR Cybersecurity. ~20 years offensive security; Cyberpolice and Fortune 500 red team operator. Teaches OpenClaw setup and hardening, and the cybersecurity block.
• Kheir Lazaref — Founder & CEO, AI Automation Agency. Teaches n8n, VAPI, ElevenLabs, and Twilio — the voice-agent and automation stack.

What's Included

• Pre-configured lab environments and all tool access
• Full session recordings
• Template libraries, n8n workflows, and Claude Code examples
• Post-bootcamp support and Q&A
• Lifetime access to the private community
• Certificate of completion
• Coffee, tea, and snacks for in-person attendees

Logistics

• Dates: Monday, August 10 – Thursday, August 27, 2026
• Schedule: Monday–Thursday evenings, 6:00–9:00 PM PT (no Friday sessions)
• Format: Hybrid — in person in San Francisco or live on Zoom
• Location: 1769 15th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (Mission District, ~5-min walk from 16th St BART)
• Contact: hello@aistartacademy.com

Two full scholarships per cohort — email hello@aistartacademy.com with your story.