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.

Learn top modern AI tools in two intensive weeks. Ten full days, Mon–Fri, 10 AM–5 PM Pacific. In person in San Francisco (Mission District) or live on Zoom. Same promise as the evening edition, all-in pacing.

By the last session you'll vibe-code a website, launch a self-hosted AI agent (OpenClaw), set up a voice agent on a real phone number, automate content pipelines with n8n, and leave with a priced AI Automation Agency offer you can start selling.

What You'll Walk Out With

• LLM fundamentals: prompting, tokens, context, embeddings, RAG, agents, MCP
• A real website you build from scratch with Claude Code + Codex
• A self-hosted AI agent (OpenClaw) vs. third-party agents
• A chatbot trained on your own docs (RAG, Relevance.ai)
• A no-code automation framework for business workflows (n8n)
• A voice agent on a real phone number (VAPI + ElevenLabs + Twilio)
• A digital employee/avatar (Happyverse, HeyGen)
• An automated content system for short-form video and posts
• Secure-coding fundamentals and a threat-response framework
• A complete AI Automation Agency offer: niche, ROI-based pricing, first-client outreach, CRM (GoHighLevel)

Schedule (Mon–Fri, 2 weeks, 10 sessions)

Week 1: Business audit & AI agentic systems · AI fundamentals · Claude Code build/deploy · Agent patterns & MCP · Workflow automation & RAG (n8n)
Week 2: Voice agents · Cybersecurity for AI builders · OpenClaw self-hosting · Digital avatars & content automation · Agency Launch + Demo Day

Who This Is For

Founders & operators, aspiring AI agency owners, students and career-switchers who can go all-in for two weeks. No CS degree required. Not for AI-theory-only or vendor-demo seekers.

Logistics

1769 15th St, San Francisco (5 min from BART). Laptop with 8GB+ RAM. 30 days of post-program instructor support + lifetime community access. Every session recorded within 24 hours. Certificate of completion. Two full scholarships per cohort — email hello@aistartacademy.com.

Learn top modern AI tools in 3 weeks — without quitting your job. Evenings only, 6–9 PM Pacific. In person in San Francisco (Mission District) or live on Zoom.

By the last session you'll vibe-code a website, launch a self-hosted AI agent (OpenClaw), set up a voice agent on a real phone number, automate content pipelines with n8n, and leave with a priced AI Automation Agency offer you can start selling.

What You'll Walk Out With

• LLM fundamentals: prompting, tokens, context, embeddings, RAG, agents, MCP
• A real website you build from scratch with Claude Code + Codex
• A self-hosted AI agent (OpenClaw) vs. third-party agents
• A chatbot trained on your own docs (RAG, Relevance.ai)
• A no-code automation framework for business workflows (n8n)
• A voice agent on a real phone number (VAPI + ElevenLabs + Twilio)
• A digital employee/avatar (Happyverse, HeyGen)
• An automated content system for short-form video and posts
• Secure-coding fundamentals and a threat-response framework
• A complete AI Automation Agency offer: niche, ROI-based pricing, first-client outreach, CRM (GoHighLevel)

Schedule (Mon–Thu, 3 weeks, 12 sessions)

Week 1: Business audit & AI agentic systems · AI fundamentals · Claude Code build/deploy · Agent patterns & MCP
Week 2: Workflow automation & RAG (n8n) · Voice agents · Cybersecurity I & II
Week 3: OpenClaw self-hosting · Tech-stack decision matrix · Digital avatars & content automation · Agency Launch + Demo Day

Who This Is For

Founders & operators, aspiring AI agency owners, students and career-switchers. No CS degree required. Not for AI-theory-only or vendor-demo seekers.

Logistics

1769 15th St, San Francisco (5 min from BART). Laptop with 8GB+ RAM. 30 days of post-program instructor support + lifetime community access. Every session recorded within 24 hours. Certificate of completion. Two full scholarships per cohort — email hello@aistartacademy.com.

Learn top modern AI tools in two intensive weeks. Ten full days, Mon–Fri, 10 AM–5 PM Pacific. In person in San Francisco (Mission District) or live on Zoom. Same promise as the evening edition, all-in pacing.

By the last session you'll vibe-code a website, launch a self-hosted AI agent (OpenClaw), set up a voice agent on a real phone number, automate content pipelines with n8n, and leave with a priced AI Automation Agency offer you can start selling.

What You'll Walk Out With

• LLM fundamentals: prompting, tokens, context, embeddings, RAG, agents, MCP
• A real website you build from scratch with Claude Code + Codex
• A self-hosted AI agent (OpenClaw) vs. third-party agents
• A chatbot trained on your own docs (RAG, Relevance.ai)
• A no-code automation framework for business workflows (n8n)
• A voice agent on a real phone number (VAPI + ElevenLabs + Twilio)
• A digital employee/avatar (Happyverse, HeyGen)
• An automated content system for short-form video and posts
• Secure-coding fundamentals and a threat-response framework
• A complete AI Automation Agency offer: niche, ROI-based pricing, first-client outreach, CRM (GoHighLevel)

Schedule (Mon–Fri, 2 weeks, 10 sessions)

Week 1: Business audit & AI agentic systems · AI fundamentals · Claude Code build/deploy · Agent patterns & MCP · Workflow automation & RAG (n8n)
Week 2: Voice agents · Cybersecurity for AI builders · OpenClaw self-hosting · Digital avatars & content automation · Agency Launch + Demo Day

Who This Is For

Founders & operators, aspiring AI agency owners, students and career-switchers who can go all-in for two weeks. No CS degree required. Not for AI-theory-only or vendor-demo seekers.

Logistics

1769 15th St, San Francisco (5 min from BART). Laptop with 8GB+ RAM. 30 days of post-program instructor support + lifetime community access. Every session recorded within 24 hours. Certificate of completion. Two full scholarships per cohort — email hello@aistartacademy.com.