Self-paced · Start tonight
The AI Automation Agency Bootcamp, recorded and yours. Every evening session from a live cohort, the 21-chapter workbook, and a live check-in call every Wednesday at 6pm PT for your first 90 days. No fixed dates to make. You can start the first session tonight.
$150 one-time · 7-day money-back guarantee · Wednesday check-in calls for 90 days
The real reason nothing has left your plate
Not sped up. Killed. Off your plate permanently. Running while you sleep.
I ask that in every workshop I run in San Francisco, and I watch the hands go down. For almost everyone, the honest answer is zero.
You open a chat window. You ask it something. You get a decent answer, copy it out, move on. And it feels like progress. But the inbox is still yours. The weekly report you rebuild by hand is still yours. The outreach, the research, the follow-ups — still yours.
Here’s the part nobody tells you: that’s not because you picked the wrong tool. It’s because you never picked the right task.
Stanford ran the study — 1,500 workers, 844 tasks. Most of the money going into AI agents right now is aimed at work people didn’t want automated in the first place, while the work they were desperate to hand off sat there untouched.
Those aren’t technical failures. They’re selection failures. Wrong task, not wrong model. Which means the first skill isn’t prompting — it’s knowing which hour of your week to point this at. That is session one: the HAS Audit, an hour of arithmetic on your own calendar that sorts every task into Green Light, R&D Opportunity, or Red Light — and shows you your Human Moat, the part of your week that stays yours.
Two ways this pays off
Same material, two honest destinations. Most people arrive wanting one and leave doing both.
Point it at your own week. You run the HAS Audit, find the tasks you’d pay never to do again, and build the systems that take them. Head · Hands · Trigger — a model that reasons, tools that act, and something that starts it without you. That last part is the difference between a shorter chore and hours you actually get back.
Package the same systems as a service. The last sessions are the business build: your niche, an ROI-based offer, a CRM set up, and outreach sent. An AI employee that answers a real phone number is a thing businesses pay for — and you will have built one.
What you get
Every session from a live evening cohort, recorded end to end — 27 hours of it. Not a studio re-shoot: the real room, the real builds, the real questions people asked when something broke.
The full bootcamp as it ran, session by session. Watch at 1x at midnight or 2x on a Sunday — the order is the order, and it builds.
The written half of the course. Every session has its chapter: the concepts, the exercises, and the reference you come back to six months later.
For your first 90 days. Bring what broke, what you’re stuck on, or what you shipped. This is the half of the bootcamp that was always live — it is not an add-on.
You land in the same community the cohorts use. No start date, no waitlist, no cohort to wait for. Buy it and session one is open.
An eval is a test for an AI system: it turns “this feels better” into a number you can defend when a client or a boss asks you to prove the thing works. Guardrails are what stop an agent with real access from being driven by input you don’t control. Both are taught here.
The milestone arc
Nobody should have to guess what they are getting. This is the staircase — each step is something that exists when the session ends.
HAS Audit scorecard
— you know WHAT to automate
Prompt & model playbook
— you can DIRECT a model reliably
Deployed site + first tool
— you can BUILD without a developer
Agent + MCP server
— your AI can USE tools
n8n workflow + RAG chatbot
— your AI knows YOUR data
Voice agent on a real phone number
— you have an AI employee
Security audit + threat playbook
— ★ Milestone: “Secure Builder”
Self-hosted hardened AI (OpenClaw)
— you have AI that’s YOURS
Live avatar + content pipeline
— you are VISIBLE at scale
Agency offer + 3 outreach sent
— ★ Capstone: “Agency Launched”
HAS scorecard · prompt playbook · deployed site & tool · agent + MCP server
n8n + RAG chatbot · voice agent · security audit + threat playbook
Self-hosted OpenClaw · avatar + content pipeline · offer + outreach sent
Why recorded is the real thing here
“Same curriculum, evening schedule” was never a real structure. Twelve three-hour evenings is not ten full days, so the evening edition was deliberately flipped: the concept video before the session, the build in the room.
That means the recordings are not the leftovers of a live class. They are the concept half of a course that was designed in two halves — and the Wednesday check-in call is the live half. You are getting the same structure the evening cohort runs on, with the schedule taken out.
The artifact bar does not drop either. The same ten assets come out the other end.
Where this sits
$150
one-time
Recordings, workbook, Wednesday check-in calls for 90 days. Start tonight.
$300
The live evening cohort on Zoom. Fixed dates, instructors in the session, a group moving with you.
$500
The room in the Mission District. Capped at 20 seats, because everyone builds and everyone gets eyes on their work.
There are people selling this same material as a $7,000 cohort. We price it here on purpose — we’d rather fill the room with people who actually show up and build.
Live cohort dates are on luma.com/aistartacademy.
Founders, engineers, and career-changers who came through our San Francisco AI Automation Bootcamp — building secure assistants, live voice agents, and real automations they took home.
I went from “I know I need to do something about AI” to having working tools actually deployed — in days.
Sasha
Non-technical founder · AI Intensive
It’s not just about learning AI — you leave part of a real community of builders.
Hewi Espinosa Sanchez
Software Engineering Manager
No one leaves with notes and no output. By Friday I’d built a digital employee that works.
Bootcamp graduate
AI Automation Bootcamp
“Students fly in from around the world — you go from curious to deployed in a single week.”
International student · San Francisco
“Voice agents, RAG chatbots, content automation — real, working results, not slides.”
AI Automation Bootcamp
“A secure AI assistant on my own machine, and a live voice agent on a real phone number.”
Workshop graduate
“I built a secure assistant, a leak-detection system, and ran a real penetration test.”
AI & Cybersecurity track
“AI cut my agency's costs and doubled our capacity.”
Agency owner
“Non-tech people wanted — you don't need a CS degree to build this stuff.”
Non-technical student
“First impressions after Day 1 of the AI bootcamp.”
Bootcamp student · Day 1
“What our students learned and actually created today.”
Cohort in session
“From a vague idea to a deployed AI agent.”
Bootcamp graduate
“Come for the AI, stay for the people.”
AISA community · San Francisco
“Thank you for the incredible bootcamp opportunity — I’m already building appointment-setting and email-marketing workflows for a client to get hands-on experience.”
No income screenshots, no graduate counts. Shipped work, mostly by people who started with zero code.
69%
of our students start as beginners — no code, nothing to unlearn
1,500
workers and 844 tasks in the Stanford WORKBank study behind the HAS Audit
4,000+
online stores run on the platform our founder built
700+
businesses delivered for before any of this was taught
The risk is ours
Buy the course, watch the sessions, sit in on a Wednesday check-in call. If it isn’t what you needed, email hello@aistartacademy.com within 7 days and we refund you in full. No form to fill in, no reason required, no call to talk you out of it.
Before you buy
About 27 hours of session video, plus the build time, which is where the real hours go. People doing it around a job usually take a session or two a week and finish inside the 90 days the check-in calls run. There is no clock and no expiry — the pace is yours.
69% of our students start as beginners, and some of the strongest ones arrived with zero code because they had nothing to unlearn. Every session builds from fundamentals. The people who struggle are not the non-technical ones — they are the ones who will not put their hands on the keyboard.
The course is yours — one payment, and it stays yours, with a live check-in call every Wednesday while you work through it. The membership is how graduates stay current afterwards: every new cohort’s material as it is recorded, on a monthly subscription. Buy the course to learn it; subscribe later to keep up with it.
Take it if you can. Live gives you fixed dates that keep you moving, instructors in the session, and a group at your pace — that is $300 on Zoom or $500 in the room in San Francisco, capped at 20 seats. The self-paced course exists for the people those dates do not work for. Same curriculum, and you can join a live cohort later.
Email hello@aistartacademy.com within 7 days and we refund you in full. Watch the sessions and come to a call first — that is what the window is for.
Immediately. Stripe confirms the payment and the course opens — session one is available the moment you are back on the site. If you checked out as a guest, we email you a link to set your password; that link opens your account.
After the course
The course is a fixed thing — a cohort as it ran, and it is yours. The models under it move every few months, and each new cohort re-teaches the stack as it changes. The recordings membership is how graduates keep up with that: every new cohort’s material as it is recorded, cancel whenever.
Where graduates stay current.
Cancel anytime · Terms & conditions apply.
Includes
Best for: People who have completed the course or a cohort and want to keep up as the curriculum, tools, and community evolve.
$150, one time. Every recorded session, the 21-chapter workbook, a live check-in call every Wednesday at 6pm PT for 90 days, and 7 days to decide it was worth it.
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