How is this different from the 8-week cohort?

Different job, not a later one. If you want to build AI products, take the 8-week cohort. If your problem is that your own week is full of work a harness could be doing, take this. Alumni of the cohort tend to take this second, but there is no order you are required to follow, and neither is a prerequisite for the other.

What is the weekly commitment?

One 90-minute live session on Saturday, and one exercise a day in between. The exercises are small and they run on your own work, not on a demo product. If you cannot bring real documents and a real calendar, the course does not function.

Do I need to have done the cohort first?

No. It is a different job, not a later one. Alumni of the 8-week program will find week 1 partly familiar and can treat it as a recap; everyone else starts from the same place. What it does assume is that you are a working PM with real work to point it at.

Do I need to be able to code?

No. You will read code and make decisions about it, and you will not write it. What it refuses to teach is listed further up the page, and all of it is there for the same reason.

What does it cost, and how do I join?

₹12,000 in India, $200 elsewhere, paid in full and fully refundable until the last session. Applications are by conversation, not checkout: every applicant gets a 20-30 minute call before a seat is offered. Bring last month's calendar to it, which is the fastest way for both of us to tell whether this would change your week.

What if it turns out not to be for me?

Fully refundable until the last session, the same terms as the 8-week cohort, and you do not have to explain yourself. If it is not a fit on the application call I will say so then, tell you why, and point you at whatever would actually help - which is sometimes the 8-week cohort and sometimes nothing I sell.

The dates are not announced yet. The introductory batch is twelve people, and applications go through a 20-30 minute call, so the earlier you ask the more likely there is a seat left.

COMING SOON

The Operating PM

The 8-week cohort teaches you to build an AI product. This teaches you to work inside one.

Four Saturdays, and one exercise a day in between, on your own calendar and your own documents. Everything you build carries a check that tells you it worked.

This one has not run yet. The 8-week cohort has run eight times with 139 PMs; this is the introductory batch, twelve people, and the price reflects that.

See the 8-week cohort

LENGTH: 4 weeks
LIVE: Saturdays
SESSION: 90 minutes
SEATS: 12, first batch

IF YOU READ ONE THING

What you leave with is not a product. It is your changed week.

There you are the maker of the system: raw APIs, and you ship a chatbot, a voice agent, a custom-tuned system. Here the AI is not the thing you ship, it is the room you work in. What you leave with is not a product. It is your changed week.

THE HONEST PART

You can learn every one of these topics free

Setup, CLAUDE.md, skills, MCP, subagents, evals - all of it is taught somewhere, often well, sometimes free. I read every serious competitor syllabus in full before writing this one. Another topic list is not a product, and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

WHAT YOU CANNOT GET THERE

None of it is taught on your calendar

Every course teaches against a demo product. You learn on a toy, then face the translation to your own job alone, at work, with nobody to ask. That translation is the hard part and it is where courses lose people. This one starts from last month's calendar and your own documents, and someone checks what you built against them every week.

Take it if

Your week is mostly meetings, and the artifacts are the byproduct.
You want to operate the tool, not collect its features.
You will bring real work. This does not run on hypotheticals.

Do not take it if

You want prototyping and vibe-coding. That is taught free elsewhere, and better.
You cannot bring real documents or a real calendar to work on.
You want a certificate more than a changed week.

WEEK 0 · ASYNC · BEFORE IT STARTS

Bring your own week

THE BRIEF GOES OUT WHEN YOU HAVE A SEAT

Export last month's calendar. Tag the meeting you attend most, the calls that share a format, and the thing you have explained to more than two audiences. Bring real transcripts, a document you wrote, a data export. Then post one sentence: the task you would most like to never do by hand again.

That sentence is your through-line, and every week extends it. It is also why session one produces something real instead of a screen-share of an installer.

01 SATURDAY

How the harness actually works

You are not prompting a chatbot. You are operating a runtime, and it has parts.

OPENS WITH THE BATCH

Gather context
-> Take action
-> Verify
-> Repeat
and round again

The context window: A budget, and you will watch it spend
Compaction: What it keeps, and what it quietly drops
Permission modes: The authority dial, and when to step down
Plan mode and rewind: The undo that makes experimenting safe

YOU LEAVE WITH One automated task from your real job.

HOW YOU KNOW IT WORKED Run it against an input whose correct output you already know.

02 SATURDAY

Where instructions live, and what each costs

Four mechanisms extend the harness. Picking the wrong one is a cost decision as much as a correctness one.

MECHANISM	WHAT IT COSTS YOU
CLAUDE.md	Always loaded. You pay for it every turn.
.claude/rules/	Path-scoped. Loads only when it is relevant.
Skills	Load when relevant, or invoked by name.
MCP servers	For things that live in other systems.
The catch	Connecting a system means untrusted text enters your session.

A context file for your product, rendered three ways: exec, engineering, customer.

A peer confirms no rendering contains a fact absent from the source.

03 SATURDAY

Delegation, and catching it when it lies

One agent with a full context window is worse than four with clean ones.

Fan out One agent per input, each with a clean window
Fan in One synthesiser, reading all of them
Handoff In sequence, when each stage needs the last
The anti-pattern Fanning out work whose parts must see each other
The check A second agent hunting themes that cite no quote

A synthesis across many inputs of your own.

An adversarial pass finds zero themes lacking a verbatim quote.

04 SATURDAY

What it costs, and handing it to someone else

An agent that cannot check itself is a demo. A workflow only you can run is a performance.

What it costs: The context window is spend. More of it is not better, and you will see the same task run in a bloated window and a clean one.
What you turn down: Effort level is a dial between depth and speed. Permission modes are an authority dial, and the skill is knowing when to step down, not when to opt in.
What you never point it at: Named plainly, in the room, with the reasons.

Your four artifacts, consolidated into one connected workflow.

A colleague runs it to a correct result while you stay silent.

THE RULE THE COURSE RESTS ON

If you cannot say how you would know this is wrong, you have not finished.

Every artifact carries a check, from the first Saturday.

What it refuses to teach

Hook event lists, permission-rule syntax, sandboxing config. You need the concept, not the config.
The Agent SDK, CI integration, worktree isolation. Developer surfaces that need git.
Prototyping and vibe-coding as a headline. Free elsewhere, and someone else's ground.
Stakeholder politics as automatable work. Judgment-heavy, one-off, and not a machine's job.

HOW YOU GET IN

Applications are by conversation, not checkout

Every applicant gets a 20 to 30 minute call before a seat is offered. It is not a pitch. It is how a room of twelve stays worth being in, and how you find out whether this is right for you now rather than after you have paid.

Bring last month's calendar to the call.

IF IT IS NOT A FIT: I will tell you why on the call, and point you at what would help you instead. That is often the 8-week cohort, and sometimes it is nothing I sell.
IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND: Fully refundable until the last session, the same as the 8-week cohort. You do not have to explain yourself.

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Questions

How is this different from the 8-week cohort?: Different job, not a later one. If you want to build AI products, take the 8-week cohort. If your problem is that your own week is full of work a harness could be doing, take this. Alumni of the cohort tend to take this second, but there is no order you are required to follow, and neither is a prerequisite for the other.
What is the weekly commitment?: One 90-minute live session on Saturday, and one exercise a day in between. The exercises are small and they run on your own work, not on a demo product. If you cannot bring real documents and a real calendar, the course does not function.
Do I need to have done the cohort first?: No. It is a different job, not a later one. Alumni of the 8-week program will find week 1 partly familiar and can treat it as a recap; everyone else starts from the same place. What it does assume is that you are a working PM with real work to point it at.
Do I need to be able to code?: No. You will read code and make decisions about it, and you will not write it. What it refuses to teach is listed further up the page, and all of it is there for the same reason.
What does it cost, and how do I join?: ₹12,000 in India, $200 elsewhere, paid in full and fully refundable until the last session. Applications are by conversation, not checkout: every applicant gets a 20-30 minute call before a seat is offered. Bring last month's calendar to it, which is the fastest way for both of us to tell whether this would change your week.
What if it turns out not to be for me?: Fully refundable until the last session, the same terms as the 8-week cohort, and you do not have to explain yourself. If it is not a fit on the application call I will say so then, tell you why, and point you at whatever would actually help - which is sometimes the 8-week cohort and sometimes nothing I sell.
When does it start?: The dates are not announced yet. The introductory batch is twelve people, and applications go through a 20-30 minute call, so the earlier you ask the more likely there is a seat left.