Founding cohort·$180 → $150 for the first cohort.·Full price after that.
Applied LLMs for Builders
The broad foundation for building with LLMs — from prompting and retrieval to shipping in production.
The broad foundation for building real applications on top of LLMs. Across eight weeks you cover the full surface — prompting as engineering, evaluation that survives a model swap, retrieval and grounding, a working introduction to agents and tools, and shipping a monitored feature to production. The natural place to start before specialising.
For working engineers and technical leads building with AI today.
Going deep on agents specifically? Continue with Building AI Agents: From Models to Production
You will be able to
do the work.
- Build and evaluate retrieval-augmented systems end-to-end
- Design and run rigorous prompt and model evaluations
- Reason about cost, latency, and quality trade-offs across providers
- Ship a production LLM feature with monitoring and guardrails
What we cover.
Prerequisites
- Comfortable in Python or TypeScript
- Have shipped at least one production service
- Familiar with HTTP APIs and basic data work
- 01
Module 1 — Prompting as engineering
Treating prompts as code: versioning, testing, and the failure modes you only see at scale.
- 02
Module 2 — Evaluation that holds up
Building eval suites that survive a model swap. Golden sets, judges, regressions, drift.
- 03
Module 3 — Retrieval and grounding
Chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking. What works, what's cargo-culted, and how to tell.
- 04
Module 4 — Agents and tools
When to reach for an agent loop and when not to. Tool design, structured outputs, recovery — a working introduction; the full agent architecture is its own course.
- 05
Module 5 — Production
Latency, cost, observability, guardrails, and a capstone shipped to real users.
Reserve a place.
We open enrollment a few weeks before each cohort starts. Tell us about your work — we'll write to you first when a place opens.
First cohort forming — a small, instructor-led group, two evenings a week plus a capstone weekend, delivered in Islamabad and online. Join the waitlist and we'll write to you with dates as the cohort fills. Founding rate for the first cohort — full price after that.