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Curriculum

Four levels.
A deeper capability at each step.

AI Creator → App Builder → AI Developer → AI Product Builder. Innovation and human judgement run through the complete pathway.

LEVEL 01 · From user to creator

AI Creator

~6 months · planning target

Learning focus

  • Problem discovery, users, value and a useful first version
  • Requirements, scope, wireframes and clear AI instructions
  • Screen experience, app behaviour, rules and state
  • Testing, debugging, controlled changes and reflection

Evidence to work towards

  • A bounded working app or supported build
  • Expected-versus-actual test notes
  • A decision and an improvement you can explain
  • Fresh-case work, with assistance recorded

LEVEL 02 · From first version to connected app

App Builder

~6 months · planning target

Learning focus

  • Components, frontend and backend relationships
  • Data, persistence and API connections
  • User authentication and appropriate access
  • Responsive, mobile and desktop application scope
  • Deployment, failure handling and testing

Evidence to work towards

  • A structured connected application
  • Evidence that data and relevant access rules behave correctly
  • Appropriate API and deployment checks
  • An explanation of the application’s important parts

LEVEL 03 · From app to AI-powered system

AI Developer

~6 months · planning target

Learning focus

  • Language models, AI APIs and structured outputs
  • Knowledge retrieval and RAG applications
  • Automation, tool use, workflows and agents
  • Task-specific evaluation, safety and cost awareness

Evidence to work towards

  • A defined task with permitted data and actions
  • An inspectable workflow or agent trace
  • Examples of successful, incorrect and uncertain results
  • A reasoned explanation of the chosen approach

LEVEL 04 · From system to useful product

AI Product Builder

~6 months · planning target

Learning focus

  • SaaS and product architecture
  • Privacy, security and user management
  • Reliability, monitoring and recovery
  • Performance, scaling and operating costs
  • Product validation and user feedback

Evidence to work towards

  • A bounded product or pilot with an end-to-end flow
  • Relevant access, reliability and recovery evidence
  • Observed user feedback and a changed decision
  • Known limits and a responsible next iteration
Web, mobile and desktop belong to the wider pathway. A responsive web page alone is not proof of mastering every platform. Detailed tools, projects and assessment requirements are provided for the relevant stage.

Where the first four volumes fit.

Learning resourceScopeProgramme position
Volumes 1–2Expanded problem, creation, AI direction, design and behaviour foundations.First 90 programme days, together. Published lesson labels: Weeks 1–12.
Volume 3A bounded connected app, information protection and evidence.Days 91–135.
Volume 4Capstone, improvement, transfer and Level 1 handover.Days 136–180.

Programme days are planning allocations, not a count of live classes. The early deep foundation is not the whole of Level 1. Volumes 3–4 are next releases, not current admission guarantees.

Progress through capability.

A complete beginner starts at Level 1. A learner with equivalent experience can discuss placement into a later level through evidence of the required foundations.

At every level, Foundation, Creator and Advanced Creator describe practice depth. They are not substitute level names, automatic qualifications or shortcuts around prerequisites.

Start with possibility

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a clear place to begin.

Tell us where you are now and what you would like to create. Explore a learning route that fits your starting point.