AI Study Group · v2

Learn to build agents. Get paid to run them.

The academy started as a free, self-paced course. Version two makes it a study group: pods, live cohorts, online pods across time zones and city chapters, and a direct line from certificate to paid work.

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tracks, 2 open now: 6
chapters planned, 5 active: 16
to start, forever: $0

01What changed

From a course to a group.

Pods
5–8 people at the same level and timezone meet weekly. Nobody learns alone; nobody drops out quietly.
Cohorts
Four-week live runs with a mentor, a demo day and a shipped project. $49, with scholarships for every cohort.
Chapters
City leads host monthly build nights. Lagos, Enugu, Abakaliki, Makurdi and Jos already have a history of events.
Ship weeks
Every phase ends with something deployed, not a quiz alone. Capstones use real problems from real businesses.
The bench
Builder-certified members get paid work on the firm's jobs: review layers, agent sprints, forward-deployed roles.
Onchain proof
Explorer, Scholar and Builder certificates as soulbound tokens on Celo, verifiable by any employer.

02Tracks

Six roles the agent economy is hiring for.

T1Open

Agentic AI engineer roadmap

Agentic AI Engineer

From calling a model to agents that use tools, keep memory and can be tested.

LLMs
prompts
tools
MCP
agents
evals

T2Open

Ethical AI in Africa

Responsible AI Practitioner

Build, buy and launch AI that is fair, lawful and safe, with the continent's laws and languages in view.

bias
data protection
African languages
AI policy
safety

T3Soon

Inference engineering basics

Inference Engineer

What happens between a prompt and a token, and how to make it fast and cheap for real users.

tokens
KV cache
batching
quantisation
serving

T4Soon

Onchain agents on Celo

Onchain Agent Engineer

Agents that hold and move value: wallets, spend limits and pay-per-call on Celo.

stablecoins
MiniPay
agent wallets
x402
ERC-8004

T5Soon

Forward-deployed AI engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer

Sit with a customer, find the workflow, ship the agent, prove it with evals. The job Shonin does every week.

discovery
evals
decision layers
approvals
handover

T6Soon

AI-native services for founders

AI-Native Founder

Pick a unit, write the rulebook, build the review layer, price against the human. Start a service that runs like software.

unit economics
rulebooks
review layers
pricing
distribution

03Chapters

Start local. Meet worldwide.

A chapter is a lead, a monthly build night and a group chat. The first ones are where we've already run workshops; pods meet online across time zones, and any city gets a chapter once an alumnus can host ten people and a projector.

Land mask from the founder's portfolio globe · filled dots have hosted workshops

LagosNigeriaactive
EnuguNigeriaactive
AbakalikiNigeriaactive
MakurdiNigeriaactive
JosNigeriaactive
Port HarcourtNigerialead wanted
AbujaNigerialead wanted
AccraGhanalead wanted
NairobiKenyalead wanted
KigaliRwandalead wanted
KampalaUgandalead wanted
JohannesburgSouth Africalead wanted
CairoEgyptlead wanted
LondonUnited Kingdomlead wanted
TorontoCanadalead wanted
HoustonUnited Stateslead wanted

3 diaspora chapters (London, Toronto, Houston) meet online in Lagos-friendly hours.

04Formats

Free to learn. Paid to go faster.

Free

Every track, lesson, quiz and certificate. Self-paced, forever.

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Pro cohort

$49 (₦25,000 in Nigeria)

Four weeks live, a weekly pod, mentor reviews, demo day, priority for the bench.

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Team

From $4,000 / 20 seats

A private cohort for your company, capstones on your workflows, manager reports.

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Sponsor

From $2,500 / cohort

Fund scholarships or a track. Your name on the certificates and first look at the talent.

Sponsor

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Placed in one second.

Tell us where you are and where you want to be. The brain picks your track, level and pod with typed questions; a mentor checks every placement.