How long is the program?

Six weeks of live weekly sessions, plus six months of continued access to the recordings, templates, and community.

Live online classes with a tutor, recorded for replay, supported by practical assignments and tutor feedback between sessions.

Will I build real projects?

Yes. Every curriculum level ends with an assignment, and the program finishes with a portfolio-ready project you present to your cohort.

What happens when I finish?

You will be ready for the Intermediate level, where you move from using AI tools to building retrieval-powered assistants, agents, and deployed AI products.

Can my employer pay for this?

Yes. Register with your work email and reply to your confirmation message, and we will send an invoice and a summary of the curriculum for your L&D team.

AI Generalist Fellowship: Beginner | Gradpreneur AI Academy

Course Overview

Build broad, practical confidence across the AI stack

The Beginner level assumes nothing. You start with what generative AI actually is, learn the handful of prompt patterns that account for most of the quality difference in AI output, then build your first assistant, your first AI-generated media, and your first automation.

Every week combines a live class with a practical assignment, so you finish with a workflow you genuinely use rather than notes you never revisit. It is the right entry point if AI still feels like something other people are good at.

PrerequisiteNo AI or coding experience required

Curriculum

A clear path from foundations to a finished AI solution

Each level combines practical concepts, guided tool use, and an assignment that moves your skills forward.

Level1

Foundations of AI & LLMs

Understand what generative AI really is, how large language models work, and how to get dependable answers from day one.

What you will learn

Explain the difference between AI, generative AI, and a large language model.
Choose the right assistant for research, writing, analysis, and everyday work.
Give an AI clear instructions that produce useful, repeatable results.

Build and practise

Set up your AI toolkit and complete five guided everyday tasks.
Write a reusable prompt that drafts messages in your own voice.

Tools & platformsChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity

Level2

Prompt Engineering Essentials

Learn the small number of prompt patterns that account for most of the quality difference between weak and strong AI output.

What you will learn

Apply the role, context, format, and example pattern to any request.
Break a large task into a short, reliable sequence of prompts.
Diagnose and repair a prompt that keeps returning weak output.

Build and practise

Build a personal prompt library covering ten routine tasks.
Rewrite three weak prompts and document the improvement in the result.

Tools & platformsChatGPTClaudeGradpreneur prompt framework

Level3

Your First AI Assistant

Turn a good prompt into a reusable assistant that knows your context and answers the same question the same way every time.

What you will learn

Understand how an assistant combines instructions with reference files.
Create a custom assistant scoped to one specific job.
Test an assistant with real questions and refine its instructions.

Build and practise

Build a custom GPT or Gem that answers questions about a topic you own.
Run a ten-question test script and improve the three weakest answers.

Tools & platformsCustom GPTsGoogle GemsGoogle Drive

Level4

AI for Images, Video & Voice

Produce work-ready visuals, short video, and narration without design or editing experience.

What you will learn

Generate clean, on-brand images from structured prompts.
Edit, restyle, and clean up images without design software.
Produce a short narrated video from a script you generated.

Build and practise

Design a promotional image set for a real or invented product.
Produce a 30-second narrated video and publish it somewhere public.

Tools & platformsMidjourneyCanva AIRunwayElevenLabs

Level5

Your First Automations

Connect the tools you already use so routine work happens without you, with an AI step in the middle.

What you will learn

Map a repetitive task into a trigger, an action, and a result.
Connect two everyday applications with an AI step between them.
Identify which tasks in your week are worth automating first.

Build and practise

Automate one recurring task end to end and run it for a full week.
Document the time saved and the failure cases you found.

Tools & platformsMakeZapierGoogle Sheets

Level6

Capstone: Your First AI Workflow

Bring prompting, assistants, media, and automation together into one workflow you can show and keep using.

What you will learn

Combine prompts, an assistant, and an automation into one workflow.
Explain the problem your workflow solves and the result it produces.
Plan your next step into the Intermediate program.

Build and practise

Ship a working AI workflow and present it at the cohort showcase.

Tools & platformsLearner-selected AI stack

Schedule

Choose your cohort

Published dates and sessions update automatically as the Academy opens new cohorts.

Enrolling

September 2026 Cohort

Six live Saturday classes from 12 September to 17 October 2026, plus weekly assignments and tutor feedback.

Starts: 12 Sep 2026
Format: Live And Recorded
Timezone: Europe/London

Published sessions

12 Sep 2026Cohort kickoff & AI toolkit setup

26 Sep 2026Live build: your first AI assistant

10 Oct 2026Live build: your first automation

17 Oct 2026Beginner showcase

Course Tutors

Learn with active AI practitioners

Matthew Makinde

Course Tutor

Practical guidance that helps learners understand AI and put it to work.

Maro Orode

Course Tutor

Hands-on support for turning AI ideas into useful products and workflows.

Blessed Oigbochie

Course Tutor

Project-led teaching focused on confident, practical use of modern AI tools.

Godwin

Course Tutor

Learner-focused instruction across creative AI tools and real-world applications.

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Register and secure your place

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Course FAQs

Before you apply

People starting from zero — professionals, students, founders, and career changers who have used an AI chatbot a few times and want to become genuinely capable. No AI or coding experience is required.