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Learn from people who run these systems in production

Working practitioners across developer experience, AI tooling, higher education, and film. One lead instructor writes the curriculum and records every core lesson; four specialists record the deep dives.

5 instructors·One lead, four specialists·Every profile links out

The instructors

Lead instructor

All five courses

Roan Weigert

Developer Relations AI Engineer, San Francisco

Hackathon judge and AI content creator, and host of the AI Insights San Francisco podcast. Writes this curriculum and records every core lesson.

The bookWorld Models Applied in Video ProductionA comprehensive technical guide to how world models are reshaping video, from concept to production pipeline.

Teach on this program

Two instructor seats are open

Every lesson here is recorded by somebody who runs the system they are teaching. That is the whole standard, and it is why the roster above is five people rather than fifty.

The bar is closer to an academic appointment than to a marketplace listing. The advisory board reads every application against it, and an intake that produces nobody at the bar closes with the seats still open rather than filling them.

Two seats this intakeApply to teachContinue your application

Have your profile links and a portrait to hand before you start.

How to apply

Three steps, about fifteen minutes

Start with a free account, fill in the form at your own pace, and send it when it is ready. The advisory board reads every application that arrives.

  1. Create your free account

    The same account that opens the courses. Your application lives behind your own login because the second half of it asks for your photograph and your phone number, and those belong somewhere only you can post to.

  2. Fill in the form

    Your portrait, your profile links, the course you would record, and the evidence behind it. Every field saves as you go, so you can stop halfway and finish it another day.

  3. Send it to the board

    Add your phone, whether you can sit on a panel in person and in which city, and anything else worth knowing. Pressing send puts it in front of the advisory board, and the same page then shows you where it stands.

What the board looks for

Every one of these is something a stranger can check for themselves, which is the standard the rest of this site holds itself to.

  • A system you built or run in production, and the standing to say how it actually behaves rather than how it is meant to.
  • Work a stranger can check without asking you: a repository, a product, a paper, a talk, a public profile with your name on it.
  • Recognition from outside your own company. Judging, advising, speaking, teaching, reviewing, or being cited by people who do not work with you.
  • The ability to teach one thing well on camera, which is a separate skill from doing it well and is the one the board tests directly.
  • Time. One course is roughly eight modules of recording, plus reading the work that comes back.

What it asks of you

Stated before you apply rather than after you are accepted. A seat is a commitment across a whole term.

  • Record the deep dives on one course, in your own voice, against a curriculum somebody else wrote.
  • Read the artifacts learners submit on that course and reply to each one.
  • Sit for the board's review each term, on the same terms the curriculum does.

Advisory board

The advisory board decides who teaches and who judges

Applications to teach and applications to judge are read by the advisory board, not by the person who wrote the curriculum. Advisors hold no course and no seat here. They are operators and investors from outside the program, and what they read is the evidence rather than the name on it.

  1. Everything in one file

    Your evidence, your links, your portrait and how to reach you, sent from inside your account rather than emailed around.

  2. Read against the bar, not against the field

    Your application is measured against what the seat requires, so a strong intake keeps the bar where it is and a thin one keeps it there too.

  3. A conversation, if it gets that far

    Anyone the board is seriously considering talks to an advisor, and for a teaching seat that includes watching you explain one thing you built.

  4. An answer either way

    The page you applied from shows where your application stands, and it changes the day the board decides.

The advisors

1 advisor·No course, no seat·Reads both tracks

  • Sean Kelley

    Advisor and angel investor across climate tech, regenerative agriculture and talent tech

    Sage&Sea Ventures · Folsom, California

    Sean Kelley on LinkedIn

The board is still being seated. Nobody appears on it until they have agreed to sit on it, so what you see here is the whole of it.