CortexIntel

AI Academy · Working professionals & founders

AI Intensive for Working Professionals

A four-week evening-and-weekend intensive for professionals who want working AI capability, not vocabulary: automate a real workflow from your own job, build with LLMs, retrieval and agents, and leave with a deployed project plus the judgement to lead AI decisions at work.

Duration
4-week intensive
Format
In-person, Kochi campus (evening + weekend)
Cohort size
Max 18 participants
Next start
Quarterly cohorts

For people who need capability, not another webinar

Every professional in 2026 has sat through an AI presentation. Far fewer can point at a working system and say: I built that, it runs every day, and it saves me six hours a week. This intensive exists to move you from the first group to the second — in four weeks, around a full-time job, in person in Kochi.

The premise is simple: you already own the perfect training project, because your own role contains repetitive work you understand better than any instructor. By the end of week two you will have automated a piece of it. By the end of week four it will be deployed, measured and demonstrable — to yourself, and to your employer.

Who it’s for

Cohorts deliberately mix operators and builders: operations and finance managers automating reporting; doctors and clinic owners exploring voice and admin automation; lawyers curious about document review; founders deciding what to build versus buy; engineers adding the AI layer to existing skills. The mix is a feature — the marketing manager’s question sharpens the engineer’s design, and vice versa. Enrolment is capped at 18 so instructors know every participant’s project personally.

What the four weeks deliver

The curriculum compresses the working core of our consulting practice into evening-and-weekend format. Week one builds an honest capability map — including what current AI fakes convincingly, which is where most corporate AI money is wasted. Week two is the build week: your process, automated live. Week three adds retrieval systems over domain documents and agent patterns with the guardrails we use in production deployments. Week four is deployment, measurement, and the buyer-side judgement layer: how to scope an AI initiative, what it should cost, which vendor claims to distrust, and how to govern what you deploy.

Instructors are CortexIntel consultants and engineers — people who spent the same week deploying these systems for UK and Indian clients. Expect their real numbers, real failure stories and real architecture diagrams, not sanitised slideware.

The return-on-investment case

Participants who automate even three hours a week of their own work recover the fee within months; several alumni have had employers reimburse the course after seeing the deployed project. Others use the certificate and portfolio as the pivot evidence for AI-adjacent roles. And for the professionals who come specifically to become smarter buyers — increasingly common — week four alone tends to justify the fee the first time a vendor quote crosses their desk.

Cohorts run quarterly at the Kochi campus (Globesta, Vyttila). Contact us for the next start date and fees — and if you’re weighing this against the college track, tell us your situation and we’ll advise straight.

Week by week

  1. Week 1

    AI capability, honestly mapped

    What current AI does well, does badly, and fakes. Hands-on with LLMs and the prompt-to-pipeline mindset, applied to your own role.

  2. Week 2

    Automating your workflow

    Pick a process from your actual job and automate it: document handling, reporting, email triage — built live with orchestration tools.

  3. Week 3

    Knowledge systems & agents

    RAG over your domain documents; agent patterns with guardrails; when each is the right answer and how to tell.

  4. Week 4

    Deploy, measure, lead

    Ship your project, measure the time saved, and learn to scope, budget and govern AI initiatives at work — buyer-side judgement included.

Questions families and participants ask

I’m not technical — can I keep up?

Yes, by design. Roughly half of each cohort are non-engineers: operations managers, finance leads, doctors, lawyers, founders. The tooling track adapts — no-code orchestration for non-programmers, code for those who want it — and the automation you build is judged on business value, not code elegance.

How much time does it take alongside a full-time job?

Around 10 hours a week for four weeks: two evening sessions plus a Saturday lab at the Kochi campus, with a little project work in between. The workload is real but survivable — the course is scheduled around working life, not against it.

What exactly do I walk away with?

A deployed automation solving a problem from your own job with the time saved measured; a certificate backed by a firm that builds these systems commercially; and a decision framework for scoping, pricing and governing AI initiatives — which is what makes the course pay for itself even if you never write another line.

Seats are capped — secure yours early

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