Build AI products
that actually ship.
A 12-week, mentor-led program for ambitious individuals who want to go from idea to deployed AI product — without a team, a CS degree, or a stack of overpriced bootcamps.
1,200+ builders enrolled
Builders ship with the modern AI stack
What you get
A program built around shipping,
not watching lectures.
Six pillars that take you from "I have an idea" to "I deployed an AI product people pay for."
Build with real models
Wire GPT-4o, Claude, and open models into production apps — not toy demos. You learn prompt design, function calling, and structured outputs.
Agent architecture
Design multi-step agents with memory, tools, and guardrails. Ship retrieval pipelines with vector databases that scale beyond the prototype.
Deploy by week 12
Go from localhost to a live URL with auth, payments, and analytics. We don't stop at 'it works on my machine.'
Live mentorship
Weekly office hours, async code reviews, and a private cohort of builders who keep you accountable for the full 12 weeks.
Production-grade safety
Eval-driven development, red-teaming, and cost controls. Ship AI features your users — and your future employer — can trust.
Outcome-obsessed
Every module ends with a shipped artifact in your portfolio. By graduation you have 3 deployable projects, not a certificate.
The curriculum
12 weeks. 6 modules.
3 shipped products.
Every two weeks you complete a module and ship a real artifact. No busywork, no filler — just the path from idea to deployed.
Foundations & the modern AI stack
- LLM fundamentals, tokens, and cost math
- Set up a pro dev environment end-to-end
- Your first shipped app by day 10
Prompt engineering & structured outputs
- Design prompts that survive production
- Function calling & JSON mode patterns
- Build a document Q&A assistant
RAG & vector databases
- Embeddings, chunking, and retrieval that works
- Pinecone & pgvector in production
- Ship a knowledge-base product
Agents, tools & memory
- Multi-step agent loops with guardrails
- Tool use, memory, and human-in-the-loop
- Build an autonomous research agent
Evals, safety & cost control
- Eval-driven development & test suites
- Red-teaming and prompt-injection defense
- Cost & latency optimization
Launch: auth, payments, deploy
- Add accounts, billing, and analytics
- Deploy to a live, shareable URL
- Demo day with the cohort & mentors
Alex Kestrel
Lead Instructor & Founder
Ex-FAANG
Founder
Mentor
Your instructor
Taught by someone who
ships for a living.
Alex has spent the last decade building applied AI systems at scale — from early retrieval pipelines at a FAANG lab to founding an AI tooling startup that served 40,000 developers.
He started Omni AI Builders after watching thousands of smart people get stuck in "tutorial hell." The program is the no-fluff path he wishes he'd had: mentorship, accountability, and a curriculum organized entirely around shipping.
12+
AI products shipped to production
8 yrs
Building applied AI systems
1,200+
Builders mentored across cohorts
Builders, not students
What graduates say
after they ship.
"I'd taken three AI courses before this and shipped nothing. By week 12 I had a deployed RAG product and a job offer. The mentorship is what makes it work."
Priya N.
Now ML Engineer at a Series B startup
"The evals and safety module alone was worth the price. I went from 'it works in the demo' to 'it works in production' — that's the gap nobody else teaches."
Marcus T.
Indie founder, 2 paying AI apps
"As a non-engineer I was terrified of the deploy week. The cohort carried me through it. My portfolio now has three live projects I'm proud to share."
Elena R.
Product manager → AI builder
"Best ROI of any course I've taken. The accountability structure is brutal in the best way — you cannot hide, so you actually finish."
David K.
Consultant, automated his practice
"I came in knowing Python basics. I left with a deployed agent product, a network of 40 builders, and a clear path to my first AI role."
Sofia M.
Career switcher, Cohort 02
"The instructors have shipped real AI products at scale. You feel the difference — every answer is grounded in production reality, not theory."
James L.
Senior dev, leveling into AI
Enrollment
Pick the path that
fits your ambition.
One-time payment. No subscription. 14-day money-back guarantee on every tier.
Self-Paced
The full curriculum, on your schedule.
- All 6 modules & 60+ lessons
- Lifetime access to materials
- Private community access
- 3 portfolio project briefs
- Monthly group Q&A
Cohort
12 weeks, live mentorship, real accountability.
- Everything in Self-Paced
- Live weekly office hours
- Async code reviews from mentors
- Private cohort of ~40 builders
- Demo day + portfolio review
- Certificate of completion
1:1 Elite
Cohort plus private guidance to your goal.
- Everything in Cohort
- 8 private 1:1 sessions with Alex
- Personalized project roadmap
- Job & launch strategy support
- Priority support for 6 months
Need an invoice for your employer? We sponsor company L&D budgets.
Questions
Before you enroll
You need basic Python — variables, functions, loops. If you've ever followed a tutorial and run a script, you're ready. We provide a free pre-work primer to close any gaps before week 1.
Plan for 8–10 hours a week for the Cohort tier: ~3 hours of lessons, a live office hour, and the rest on your build. Self-Paced learners set their own pace, but we recommend the same cadence.
The cohort is built around accountability — mentors and your peers keep you moving. You keep lifetime access to all materials, and you can join a future cohort's office hours once at no extra cost.
Yes. Every tier has a 14-day no-questions-asked refund. If the program isn't for you in the first two weeks, you get 100% back.
The 1:1 Elite tier includes job & launch strategy support. Across all tiers, you graduate with three deployed portfolio projects — the single strongest signal for AI roles and freelance clients.
Budget ~$30–60/month for API usage (OpenAI/Anthropic) and hosting during the program. We use generous free tiers wherever possible and walk you through cost controls.
Cohort 04 starts
in 3 weeks.
Seats are capped at 40 to keep mentorship real. Reserve yours now — 14-day money-back guarantee, no risk to try.