Best AI tools
in two hours
Learn the tools that matter — and leave with your first AI agent
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Two hours
from zero to a working agent — no code
You arrive with a phone and a job you'd like off your plate. You leave with an AI agent that does part of it, and the judgement to keep going on your own.
See dates and prices- Join by QRScan, type your first name, start. No account, no password, no card.
- Model arenaOne prompt, three models, names hidden. The room votes, then we reveal.
- Build your employeePick a role, describe the job, add what it needs to know. Forty minutes.
- Take it homeYour agent leaves as a file and a share link, with your best prompts written down.
What you'll learn
judgement, not button positions
Tool menus change every month; the thinking doesn't. You leave able to tell a good answer from a confident wrong one, and to pick the cheap model when the expensive one adds nothing.
- Which tool for which jobThe five capabilities that cover most real work, and when each one is the wrong choice.
- Prompting that holds upGetting a precise result on the first or second try instead of the tenth.
- Checking the answerSpotting the confident lie. The failure that costs people their credibility at work.
- What it costsReading a cost meter and choosing a model deliberately, not by habit.
- What not to paste inCustomer data, salaries, contracts — where the line sits and how to redact before you cross it.
- Briefing an agentWriting instructions another person, or another AI, can actually follow.
What you leave with
artifacts, not a certificate
Nothing here is theoretical. Every block of the two hours produces something you own and can use on Monday morning.
- A working AI employeeLive at its own link and QR, doing one real task from your week.
- A portable knowledge fileYour context and best prompts, dropping into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini unedited.
- One task off your plateYou pick it before you arrive. We build toward it in the room.
- A way to keep goingSeven days of full access, and a next rung that isn't guesswork.
Why now
the gap is widening — quietly
Most people have heard of these tools and still can't get useful work out of them. That gap is no longer about access; it's about knowing what to ask for. It compounds every month you wait.
- Heard of it, can't use itKnowing ChatGPT exists and getting reliable work from it are different skills.
- Your colleagues are learningQuietly, unevenly, and mostly without telling anyone what's working.
- Two hours beats six monthsGuided practice with a room and a facilitator, instead of drifting through tutorials.
- The habit is the assetWaiting doesn't keep the choice open. It just means starting later, further behind.
Who it's for
people who don't write code
Built for the person with a real job and no time to become a hobbyist. If you can use a phone and describe your own work, that is the whole prerequisite.
- Owners and operatorsEnquiries, quotes, suppliers, the admin that eats the evening.
- Marketers and creatorsDrafts, captions, research, and knowing which output is safe to publish.
- Teams and managersOne shared way of working, instead of five people quietly guessing.
- Teachers and trainersMaterials, quizzes and feedback, with the ethics handled honestly.
The tools you keep
used in the room, yours afterwards
You are not buying software. These exist so the two hours works without signups or credit cards, and so you can keep practising once you leave.
- AlfyChatEvery major model in one place, with the cost of each message on screen.
- CircTurns a job description into a working agent you can share with a link.
- The GauntletChallenge levels that drill verification, cost and privacy between sessions.
The ladder
the top complaint after a workshop is no next step
Across the 700+ professionals we have trained in AI since 2018, the most consistent problem is what happens after a one-off workshop: nothing. So every session is a rung, not an event.
See all workshops- Meet Your AI EmployeeTwo hours. The paid front door, and the session on this page.
- AI at WorkThe core series: four sessions that build on the entry session.
- Automation StudioThe missing middle between chatting with AI and shipping software.
- Executive BootcampTwo days, for leadership teams that need to decide, not dabble.
- MAIA certificationAssessment and badges that turn attendance into evidence.
Built in public
the demos are real software
Everything demonstrated in the room is working software, not a slide. A sample of what one person ships with the tools being taught.
- MinosA weekly benchmark scoring five providers on Tagalog, Bisaya and Khmer.
- KrubKaTwo-phone push-to-talk translator. Hand one over and speak across the language barrier.
- DispatchReal-time inventory and staff management with agents helping on the floor.
- KEOTracks how brands surface across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews.
- OgilvyA CMO agent that joins a video call and offers marketing takes, live.
- CarltonAn AI-written split-flap display. Venue furniture that shows the room's leaderboard.
Carlo Almendral
facilitator and builder — one person, shipping
The curriculum comes out of two things: teaching AI to working professionals since 2018, and building the software used in the demos.
- 700+ trained since 2018Professionals taught across teams, agencies, schools and small businesses.
- Learning by shippingHackathon-first. Every deliverable becomes a portfolio artifact you keep.
- Bay Area cohortsPublic sessions and in-house rooms for teams, run in person across the city.
- Taught in EnglishThe arena round tests the models on whatever languages the room actually speaks.
Membership
your seat credits toward month one
The workshop fee comes off your first month if you join within the week. Tier pricing is being validated in the pilot.
Start with a session- freeCommunity, the room gallery, and the first two Gauntlet levels.
- memberEvery model, three live agents, the full Gauntlet, a monthly live session.
- builderTen live agents, Automation Studio material, and office hours.
- corporateHalf-day workshops through to the two-day executive bootcamp.
San Francisco
two hours, in person, 30 seats
Sessions run in San Francisco with thirty seats, and they fill from the community list first.
Apply for a seat- $95Per seat, credited toward membership if you join within seven days.
- 30 seatsCapped so everyone gets help while building.
- Two hoursIn person. Bring a phone or a laptop — that is the whole kit list.