AI Residency Cohort 9 — Zero to Pro in Generative AI (5 Months)

Build real, portfolio-ready Generative AI applications with step-by-step mentoring, projects, and a structured curriculum designed for beginners and career switchers.
If you’ve been watching AI from the sidelines (or building scattered demos), this program gives you a clear pathway to go from basic Python + GenAI fundamentals to RAG, fine-tuning, agents, deployment, evaluation, and security—with projects you can showcase.

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### Meet Your Instructor

Mohammad Arshad is a globally recognized AI practitioner and mentor with nearly two decades of experience enabling organizations to monetize data and AI products. Since 2008, he has taught technical and non-technical audiences and has helped 3000+ professionals advance their careers through applied, project-based learning.

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### Who This Program Is For

• Beginners who want a structured, guided path into Generative AI
• Data/tech professionals upgrading into LLM + agentic systems
• Founders building an AI product (or adding GenAI to an existing product)
• Agency owners delivering GenAI solutions for clients
• Career switchers who want an employable portfolio and real project discipline

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### What You’ll Build (Portfolio Projects)

You won’t just “learn concepts.” You will ship:

• API-powered AI apps in Python (Groq + LLM APIs)
• Chatbots + LLM wrappers with function calling and integrations
• RAG assistants (vector embeddings + vector DB + advanced retrieval patterns)
• Agents & agentic systems (CrewAI, LangGraph, MCP patterns)
• Capstone project you can publish as a credible demo

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### What You’ll Learn (High-Level Curriculum)

A guided roadmap from fundamentals to advanced production-minded GenAI:
Foundations

• Generative AI fundamentals + essential Python prerequisite
• Environment setup, Git/GitHub, and UI building (Gradio)

LLM Engineering

• LLM playground → code
• Wrappers, function calling, tool use, data integration
• Hugging Face open-source workflow

RAG & Retrieval Systems

• LlamaIndex + RAG foundations
• Vector embeddings + vector databases
• Advanced RAG patterns and evaluation

Fine-Tuning

• Tokenization & preprocessing
• Data preparation & fine-tuning workflows

Agents & Orchestration

• Prompting patterns (ReACT, reasoning workflows)
• CrewAI multi-agent systems
• LangGraph for multi-step production flows
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent patterns

Trust & Production Readiness

• AI security & ethics (prompt injection and more)
• GenAI evaluation (RAG, reasoning, safety)
• Deployment and operational foundations

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### Format & Access

• Online program with project-based learning
• Self-paced materials + recordings
• Pre-work included
• Up to 2 years access to content (materials + recordings)

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### Tracks (Choose Your Outcome)

For Job Seekers: build a strong GenAI portfolio + structured career guidance
For Founders: build or integrate a GenAI product with access to builder network
For Agency Owners: learn to deliver end-to-end GenAI solutions for clients (pricing + packaging guidance)

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### Bonuses (Limited)

• Extra 3 hours of 1:1 mentorship
• $500 cloud credits
• AI Guild content access (library of courses/workshops)

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### Scholarship / Early Bird

Scholarship support is available for the cohort.
Use coupon code: SCHOLARSHIP (up to 50% for the new cohort)

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### How to Join

Click “Register” and submit only 4 details to show interest.
If you’re unsure whether this program is a fit, register and send a DM—our team will guide you.