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Launching AI Agents for Product Leaders

Understand new models, techniques, UX trends; master metrics and prototype validation, learn to successfully navigate trade-offs and launch

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Course overview

Don't just build AI demos, ship products.

Build the skills and confidence to ship your complex AI projects

AI projects have many moving parts - learn the strategies, technical skills and key questions to ask to launch with success.


By the end of the course you'll:


1. Gain an understanding of the large language model landscape

2. Incorporate common frameworks for building conversational experiences

3. Ship and iterate on a MVP capstone project relevant to your industry

4. Iterate on designs based on user interactions

5. Build dashboards to track key metrics



Ship without Limitation

Utilize low code techniques, prompting skills and API integrations to gain independence to prototype and ship conversational experiences.


Understand key requirements for conversational AI products in 2024

2024 brought new technologies, customer expectations and opportunities to the forefront. Gain a holistic perspective to feel prepared for upcoming years and learn to scale to an enterprise scale.


Hands on case studies - Prepare for the real world

Apply your knowledge with diverse and pertinent industry case studies. Case studies will focus on common SAAS use cases including customer support, e-commerce and internal automation.

Who is this course for

01

Product Managers. Understand key metrics, technologies and frameworks to deliver on AI projects.

02

Engineering Managers. Gain the business context of AI to drive project impact.

03

Executive Leaders. Understand key opportunities in the AI space to transform your business.

What you’ll get out of this course

Immerse yourself in the Conversational AI landscape

The world of Conversational AI, Gen AI and LLMs evolves quickly. Dive into the capabilities and how to best utilize models like GPT-4, Claude-3 and LLaMa. Contextualize these with prompting techniques and architectures.

Clarify your Customer Persona and their Conversational AI journey

No one wants a generic chatbot. Synthesize customer expectations with your unique product background to build with clarity. We'll work through exercises to reduce product scope by 90% so you can get to MVP faster.

Prototype AI Applications with purpose

Ship prototypes to validate hypothesis that lead to success. Build with the right tools and iterate to get activate your customer persona.

Understand AI Product Metrics and Tradeoffs

Learn seven key metrics that top performing teams measure to ship effective experiences from MVPs to top performing agents.

Launch to production

Move past the prototype and ship a functioning assistant. Learn to iterate, track metrics and understand real-world user behaviour. Incorporate your assistant's branding and purpose for a high fidelity assistant.

Real Life Exercises

We'll work through key case studies and scenarios that replicate real world scenarios in e-commerce, customers support and internal apps.

Pitch your AI product

Build the business case that brings in executive buy in and gets prioritized on the roadmap.


Learn to navigate

  • Rapidly changing models
  • Cross functional teams
  • Limited budgets
  • Unrealistic stakeholder expectations


What’s included

Denys Linkov

Live sessions

Learn directly from Denys Linkov in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

6 live sessions • 63 lessons • 6 projects

Week 1

Aug 7—Aug 11

    Aug

    7

    Kickoff! - Understanding your user and industry

    Wed 8/76:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    The Conversational AI Landscape

    What's going on in the AI world?

    5 items

    Customer Personas for Conversational AI

    Nuances for AI products

    7 items

    Intro to prototyping

    How to get to a v0 quickly

    8 items

    Advance prototyping

    Making your agent stand out

    7 items

    Shipping your prototype

    Prepare to release your v1

    3 items

Week 2

Aug 12—Aug 18

    Aug

    12

    Building high fidelity prototypes

    Mon 8/126:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Aug

    14

    Iterating on user feedback

    Wed 8/146:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Iterating on user feedback

    The questions and patterns to build your next iteration

    4 items

    Tracking Key Metrics

    Choosing and implementing the metrics for product success

    6 items

    Conversational AI for E-commerce

    Case studies on E-commerce case studies and techniques

    5 items

    Conversational AI for Customer Support

    Deep dive into the AI automation for Customer Support use case

    5 items

    Conversational AI for Internal Automation

    Art of the possible for internal automation

    3 items

    Shipping your prototype - Take 2

    You've iterated on user feedback...

    3 items

Week 3

Aug 19—Aug 25

    Aug

    19

    Industry Deep Dives

    Mon 8/196:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Aug

    21

    Building your business case

    Wed 8/216:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Building your conversational AI business case

    Identifying and forecasting a good AI business case

    7 items

    Preparing for production

    Tips and tricks to prepare for a MVP launch

    4 items

    Pitch your product!

    Preparing for your executive meeting

    2 items

Week 4

Aug 26

    Aug

    26

    Pitch your product!

    Mon 8/266:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

What students are saying

Meet your instructor

Denys Linkov

Denys Linkov

Head of ML at Voiceflow, ML Startup Advisor, 150,000+ Learner AI Course instructor

Denys is the Head of Machine Learning at Voiceflow, ML Advisor and AI Course Instructor. He's worked with 50+ enterprises in their conversational AI journey, and his Gen AI courses have helped 150,000+ learners build key skills.


He's worked across the AI product stack, being hands on building key ML systems, managing product delivery teams, and working directly with customers on best practices.

Course schedule

5-7 hours per week

  • Mondays and Wednesdays

    2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

    Three weeks of live lessons and exercises.

  • Exercises and Projects

    3 hours per week

    Get hands on building conversational Assistants.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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