Who it's for
Three kinds of team, one outcome.
We've run this workshop with SRE teams at Fortune 500s and two-person ops groups at seed-stage startups. The recipe holds.
Engineering teams new to AI
You've used ChatGPT. You want to build something real, and you want senior people in the room.
Teams stuck on a stalled pilot
Your prototype shipped 6 months ago and nobody trusts it. We diagnose and fix it on day one.
Ops & finance teams
Non-engineering groups automating their own workflows. Fewer prerequisites, same outcome-first approach.
Prerequisites
Comfort in any language (Python preferred, not required) · API access to at least one frontier model · a real workflow you want to automate · two days clear on the calendar. No AI/ML background needed.
Curriculum
Two days, hour by hour.
09:00
Framing: where AI helps, where it hurts
A clear-eyed look at where agents outperform scripts — and where they quietly waste your team's time. We work from your actual backlog.
10:30
Pick the one problem
Your team picks one real workflow to automate. We help you scope it down to something shippable in two days.
12:00
Lunch · working session
Keep the momentum. We break bread with your team and keep debugging over sandwiches.
13:30
Build v0
Claude, GPT, or whatever you prefer. Prompts, tools, and a first evaluation set. Working code by end of day.
17:00
Demo & feedback
Each team shows what they built. We pressure-test it from five angles you probably haven't considered.
Deliverables
What you walk out with.
Not a certificate. Not a binder. Working software your team built and knows how to run.
- 01A working AI tool, built on your real work, running in your environment
- 02An evaluation suite that tells you when something drifts before a customer does
- 03A 30-day plan — what to build next, what to measure, when to worry
- 04Your team's own playbook, written in your vocabulary, owned by your people
- 05A runbook for the on-call person at 3am
- 06Direct access to the APEX team for 30 days of follow-up questions
Investment
Fixed fee. No surprises.
Travel billed at cost when on-site. No change orders unless you ask for scope expansion.
Starter
$9,500
fixed fee
1–3 people
Remote
- Two-day workshop
- One real workflow shipped
- 14 days of follow-up access
- Shared Slack channel
Most teams
Team
$28,000
fixed fee
4–8 people
On-site or remote
- Two-day workshop
- One real workflow shipped
- 30 days of follow-up access
- Private Slack channel
- Named senior instructor
Full eng org
$52,000
fixed fee · ~$2,600/seat
Up to 20 people
On-site preferred
- Two-day workshop
- Up to three workflows shipped
- 30 days of follow-up access
- Private Slack channel
- Post-workshop readout with leadership
- Cross-team playbook