AI Champions Bootcamp

Become the personyour team turns to for AI.Then make it stick.

A three-week live training for the people who carry AI inside their teams, and for the companies seeding their first group of champions. Twelve hours of live sessions, about fifteen hours of hands‑on building on your own tools, and a certification based on proof of work.

Limited seats. Led by Nufar Gaspar, who has run dozens of enterprise champion cohorts.

Who's in the room

Learn alongside executives from

MetLife
lululemon
Fidelity
Guidehouse
Fenwick
OTTO
JPMorgan Chase
Cherry Bekaert
Qlik
Constellation Brands
Red Hat
aramark
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MSCI
WW
pwc
charity: water
ARHAUS
Brown-Forman
Tripleseat
Tools for Humanity
Who this is for

Champions, appointed or self-declared.

1 of 6

You're already the AI person.

Everyone asks you. Nobody wrote the job description. This is it.

2 of 6

You want to become that person.

You've built things with AI and you want a mandate.

3 of 6

You've been appointed.

Your company named you a champion. Now make the role real.

4 of 6

You're seeding a movement.

You want a champion network in your company and you're sending the first group. They leave with a shared language, a charter each, and a network that outlasts the cohort.

5 of 6

Your champion movement needs a boost.

You have champions already and the energy has faded. Send them here for a common method, fresh patterns, and a reason to restart.

6 of 6

You want to learn from the best, with others.

You'd rather learn this with a cohort of champions from other companies than alone from videos.

Champions are usually individual contributors and team leads. Senior leaders who set how the organization works with agents usually take Executive Agent Leadership and send their champions here.

Outcomes

What you leave with.

Understanding

A deep understanding of the champion's role: what it is, where it sits between ambassador and builder, and how to make it real inside your company.

A realistic, cost-effective way to take AI from idea to production: what to build, what to route elsewhere, how to prove it works, and what it costs.

The two-hat mindset: how to think like someone who holds both the subject-matter expertise and the technological chops, and knows when to hand off.

Artifacts

You keep it

Your charter

Mandate, spectrum position, top goals, the bandwidth ask, negotiated with your manager during the training.

You keep it

Your use-case portfolio

Real use cases from your team, articulated, sized for feasibility and return, and sequenced.

You keep it

Your capstone

One use case specified, built with guardrails, and evaluated, on the tools you can use at work.

You keep it

Your rollout and support plan

How it reaches your peers, how it's supported, and how you'll know it works.

You keep it

Your operating plan

The 90-day plan, your AI watch radar, and your troubleshooting playbook for the day after.

You keep it

Your decision playbooks

Industry-standard playbooks for deciding what to build, judging feasibility and value, evaluating what you built, and knowing when to retire it.

Curriculum

Six sessions. Hands‑on discovery, hands‑on building, one structured process.

Strategic discovery you do with your own hands, building you do on your own tools, and a structured process that helps you and your company see the as-is, define the to-be, and become the person who bridges the gap, for yourself and for others.

Session 1

The champion, and the road from idea to production

  • The role, the ambassador-to-builder spectrum, and your charter
  • The whole road in one picture
  • Spotting, articulating and sizing real use cases from your team
Session 2

Decide and design: the Builder's Checklist

  • Should you build, borrow, route, or hand off
  • Agent or not, single-player or multiplayer, which tool
  • What it needs to know: context, brains, skills
Session 3

Build: guidelines, collaboration, multiplayer

  • Building guidelines for champions
  • Working with the central AI team, IT and security
  • Shared team context and shared team agents
Session 4

Build better: advanced patterns and guardrails

  • Sub-agents, loops, goals, automations
  • Guardrails, security and user experience
  • Automation platforms, connectors, and other ways to support the team
Session 5

Prove, ship, support

  • Evaluation-driven development
  • Productization and the deployment ladder
  • Rollout, first-level support, troubleshooting
Session 6

Sustain and multiply: the day after

  • Change management for champions
  • Teaching others and staying current
  • Token smartness and your 90-day operating plan

Each session moves your own use case one stage and fills in another part of the competency map. Sessions are the thinking; the work happens between them on detailed self-paced handouts, on your tools. Every session is recorded.

The champion competency map

Eight competencies, filled in across the six sessions and the work between them:

  1. Company AI policies, legal and security
  2. Use-case articulation and design
  3. Building from idea to production
  4. AI value realization and rollout
  5. Collaboration and the champion's operating model
  6. Change management for champions
  7. Teaching and enabling others
  8. Staying current
How it works

The format.

Live sessions, twice a week for three weeks.
Know-how, patterns, and decisions, with room for questions. Every session recorded.
Self-paced work between sessions.
Detailed handouts with a core task, extra layers, and a stretch for those who want more.
A structured process across the three weeks.
Pre-work on your company's policies and what already exists, then one use case from idea to production, with a champion competency map that fills in as you go.
Supporting materials to go deeper and broader.
Train-the-trainer packages, playbooks, reference cards, prompt kits and a rich library of support materials, all included on the platform.
Train-the-trainer assets you keep.
Session kits with handouts and speaker notes you can run with your own team, starting with the token-smartness session.
Hands-on discovery on your own tools.
Bring the tools you can actually use at work.
Certification based on proof of work,
in a form that respects what your company can't share.
Support throughout.
A cohort group channel and 15 minutes of one-on-one coaching.
A note before every session with what to bring,
so the two-hour sessions and the work between them stay feasible.
Schedule

The schedule.

Times in ET and CT. Sessions run two hours. Every session is recorded.

Nov 16 to Dec 2, 2026Six sessions · two hours each
The six live sessions, with start times in Eastern and Central time
1Mon Nov 161:30 pm ET12:30 pm CT
2Wed Nov 181:30 pm ET12:30 pm CT
3Mon Nov 231:30 pm ET12:30 pm CT
4Tue Nov 241:30 pm ET12:30 pm CT
5Mon Nov 301:30 pm ET12:30 pm CT
6Wed Dec 21:30 pm ET12:30 pm CT
Certification

Awarded on proof of work.

Certified AI Champion

Awarded on
  • Attending live, or watching the recording, of every session
  • Completing the work between sessions
  • Submitting your capstone, or proof that it was done, in a form that respects your company's confidentiality

Details of the submission are shared during the training.

Fit check

Is this training for you?

Nine questions. Your answers stay in your browser; the result is for you.

Your role
Do you have, or are you seeking, a champion mandate in your company?
Which agentic builder tool are you approved to use at work?
Have you built something with AI that others use?
Do you have a token or tool budget beyond the standard seat?
Hours per week you can commit to champion work
Do you have a sponsor who would attend the showcase?
Have you completed Executive Agent Leadership or Executive Catch-Up?
How would you rate your day-to-day AI proficiency compared with your peers?

Answer all nine questions to see your result. 0 of 9 so far.

Seats, pricing, dates

Seats and dates.

Limited seats. The cohort is kept small on purpose; secure your seat before they're gone.

Single seat
$2,749total

One person, one seat

Nov 16 to Dec 2, 2026. Full refund through session 2.

  • /Six live sessions over three weeks, every one recorded
  • /Self-paced handouts between sessions, on your own tools
  • /Playbooks, reference cards, prompt kits and train-the-trainer kits
  • /A cohort group channel and 15 minutes of one-on-one coaching
  • /Certified AI Champion, awarded on proof of work
Register for the Nov 16 cohort

Executive Agent Leadership alumni: $500 off the single seat.

Designed for individual and internal company use. Materials are not for resale or for delivering training to clients.

Another seat count, or an invoice or a PO? The registration form prices any number of seats and issues the invoice online.

For companies

Send your seed group.

You want a champion network, and you're sending the first group. What changes when you send several people:

Register a team
  • They build a shared language and a cross-team backlog during the training, so the network exists on day one.
  • Team bundles of three and five seats, priced to stay on a corporate card.
  • A sponsor pack with every seat: a one-pager on what to do with a champion in your team, a short recorded briefing, and an invitation to the showcase.
  • A $500 alumni discount for Executive Agent Leadership graduates.
About

Who you build with.

Nufar Gaspar

Leads every session

Executive AI consultant and trainer. 15 years in algorithms, product engineering and AI business leadership. Trained 14,000+ engineers and executives across 30 countries. Has run dozens of AI champion cohorts inside enterprise companies.

Nathaniel Whittemore

Opens and closes every cohort

Superintelligent CEO and host of The AI Daily Brief.

FAQ

Questions.

Still unsure whether it's the right fit? Email us and we'll help you scope it.

+What's an AI champion, and why should I attend?
The person in a team responsible for progressing AI adoption and value: a peer plus one who makes sure AI is used on the right problems, with the right tools, with the right collaboration. Attend if you're that person, want to be, or were just appointed.
+I did Executive Catch-Up. Should I do this?
Yes. Executive Catch-Up brings you up to speed on today's AI tools. The AI Champions Bootcamp is designed for champions: it takes you through the full lifecycle of an AI use case, from idea to production, and covers what you need to know to be a proper ambassador and builder inside your team.
+How is this different from Executive Agent Leadership?
They're built for different audiences. Executive Agent Leadership is for leaders and builders who set how their organization works with agents and want the deepest agent-building curriculum. The AI Champions Bootcamp is for the people who carry AI inside a team: it turns you into a champion, with the lifecycle from idea to production and the ambassador and builder skills that go with the role. Many people do both. Neither replaces the other.
+What tools do I need?
An agentic builder tool you can run at work (for example Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor). A Cowork-class tool works for the first sessions' homework.
+How much time?
Twelve hours live plus about fifteen hours of self-paced building over three weeks.
+What if I can't share company work?
Certification accepts proof of work in a form that respects confidentiality.
+Time zones?
Sessions start at 1:30 pm ET (12:30 pm CT). See the schedule for exact times. Every session is recorded.
+Refunds?
Full refund through session 2.
+Team bundles?
Three-seat and five-seat bundles, priced to stay card-swipeable.
+Can I use the materials to train clients?
No. The training and its materials are for your own use and for use inside your company. Delivering them to clients requires a separate partner license.