Six to eight weeks of live instruction with Vin, not recordings. The structure, accountability, and direct access that turn a course you meant to finish into a certification you earned.
Every framework in the curriculum is taught twice: how it looks if the business were set up perfectly, and how it looks against the constraints you actually have. The second version needs your constraints in the room. Bring the barrier you think breaks it.
Live pressure-testing. Pushback drills where the instructor plays your CEO and resists, plus a full hour of Q&A after every session.
Cohort accountability. A fixed schedule and a group moving with you. The single biggest reason people finish.
A confidential 1:1. Group sessions have shadow participants, so specifics stay out of them. This is where your actual situation gets discussed.
Case studies swapped to your vertical. Name your industry in week one and the examples change.
A year of office hours. Cross-cohort, so you hear the questions from other classes. Most people come back around month three, when the first real barrier shows up.
Self-paced included. A full year of access to the companion course on top of the live cohort.
Two kinds of problem show up in every cohort. The first belongs to the business. The second belongs to you, and the live format exists for that second column. Open any problem to see which cohort addresses it and when.
The Four Questions bring them back to reality without making you the obstacle: is the technology ready, is the business model ready, is it feasible for us, are we too late.
Excite leadership with charts, get the yes, then discover the data does not exist or the team cannot build it. Reversing that order is the single largest source of saved spend.
Phases equal Gates: define the gates instead of the dates and fund each separately. You are not saying you do not know. You are saying you are going to learn.
You cannot jump from SaaS to outcome-based pricing, because SaaS is funding the transformation. Most companies have no bridge. You leave with one.
The Multi-Domain Problem. None of them is wrong, and all of them have to be reconciled before an agent can act, which is why Customer 360 rarely survives contact.
Each one judged as a standalone project instead of a step in a maturity sequence that compounds, so the flywheel never starts and the data that would have enabled the next three initiatives never gets generated.
The most common constraint in every cohort. Bottom-up discovery, stacked wins, and Coalition Building map the roughly six-month path from unknown in the building to a C-level mandate.
Framework Certainty, drilled live in week six against someone playing your CEO. Hear the challenge, name the framework, position it as the bridge, position yourself as the implementer.
Saying no personally damages the relationship. Saying yes wastes a year. You let the framework reveal the problem instead of you.
A recurring and expected state around weeks three and four. The back half of every cohort is implementation, with each framework revisited at a deeper layer specifically to close that gap.
You interview, and halfway through you realize you are the one doing the assessing. The frameworks double as a diagnostic for whether an organization is set up to let you succeed.
Group sessions have shadow participants, so specifics stay out of them. The confidential 1:1 and a year of drop-in office hours exist for the things you cannot say in a room.
They are distinct roles, and the curriculum says so. Take the one that matches what you are accountable for.
Seats are limited to keep cohorts small and Q&A useful. Both include a confidential 1-hour 1:1 with Vin, twelve months of drop-in office hours, and a year of access to the self-paced companion.
Vin Vashishta is the author of From Data To Profit (Wiley) and a LinkedIn Top Voice since 2017. Every framework in the cohort has been used in the field, with clients including Airbus, Siemens, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase.
It is designed for technical professionals with no business background, and for leaders who need AI to earn its budget.
Live cohorts apply the material while it is fresh. Support does not end at the last session: you keep office hours and email support for a year.
“How to get buy-in for your projects from C-leaders was invaluable for me, especially the initial assessment and opportunity discovery.”
“I used frameworks I learned Saturday in Monday meetings. I did not expect immediate results, but the frameworks become habits.”
“It took 4 months to get the first initiative out the door. It is the only AI product with revenue ever for the team. Thank you!”
Match it to what you own. The strategist certification is for someone who owns enterprise strategy: the assessment, the opportunity pipeline, ROI, the strategy document, and the C-level mandate. Product management is for someone who owns a roadmap that has to make money.
The material is explicit that these are two distinct roles and owning both at once means doing both badly. The course matcher scores 40 job titles against both.
The strategist certification runs six weeks with twelve live sessions on Mondays and Fridays from 8:00 to 9:30am PT, plus roughly an hour of Q&A after each session. Product management runs eight weeks on Saturdays at the same time.
Sessions are recorded, so a missed week is recoverable. Office hours run twice weekly and continue for a full year after the last session.
A confidential one-hour 1:1 session with Vin, twice-weekly drop-in office hours for twelve months after the course ends, email support, and a year of access to the self-paced companion course.
Office hours are cross-cohort, so you hear the questions coming from other classes and previous cohorts as well as your own.
No. There is no technical prerequisite. Cohorts mix data leaders, engineers, consultants, and business leaders running transformations.
If you come from engineering, expect the strategy material to feel unfamiliar at first. One participant described it as the first time on a surfboard. If you come from the business side, expect the same in reverse during the technology model sessions.
Sessions are recorded and available to the cohort. That said, the live format exists for the parts that do not survive a recording: the pushback drills, the Q&A, and the questions other people ask.
If your calendar will not hold a fixed weekly slot at all, the self-paced companion covers the same frameworks and starts immediately.
Some students do, and approval depends entirely on your employer's policy. Many companies have a training or learning budget, and some do not extend it to external certifications.
Reimbursement assistance guides are published on the Data & AI Strategist and AI Product Management certification pages, written to be forwarded to a manager. Whether it is approved is between you and your employer.
Seats are limited to keep cohorts small and Q&A useful. Reserve yours before this cohort fills.
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