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Start today. Learn on your clock.

The same field-tested frameworks as the live cohorts, available on demand. No waiting for a start date and no fixed calendar. Move at your own speed, revisit anything, and keep access for a full year.

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Courses, certifications and role tracks
$175 to $595
Every price published, no click required
12
Months of access, including office hours
01How self-paced works

Self-paced does not mean on your own.

Drop-in office hours run twice weekly and continue for a full year. The instructor treats office hours as the primary venue for rigorous evaluation of your work, and several exercises are explicitly flagged for it.

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Start immediately. No cohort wait and no application. Enroll and begin the first module today.

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Your own pace. Move fast or slow, pause when work gets busy, and rewatch any lesson as often as you need.

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A full year of access. Twelve months with every course you enroll in, plus office hours and email support.

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Graded work, not just video. The larger courses carry assignments, per-section exercises, and a capstone built on your own business.

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Lower entry point. Start from a fraction of the cohort price, with optional 1:1 support when you want it.

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A fit for a senior calendar. For a VP, a year of drop-in office hours often works better than eight fixed Saturday mornings.

02Problems these courses solve

Start with the problem
you already have.

Each course is built around a specific failure mode rather than a topic. Open any problem below to see which course addresses it and where, then start there rather than at the beginning.

At your company

“We just need to do something with AI.”

AI as a checkbox driven by board, analyst, and shareholder pressure, which produces no commitment to workflow re-engineering and therefore no return. There is a documented four-step response.

AI Opportunity Discovery · Lesson 13
Expensive technology applied where cheap technology would do.

AI is among the most expensive options available and gets used by default rather than by justification. Complexity and uncertainty are the two-category test for when it is genuinely the right tool.

AI Opportunity Discovery · Lesson 1
Our pricing metric has no structural connection to value.

Tokens, predictions, conversations, or seats get chosen because they are measurable, not because more of them means more value delivered. Not every token is created equal.

Platform Monetization · Sections 1 and 13
We have dozens of pilots and no unifying direction.

Scattered projects across the enterprise, every team convinced it has the agent to rule all agents. Nothing consolidates and nothing compounds.

Platform Monetization · Monday Morning Playbook
Data given away or left unmonetized.

Data-generating processes treated as exhaust rather than as an asset, including arrangements where a partner captures the value and the originator gets nothing.

AI Opportunity Discovery · Lesson 3
“The distance from our platform to a modern one looks impossible.”

Dirty data, BI-era reporting, legacy systems that cannot go offline, and a target state involving knowledge graphs. No visible path between them, so nothing starts.

Platform Monetization · L0 to L5 maturity

In your role

“I do not know which of these frameworks to do first.”

You have absorbed a great deal of strategy content and none of it told you what to do on Monday morning. That thread runs through the entire monetization course as a recurring segment.

Platform Monetization · Monday Morning Playbook
“I am waiting for prerequisites that will never be finished.”

The data is not clean, the platform is not ready, the governance is not written. This is the reason the work never starts and no momentum ever gets built.

Platform Monetization · Section 2
You cannot quantify the value of your own work.

Without an ROI estimate you cannot defend a priority, justify a budget, or explain what is lost by switching to the next shiny object. You are reduced to arguing from opinion against people arguing from opinion.

AI Opportunity Discovery · Lesson 9
You cannot tell hype from a real opportunity.

Executives arrive enthusiastic, non-technical, and having just seen a demo. You need questions that filter hype without dampening enthusiasm.

AI Opportunity Discovery · Lesson 6
“Everything I learn is obsolete in six months.”

Model releases every three to six months and new paradigms constantly. You want durable structure rather than another tool list, which is why every course teaches the framework layer.

Every self-paced course · lifetime updates
“We are not NVIDIA, so none of this applies to us.”

The objection that stops the work. The case selection answers it directly: a regulated bank, a manufacturer, a retailer, and a physical-product company rather than technology-first darlings.

Platform Monetization · Sections 17 to 21
Match my role to a course
Every framework is taught twice: how it should be in a perfect setup, and how it actually is. In 13 years of practice, the instructor reports never having seen a perfect setup.
03The catalog

Pick your starting point.

Begin with a core discipline, then go deeper by the role you are growing into. Every course is self-paced with a year of access.

Core disciplines

Discovery · 14 sections

AI Opportunity Discovery

A complete sequenced system for sourcing, qualifying, sizing, and defending AI opportunities. Discovery, influence, and feasibility make up 53% of its framework register.

  • Four hype-resistant questions that filter a demo-driven request
  • Three-space feasibility across problem, data, and solution
  • Three-band estimation: underperform, expected, outperform
  • A toolkit for when a discovery session goes wrong
Tuition $295 · 70 lessons, roughly 7.5 hours of video plus a capstone
Monetization · 22 sections

AI & Agentic Platform Monetization

Platform architecture and monetization treated as the same problem from two sides. Pricing at 18 frameworks and architecture at 17, and the only governance content in the portfolio.

  • Layered platform architecture and the L0 to L5 maturity model
  • The AI Monetization Pyramid, from capabilities to outcomes
  • Four agent governance archetypes and trust as architecture
  • Parallel Maturity across seven ladders
Tuition $295 · 121 lessons, cases from SAP, Salesforce, JPMorgan Chase, Siemens
Strategy

Data & AI Strategy

The strategist curriculum, self-paced. From the initial assessment to a strategy that ships and earns C-level buy-in.

  • Assess the business and place it on the maturity model
  • Run discovery top-down or bottom-up and hold a pipeline
  • Estimate ROI at the workflow level and defend it
  • Build the strategy document and the coalition behind it
Tuition $595 · self-paced companion to the live certification
Product

AI Product Strategy

AI products from zero to ROI, self-paced. Opportunity discovery, product strategy, and the bridge between technical and business teams.

  • Turn an opportunity into an initiative and a roadmap
  • Kill bad initiatives before they consume a quarter
  • Estimate value in defensible ranges
  • Price AI and sequence the launch
Tuition $595 · self-paced companion to the live certification

Role and communication tracks

Influence

Executive Presence & C-Level Influence

Build rapport and trust with executives, align your narrative with how deciders actually decide, and learn to ask and answer questions like a CEO.

  • Answer-first narrative design
  • The Assertion and Proof cadence
  • Handling the challenge you did not see coming
Tuition $400
Leadership

Strategic Executive Leadership

Build and lead a data organization that meets business needs: strategy implementation, innovation, and execution.

  • Structure a team around outcomes rather than tickets
  • Fund innovation under uncertainty
  • Make the case in board language
Tuition $395
Individual contributors

The Value-Centric Data Professional

Translate business problems into solutions and own the full data science lifecycle with a value-first lens.

  • Tie your work to the P&L
  • Scope a problem before touching a model
  • Present results executives act on
Tuition $195
Founders

From Employee to Founder

The business, strategy, and mindset shifts required to start something of your own.

  • Validate before you leave
  • Price your first engagement
  • Build the practice around what you already know
Tuition $175
04Who is teaching
The same curriculum that runs the live cohorts, built from a decade turning AI into profit.

Vin Vashishta is the author of From Data To Profit (Wiley) and a LinkedIn Top Voice since 2017. The self-paced courses use the same frameworks applied with clients including Airbus, Siemens, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase.

Designed for technical professionals with no business background, and for leaders who need AI to earn its budget.

05What students take away

Fits your life.
Changes your work.

Your outcomes are the priority, so office hours and email support are there whenever you need them, for a full year after you enroll.

9,000+
Careers advanced
47
Countries

“It was a great course and so easy to follow. When my schedule got crazy, I was still able to listen to the sessions afterwards.”

AI Strategy Certification

“A lot of topics piqued my attention, especially the initial assessment and opportunity discovery. Getting buy-in from C-leaders was invaluable.”

AI Product Management Certification

“Where was this five years ago? I sent all my reports to take it so they would not stumble in the dark.”

Strategic Executive Leadership Certification
9,000+
Professionals certified
47
Countries represented
208K+
LinkedIn followers
700+
Published frameworks
Certification holders come from
AmazonMicrosoftMetaAppleWalmartJPMC AirbusSiemensSalesforceDeloitteBain & CoTesla
06Questions

Questions people ask before enrolling.

Which self-paced course should I start with?

If you have to decide what gets built, start with AI Opportunity Discovery. It is the upstream skill everything else depends on and the lowest-cost entry point into the curriculum.

If you own a platform P&L, its pricing, or its governance, start with AI & Agentic Platform Monetization. The course matcher scores 40 job titles against all four courses.

How is this different from the live cohorts?

The frameworks are the same. What changes is the format: you start immediately, move at your own speed, and revisit anything, with a full year of access including drop-in office hours.

What you give up is the live pressure-testing, the cohort, and the confidential 1:1. If finishing is your problem rather than access, take the cohort instead.

How long do I keep access?

A full year with every course you enroll in, including office hours and email support. Office hours are cross-cohort, so you hear the questions coming from live classes as well.

Most people come back around month three. The first three months tend to be a honeymoon because everything is new, and the first real barrier usually shows up right after that.

Is there any live component at all?

Yes. Drop-in office hours run twice weekly and are treated as the primary venue for rigorous evaluation of your work. Several exercises in the monetization course are explicitly flagged for office hours.

For a VP-level calendar, that combination often works better than eight fixed Saturday mornings.

Do the self-paced courses come with assessment?

The larger courses do. Platform Monetization is graded across an opening assignment, six per-section exercises, a second assignment, and a final Parallel Maturity roadmap for your own business.

Opportunity Discovery includes applied exercises throughout and a capstone.

Can I expense the tuition?

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.

No start date to wait for

Start with the problem
you already have.

Forty job titles mapped to four certifications, each with a fit score and the problems it was written to solve.

Find your course
Eight self-paced courses. Start today and keep a full year of access.