In six weeks, you'll build an AI workflow that does your real work.
The Applied AI Certification, live and virtual. No technical background required. You leave with a capstone from your own field, not a certificate of attendance.
Next cohort to be announced · 6 weeks · Live, virtual · $997 · Students $297
20 seats per cohort. Pay in full ($997), or 3 × $335 or 10 × $105.
A $700 scholarship brings it to $297 for students: code student_discount_2026 at pay-in-full checkout, verified after you register.
Next cohort to be announced
This is what graduating looks like.
One graduate's capstone · inbox email triage
Every hour, the routine wakes
It reads her inbox and her Slack channel
She drops instructions from her phone
Nine one morning: schedule the podcast, reply to Michelle…
It posts a status update
What's handled, what still needs her
Stuck? It stops and asks
It reports the problem instead of choosing
It drafts. It never sends.
Every email goes out by her hand
She names the failure modes too: it sleeps when her computer does, it can guess wrong on dates, and unmarked tasks come back.
She calls it inbox email triage.
One graduate's capstone is an agent she named Hannah. It runs every hour on her own hard drive, a deliberate choice: she wanted to learn what it looks like to keep her AI off the cloud. It reads her inbox and a Slack channel, posts an update on what's handled and what still needs her, and when it hits a decision it can't make, it stops and asks. It drafts every email. She sends every one.
“I tell people I have a gentle inbox, which means my response will happen within 48 to 72 hours. I want to make sure that happens.”
Every certification ends here: a working workflow, built by you, presented to your cohort.
Can you spot a confident, polished, wrong answer?
That's the Fluency Trap, one of four short interactives from the curriculum. No sign-up, three minutes, and you'll feel exactly what the certification teaches.
Try the Fluency Trap →Also free
The Deference Reflex →
Trusting the AI over your own expertise.
The Mirror Trap →
An AI that agrees with everything you say.
Brain Fry →
AI everywhere, workflow nowhere.
The details, when you're ready.
The six domains you'll be certified in
Two tiers, six domains. Literacy: Foundations, Ethics, Judgment. Fluency: Interaction, Evaluation, Orchestration. The capstone you present at the end draws on all six.
The capstone: what you'll build and present
A working AI workflow you design around your own job, build during the cohort, and present to your peers at the end. That presentation is the certification's exam.
Your instructor
Every cohort is led by a certified instructor, trained to deliver the six domains to CPAI's standard. Curious what that certification takes? See the Certified Trainer Program →
Cost, payment plans, and the student scholarship
$997, paid in full or 3 × $335 or 10 × $105. Students currently enrolled in an accredited program pay $297 with code student_discount_2026at pay-in-full checkout (the code doesn't apply to payment plans). Register with your .edu email, or send proof of enrollment to contact@cp-ai.org. If we can't verify student status, we invoice the difference.
If you miss a session
Sessions are recorded. Miss a Tuesday and you can catch up before the next one — your capstone keeps moving either way.
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Next cohort to be announced
The September 2026 cohort is underway. Join the notification list and we'll tell you as soon as the next one opens.