- Private team session
- Half-day or full-day sessions for teams of 4–20. We adapt the content to your stack and where your team is in the adoption curve. Remote or in-person. We’ve run these for engineering teams, product squads, and mixed technical/non-technical groups — the approach changes, the rigour doesn’t.
- Public talk
- Meetup and conference talks for technical audiences — on agentic systems, the changing shape of software work, and what it means to build right now. 45–60 minutes with Q&A. No vendor pitches.
- Workshop series
- For teams that want a longer arc — 3–5 sessions over 4–8 weeks, building from fundamentals to applied practice. Taught from production scar tissue, not slideware. Teams come out with working prototypes and new instincts.
What we cover
- What agentic systems actually are — and what they aren’t (cutting through the noise)
- How to think about LLMs as collaborators, not just tools — including where they break and why
- Practical patterns for building agents: tool use, guardrails, human-in-the-loop design, and failure modes
- Information retrieval and search in the LLM era — RAG done well, and where it falls apart
- The changing role of the software engineer — what stays, what shifts, what disappears
- System design principles for AI-native products: coupling, evaluation, and what “production-ready” actually means
- Live building: we often build something during the session to show, not just tell
Who it’s for
- Engineering teams beginning to integrate LLMs into their products or workflows
- Product teams who need a shared language for working with AI-native features
- Conference and meetup organisers looking for a practitioner perspective — audiences ranging from engineers and project managers to founders and entrepreneurs
- Teams where the people making decisions are also the people writing the code
Book a session
Tell us the format, the audience size, and what you’re hoping people leave with. We take a handful of sessions a quarter, around the product work — we’ll reply if it’s a fit, or point you somewhere more useful if it isn’t.
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