Vinoo Ganesh

Build Products Like a Forward Deployed Engineer

Palantir

Citadel

CEO, Kepler, Ex-FDE Lead at Palantir & Citadel | Built Frontline @ Palantir

The instinct you only develop by being in the room when things break.

Build from real customer pain

A concrete week-by-week playbook for customer calls, shadowing support, and building feedback loops.

Develop customer instinct from the field.

Why teams overbuild things nobody asked for or underbuild things that collapse.

Avoid the two mistakes that kill products

Learn to turn ideas into real products with Claude Code, generate PRDs, build MVPs, orchestrate agents, and ship deployable AI applications.

Founder | Ex-Google | Prof UCLA & UMN 

Google

Walmart

Gallup

UCLA

University of Minnesota

Hamza Farooq

Founder | Ex-Google | Adjunct UCLA & UMN, SCU | Venture Partner

AI Product Builder | Startup Advisor

Aishwarya Ashok

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

AI has changed how products get built. Tools like Claude Code are reshaping the product development life cycle in ways most of us are still catching up with.You probably have ideas. You see what these tools can do. But turning an idea into something real, a working product that runs, deploys, and can actually be used, can still feel overwhelming.The most exciting shift is that anyone today can go from idea to PRD to working prototype in minutes. That's a massive change in how products come to life.This course exists to help you take advantage of that shift.Instead of spending weeks watching videos, you'll build alongside us. You'll take an idea, turn it into a PRD, generate an MVP, orchestrate AI agents, and deploy real-world use case products.You won't just learn how to use Claude Code. You'll use it to build real products.🎯 Week 1: Turn idea to PRD into an MVP🎯 Week 2: Build your own marketing agency using sub-agents, and multi-agent orchestration🎯 Week 3: Evaluations 🎯 Week 4: Demo Day!By the end, you'll know how to go from idea to requirements to prototype to deployable product using AI-native workflows, and you'll leave with multiple working products you built yourself. 🚀

Turn ideas into deployed products using Claude Code, build 6 real applications 

Turn Ideas into Working Products

Build and Deploy Real Prototypes

Create Multi-Agent Workflows

Use MCP Connectors to Extend AI Apps

Build and Launch a YC-Style Product

Graduate with a Portfolio of Shipped Projects

Just be willing to learn, we will take care of the rest

Curiosity and openness

Product Managers &amp; Product Leaders who want to go beyond writing specs and start turning ideas into products using AI-native development.

Developers &amp; Builders who want to move faster with tools like Claude Code and build real prototypes, agents, and deployable AI applications.

Entrepreneurs &amp; Founders who want to validate ideas quickly, build MVPs, and launch solutions without waiting on long development cycles.

Technical Selling Framework for the AI Era

Dev-Turned-Sales Leader: AI, Cloud, SaaS

Karthik Balachandran

Engineer turned rockstar seller. 1000xed revenues and 100xed customers.

Cohort 25

Cohort 24

FDEs perform at 60% their capacity when it comes to customer interactions. Traditional playbooks weren’t written for technical minds. This cohort teaches a step-by-step technical selling system so you can bridge the gap between Product and clients—without becoming someone you’re not.

Engineers make the best sellers. They just need the right framework.

Deliver sales results without losing your authenticity

Create your high-velocity sales playbook

Use AI disruptions to your advantage

Gain lifelong selling confidence as a technical professional

Engineer → FDE/SE selling category-defining products.

Engineer → Founder looking to speed up their time to revenue.

Architects in customer-facing roles who want to rev-up their careers.

Build one real agent product on ClawBot + AgentOS — the proof that gets you hired as an FDE, or the foundation that gets you funded.

18 AI Products · 50,000+ Students

Apple

LinkedIn

Udemy

Nathan Wang

30+ AI Agents Running 24/7 | 18 Products | PhD Engineer/TPM @ Apple & Meta

AI Superpower Cohort 2

AI Superpower Cohort 3

Forward Deployed Engineer is the hottest job in AI. Postings are up ~800%, and OpenAI and Anthropic pay $350–550K. The problem: everyone applying has the same resume. What gets the callback is a shipped agentic project — and almost nobody has one.This course gets you that project. In 3 weeks you’ll use ClawBot to stand up your agent crew in week one, learn the design principles behind AgentOS — the system that powers it, more advanced than OpenClaw or Hermes — and build your own product on top of it. No reinventing the wheel: you spend your three weeks on the proof, not the plumbing.That single artifact opens two doors. It’s the proof-of-work that gets you hired as an FDE — and the foundation that gets you funded as a one-person company (OPC).This isn’t a tutorial. The same AgentOS powers 18 products on ai-nate.com and my own OPC operations today — ~1B tokens/day in real production use. You don’t just build a thing; you learn how agentic systems are architected, which is exactly what an FDE interview screens for.One build. Two doors. Hired or funded.

Ship the agent project that gets you hired as an FDE — or funds your startup.

Stand Up Your Agent Crew on ClawBot — Day One

Learn the Design Behind AgentOS — Not Just the Tool

Build Your Own Product on Top of ClawBot + AgentOS

Walk Away With the Case Study That Gets You Hired

Own a Foundation You Can Turn Into a Startup

Job Seekers Targeting FDE &amp; AI RolesLand the hottest job in AI. Ship the agentic project that gets you the interview.

Engineers &amp; PMs Leveling UpYou can already build. Now learn how agent systems are architected — and prove you operate at that level.

Aspiring Founders &amp; OPCsTurn your build into a one-person company — the seed of a funded product when you’re ready.

Mahesh & his team of mentors (10+) have taught 13k+ PM's on Maven

AI Lead-built early Agents @Google, Meta

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft

Mahesh Yadav 

Ex AI Product Lead -Google l Meta l Microsoft l AWS | 10k+ Alums l Founder - Agentic AI Institute

Trailblazers

Claude Code can solve world hunger but you literally do not even know what to ask Claude Code because you don't know what the engineering/product terms are. If you graduated beyond AI prototyping and now are coming to terms with your lack of technical knowledge and petrified of committing to main this course is for you.Spend 6 hours with me and 10+ mentors to become a product engineer that can build with AI. Who we serve:<ul><li>You work in customer facing roles (Marketing/Sales/UX) or back office (Finance/Legal/Accounts). You have lot of ideas but today cannot bring them to production.</li><li>You work in operations (project/program/analyst) and you are petrified with pace of AI and unable to AI to excel in your current role or get to your next role.</li></ul>What we offer:<ul><li>Learn engineering lingo and fundamentals to thrive in AI world (PRD, Git pull/push, skills and agents).</li><li>What is possible with Claude Code (beyond basics) and get battle tested claude skills (real and .md files)</li><li>Learn hands period. We will not only show and tell - but - build and debug with you.</li></ul>Mahesh has 21+ exp. working at Google/Meta/AWS in AI and is most knowledgable and generous leader on Maven.

Program/Project Managers You manage the people who build. You live in spreadsheets &amp; standups. You coordinate everything except the code.

Designers Your Figma files are beautiful. Your GitHub repo is empty. This workshop fixes the second problem without touching the first.

Sales &amp; Marketing You know the customer's problem better than anyone. You rely on dev for every tool, every landing page, every automation.

The AI-Native Product Manager

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction to Forward Deployed Engineering

The Speaker's Background and Kepler.ai

The Origin Story of Forward Deployed Engineering

Move 1: Detect the Real Problem and Ship the Right Thing

Move 2: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Move 3: Define the Language and Control the Narrative

Move 4: Ship Fast but Build for Production

The FDE Cheat Sheet: Key Takeaways

Q&A: Tracking Customer Outcomes Over Time

Q&A: FDE vs. Professional Services

Q&A: How Generative AI is Changing the FDE Role

Q&A: Balancing What a Client Wants vs. What They Need

Q&A: A Roadmap for University Students to Become FDEs

Q&A: Offloading Engineering Work vs. Solving It Yourself

Q&A: What It Means When a User Checks Their Phone

Conclusion and Final Advice for Product Managers

Product managers who drive strategy, development, and launch of products.

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Identifying opportunities and validating what to build through customer research, experimentation, and prioritization.

Build Products Like a Forward Deployed Engineer

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