Build useful AI.Show what you can do.
Build a real workflow in guided labs, get feedback from Catalyst, and finish with work you can show. Designed for professionals, founders, and community leaders — no technical background required.
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A taste of what you’ll build in the Frontier AI track.
The 28-Day AIFluency Challenge.
One short lesson a day for four weeks. Build real, practical AI skill with a live mentor at your side — and finish with your first portfolio piece and a verifiable completion badge. No credit card, no catch.
Your progress saves as you go — pick up any day where you left off.
Your 28 days
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How an AI agent actually works
Every agent — no matter how advanced — runs one simple loop. Understand it and you can direct AI to do real work, not just answer questions. It’s the spine of the whole Frontier track.
Perceive
Takes in the goal and the current state.
Reason
Decides the next step toward the goal.
Act
Calls a tool — searches, writes, sends.
Observe
Reads the result, then loops again.
AI is rewriting every job.We make sure you’re ahead of it.
The skills employers reward are changing fast — and most AI training is either too technical or too shallow, so people freeze. We meet you exactly where you are and get you building real things fast, with a tutor in your corner the whole way.
The shift, by the numbers
375M
workers must reskill globally by 2030
Source · WEF
+56%
salary premium for workers with AI skills
Source · PwC
3 hrs
to ship your first real AI workflow with us
44%
of core job skills disrupted within five years
Source · WEF
Choose the context closest to your work.
You do not need to complete every path or tier. Start with the free challenge, then choose the published courses that match the work you want to improve.
Now teaching the frontier:AI agents & MCP.
The Frontier AI Specialist track introduces AI agents, tool use, the Model Context Protocol, evaluation, and governance. It is for learners who understand the basics and want to build a bounded agent workflow.
Frontier AI Specialist
Free- 1From Prompts to Agents
- 2Tools & MCP: Giving AI Hands
- 3Building Real Agentic Workflows
- 4The 2026 Model Landscape
- 5Evals & Trust
- 6Safety, Governance & Responsible AI
Each module ships a real artifact
A tutor who neversleeps.
Catalyst doesn’t just answer — it teaches. It meets you at your level, grounds every idea in a concrete example, and checks that it actually landed. Ask it anything, any hour.
- Adapts to your track and pace
- Explains with real, worked examples
- Asks questions back, the way a good tutor does
Catalyst Tutor
teaching…
What’s the difference between AI and machine learning?
YouFrom “this is overwhelming” to “I built that.”
You don’t need a tech background. You need a clear path and someone in your corner. Here’s the shift our learners make.
Frozen by the AI hype — not sure where to even start.
Using AI with confidence in your work, within days.
Watching everyone else talk about agents and automation.
Building your own AI agent that does real tasks for you.
A résumé that says nothing about the skill everyone wants.
A verifiable certificate and a project you can show.
Every certification fuels the mission.
IHA designates 10% of commercial revenue for free community programming through Uplift Communities. Paid learning helps sustain the Academy and widen access.
Free and subsidized community learning
Partner-delivered workforce programs
A documented 10% commercial-revenue commitment
10%
Of commercial revenue designated for free programming
9
Published courses
46
Published modules
226
Published lessons
Real-world proof, not promises.
This isn’t a course someone spun up last month. It’s the training arm of an institution that has already deployed in the field — and is built so each cohort funds the next.
1,000+
people served in the field
Across Kakamega, Mombasa, and Nairobi during the Kenya 2026 delegation — healthcare, education, and enterprise tracks run side by side.
350+
leaders & 50+ organizations
Partnered on the ground, with a free AI-powered learning platform left in-country for every partner to keep using.
Verifiable
publicly verifiable certificates
Every certificate has a public verification page and can be revoked, so anyone can confirm when it was issued and whether it remains valid.
10%
of revenue funds the next cohort
The Perpetual Engine: paid tiers and PPP pricing cross-subsidize free seats. Your enrollment advances someone else’s.
Pilot Cohort 1 is now enrolling — be among the first graduates whose story goes here.
“AI is the biggest shift of our lifetime — and right now it’s leaving everyday people behind. I built this school to change that: not for engineers in Silicon Valley, but for the business owner, the pastor, the parent, the public servant — the people who hold our communities together. You don’t need to be technical. You need a door, and someone to walk you through it. That’s what this is.”
Lorenzo Daughtry-Chambers
Founder · Institute for Human Advancement
Not another AI course.
01
Mission-driven
501(c)(3) nonprofit. 10% of revenue funds free training through Uplift Communities — your tuition advances someone else’s.
02
Applied, not academic
Lessons lead to prompts, workflows, evaluations, and projects you can discuss or demonstrate—not just videos watched.
03
AI-powered learning
Catalyst adapts to your pace, track, and goals — a live tutor in your corner at every hour.
Become genuinely capablewith AI — starting today.
Begin with one short lesson a day and build toward your first useful AI workflow.
Completion badges confirm completed learning. Advanced evidence-based credentials require assessed work where explicitly stated.