Tier 2 · 8 weeks · Live cohort · Pilot Cohort 1 launches June 22, 2026

Operator Cohort.
Ship one workflow that changes your business.

Eight weeks of live, founder-grade AI training. Weekly Zoom sessions, breakout work with ~30 fellow operators, the Catalyst AI mentor, and one applied capstone you actually ship in your real business.

$1,495 US $349 PPP (Africa Tier 1) 5 scholarship seats / cohort
What you get

Live cohort. Live mentor. Live capstone.

Eight weeks of structured application work, designed to fit around running a real business.

8 live cohort sessions

90 min weekly, recorded if you miss

Catalyst AI mentor

50 messages/day with cohort context awareness

Applied capstone review

Loom + written reflection, IHA review and feedback

Cohort community

Direct access to ~30 fellow operator-stage founders

Verified Graduate credential

After capstone approval + 90-day outcome survey

Lifetime curriculum access

Keep the materials and updates after the cohort ends

Syllabus

Eight weeks. One capstone.

A working operator's curriculum. Every week ends with a deliverable you can use Monday.

1

Foundations + Mental Models

Calibrate the team. AI literacy primer applied to your specific business stage and industry. Set your capstone target.

2

Prompting Architecture

The 4-part structure. Multi-step prompt chains. Live edits on the prompts you actually use this week.

3

AI for Marketing & Sales

Content engines, lead research agents, outbound personalization. You leave with one fully wired workflow.

4

AI for Operations

Process automation, document workflows, customer service GPTs. Pick the highest-leverage ops surface in your business and we build it together.

5

AI for Finance & HR

AP automation, financial analysis copilots, hiring scorecards, performance reviews. The unsexy wins that compound monthly.

6

Custom AI Tools (No Code)

Build a Project, a custom GPT, or an internal agent. By end of week, you have a tool your team actually uses.

7

Capstone Build

Ship one applied AI workflow in your real business. Loom walkthrough. Reflection. Time-saved estimate. Revenue-impact estimate.

8

Capstone Review + Graduation

Live review by IHA. Feedback on your shipped workflow, your time-saved and revenue-impact estimates, and where to take it next. Graduation.

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Pilot Cohort 1 — June 22, 2026

~30 seats. We read every application. Selection prioritizes diversity of stage and industry, and a clear, specific business problem you want AI to solve.

Minimum 50 characters. Specific beats clever.

We read every application within 7 days. Decisions sent by email.

Timing

Applications open now. Pilot cohort launches the week of June 22, 2026 and runs through mid-August. Decisions sent within 7 days of application.

Scholarships

Five scholarship seats per cohort. Email scholarships@theiha.org with a 200-word note. Funded by The Perpetual Engine.

Questions

Answered honestly

Eight weeks from now, one workflow lives in your business that wasn't there before.

That workflow is the proof. For your business. For your next hire. For everything after.

Apply for Pilot Cohort 1