Learn how AI works, choose what’s worth building and turn your idea into a product. Start free, learn at your pace or build with me.
Eight questions. A learning path that fits your goals and experience.
I’ve built products at Linktree, Kajabi and Expedia. Now I help you combine product thinking with AI to build something useful.
I’ve also taught with General Assembly, Melbourne Business School and Harvard Innovation Labs.
Start with AI Foundations, strengthen your product thinking or build a product with me.
Understand AI and try building before joining a paid course.
No machine learning background required.
Learn how to research users, set goals and make product decisions.
Product foundations and existing career modules. AI Foundations is free.
Take an idea from scratch to a working product with AI.
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Learn with confidence. Self-paced learning includes a lifetime money-back guarantee. The live cohort is covered by the Maven Guarantee.
Move from scattered experiments to a product with a purpose.
You’ve tried prompts and watched demos. Choosing what to learn next can feel harder than getting started.
AI can help you build quickly. You still need to know who it helps and why they would use it.
You know your industry and its problems. The next step is turning that knowledge into something you can test.
Getting an output is a start. Testing it with people helps you decide what to fix, keep or change.
Start at the stage you need. Choose free learning, self-paced foundations or a guided build.
Learn what AI can do, where it falls short and how to evaluate its output.
Understand the user, question your assumptions and decide what a useful first version needs.
Create a prototype, put it in front of people and use what you learn to make it better.
You can join the live cohort or explore coaching directly. Choose the support that fits your experience.
Your understanding of people, work and real problems is a useful starting point.
Turn an idea into a prototype you can test. Use AI to support research, decisions and delivery.
Connect what you can build to a user need. Shape the problem, scope and measures of success.
Bring a user journey to life. Build interactive ideas and learn from how people use them.
Use what you know about finance, healthcare or another field to find a problem worth solving.
Explore how AI could improve a workflow. Test whether it saves effort and produces reliable results.
Give your experiments a direction. Work on one idea, test your assumptions and keep improving.
Try the tools, question the output and make time to improve your work. AI Foundations is open to beginners; the live cohort is designed for experienced professionals.
An AI idea, a prototype or a product decision. Bring what you’re building and get personal feedback from Dave.
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I’m Dave. I’ve spent more than 20 years building products, with experience at Linktree, Kajabi, Expedia and Vodafone. Now I help people combine product judgement with AI to build useful products.
I’ve taught more than 5,000 learners across my teaching work. My approach is practical: understand the problem, make thoughtful decisions and learn by building.
Dave has also taught with General Assembly, Melbourne Business School and Harvard Innovation Labs.
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