Pre-work tuned to your role, then a baseline report on your org that you bring to Day 1.
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Executive Playbook for AI in Engineering, Product, and Design
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Lenny’s List★★★★★ 4.7 from 56 reviewsAbout the course
- For EPD leaders turning scattered AI use into org-wide velocity
- Live online, two half-days, every session recorded
- Small cohort of senior EPD leaders
- Leave with a 90-day plan, plus 3 office hours to keep it moving
20% off for teams of two or more. Purchase for your team
What you’ll learn
Most EPD orgs bought Claude Code or Cursor, saw some individual gains, and called it progress. The gap between “some of us use AI a lot” and “AI changed how our org operates” is the culture, technical readiness, and operating model work nobody invested in.
- Your codebase isn’t ready for agents.
- Your PMs build prototypes to nowhere.
- Your designers can’t get their code to production.
- Your skeptics aren’t converting.
- And you’re supposed to have the plan.
Know where AI creates real leverage
Sort your org’s work across engineering, product, and design into what agents own, what people augment, and what stays human.
Make your codebase work with agents
Centralized agent rules, fast feedback loops, automated guardrails, and what background agents need before they open PRs on their own.
Build a culture that actually adopts
Convert skeptics with early wins, build a champion network, and make AI use visible across every function, not just engineering.
Redesign your operating model
Recalibrate timelines. Engineers as reviewers, PMs prototyping, designers shipping front-end. Rethink spec to ship when prototypes are nearly free.
Lead the hard conversations
Make the investment case to boards, skeptics, and budget owners. Decide what to start, what to stop, and how to sequence the change.
Keep it moving for 90 days
Office hours at weeks 2, 6, and 12 and a private Slack of senior peers, so the plan survives contact with your org.
I’m taking the course frameworks for AI transformation directly into my team’s 90 day roadmap.
Clear frameworks, strong faculty, sharp peer group, and most importantly, practical enough that I walked out with a plan for how to accelerate AI transformation in my org. Rare to find an exec course that respects your time and assumes you’re already past the 101.
The “For Thee, Not For Me” framing was the sharpest insight of the two days. The Coinbase fireside was worth the tuition on its own. I left with a delegation model I’m already using.
What’s included with every seat
Every seat comes with Course Central, the course hub we built for this cohort. It carries you from pre-work through the live days to the 90-day follow-up.
Live polls and exercises with your duo partner. Everything saves to your account, not a whiteboard photo.
Personal notes after every session, and a readout memo that turns Day 2 into a 90-day plan.
25+ playbooks you can start within a week, each with an owner, a pilot, and a way to tell if it worked.
Ellie, your AI teaching assistant, answers in the cohort Slack, grounded in the course content.
Case studies from LaunchDarkly, Ramp, Vercel, Chime, and more, plus a shared glossary for your team.
Also included: private cohort Slack · 3 office hours over 90 days · duo pairing · lifetime recordings
We’ll help you make the case to your boss.
Most companies pay for this course. Enter your work email and we’ll give you a ready-to-send letter that explains what the course is, what your team gets back, and what it costs. Fill in the names and send it.
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Meet your instructors
Claire Vo
Founder of ChatPRD + CXO.dev
Former CPTO at LaunchDarkly, Color Health, and Optimizely. Claire has interviewed 50+ EPD leaders on How I AI, including the CEOs of Zapier, Vercel, and Cognition, and builds with AI every day.
- led
- LaunchDarkly · Color · Optimizely
- builds
- ChatPRD
- hosts
- How I AI
- teaches
- Strategy + operating model
Zach Davis
Engineering Leader · Co-founder of CXO.dev
A reformed AI skeptic who went from Director of Engineering back to IC. Zach led AI adoption across 100+ engineers in a decade-old monorepo, and got 150 engineers using AI weekly.
- led
- AI adoption, 100+ engineers
- built
- Agent rules + PR review
- knows
- Legacy monorepos
- teaches
- Codebase readiness
Past firesides from leaders atLinearCoinbaseGusto
Reviews
4.7/ 5
From 56 reviews. Alumni from Aledade, Coast, Crypto.com, Builder.io, Great Minds PBC.
“Conversational, highly relevant, practical, taught by practitioners.”
“Working at a vibe coding platform I found the conversation very validating as well as illuminating to hear how experts and my colleagues in the field are thinking about the new way of doing things.”
“Several eureka moments on the path to AI adoption.”
Syllabus
All times Pacific. Every session is recorded.
Pre-work
About 60 minutes, on your own time
- Readings and listens picked for your role
- Self-assessment with your duo partner
- Tool inventory across engineering, product, and design
- Shadow one AI workflow on your team
What’s real
8:45 AM to 1 PM PT, live
- 8:45 AM
- Welcome and kickoff
- 9:15 AM
- Session 1: Where AI creates real leverage
- 10:15 AM
- Session 2: Building a culture that actually adopts
- 11:45 AM
- Guest fireside with a senior EPD leader
- 12:30 PM
- Optional Q&A
How to do it
8:45 AM to 1 PM PT, live
- 8:45 AM
- Reflect and welcome
- 9:15 AM
- Session 3: Making your codebase agent-ready
- 10:15 AM
- Session 4: The new operating model
- 11:45 AM
- Guest fireside with a senior EPD leader
- 12:30 PM
- Optional Q&A
Office hours
Three live check-ins over 90 days
- Week 2
- What did you do? What broke?
- Week 6
- What’s moving? Where are you stuck?
- Week 12
- What changed?
Built for
- VPs of Engineering and CTOs who need a better answer to “what’s our AI strategy?” than “we bought licenses.”
- CPOs, VPs of Product, and design leaders leading AI adoption across the whole EPD org.
- Staff and Principal Engineers tapped to “figure out AI,” ideally attending with a leadership counterpart.
Not for
- Individual contributors looking for tool training
- Leaders without org-level decision making power
- Teams that haven’t started using AI tools at all
- Vendor comparisons or procurement guides
Become the AI-native leader your team needs.
$3,500per seat · $2,800 each for two or more
- Two half-day live sessions with Claire and Zach
- Course Central: your personalized course hub, playbooks, and library
- Ellie, the AI teaching assistant in your cohort Slack
- Two guest firesides with senior engineering and product leaders
- Personalized pre-work: self-assessment, readings, and a prep doc for your role
- Three follow-up office hours over 90 days
- Private cohort Slack with senior peers
- Lifetime access to recordings and updated content
Seats
$3,5001 × $3,500
Two or more seats are $2,800 each, 20% off. Full refund if it isn’t right for you.
Need approval? We’ll help you make the case.
Enter your work email and we’ll give you a letter for your boss that explains the course and the cost. Send it today.
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Frequently asked questions
01What’s the time commitment?
About 60 minutes of pre-work, two half-days live (about 3.5 hours each) plus optional Q&A, and three follow-up office hours over the next 90 days.
02I lead product or design, not engineering. Is this for me?
Yes. The course covers the whole EPD org: where AI changes PM and design work, how roles evolve, and how the spec to ship loop changes when prototypes are nearly free.
03Should I bring my team?
We recommend it. A leader (VP+) paired with a senior IC or engineering manager leaves aligned, not just inspired. Two or more seats are $2,800 each, 20% off; choose your seats before checkout. Solo attendees are welcome.
04Is this technical?
Yes. Technical readiness is covered from a leadership perspective, and we also go into the tactics of running AI inside complex codebases. Senior ICs get as much out of it as executives.
05What if we have a huge legacy codebase?
That’s exactly the context. Zach’s case is a decade-old monorepo with 100+ engineers. This course is more relevant to complex codebases than to greenfield ones.
06How is this different from a Cursor or Claude Code training?
Those teach individuals how to use a tool. This teaches leaders how to change an organization. Different problem.
07Can my company reimburse this?
Most companies cover it. Enter your work email above and we’ll give you a ready-to-send letter for your boss. Checkout issues a receipt for your records.
08I’m not in the US. What about time zones?
Sessions run 4:45 PM to 9:00 PM UTC. Every session is recorded, and you keep lifetime access.
09What’s the refund policy?
If the course isn’t right for you, email hello@cxo.dev before the end of Day 1 for a full refund.
Something else? Email hello@cxo.dev. Want this for your whole org? See private team training.
You can go way faster than you think.
The processes you trust are built on assumptions that are no longer true. Next cohort: December 2–3, 2026.