AI Engineering Starter Kit
All you need to break into AI Engineering
On 29 August 2026, 1,200+ people from 22 countries registered for Break Into AI Engineering — a free live masterclass on getting into AI engineering from a non-traditional background. This is everything from that session, written down properly. Not a summary. The working version.
Inside
- The AI Engineering Roadmap — the map of the intelligence workforce, AI engineering vs ML engineering, and the five-step route with one action for each you can do on Monday. Includes the skip list: the six things everyone tells you to learn that aren't on the critical path to your first role.
- The 90-Day Action Plan — twelve weeks, each with a focus, specific tasks, and a "done when" you can test. Ends with four shipped projects, seven public posts, ten applications out.
- The 90-Day Tracker — the same plan as a spreadsheet. Set your start date and every week re-dates itself. Tick tasks off and progress calculates itself.
- Resources & Tools — a deliberately short, opinionated list. What to open first and why that one. Includes a full section on getting API access from Nigeria without a card being declined.
- The CV Template — editable, built on the rule that separates strong AI CVs from weak ones: systems and decisions, not a wall of tool logos. With a worked before-and-after.
- The LinkedIn Template — editable. Three headline formulas, a five-beat About section, the four post types that work, and the words to delete.
- The full masterclass recording.
What this isn't
It's not 90 days to a job — nobody honest sells that number. It's 90 days to becoming the kind of candidate who can be hired. And it's not a certificate: a certificate says you attended, and can't be asked a follow-up question in an interview. Everything here is built to produce work that can.
Who it's for
Students, career changers, and self-taught developers who've done the learning and have nothing shipped to show for it.
Delivery
Everything arrives together on Monday 31 August - 6pm WAT, to the email you use at checkout. The recording has to be cut before the kit is complete, so you get one finished bundle rather than six files now and the important one later. Buy any time before then and you're in the same batch.