Machina InstituteWorking With AI
Plate 1

A free program in how AI actually works. For everyone, not just engineers.

You are not talking to a model. You are talking to a product. Learn to tell which part of it answered you.

Free for the first 1,000 students.Cohort 1 starts Monday 7 September 2026.

612 of 1,000 seats left

One email. No card. Nothing to install.

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Plate 3 What makes this different

A prompt you have not measured is a guess.

Most AI courses hand you a list of magic phrases. Most of those phrases do not survive testing. This program teaches you to check them yourself, on a spreadsheet, with a free account.

Plate 4 What a session is

90 minutes. Five parts. Every single day.

No mystery about what you are signing up for. Here is the exact shape of every one of the 148 sessions.

  1. 10 min

    Fig. 1Warm-up

    You do something in the first sixty seconds, before anyone explains anything.

  2. 25 min

    Fig. 2Learn

    One idea. A worked example. A diagram. One thing to watch.

  3. 40 min

    Fig. 3Do

    You write down what you predict, then run it, then see if you were right.

  4. 5 min

    Fig. 4Capture

    Two lines into your AI journal. It runs the whole program.

  5. 10 min

    Fig. 5Quiz

    Ten questions. Answers with reasons. You mark it yourself.

Total90 minutes

Plate 5

Courses

  1. 01

    AI Foundations

    5 weeks · 20 sessions · 37.5 hours

    Leave with: A model comparison report

    Needs: None

  2. 02

    Asking Well

    4 weeks · 16 sessions · 30 hours

    Leave with: A prompt notebook with before and after proof

    Needs: Course 1

  3. 03

    Media and Documents

    3 weeks · 12 sessions · 22.5 hours

    Leave with: Work combining text, image and a source document

    Needs: Course 1

  4. 04

    Techniques That Hold Up

    3 weeks · 12 sessions · 22.5 hours

    Leave with: A technique bake-off on supplied material

    Needs: Course 1

  5. 05

    Judging AI: Your First EvalFlagship

    4 weeks · 16 sessions · 30 hours

    Leave with: A working evaluation spreadsheet

    Needs: Course 1

  6. 06

    Measurement You Can TrustFlagship

    3 weeks · 12 sessions · 22.5 hours

    Leave with: An upgraded eval with spread and a judge

    Needs: Course 5

  7. 07

    Truth, Sources and Snake Oil

    4 weeks · 16 sessions · 30 hours

    Leave with: A lab report refuting or confirming a viral claim

    Needs: Course 1

  8. 08

    Making It Yours

    4 weeks · 16 sessions · 30 hours

    Leave with: A custom assistant with the eval that proves it

    Needs: Course 1

  9. 09

    Safe and Responsible

    4 weeks · 16 sessions · 30 hours

    Leave with: A personal AI policy and a red-team log

    Needs: Course 1

  10. 10

    Capstone

    3 weeks · 12 sessions · 22.5 hours

    Leave with: A shipped project and a live defense

    Needs: Courses 1 and 5

Only Course 1 is required. Everything else is a recommendation, so you can start where you need to.

Plate 6 What you walk away with

A certificate that says what you actually did.

Ten course certificates, four path certificates, one program certificate. Each one names the hours, the sessions, and what was assessed.

This assessment was not supervised.

That sentence is printed on every course certificate. Most online AI certificates do not tell you how they were assessed. We do. The one credential backed by a live, supervised defense says so too.
Plate 7 What it costs you

A phone and a free account. That is the whole toolchain.

  • Free accounts on the chat apps you already have. No API keys, no installs, no card.
  • Every session is completable on a phone, deliverable included. Not a reduced version. The same work.
  • Every prompt is a tap to copy. Nobody retypes a paragraph on a phone.
  • A phone-only learner earns exactly the same certificate.
Plate 8

This is for you if

  • You use AI most days and are not sure when to trust it.
  • You have to explain or govern this for other people.
  • Your work is words, pictures, documents or decisions.
  • You have never written a line of code and do not intend to.

This is not for you if

  • You want a list of prompts to paste.
  • You want to build models or write code.
  • You want a certificate without doing the work.
Plate 9

Cohort 1 starts Monday 7 September 2026.

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Four 90-minute sessions a week, plus a fifth day for the weekly quiz and a live Q&A. Free tools only. The certificate needs the quizzes passed, the project submitted, and two peer reviews given.

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