How much does membership cost?

€29 per month or €249 per year (save 28%). Course buyers get 3 months included with any course. Bootcamp alumni get 12 months included in tuition. Payment via Stripe. Cancel any time from your billing portal at cohorte.co/billing.

How do I join? Is it open enrollment?

Pay the monthly or annual price and you're in immediately. No application, no waiting. Cohorte bootcamp alumni are admitted automatically via their alumni link.

What happens if I cancel? Do I lose access to the archive?

If you cancel, access ends at the end of your billing period and your account drops to the free tier: the Starter Course, Introductions and Announcements stay open to you. You lose access to the Helpdesk archive, the session recordings, and future live events. We do not remove your past Helpdesk answers from view for other members.

Is this synchronous or asynchronous? Do I have to be on live calls?

Mostly async. The live events (the live Q&A and the guest sessions) are recorded and added to the 12-month archive within 24 hours. You can be a full member, get the full value, and never attend a single live session: just read the Helpdesk and watch recordings. Come live when you can: questions in the room are sharper than the recording.

Which platform is this on? Slack, Discord, Circle?

Circle.so. We picked it over Slack and Discord because the Helpdesk archive needs to stay searchable for 12 months, and Slack's history limits would gut that. Access via app or web. SSO supported. The bootcamp alumni community lives on the same platform, so alumni see one unified space.

THE SYSTEM · WITH PEERS

Master AI. With builders.

The Engine Room is our community for people building AI systems that compound. Live Q&A and build sessions with our founder and guest experts.

See who's in the room

€29A month, or €249 a year

InstantAccess the moment you pay

48 hoursHelpdesk answers

In session

Builders, at work.

Silent clips from the Engine Room, shown with the permission of everyone on screen.

Build Teardown A member shows the app he built to run his pickleball club.

Group session In “Chat or Automate?”, two members work it through with Charafeddine.

Live Q&A A member talks his question through with Charafeddine, live.

Guest session Stéphane Ngo, CEO of K-AI, on why company AI gives wrong answers.

From the Helpdesk, 16 Sept 2026, answered the same day. A member asks: Trust Protocol for a Knowledge Base System. Hi there, would appreciate your comments on this Trust Protocol.md I am setting up for an agentic Knowledge Base System. Charafeddine's answer, excerpt: Okay this is genuinely impressive :) You basically built the self-consistency plus conformal calibration stack end to end. 1) The big one. Your support K/K measures stability, not faithfulness. It tells you the compile step keeps producing the same claim, not that the claim is true to the note. A model can be 5 out of 5 confident on a misreading. — **Helpdesk** A member's question, and Charafeddine's written answer.

Coming up

Live in the room.

Members join live or watch the recording.

Mon 9 Nov · 18:00 Paris Live Q&A with our founder
Wed 18 Nov · 17:30 Paris Sophie Fischer (Webwinkelfacturen)
Wed 25 Nov · 18:00 Paris Djamel Mostefa (ex Orange Bank, ADEO)
Mon 30 Nov · 18:00 Paris Live Q&A with our founder
Wed 2 Dec · 18:00 Paris Thomas Scialom (Meta)
Mon 7 Dec · 18:00 Paris Live Q&A with our founder
Wed 9 Dec · 18:00 Paris Aziz Aghayev (Flowlyst)
Mon 4 Jan · 18:00 Paris Live Q&A with our founder
Wed 13 Jan · 18:00 Paris Dr Daniel Hulme (WPP)
Wed 20 Jan · 18:00 Paris Elin Nguyen (Omnisens AI)

Join to attend

Who's in the room

Real practitioners.

Operational excellence lead

Cohort #1 · Canada

Helps organizations operationalize AI strategy. Runs the most active threads in the room.

Alum · Cohort #1

Marketing & ED&I lead

Cohort #1 · UK

Operational excellence in fast-paced teams. Translates AI policy into team-level practice.

Alum · Cohort #1

Staff engineer · risk analysis

Cohort #1

Numerical simulation, mathematical modeling, computer vision. PhD biophysics. Brings the math to the guest sessions.

Alum · Cohort #1

Principal advisor · Data & AI strategy

GCC

18 years across finance, tech, digital transformation. Reads governance docs and finds what's missing.

Member

Delivery & transformation lead

Cohort #2 · UAE

Fifteen-plus years scaling operations across MEA, UK, Europe. Brings the program-management lens.

“The community is where I keep testing ideas and sharing thoughts while they’re still taking shape.”

Alum · Cohort #2

CFO · AI founder

USA

Helps school districts use AI for budgeting and operations. Dashboards over decks. Measures by error rate.

Member

Healthcare tech lead

Cohort #1 · USA

Director of app services at a large healthcare provider. Deploying AI/ML/agents in clinical workflows.

Alum · Cohort #1

Industrial AI co-founder

Australia

Former military pilot turned AI co-founder. Deploys AI in operationally critical environments.

Member

What's inside

What members get, week one to year one.

Day 1 · 3 hours

Free Starter Course

Included from the moment you join. About three hours of short lessons, in the Get Started section.

Every other Monday

Live Q&A with our founder

Open agenda. Whatever you're stuck on, ask it. Recorded for the 12-month archive.

Live · 15 min

Most Wednesdays

Guest session

An Operator Briefing or a Build Teardown: a guest from our network walks one shipped system, the architecture, the costs, what broke. About 45 minutes, then your questions. Our founder hosts.

Always-on

Helpdesk

Real technical questions, structured answers within 48 hours from our founder, the Coordinator, or senior alumni. Every answer stays searchable in the archive.

Async

1 per month

Guaranteed Answer

Once a month, your hardest technical or operational question gets a substantive answer within 5 business days from our founder, the Coordinator, or a Host. The answer becomes a Helpdesk asset.

5 business days

Quarterly

1:1 Member Matching

Once a quarter, the Coordinator introduces you to one member, picked for what you are both shipping, with a specific reason to meet. You run the meeting yourself.

Membership

Join a community of builders.

Live sessions with guest practitioners. Real conversations with people doing the same work. A year of recordings, including the frameworks CM teaches teams at top companies.

Join · €249/year

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Membership

Monthly: €29/ month
Annual: €249/ year (save 28%)Recommended
Cancel: Any time, from your billing portal
Includes: Live Q&As and guest sessions · Helpdesk · Guaranteed Answer · Quarterly matching · Free Starter Course · 12-month recording archive

Course buyers: 3 months included with any course. Bootcamp alumni: 12 months included in tuition. Use your alumni link instead of this page.

FAQ

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Anything else? Email [email protected].

How much does membership cost?: €29 per month or €249 per year (save 28%). Course buyers get 3 months included with any course. Bootcamp alumni get 12 months included in tuition. Payment via Stripe. Cancel any time from your billing portal.
How do I join? Is it open enrollment?: Pay the monthly or annual price and you're in immediately. No application, no waiting. Cohorte bootcamp alumni are admitted automatically via their alumni link.
What happens if I cancel? Do I lose access to the archive?: If you cancel, access ends at the end of your billing period and your account drops to the free tier: the Starter Course, Introductions and Announcements stay open to you. You lose access to the Helpdesk archive, the session recordings, and future live events. We do not remove your past Helpdesk answers from view for other members.
Is this synchronous or asynchronous? Do I have to be on live calls?: Mostly async. The live events (the live Q&A and the guest sessions) are recorded and added to the 12-month archive within 24 hours. You can be a full member, get the full value, and never attend a single live session: just read the Helpdesk and watch recordings. Come live when you can: questions in the room are sharper than the recording.
Which platform is this on? Slack, Discord, Circle?: Circle.so. We picked it over Slack and Discord because the Helpdesk archive needs to stay searchable for 12 months, and Slack's history limits would gut that. Access via app or web. SSO supported. The bootcamp alumni community lives on the same platform, so alumni see one unified space.