From Passive Chatting to
Disciplined AI Orchestration
Master real-world AI agent architecture through engineering rigor. Learn to design, deploy, and debug autonomous workflows using the battle-tested 5D Method, progressive Belt curriculum, and immutable source verification.
Four Paths into the Dojo
Whether you prefer interactive self-paced guides, live weekend group cohorts, working reference capstones, or intensive 1-on-1 belt coaching.
Capstone Demos
Free, live, non-commercial software artifacts demonstrating private document search, cross-checking between agents, and research tools.
Our Two Weekends
A free two-weekend intensive, run privately for a small invited group of friends and family. Not open enrolment — each cohort is a selected few, by personal invitation. Build your first autonomous AI agents with hands-on labs and zero fluff.
Chat & Interview
A free, beginner-friendly guide to letting the AI interview you. Stop guessing at the perfect prompt — answer its questions instead, and let it write the prompt.
1-on-1 Mentorship
Tailored 1-on-1 guidance through the complete White-to-Brown Belt curriculum, private code reviews, and personal capstone deployment.
The Anatomy of an Autonomous Agent
Watch a request travel the pipeline: planned, executed with tools, and checked by a verifier before anything is delivered. Nothing reaches the output without passing the check.
The 5D Pedagogical Method
Every project in the Dojo moves through five structured phases to instill critical judgment over what AI models generate.
đŖī¸ D1: Discussion â Scoping & Constraints
Before touching any code or prompts, define the exact problem boundary. Let the AI interview you to surface hidden assumptions, spot the information you have not supplied yet, and head off made-up answers before they start.
# Architectural Scope: D1 Discussion
- Objective: US Retirement Penalty Validator
- Corpus Boundary: IRS Pub 590-B + CA FTB Form 3805P
- Verification Gate: SHA-256 hash match required
- Strict Rule: Zero ungrounded tax advice generationThe Progressive Belt Curriculum
A systematic 5-tier mastery ladder taking you from privacy-conscious prompt design to production multi-agent cloud infrastructure.
Working Capstone Reference Applications
Real-world, production-deployed web tools built using the Dojo's 5D Method, on sealed source documents that are checked before every answer.
Retirement Decumulation Reference
US retirement penalty and early-distribution rules with a California overlay. The same question always gets the same answer, drawn only from a fixed set of IRS and FTB tax publications that are checked for changes before every run.
Bay Area City Insight
Home-buying due-diligence engine covering municipal demographics, housing valuations, school quality scores, and public safety data for San Francisco Bay Area cities.
Award Transfer Optimizer
Airline and hotel points transfer partner matrix. Evaluates transfer ratios, sweet spots, and booking alliances across major credit card loyalty programs.
Why Pedagogy Beats Prompting
Copy-pasting prompts from the internet gives a false sense of security. The Dojo teaches fundamental mental models so you can architect resilient systems.
Let the AI Interview You
Instead of demanding quick answers, teach AI to interview you. Force the model to elicit edge cases, operational boundaries, and formatting constraints before generation.
"Verify, Don't Trust"
Learn systematic debugging: log parsing, automated assertions, and source-document fingerprinting — so you can prove the evidence an agent quoted is the evidence you actually gave it. You are trained to spot subtle LLM hallucinations immediately.
Two Tracks, Your Choice
Choose your pathway: Track A (Browser-First) using Claude Cowork and GUI tools, or Track B (Terminal-First) using Claude Code, bash automation, and background jobs on your own Linux server.
Engineering Discipline Meets Modern AI
With over 20 years of experience in hardware validation, optical test engineering, and network protocol validation in Silicon Valley, Mike brings real industrial rigor to AI development. The curriculum is designed to transform enthusiastic learners into people who confidently direct AI to build software they can actually check.