}
{
const protocol = "active";
while(learning) { ship(); }
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A 6-week practical bootcamp to ship cost-effective, AI-integrated systems; cutting through the confusion and noise to get you into production

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bash — 80x24
git clone datajourneyhq-academy/reality-check
cd week-01-foundations
./deploy-mvp.sh --force
> Status: PRODUCTION READY
Core Philosophy

AI is a tool
Systems are the skill

We guide you to design, build, and own production AI systems that is cost-aware, failure-tolerant, and actually useful.

Design before code
Ship every week
Stay under budget
Own your failures
6 weeks
7 days to first deploy
100% ships to production
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6-Week Programme

The Curriculum

One working system. Built week by week. Shipped to production.

WK 01 < $5

Reality Check & First Ship

Name the failure modes. Estimate the cost. Ship a live CrewAI tool before Sunday.

CrewAI FastAPI Deploy
SHIPS AI Reality Map + Market Scout
WK 02 < $10

Market Alignment

Rebuild without the framework. Feel what CrewAI hid. Ship a demo a real user can try.

Raw API Pydantic User Research
SHIPS Raw-API rebuild + Live demo
WK 03 < $20

Tooling & RAG

Your demo has no memory. Build the retrieval layer. Evaluate buy vs. build for every tool.

Embeddings pgvector RAG
SHIPS RAG system + Tool matrix
WK 04 < $50

AI Pipelines & Agents

Move AI off the request path. Event-driven workflows, agent graphs, your first MCP tool.

Agents MCP Queues
SHIPS End-to-end AI pipeline
WK 05 < $100

Reliability & Deployment

Retries, tracing, containers. Make your pipeline handle failures and run somewhere real.

Observability Docker CI/CD
SHIPS Hardened pipeline + Live deploy
WK 06

Capstone

Your problem. Your stack. Your call. Define a goal, ship a working system, present it to the cohort.

Open-ended Live demo Portfolio
PRESENTS Goal · System · Demo