AI Consultant Program
Build the skills to advise organizations on adopting AI responsibly and practically.
An AI consultant helps a business figure out where AI genuinely helps, then builds it — a website, a chatbot, an automation — rather than just talking about it.
$300
Your eight-week roadmap
An overview of the program, not the lesson reader — enrolled students get the full lesson content inside their dashboard.
Week 1
AI Foundations, the Consultant's Toolkit
- AI, machine learning, and their real limits
- Claude and how modern AI models actually work
- The three formats every AI tool speaks: Markdown, JSON, HTML
- Prompt and context engineering fundamentals
By the end of this week, you can: Explain what AI can and can't do in plain language, and read the three formats every AI tool speaks.
Week 2
Inside the Model
- How a model is actually trained
- Tokens, and why they drive cost
- Open-weight vs. proprietary models
- Neural networks, from neurons to transformers
By the end of this week, you can: Understand what's happening inside an LLM well enough to advise a client on model choice.
Week 3
Your First Live Build
- Directing Claude Code as your coding agent
- Git, GitHub, and safe collaboration
- Databases and authentication with Supabase
- Deploying to the real web with Vercel
By the end of this week, you can: Direct an AI coding agent to build and publish a real, live website.
Week 4
A Chatbot That Knows the Business
- Chatbot architecture, memory, and system prompts
- RAG — answering from real documents
- Function calling and safe automation
- Guardrails, monitoring, and pricing a chatbot for a client
By the end of this week, you can: Design, build, and price a chatbot that answers from a client's own documents.
Week 5
Practice week
By the end of this week, you can: A dedicated week to catch up, polish your first two projects, and get feedback before moving on.
Week 6
From Conversation to Automation
- Running a client discovery conversation
- Writing a proposal that gets signed
- AI agents, MCP, and agentic workflows
- Webhooks, APIs, and scheduled automation
By the end of this week, you can: Run a first client consultation and automate a real, recurring task.
Week 7
Your Own Product
- CRM as a business's organizational memory
- Context engineering for agentic systems
- From idea to a sellable SaaS product
By the end of this week, you can: Plan a CRM-backed product and the data model behind it.
Week 8
Your Practice, Your Next Step
- Open-source licensing and responsible reuse
- Handing off a project professionally
- Building and pricing an AI automation agency
- Planning your own path as a consultant
By the end of this week, you can: Hand off a project professionally, with a concrete plan for your own consulting practice.
What you'll build
Four hands-on builds, one in most weeks of the program — proposed here for your review, matched to the real curriculum above.
A Live Personal Website
- The challenge
- Every consultant needs real proof of skill before a first client call.
- What you'll use
- Claude Code · Git & GitHub · Vercel
- What you'll have
- A live site, on your own domain, that you built and shipped yourself.
- Why it matters
- Use it as your own professional site, or as the starting template for every client site that follows.
A Chatbot With Real Knowledge
- The challenge
- Clients want answers grounded in their own documents, not generic AI small talk.
- What you'll use
- RAG · function calling · guardrails
- What you'll have
- A chatbot that answers from documents you choose, with monitoring in place.
- Why it matters
- This becomes your first sellable service: a knowledge-grounded chatbot built for a real business.
A Working Automation
- The challenge
- Every business loses hours a week to one repetitive, unautomated task.
- What you'll use
- Webhooks · APIs · AI agents
- What you'll have
- One real, recurring task automated end to end — triggered, run, and checked without you.
- Why it matters
- A reusable pattern you can apply to a different repetitive task for every future client.
A CRM-Backed Product
- The challenge
- A growing business loses leads and context the moment it outgrows spreadsheets.
- What you'll use
- Supabase · data modeling · a simple dashboard
- What you'll have
- A planned CRM-backed product, with the data model behind it worked out.
- Why it matters
- The foundation for a small SaaS product you could run, sell, or build on after the program.
What you'll walk away able to do
Practical, assessable skills built through the roadmap above.
- Explain AI and machine learning — including their real limits — in language any client can follow
- Use Claude and other AI models effectively, with real prompt and context engineering technique
- Build and deploy a real website yourself, directing an AI coding agent rather than hand-coding it
- Design a chatbot that answers from a client's own documents, with guardrails and monitoring in place
- Automate a recurring piece of work end to end, with webhooks, APIs, and AI agents
- Plan a CRM-backed product and the data model it would run on
- Run a client discovery conversation and scope a piece of work clearly
- Write a consulting proposal and set a price for your own work
After the course
- Carry what you built into a portfolio of real work
- Earn a Tekistan certificate for the program
- Keep access to your session recordings
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Time you'll need each week
One live online class session
Lesson material you work through at your own pace
Hands-on time on your project
Exact hours depend on your pace — plan for a steady, weekly commitment rather than one long session.
Who this program is for
Built for
- Aspiring AI consultants
- Business owners and freelancers
- People planning a career move into AI
- Lifelong learners who want to build with AI
What you need
- No prior coding or AI experience
- Basic computer familiarity
- Comfort reading and following along in English
No coding required — you direct AI tools, not write code by hand
Realistically: you'll leave with real, working projects and practical skills — not a guaranteed job, client, or income.
What you'll need
- A computer with a modern browser and a stable internet connection
- An active Claude subscription — the course runs on Claude Code throughout
- No powerful hardware required: the AI itself runs on Anthropic's servers, not your machine
Subscription pricing is set by Anthropic directly and can change — check Anthropic's own pricing page for the current rate.
How it's taught
- Live online classes
- Session recordings available
- Mentoring and feedback from instructors
- A support team you can reach with questions
Who teaches this program
The Tekistan AI Academy team
Built around real, hands-on experience shipping AI products — not slides.
Where these skills can take you
Directions, not promises — income and hiring are never guaranteed.
Good roles to start toward
AI Automation Specialist
build the workflows that remove repetitive work.
$90K–$170K
Chatbot Developer
build and maintain AI chatbots for real businesses.
$90K–$170K
Freelance AI Consultant
take on AI projects directly for your own clients.
$100–$300/hr
Conversational AI Designer
design the conversation experience and dialogue scenarios for voice assistants and chatbots.
$95K–$175K
AI Business Analyst
find a business's real needs and recommend the right AI solution.
$85K–$160K
AI Productivity Coach
help people and teams get more done with AI tools.
$60K–$120K
AI Content Strategist
plan, produce, and optimize content with AI.
$70K–$140K
AI Trainer
train an organization's teams and staff on AI tools.
$70K–$130K
Roles that take more experience first
Corporate AI Consultant
advise mid-size to large companies directly on AI strategy.
$150K–$285K
Prompt Engineer
design and refine prompts and context for production AI systems.
$95K–$250K
AI Solutions Architect
design larger AI systems across a whole organization, no coding required.
$140K–$250K
AI Agency Owner / AAA Founder
run an AI agency, serving several clients' consulting needs at once.
$100K–$500K+
AI Implementation Specialist
lead AI projects from planning through execution inside a business's workflows.
$120K–$180K
CRM AI Developer
add AI to CRM systems for sales, support, and customer relationships.
$100K–$180K
AI Sales Engineer
present and sell AI solutions to customers, pairing technical depth with sales skill.
$120K–$220K
AI Product Manager
lead an AI-powered product's roadmap from idea to launch.
$110K–$190K
Reported market range, North America — not a guarantee. Varies by experience, employer, and location.
After the course, where can you prove yourself?
Publish what you built
Put your website, chatbot, and automation online as a public portfolio you can show any client.
Take on real freelance work
Marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr list real AI consulting and automation work you can apply for with what you built here.
Apply it to your own work
Automate a real task at your own job or business — the fastest way to prove the skill to yourself.
Pitch a first client
Use the discovery and proposal skills from Week 6 to approach one real business with a concrete offer.
Built for Persian-speaking learners everywhere
Designed with Afghan learners in mind, and open to Persian-speaking professionals building an AI career anywhere in the world — including the wider diaspora across North America, Europe, and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
No. The prerequisite is basic computer familiarity — you'll direct AI coding agents rather than write code by hand.
Live online classes, with session recordings available afterward.
Yes — contact us to learn more.
Yes. Completing an Academy program earns you a Tekistan certificate.
A computer, a stable connection, and an active Claude subscription — see "What you'll need" above.
Hands-on practice is built into every week's lessons, alongside the four main projects.
Class times for the next cohort are being finalized — sign up and we'll notify you as soon as they're published.
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