Applied AI: Build and Ship a Real Product
Take an idea to something people actually use
Dr. Adaeze Okonkwo
AI Researcher & Lead Instructor
Last updated 30 Aug 2026
What you will learn
- Take a problem from an idea to a working, tested product
- Decide where AI genuinely helps and where it is the wrong tool
- Deploy something and keep it running when it breaks
- Present and defend the work to an audience that asks hard questions
- Leave with a portfolio piece, not just a certificate
Course content
4 sections · 17 lessons · 3h 4m
- Why most student projects are forgettablePreview6m 52s
- Finding a problem in your own community11m 28s
- Talking to the people who have the problem9m 56s
- Deciding whether AI belongs in the solution at all12m 11s
Requirements
- You can write and debug Python or JavaScript without help
- You have connected to an API before
- AI Developer, or equivalent experience
About this course
The final level of the AI Academy, and the one that produces something a university or an employer will take seriously. You start with a problem in your own community and finish with a working, deployed product that somebody other than you has used. Along the way you will decide where AI genuinely helps and where it is the wrong tool — which is the judgement that separates somebody who can build from somebody who has done a tutorial. This is not a course to take first: it assumes you can already write and debug code, connect to an API, and handle data without supervision.
Your instructor
Dr. Adaeze Okonkwo
AI Researcher & Lead Instructor
3 courses on Skaibot Hub
Machine learning researcher with 12 years teaching AI fundamentals to first-time learners. Former lecturer at the University of Lagos.
Learner reviews
4.9
186 ratings
Breakdown of 5 written reviews
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Zainab Yusuf
Exactly the course I needed. Clear, well paced, and nothing is hand-waved.
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Samuel John
Exactly the course I needed. Clear, well paced, and nothing is hand-waved.
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David Otieno
The AI tutor answering questions inside the lesson is genuinely useful, not a gimmick.
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Daniel Obi
Practical from the first lesson. I was building something by day two.
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Amara Chukwu
Great structure. The quizzes at the end of each section really make the material stick.