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Applied AI: Build and Ship a Real Product

Take an idea to something people actually use

4.9(186 ratings)640 enrolledAdvancedEnglish
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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

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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

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  • ZY

    Zainab Yusuf

    Exactly the course I needed. Clear, well paced, and nothing is hand-waved.

  • SJ

    Samuel John

    Exactly the course I needed. Clear, well paced, and nothing is hand-waved.

  • DO

    David Otieno

    The AI tutor answering questions inside the lesson is genuinely useful, not a gimmick.

  • DO

    Daniel Obi

    Practical from the first lesson. I was building something by day two.

  • AC

    Amara Chukwu

    Great structure. The quizzes at the end of each section really make the material stick.