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Free tools

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Chapters

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This isn't an online course with lectures — it's a simulator of real work.

80% practice · 20% theory

you build real skills as you go, from day one

×2 your hourly rate

the goal — to double your rate

Become the leader in your niche — with advanced AI approaches.

Approach

Why it works

Practice before theory

Theory is introduced exactly when you need it — that's when it sticks.

Verifiable certificate

Proves your skills with a publicly checkable link — add it straight to your résumé.

Real market data

Salaries: remote-market medians and hh.ru / Habr Career — both markets shown.

Progress & streaks

Persist between sessions to keep you on track.

Flexible payment

Bank card · cryptocurrency.

Career

Your salary after the course

Median salaries for AI and automation engineers on the international remote market, 2026. The course gets you to junior+ — you grow from there on real work.

+250%

growth in demand for AI specialists over 2 years

Junior+

$2,000 – 3,500 / mo

First roles after the course: automation, prompting, wiring agents in.

Middle

$4,000 – 7,000 / mo

After 6–12 months of practice: independent AI products and pipelines.

Senior / Lead

$8,000 – 14,000+ / mo

AI system architecture, closed-contour, leading a team.

Remote-market medians (USD), 2026 — a market reference, not a guarantee. Your income depends on your skills and effort.

The AI-mastery scale

Where are you on the AI-mastery scale?

Most people never get past asking ChatGPT a question now and then. The top levels — automating your work and building AI systems — are rare, and that's exactly what makes them valuable. This is the band the school lifts you into.

Click a level to see the skills it unlocks

    • AI systems architecture in a closed contour
    • Output of a team from one person
    • Sets the bar in their niche

Percentages are an illustrative estimate of the market distribution, not hard data.

Calculator

AI-profession salary calculator

Pick a profession and a level — we'll show the honest market range and what it turns your hour into.

Profession
Level
AI Ops Analyst · Middle
Market range $/mo (remote)
$3 800 – 6 500 / мес

6–12 months in: you own the honest-metrics layer and guardrail the agents.

× per hour of your time

$24 – $41 per hour at ~160 working hours a month — that's what the profession turns your time into.

Honest about the numbers

These are market salary ranges for the profession on the international remote market, 2026 — not what our graduates earn (we are a new school with no track record) and not a guarantee. Your income depends on you.

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Outcomes

What you'll be able to do

Not theory — the concrete tasks you perform on the course and bring to work.

  • Wire AI agents into a company's workflows
  • Automate the busywork: support, reports, data processing
  • Build RAG systems over corporate documents
  • Write and test prompts with eval gates
  • Deploy LLMs on-prem and in a closed contour
  • Assemble pipelines with MCP, Claude Code and n8n

Roles

Roles you can work in

Roles you get hired into with these skills — and that sit mostly unfilled.

AI Automation Engineer

Automates company processes with agents and LLMs.

Prompt Engineer

Designs and tests prompts and eval systems for production.

AI Product Engineer

Builds AI products from idea to deploy.

AI Solutions / Integration Engineer

Wires AI into an existing stack and closed contour.

Market

Where these specialists are needed

Companies on the remote market and in Russia that hire AI and automation engineers. A portfolio from the course is how you walk in.

Examples of companies hiring AI engineers. Not affiliated with the school; employment is not guaranteed.

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Courses

Story-driven and chapter-by-chapter. Chapter 1 is always free — the rest unlocks once you're in.

$299Ch. 1 free8 chapters · ~3.8 h

LLM Operator

No code required. Turn any wish into a task the model can actually do — and take real work off your plate this week.

The world you walk into

Your first day at Yavno agency. Everyone just got AI access and was told to 'work faster'. Slava has been regenerating the same post for an hour. Sasha, the ops director, hands you his chat window: 'Watch. In 15 minutes tell me what's wrong.'

  • Turn a wish ('make it nice') into a task with a done-criterion
  • Give the model the right context — and not one fact more
  • Fix an answer with one targeted edit instead of regenerating and praying
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$799Ch. 1 free7 chapters · ~9 h

Automation AI Engineer

Ship like a team of one. Ralph-loop, TDD prompts, parallel worktrees, self-healing pipelines.

The world you walk into

Founder vanished. NoteDrop has 23 open Sentry alerts and a demo to investors in 72 hours. You inherit one junior dev and a stale agent folder. Learn the Ralph-loop or burn the runway.

  • Spot a broken agent loop within 60 seconds of watching
  • Size sprints so failures cost minutes, not hours
  • Write TDD prompts that fail loudly before they fail silently
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$799Ch. 1 free8 chapters · ~9.7 h

Prompting Sentinel

The world's strongest prompting simulator. Specs, context, dials, examples, schemas, lies, adversaries, ship.

The world you walk into

Week one at Sentinel — an AI team inside a regulated business. The bot is leaking PII, the CFO wants a dashboard by Friday, and Legal won't approve a model that lies. Eight chapters, one inbox, one opinion per chapter.

  • Write the eval before the prompt — every time
  • Pick the thinking-budget dial on purpose, not by default
  • Beat hallucinations with named defenses, not vibes
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$799Ch. 1 free7 chapters · ~8.7 h

AI Ops Analyst

Make the numbers honest. Interrogate metrics, audit triage agents, write reconciliation tests, brief AI that surfaces bad news instead of burying it.

The world you walk into

Day one at Ledgerline, a Series-B fintech. The dashboard the whole company trusts is green — but three enterprise customers churned last week and nobody flagged it. The board deck is due Thursday. The on-call agent auto-closed the real incident as noise. You're the new AI Ops Analyst. Find out whether the dashboard is right or lying.

  • Catch a vanity metric by interrogating its definition, not its direction
  • Read an automated triage agent and spot when it's silencing real incidents
  • Isolate a silent redefinition behind a flat line that should be moving
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the difference

Ordinary courses — and a school where you do the work

Same interest in AI, a different format: instead of watching, tasks that get checked.

Typical online courses

  • Hours of video lectures and notes
  • A multiple-choice quiz
  • Questions go to a group chat
  • A certificate of attendance
  • Pay for the whole course upfront

mihalkevich school

  • Practice in real-work simulators — 80% of the time
  • Your work passes eval gates — you see why it passed or not
  • An AI mentor right inside the simulator workspace
  • A verifiable certificate and a portfolio of real tasks
  • Chapter 1 of every course is free

Practice

Practice simulators

Role-play simulators with auto-grading — deeper than the courses and tuned to a specific profession. Some are live, some are waitlist-only.

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Events

Camps and hackathons

Learn alongside others: an intensive with a mentor that ends in a demo day, or a weekend competition. No dates yet — join the waitlist.

Proof

A certificate employers recognize

After every course you get a named certificate — attach it to your CV, hh.ru and LinkedIn. But the real proof is a working project and portfolio that stay yours.

  • Named certificate of completion
  • A portfolio of real tasks, not exercises
  • Your code and work stay yours

Method

How the school works

Learn by doing

Every lesson is a task you actually perform against a real agent — not a video you watch. You leave with reps, not notes.

Demo: the simulator workspace with an AI mentor

Eval-gated, not vibes

Your work is graded against written eval cases, the same way we ship production AI. You see exactly why something passed or failed.

Free to start, yours to keep

Chapter 1 and the lite tools are free forever. Paid tracks go deeper, and what you build is yours to take to work on Monday.

Ch. 1 free

Context

Why it matters — and why now

AI is changing every profession

Not 'someday' — already. Whoever learns the tools first gets the roles and the income; the rest catch up.

Few specialists, rising demand

There are far more openings than people who can take AI to production. That window is open for a limited time.

The barrier is lower than it looks

No PhD required. You need practice on real tasks and discipline — exactly what the school gives.

Quizzes · 2 minutes

Take a quiz

Short free quizzes, no sign-up. The result is computed from your answers, and the formula is on screen.

Start right now — it's free

Chapter 1 of every course and all lite tools are free and need no signup. Open a simulator and do your first task in 10 minutes.

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