Next Cohort:  October 12, 2026

Build the AI Operating System Your Work Runs On

6-Week Live Training.  No Coding Required.

You don't need another AI tool to keep up with. You need a system your AI can work from.

Create one place for your knowledge, rules, processes, and repeatable work, so every AI agent picks up where you left off.

You’re Using AI.  But Is Any of It Compounding?

You can be good at ChatGPT. You can use Claude every day. You can have favorite prompts, saved chats, custom instructions, and even automations.

Without an AI Operating System underneath it, almost every new task starts the same way.

You explain the project…again.
You paste in the task background…again.
You remind it how you work…again.
You correct the same mistakes…again.
You copy the answer somewhere else and move on.

AI helps in the moment, but the work does not build on itself (zero compounding).

Now imagine the opposite.

  • You don't explain the project.  It knows where you left off.
  • You don't paste in the background.  It's already in there.
  • You don't remind it how you work. You built that into the system once.
  • You don't correct the same mistake twice. It became a rule.
  • You do not lose the answer in another chat. The system saves what matters.

One central place where the working knowledge for your projects, clients, offers, decisions, rules, examples, and processes stays current.

Every time you work in it, the system gets more useful.

The next time you sit down with AI, it can see what changed, what decisions were made, what problems were solved, what process you followed, and what still needs to happen next.

You are working from the latest version of your own work.  And because the system belongs to you, you are not locked into one AI tool. You can point Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, or any other AI Agent at the same system.

That's the shift.

Not better prompts.
Not another tool.

A more effective way to work with AI.


Ready to Transform How Your Work Gets Done with AI?

Next Cohort:  Oct 12, 2026


Week 1, you build the AI Operating System. Every week after that, you add to it.

You'll learn to turn the way you work into clear, reusable processes AI can help run.
That means mapping how the work happens, choosing what to build first, defining one process well enough to hand over to AI, then using Claude Code or OpenAI Codex to build it into your AI Operating System.   Then you'll do it again.

You'll also know how to think in systems, so you can keep improving what you built after the cohort ends.

By the end, you'll have 

  • Your AI Operating System
  • Two of your own processes built into it
  • A control panel showing what's working and what needs attention
  • 90-day roadmap for what to build next.

Week 1

Your AI Operating System, Working by the End of the Week

Build the foundation everything else will run on.  You’ll create the first structure, instructions, and reusable skill that everything else builds on, then put it to work before the week is over.

Detailed Description

In Week 1, you build the system your AI works from.

You’ll decide what belongs in your system, how it should be organized, and how your AI should find and use what’s inside.

You’ll learn what makes a structure hold up, then build yours around the way your work actually happens. And you’ll put it to work before the week is over.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Structure your system so an agent finds what it needs without reading everything
  • Decide what your AI should always know, and what it should only look up when it needs to
  • Write the first instructions your AI can follow
  • Connect your first tool safely
  • Package work you repeat into a reusable skill, so you don’t have to explain it twice

By the end of the week, you’ll have:

  • The first working version of your AI Operating System
  • The first instructions your AI follows
  • Your first reusable skill, built and tested
  • Work completed through the system, with the result saved where it belongs

Everything you build over the next five weeks builds on this structure.

Week's Schedule

OCT

 12

2 hour LIVE interactive learning session with Nelly

OCT

14

1 hour LIVE Q&A session with Nelly

OCT

16

2 hour LIVE Show & Tell session

Week 2

See Your Work as a System and Choose What to Build First

You can’t automate chaos. You’ll see how your work breaks down into processes, score what’s costing you time and money, and learn where AI can help before you choose what to build first.

Detailed Description

Most people don't design the way their work gets done. They fall into it.

A workaround becomes a step. A step becomes a habit. A habit becomes "how we do this."

Add AI to that and the messy process creates more chaos, faster.

In Week 2, you’ll learn to see how your work breaks down into processes and systems. You’ll score the repeated work that’s costing you time and money and choose the first process to build into your AI Operating System. Then you’ll map that process end to end.

You’ll also learn what AI is capable of, so you can see where it can actually help before you decide what to hand to it.

You'll learn how to:

  • Map one process as it actually happens today
  • Spot where the work slows down, waits, repeats, or depends on a decision
  • Understand the AI capabilities that matter for your work
  • Score what you find by time, effort, risk, and value
  • Decide what to remove, simplify, hand off, or build into your AI Operating System

By the end of the week, you'll have:

  • A map of one process, start to finish
  • A number for what that process is costing you
  • A scored list of what to improve, hand off, or build
  • At least one step you removed, simplified, or handed off before adding AI

The process you choose this week becomes the one you specify, build, test, and run over the next few weeks. The rest of the list becomes your roadmap.

Week's Schedule

OCT

 19

2 hour LIVE interactive learning session with Nelly

OCT

21

1 hour LIVE Q&A session with Nelly

OCT

23

2 hour LIVE Show & Tell session

Week 3

Make One Process Build-Ready, End to End

Poor results from AI usually come from a process that was never fully defined. You'll capture the hidden layers of your work: the requirements, rules, and guardrails an agent needs before it can run the process the way you would.

Detailed Description

When an automation or agent delivers poor results, it is usually because the process was not build-ready.

The steps might be there.
But the requirements are fuzzy.
The rules still live in your head.
The guardrails were not defined.

So the AI does what it can: it follows the obvious steps and guesses at everything else.

Week 3 is how you prevent that from happening.

You take the process you chose in Week 2 and define it: what goes in, what comes out, what rules apply, what good work looks like, what AI is allowed to do, and where it has to stop and ask you.

This is the work that makes the build possible.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Turn a process map into something build-ready
  • Define inputs, outputs, rules, and success criteria
  • Write examples that show what good work looks like
  • Define the decisions AI should not make alone
  • Set guardrails around what it can read, change, send, or save
  • Create the shared instructions future processes can build on

By the end of the week, you’ll have:

  • One process defined well enough to hand over
  • The rules and examples your agent needs to follow it
  • Shared instructions that improve everything you build after this

This is what gets built next week. 

Week's Schedule

OCT

 26

2 hour LIVE interactive learning session with Nelly

OCT28

1 hour LIVE Q&A session with Nelly

OCT

30

2 hour LIVE Show & Tell session

Week 4

Watch One Process Get Built, Then Build Your Own

Now you’re ready to add your first process inside your AI Operating System. I'll fully demonstrate how to build one.  Then you will build your own, test it, and tighten it before you trust it.

Detailed Description

Because you did the groundwork in Week 3, you’re not building from a blank page. You’re building from a strategic plan.

I'll first demonstrate the of build one process, so you can see how the pieces come together, where it needs to be tested, and how to tighten it before you trust it.

Then you’ll build your own.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Turn a defined process into something an agent can run
  • Test the process before you rely on it
  • Spot where the agent misunderstood the instructions
  • Tighten the rules, examples, or limits when the output is wrong
  • Decide where the process should stop and wait for you

By the end of the week, you’ll have:

  • Your first process running inside your AI Operating System
  • A tested first version you can keep improving
  • A repeatable way to catch and fix problems
  • Clear limits around what the agent can and cannot do

Week's Schedule

NOV

 02

2 hour LIVE interactive learning session with Nelly

NOV

04

1 hour LIVE Q&A session with Nelly

NOV

06

2 hour LIVE Show & Tell session

Week 5

Build the Next Process Into Your AI Operating System

This is where your AI Operating System starts to compound. You add another process to the same system, then learn the advanced ways to extend it without turning it into another collection of disconnected automations.

Detailed Description

In Week 5, you take the next process through the full cycle: map it, clean it up, define what it needs, and build it into your AI Operating System.

You'll also practice three advanced ways to extend your AI Operating System: connecting processes when one output naturally becomes the next input, scheduling work that recurs, and evaluating other people’s skills so you can decide what to use, what to change, and what to leave out.

That is the compounding effect of having everything in one place.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Build the next process into the AI Operating System
  • Connect processes when one output naturally becomes the next input
  • Add scheduling where recurring work should run without a new prompt every time
  • Evaluate and adapt someone else’s skill to fit your system

Back up your AI Operating System so nothing you build can be lost

By the end of the week, you’ll have:

  • A second process built into your AI Operating System
  • A connected handoff or scheduled step, where it makes sense
  • Automatic backups, so nothing you’ve built can disappear

Week's Schedule

NOV

9

2 hour LIVE interactive learning session with Nelly

NOV

11

1 hour LIVE Q&A session with Nelly

NOV

13

2 hour LIVE Show & Tell session

Week 6

Build Your Control Panel and Plan the Next 90 Days

Build a control panel around the AI Operating System you created, so you can see what exists, what needs attention, and what to build next. You’ll leave with a 90-day roadmap for what to fix, improve, or build after the cohort ends.

Detailed Description

Week 6 is where you step back and make your AI Operating System easier to see, manage, and keep improving.

You’ll start with a control panel template, then build it around what you created during the cohort: the processes inside your system, the skills you created, the instructions they rely on, what runs on a schedule, and what still needs attention.

Then you’ll turn the process list from Week 2 into a 90-day roadmap, so you know what to fix, improve, or build next.

This is how your AI Operating System keeps growing after the cohort ends.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Build a control panel for your AI Operating System
  • See what processes, skills, and instructions exist in your system
  • Review what is working and what needs attention
  • Decide what to fix, improve, or build over the next 90 days

By the end of the week, you’ll have:

  • A control panel built around your AI Operating System
  • A completed review of what you built
  • A 90-day roadmap built from your own work

Week's Schedule

NOV

16

2 hour LIVE interactive learning session with Nelly

NOV

18

1 hour LIVE Q&A session with Nelly

NOV

20

2 hour LIVE Show & Tell session

After completing the cohort, I now feel confident that I can structure and build my own simple automations, even without a coding background. More importantly, the course transformed the way I think about AI and its possibilities. I highly recommend this training.

Minh-Ha Nguyen

Cohort 1 attendee

One of the most valuable aspects was how immediately applicable the learnings were. I now feel equipped to automate processes and think more strategically about designing workflows. What sets this cohort apart is the real-time coaching and feedback, which is hard to find elsewhere.

Gerrine Pan

Cohort 1 attendee

I attended TechSpeak with Nelly back in 2012, and it's still one of the most impactful learning experiences of my career. She has a rare ability to break down highly technical concepts into clear, actionable steps that anyone can follow. If you're considering her AI cohort, you'll walk away confident, capable, and ready to implement. Nelly is the real deal - an educator, a strategist, and a guide who genuinely cares about elevating the people she teaches.

Sherri Sklar

Cohort 1 attendee

✅ 2 hour LIVE Interactive Sessions on Mondays
Join Nelly for 6 weeks on Mondays  1–3 PM EST for 2-hour live workshops via Zoom.


✅ 1 hour LIVE Office Hour on Wednesdays
Drop in any time on Wednesday between 1–2 PM EST for weekly live Q&A sessions and get unstuck.


✅ 2 Hour LIVE Show & Tell Sessions on Fridays 
Every Friday 1–3 PM EST, learn from each other’s chosen processes, learnings, and inspiration from peers.


  • All sessions are recorded and available on-demand within 24 hours, so you can learn at your own pace if you can't attend live.
  • You'll get access to prompts, templates, step-by-step checklists so you can plug and play.

  • You'll be able to connect with the rest of your cohort in our private WhatsApp group, everyone building their own system at the same time.

Time Commitment & Requirements

Time commitment: 
Approximately 7 hours/week

  • 2 hour live training session (Mondays, 1–3 PM EST) 

  • 2 hour live Show & Tell + feedback (Fridays, 1–3 PM EST)
  • Optional Q&A session (Wednesdays, 1–2 PM EST)
  • Approximately 3 hours self-work 



Requirements:


  • Claude Pro ($20/month) or ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) subscription. This is separate from the cohort fee.
  • An internet connection and a willingness to learn - no prior tech experience required!

Nelly helps founders and businesses cut costs, find product-market fit faster, and scale with AI. With more than 20 years of experience leading companies to technical excellence, she is a highly sought-after fractional CTO/CPO, startup tech advisor, AI strategist, and educator.

She is the creator of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs, a self-paced bootcamp and expert-guided 12-week tech accelerator for nontechnical startup founders. She also created Build the AI Operating System Your Work Runs On, a 6-week live training that helps nontechnical professionals use AI to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and build more leverage into their work.

In addition, Nelly is a mentor for Techstars, Founder Institute, StartOut, WEVE Acceleration, and DigitalUndivided, and more. She has been included on many lists of transformative women in tech, including Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Women'' and Wall Street Journal’s “Women on the IT Fast Track.” Nelly has been at the forefront of the women’s movement online since 1997.

Nelly is a speaker and presenter for many organizations and major industries events including: Women’s Enterprise Center, Founder Institute, Saas Academy, Black is Tech, GSV Bootcamp, WeWork Labs, TechDay, Unvalley, FastTrac NewVentures, Womens’ Venture Summit, Small Business Summit and has been featured in INC Magazine, NBC Today Show, Fast Company Magazine, NewsDay.com, O’Reilly, SmartMoney, SmallBiz, TechRepublic, Women’s Radio.

Nelly Yusupova, founder of TechSpeak

Nelly is a ridiculously knowledgable person who can also teach - she is that unicorn!

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Frequently Asked Questions

I’m not technical. Is this over my head?

No. The skill you need for this cohort is describing your own work clearly.

You do that any time you train someone new, write instructions, explain how something should be handled, or say, “Here’s how I want this done.”

Everything else is mine to teach: what AI can do and where it does not help, the AI vocabulary and technical terms you need to understand what is happening, how to structure a system so an agent finds what it needs, and the frameworks for turning a process into something an agent can run.

You can start from zero on all of it.

I have been teaching non-technical people technical concepts for two decades. I explain things simply and make sure you know what to do next and how to do it.

You will not need to write code.

Who is this cohort for?

This cohort is for people who want to build a system that grows with them as AI keeps changing.

You might be a solopreneur, consultant, creator, service provider, freelancer, startup founder, or someone working inside a larger company.

If your work includes repeated tasks, recurring decisions, messy processes, or things you find yourself explaining more than once, you'll turn that work into a system your AI can work from.

It doesn't matter how much AI you've used so far. The goal isn't to become technical. It's to get better at working with AI and to automate the low-value work, so you spend your time innovating instead of administrating.

Do I need to have a business?

No, you don't  need to own a business to benefit from an AI Operating System.

You need work that has patterns in it: tasks you repeat, decisions you make often, information you reuse, or processes you keep explaining.

That work might live inside your own business, someone else’s company, a client project, a team, or a role you are responsible for.

The system is built around how your work gets done, not around whether you own the business.

I work alone. Does this still work?

Yes. If you work alone, this may matter even more.

When everything depends on you, the work only moves when you move. Every repeated task, every follow-up, every first draft, every decision you have to re-explain to AI sits on your plate.


Your AI Operating System gives you a way to delegate more of that work to AI without starting from scratch every time.


You’ll build the instructions, rules, examples, and processes your AI needs, so it can take on more of the low-value work and free up your time for the work only you can do.

I work inside a larger company. Can I still use this?

Yes, as long as you choose work you are allowed to organize, document, and improve.

You can build your AI Operating System around your own role, your own responsibilities, your own projects, or the repeated work your team already does.


This can help you explain work more clearly, hand things off more easily, reduce repeated questions, and use AI in a way that fits the systems and constraints you already work inside.

Do I need to know what I want to build before I join?

No. That is part of what we figure out together.

You do not need to know what to build before you join. I’ll guide you through documenting how your work gets done and teach you how to evaluate your processes, so you can choose the highest-ROI work to automate first.

What if my work is messy right now?

That is expected.  Most people did not sit down and design the way their work gets done. They fell into it.


A workaround became a step. A step became a habit. A habit became “how we do this.”


You do not need clean processes before you join.

I’ll help you document what is happening now, clean up what should not be automated, and choose what is worth building into your AI Operating System first.

I’ve tried AI before and the results weren’t great.

That is usually not because you are bad at AI.

Most poor AI results come from missing structure: unclear instructions, scattered examples, fuzzy rules, or a process that was never fully defined.

AI can only work from what you give it. If the work is mostly in your head, it has to guess.

In this cohort, you will learn how to define the work before you ask AI to help with it, so the agent has something clear to follow instead of trying to figure it out from one prompt.

What happens when Claude Code isn’t the tool anymore?

That is exactly why we are building an AI Operating System.


You are not learning one tool. You are building a system that belongs to you.


When the tools change, you do not start over. You point the next AI agent at your AI Operating system and keep going.

Is my work private?

Yes.  You own what you build, and you decide what goes into it.

Your AI Operating System can live on your computer or in the cloud, depending on the tools you choose and what your work allows.

If you work with client, company, or sensitive information, we’ll talk about how to decide what belongs in your system, what should be anonymized, and what should stay out of AI entirely.

Realistically, how much time is this?

Plan for about 7 core hours per week, plus an optional Wednesday office hour if you want extra support.

Each week includes a 2-hour live training session on Monday, a 2-hour Show & Tell and feedback session on Friday, and about 3 hours of build time between sessions.

You’ll also have a weekly Wednesday office hour where you can ask questions, get unstuck, and get feedback before Friday.

All sessions are recorded and available within 24 hours if you can’t attend live.

You are building something you will use, as you're learning, and the support is there to help you keep moving.

Do you offer a guarantee?

I'm confident this program will help you build an AI Operating System you can use, build on, and keep improving.
By the end of Week 2 you'll have a working system and a scored list of what to build into it first.


If, after attending the first two live sessions and completing the first assignments, you don't feel the training is the right fit, let me know within 14 calendar days of the program start date.  I'll fully refund your registration fee.

I have another question.  Can I speak with Nelly directly?

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What's Included

  • 6 weeks of live training sessions
  • Hands-on coaching and implementation support
  • Private community access and support
  • Lifetime access to recordings and resources

Guarantee: 

I'm confident this program will help you build an AI Operating System you can use, build on, and keep improving.
By the end of Week 2 you'll have a working system and a scored list of what to build into it first.

If, after attending the first two live sessions and completing the first assignments, you don't feel the training is the right fit, let me know within 14 calendar days of the program start date.  I'll fully refund your registration fee.

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