Capabilities
What we deliver.
1-on-1 Coaching
Weekly sessions with a senior AI engineer. Custom curriculum based on your goals, tech stack, and timeline.
Team Workshops
Half-day or full-day sessions for your entire team. Hands-on exercises with your actual business data.
Strategy Sessions
AI roadmapping for executives. Where to invest, what to build first, and how to measure success.
Prompt Engineering
Master the art of working with LLMs. ChatGPT, Claude, custom models — learn to get 10x better outputs.
Implementation Support
We don't just teach — we help you ship. Build your first AI feature with expert guidance alongside you.
Ongoing Mentorship
Monthly check-ins after the intensive phase. Stay current, troubleshoot issues, plan next moves.
Why Online Courses Fail and Expert Coaching Works
There are 10,000 AI courses online. Most teach the same generic concepts using the same toy examples that have nothing to do with your business. You finish a course, get a certificate, and still can't implement AI in your actual workflow because nobody taught you how to connect the concepts to your specific data, your specific systems, and your specific business problems.
Our AI coaching is the opposite. We start with YOUR problem. What are you trying to automate? What data do you have? What systems need to talk to each other? Then we teach you exactly the skills needed to solve that problem — using your data, in your environment, with working code by the end of the engagement. No generic lectures. No "hello world" chatbots.
The engineers who coach you ship production AI systems daily. They've solved problems like yours before. They know which approaches work and which waste months of effort. That experience compression is what makes coaching 10x more effective than self-study — you skip the dead ends and go straight to what works.
What You'll Actually Build During Coaching
Every coaching engagement includes a capstone project — a real AI feature shipped to production during the program. Not a prototype. Not a demo. Working software that your business uses after the coaching ends. This is how we ensure the investment pays for itself immediately rather than becoming theoretical knowledge that fades.
For technical teams, projects include custom fine-tuned LLMs, RAG pipelines for internal knowledge search, automated document processing systems, predictive models trained on your business data, and intelligent workflow automation. For executives, the outcome is a validated AI strategy with prioritized implementation roadmap and vendor evaluation framework.
Past coaching clients have shipped: an AI-powered customer support system that handles 70% of tickets without human intervention, a document classification pipeline that eliminated 40 hours/week of manual sorting, a demand forecasting model that reduced inventory costs by 23%, and a natural language query interface for their internal database that non-technical staff use daily.
For Teams: Building Internal AI Capability
The most expensive AI decision a company can make is permanent dependence on external consultants. Our team coaching program is designed to eliminate that dependency. We transfer not just skills but the thinking frameworks your engineering team needs to evaluate, build, and maintain AI systems independently.
Team workshops run as intensive 2-3 day sprints with your actual codebase and data. We cover architecture patterns for production AI, model evaluation methodology, responsible AI practices, monitoring and drift detection, and how to decide between build vs. buy for any AI capability. Your team leaves with documented playbooks they can reference long after the engagement ends.
After the intensive phase, we provide 3-6 months of async mentorship: monthly check-ins, code reviews on AI implementations, and on-demand Slack support when your team hits blockers. The goal is a smooth transition from "we need help with AI" to "our team ships AI features autonomously."
Our Process
How our coaching engagements work.
Discovery Call
Understand your goals, current skill level, and what success looks like. We design a custom curriculum — no off-the-shelf syllabus.
Environment Setup
Configure your development environment, data access, and project framework so sessions are 100% hands-on from day one.
Intensive Sessions
Weekly 90-minute sessions (1-on-1) or 2-3 day workshops (teams). Real code, real data, real problems — not slides.
Capstone Project
Build and ship a production AI feature during the engagement. This ensures immediate ROI and validates your learning.
Async Support
Between sessions: code reviews, Slack support, and homework that advances your project. Momentum never stops.
Graduation & Mentorship
Monthly check-ins after the intensive phase. Your team operates independently with expert support available when needed.
Comparison
Expert Coaching vs. the Alternatives
| Feature | Delpuma | Traditional Agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Curriculum | Custom to your business and goals | Generic / same for everyone |
| Instructor | Senior engineer shipping AI daily | Instructor who learned from courses |
| Outcome | Working AI in production + skills | Certificate + toy projects |
| Timeline | 4-8 weeks to production feature | 6-12 months of self-study / no clear endpoint |
| Data used | Your actual business data | Iris dataset / MNIST / toy examples |
| Support | Async Slack + code reviews between sessions | Forum / office hours / none |
| Team enablement | Team operates independently after | Individual certificates that don't transfer |
| ROI | Capstone project pays for engagement | No measurable business outcome |
FAQ
Common questions.
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Technical founders, engineering teams, product managers, and executives who want to understand AI deeply enough to make informed decisions and build capabilities in-house.