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Build with AI, instead of being replaced by it.

Practical applied AI: prompting, embeddings, retrieval and shipping a real LLM-powered application. Honest about the maths, focused on what you can build.

3 months
12 weekends, 24 live sessions
₹1,000
per month · ₹3,000 in total
Sat + Sun
keep your job or degree
Live
online — join from any city
Snow Stag Taught by working professionals, not full-time trainers

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Takes under a minute. No payment now.

  • ₹1,000 a month for 3 months. Pay month by month, not upfront.
  • Saturdays & Sundays only — keep your job or your degree.
  • Live classes online. Join from any city.
Why this one

Where this actually takes you

The gap right now is not people who can train models — it is people who can build reliable products on top of existing ones. That gap is where the jobs are.

AI Application Developer

Building LLM-powered features into real products.

Junior ML Engineer

Working alongside data scientists on deployment.

AI Automation Consultant

Automating workflows for businesses — strong freelance demand.

Before you apply: Requires comfortable Python. Take Backend or Data Engineering first if you are new to it.

The syllabus

Three months, foundation to advanced

12 weekends. 24 live sessions. Each month ends with something you built and can show — not a certificate of attendance.

1 Month 1 · Foundation

What these systems actually do

Enough real understanding to stop guessing and start engineering.

  • How language models work — tokens, context, and why they hallucinate
  • Prompt engineering as a real discipline, not a list of tricks
  • Calling an LLM API from Python: structure, errors, cost and latency
  • Where AI genuinely helps, and where it is the wrong tool
You finish withA working Python tool that solves one real problem using an LLM API.
2 Month 2 · Core

Grounding AI in your own data

Retrieval — the technique behind almost every useful AI product today.

  • Embeddings and vector search, explained without heavy maths
  • Building a RAG pipeline over real documents
  • Chunking, retrieval quality and why most RAG apps answer badly
  • Classical ML for comparison: when regression beats a language model
You finish withA retrieval-based assistant answering questions over a real document set.
3 Month 3 · Advanced

Shipping and trusting it

Evaluation, safety and cost — what makes an AI feature production-ready.

  • Evaluating AI output systematically instead of by vibes
  • Tool use and multi-step agents, and their failure modes
  • Guardrails, prompt injection and handling untrusted input
  • Cost control, caching, and deploying with Streamlit or an API
You finish withCapstone: a deployed AI application with a written evaluation of where it fails.
Who teaches you

Your mentor

Someone who does this work professionally, teaching the way it is actually done — not reading from a slide deck.

Backend, Data & AI Lead
Name announced on confirmation
11+ years — backend, data platforms & applied AI

Builds the systems behind the screen: APIs, databases, pipelines and the models on top of them. Teaches the whole stack as one connected thing.

PythonSQLAPIsPipelinesLLMs
Also teaches: Backend Development, API Development, Databases & SQL, Data Engineering — take both and you learn one connected system, not two disconnected subjects.
What you walk out with

Tools you'll actually have used

Not a reading list. Every one of these is used in a graded exercise during the course.

PythonClaude & OpenAI APIsEmbeddings & vector searchLangChain basicsStreamlitPandas

A portfolio, not a certificate

Three graded pieces of real work — one per month — plus the capstone. This is what gets you the interview.

A certificate from Snow Stag

Issued on completing the assessment and attending enough of the course to have earned it.

Interview preparation

Mock interviews, CV and LinkedIn review, and how to talk about work you have actually done.

The fee

Deliberately small, on purpose

Mentors volunteer their weekends. The fee covers what it costs to run the course — nothing more. It is charged monthly so nobody has to find a large sum upfront.

1

Apply

The form takes under a minute. No payment at this stage.

2

A short conversation

Fifteen minutes on the phone about what you want from this. We are checking commitment, not qualifications.

3

Confirm your seat

Pay the first month and you are in. Classes start on the cohort date.

Total cost
₹1,000 / month

₹3,000 across 3 months. No registration fee, no material charges, no exam fee.

24 live sessions with a working professional
All recordings, notes and exercises
Graded feedback on everything you build
Certificate and interview preparation

Money should not be the reason you don't apply. If even this is out of reach, say so on your application. We would rather find a way than lose someone who wants it.

Before you apply

The honest answers

No. This course starts at foundation level and assumes nothing. The one exception: Requires comfortable Python. Take Backend or Data Engineering first if you are new to it.

No. Classes are live and online, so you join from wherever you are. The whole point of these skills is that the work travels even when you do not.

That is exactly who this is built for. Classes are Saturdays & Sundays only, plus practice time in between. Nothing happens on a weekday.

Every session is recorded and yours to keep. But attendance is tracked — people who watch recordings instead of attending consistently do not finish, and we would rather tell you that now.

Yes. ₹3,000 in total across 3 months, paid monthly. No registration fee, no material charges, no exam fee. Note that fees are not refundable, so please be sure before you commit.

We do not guarantee jobs, and be careful of anyone who does. What you get is a portfolio of real work, a certificate, mock interviews and CV support. The hiring decision belongs to employers.

Dates are being confirmed now. Applying puts you on the list first — applicants hear the start date before it is announced publicly.

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