AI and automation bootcamp
16-Week AI Automation Bootcamp
Learn to build real AI automations — tutor-led, and built for beginners.
Sixteen weeks, live, taught by PGCE-qualified teachers — not a one-day workshop.
Core costs £1,500 — £300 deposit, then £100 a month for 12 months.
Founding price £1,200 for the first 30 days after enrolment opens — £240 deposit, then £80 a month for 12 months.
Add one track after Core for £750. No interest, no fees. Full prices →
Built for
Career changers
A change of direction, with a portfolio to prove it.
First-time jobseekers
Graduates and school leavers who want to build, not just watch.
Small-business owners
Automate your own business first; the Business track ends on your first client, or the pipeline to close one.
Tradespeople
Quotes, follow-ups and admin off your plate — or have it built for you.
Your route
Four steps, in order.
Each step is finished before the next one starts. About six months from first day to door.
Induction
2 weeks · free · self-paced
Set up your tools. Learn how the weeks work. Meet your cohort.
What's in it
- Your accounts and tools, checked working
- How a week runs: live session, build, feedback
- A practice hand-in, so nothing surprises you in week one
You leave with: everything working, before day one.
Core
16 weeks · live · online · £1,500
Build 16 real automations, one a week, taught live by PGCE-qualified teachers. Core prepares you for Anthropic's Claude Certified Associate exam.
What's in it
- Weeks 1–4: how the models work, your first automation, prompts that work, APIs
- Weeks 5–8: production workflows, reporting, reliability, process analysis
- Weeks 9–12: agents, MCP, deployment, a live client project
- Weeks 13–16: client handover, portfolio, launch plan, Demo Day
- Core costs £1,500: £300 deposit, then £100 a month for 12 months
- Founding price, for the first 30 days after enrolment opens: £1,200 — £240 deposit, then £80 a month for 12 months
- Pay in full if you prefer. No interest, no fees either way
You leave with: a portfolio of working systems, the Anthropic Academy certificates, our certificate of completion — the Practitioner credential when all sixteen builds pass — and a track chosen with your tutor.
One track
8 weeks · £750 · pick one
- BuilderAgents, MCP, code — the route into remote build work.Prepares you to sit Anthropic's official exams: Claude Certified Associate, then Claude Certified Architect – Foundations or Developer – Foundations.
- CareerPortfolio, applications, interviews.
- BusinessAutomate your business, land a client.
How choosing and paying works
- You choose in Core week 15, with your tutor
- One track at a time; change free within 14 days of starting
- Want two? Do them one after the other
- A track is £750 on top of Core. Core and one track together: £2,250, or £1,950 at the founding price, over the same 12 payments
- A fourth track, Physical AI (robotics), is planned for summer 2027
You leave with: eight weeks of finished work that proves it — and on Builder, preparation for Anthropic's exams.
A door
where it leads
- Work with usAfter the Builder track: join us as an associate — paid remote build work on real client jobs, as the work allows.
- A jobWith a portfolio, not just a certificate. Career track.
- Your own businessThe Business track ends on your first client — signed, or the pipeline to close one.
About working with us
- Do the Builder track, then join us as an associate on a signed agreement
- Paid remote build work on real client jobs, as the work allows — you invoice us per job
- You sit Anthropic's exams as part of the team, registered under our domain; first attempt at each reimbursed
- Not a salary and not a promise of hours
You leave with: a next step that's already started.
Cohort 1 starts Monday 4 January 2027. Enrolment opens soon · founding price until the end of the first 30 days · 14-day cooling-off.
What former students say about the teaching
“Wish I had more teachers like you at school — then I would have actually learnt something.”
S. · Former student
“With ADHD, I've always struggled to stay engaged with different teaching styles, but yours really keeps me focused and motivated.”
H. · Former student
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The four beliefs
Four beliefs holding people back.
- 01
'Degrees are safety' — the map changed.
- 02
'Apply harder' — the queue was never the game.
- 03
'Not technical enough' — learnable in weeks.
- 04
'You're too late' — the clock was wrong.
The bootcamp that answers all four starts Monday 4 January 2027. Follow us: @EdgeCircleUK
What's in it
Core: sixteen weeks, sixteen builds.
n8n throughout; Claude as the intelligence layer — app, API, Claude Code, MCP, agents, in that order.
Core starts with what AI is doing to work and how the models actually work, and ends with a live client delivery, a portfolio, and a track chosen with your tutor. The three tracks are below the four phases of Core:
- Career — a job in AI
- Business — your own business, run on AI
- Builder — the technical route and Anthropic's Architect or Developer exam
Physical AI — robotics — is introduced inside Core. A Physical AI track is planned for summer 2027 and will be announced here when it's ready.
Aligned to the Level 4 standard ST1512. The current layer — tools, models, examples — is refreshed before every cohort; the build order above is the stable core.
After Core
Three tracks. Pick one.
Eight weeks each, £750 on top of Core. Core with one track: £2,250, or £1,950 at the founding price.
One track at a time; change tracks free within 14 days of starting one, not after. You choose in Core week 15, with your tutor.
A fourth track, Physical AI (robotics), is planned for summer 2027 — announced here when it's ready.
Builder
Go technical — the route into paid build work with us · +8 weeks
£750
- Six-week spine: agents, MCP, the Claude API in code, evaluation, deployment
- Two-week finish chosen with your tutor: Architect or Developer
- A deployed agent or a shipped application in your portfolio
- Work with us after Builder: paid remote build work, as the work allows — you sit Anthropic's exams as part of the team, first attempt at each reimbursed
Prepares you to sit Anthropic's official exams — Claude Certified Associate, then Claude Certified Architect – Foundations or Claude Certified Developer – Foundations. Names and fees →
Register your interestCareer
The job · +8 weeks
£750
- Portfolio deepened to hiring-manager standard
- An applications engine you build yourself
- Interview craft and practice tasks
- Employer rooms where available
Business
Your business · +8 weeks
£750
- Automate your own business first
- A productised offer, priced
- A signed first client, or a live pipeline and the plan to close one
- How to apply to join Anthropic's Partner Network with your own company
Certificates and exams
What you can hold at the end — and whose it is.
Three different things. We're precise about the difference.
Earned inside Core
The free Anthropic Academy course certificates — AI Fluency, Claude with the Anthropic API, Claude Code in Action, Introduction to MCP — each verified in the programme as you complete it.
Issued by us
The EdgeCircle certificate of completion, and the AI & Automation Practitioner credential when all sixteen builds are passed. These are ours, and they say exactly what they are.
Anthropic's exams
Core prepares you for Anthropic's Claude Certified Associate exam; the Builder track prepares you for Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect – Foundations or Claude Certified Developer – Foundations exam. The exams are Anthropic's, sat through an organisation in the Claude Partner Network — an employer that's a partner, a company of your own that joins the network, or EdgeCircle if you go on to work with us. Joining the network is Anthropic's decision, not ours. EdgeCircle is an independent training provider; a pass is not guaranteed and exam fees are set by Anthropic.
Anthropic's exam fees
- $99 Claude Certified Associate
- $125 Claude Certified Developer – Foundations
- $125 Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
US dollars, Anthropic's list price, paid to Anthropic when you register. Set by Anthropic, not by us — the current figures and the rules for sitting are on Anthropic's certification FAQ. Checked 21 September 2026. If you go on to work with us, we reimburse your first attempt at each.
The rule, for anyone who asks: we prepare people for Anthropic's exams and issue our own credentials for what they build with us. We never certify on Anthropic's behalf.
What Core costs — and Core with a track
Two ways in. Core on its own, or Core with one track.
Founding price:what Cohort 1 pays if they enrol in the first 30 days after enrolment opens. £300 off, and it doesn't come back.
The full route
Core, then one track — Builder, Career or Business. About six months from first day to door.
£390 deposit, then 12 × £130. Standard: £450, then 12 × £150. No interest.
- Everything in Core
- One track after Core — Builder, Career or Business
- On Builder, preparation for Anthropic's official exams — Claude Certified Associate, then Architect – Foundations or Developer – Foundations
- Builder: the route into paid build work with us, as the work allows
- One free track swap in the first 14 days
You choose your track in Core week 15 — nothing to decide today.
Core only
Core on its own: sixteen weeks, live and online.
£240 deposit, then 12 × £80. Standard: £300, then 12 × £100. No interest.
- Free two-week Induction
- 16 live weeks, 16 builds, taught by PGCE-qualified teachers
- Tutor feedback on every build within 48 hours
- Anthropic Academy certificates, earned inside the course
- Certificate of completion; Practitioner credential when all 16 builds pass
- Preparation for Anthropic's Claude Certified Associate exam
- A track chosen with your tutor in week 15
Add a track later if you want one — £750, one at a time.
Register your interest- 14-day cooling-off, full refund
- Deposit, then 12 monthly payments — no interest, no fees
- One free move to the next cohort if life gets in the way
Cohort 1 starts Monday 4 January 2027. Enrolment opens soon; it closes 18 December. We reimburse your first attempt at each of Anthropic's exams when you sit them as part of our team.
Frequently Asked Questions
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January cohort
Cohort 1 starts Monday 4 January 2027.
Sixteen weeks, live and online.
Enrolment opens soon.
Register your interest and you'll hear the moment enrolment opens.
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