How long is the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp?

12 weeks at about 15 hours a week. The weeks run as six two-week blocks; each block ends in a project you deploy and a gate you must pass before the next block opens.

Is the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp live or self-paced?

Live. It is taught on Zoom by one instructor, with a 30-minute one-to-one every week. Nova, Square 1's AI tutor, grades every exercise and project between sessions against a rubric you can read.

When are the live sessions for the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp?

Live sessions run on weekday evenings from 5:30 PM Sri Lanka and India time, with full-day sessions at weekends. That is 5:00 PM in Pakistan, 5:45 PM in Nepal and 6:00 PM in Bangladesh, so the sessions fit around a working day.

How much does the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp cost?

A$200 for the founding cohort, paid once; the standard price is A$400. It is the same price in every country. Founding students keep their founding price on any second programme.

What will I build in the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp?

6 deployed projects: One process, Approval, Three tools, Monitored, The platform and Employer brief. Each is graded against a published rubric and kept on a record an employer can open at /verify.

What skills does the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp teach?

n8n, Make, Python, APIs, LLM steps and monitoring. It prepares you for roles such as AI automation engineer, Operations engineer, Business systems analyst and RevOps or BizOps engineer.

Does the AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp guarantee a job?

No. No placement rate is published because the first cohorts have not graduated. What you leave with is six deployed projects, a recorded defence of your code and a hiring plan worked through with your instructor, including a two-week hiring sprint at the end.

Live bootcampTaught live on Zoom, one instructor

AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp

Replace six manual business processes with agents and automation that keep running.

AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp is a 12-week live online bootcamp, taught on Zoom by one instructor at about 15 hours a week, with 6 deployed projects and a one-to-one every week. The founding price is A$200, down from A$400. Live sessions run on weekday evenings from 5:30 PM Sri Lanka and India time, with full-day sessions at weekends.

Taught with

PythonChatGPTClaudePostgreSQLGitHub

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By week 12, you will have shipped

Week 1Process MapA step-by-step map of one manual process with inputs, outputs and time per step
Weeks 1–2Process to automationOne manual process automated end to end, running on a schedule
Week 3Approval QueueAn approval queue where a person accepts or rejects each draft an agent produces
Weeks 3–4Agents in the loopAn approval-gated agent automation, deployed
Weeks 5–6IntegrationsA cross-system automation touching three tools, deployed
Week 7Failure Test HarnessA test harness that feeds bad inputs to an automation and checks each one is caught
Weeks 7–8ReliabilityA monitored automation with alerts and a test harness
Week 9Run Log TableA SQL table that records every automation run with status, duration and errors
Weeks 9–10ScaleThe capstone: a small automation platform running six processes
Weeks 11–12Employer brief and hiring sprintThe employer brief shipped, and demo day

weeks, live on Zoom: 12
hours a week: 15
projects to build: 10
minutes 1-1, every week: 30

Who it is for, and what you receive.

Operations people, analysts and generalist builders who want to replace manual business processes with automations and agents that keep running after they walk away.

Before you start

Comfortable with spreadsheets and one scripting language, or willing to learn Python in block one.

Skills

n8nMakePythonAPIsLLM stepsmonitoring

A week, about 15 hours

Live on Zoom: 4h
Set reading and exercises: 6h
The project: 5h

1
Six deployed projects
Each graded by Nova against a published rubric and signed off by the instructor at the gate.
2
The twelve-week plan
Every week has its theme, its topics and what you build, published before you apply and taught live by your instructor.
3
Live on Zoom every week
A 90-minute live code review, a 60-minute squad lab, 60 minutes of office hours, and a 30-minute 1-1 with your instructor.
4
Your hiring plan
Opened in week 1 and reviewed in every 1-1: target roles, the gap map, the proof list, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome.
5
The record
Every grade and every project with its repository at square1ai.com/u/{handle}, and the recording of your viva, verifiable by any employer.
6
The certificate
A credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify to the real completion.
7
The hiring sprint
Weeks 11 and 12: CV and portfolio from graded work, applications, mock interviews scored against the role, demo day.
8
Nova for twelve weeks
A tutor with every submission of yours in its memory, at 2am as well as in class.

Twelve weeks in six parts.

Each part teaches for a week, then you build and deploy a project, then a gate checks it before the next part opens. The project and its gate are the part's entry on your record.

Live time each week on Zoom: a 90-minute class where the instructor reviews real submissions, a 60-minute squad lab, 60 minutes of office hours, and your own 30-minute 1-1. Nothing is lectured live; the recorded lessons do that.

Key skillsMapping a process worth automatingn8n, Make and code: when eachTriggers, queues and idempotency
Week 1
Process to automation
- Mapping a process worth automating
- n8n, Make and code: when each
- Triggers, queues, idempotency
- Python for people who did not think they needed it
You build: A process map and the first automation
Week 2
Project 1: one process
- Reruns
- Bad input
You build: One manual process automated end to end, on a schedule
Project 1 · the gate at week 2
One process
One manual process automated end to end, running on a schedule
You hand in
- Process map
- The automation
- Rerun and bad-input tests
The gate
The automation survives a rerun and a bad input.

What you can do by week 12.

Six deployed automations that are monitored, not hoped for, and the judgement to choose no-code, code or an agent for each step of a real process.

1
Map a process worth automating and choose between no-code tools, code and an agent for each step.
2
Build automations with triggers, queues and idempotency that survive reruns and bad input.
3
Add LLM steps with structured output, human approval and an audit trail.
4
Integrate CRMs, spreadsheets, email and chat, and APIs without documentation, with secrets handled properly.
5
Monitor automations with retries, dead letters, alerts and a test harness.
6
Run a small automation platform and defend its worst failure.

Roles this prepares you for

AI automation engineerOperations engineerBusiness systems analystRevOps or BizOps engineer

No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.

Your record at week 12.

Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.

Graded, line by line: Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
Six gates: A block does not open until the previous project passes its gate. You always know where you are and what is next.
A weekly 1-1: Thirty minutes with your instructor, who has already read your code before the call.
One page an employer can run: Every grade, project and the viva recording at /verify. An employer opens it, runs the code and watches you defend it.

Record, AI Automation Engineer BootcampExample

Week 2
One process
The automation survives a rerun and a bad input
Graded, gate signed
Week 4
Approval
Every agent decision is logged with its evidence
Graded, gate signed
Week 6
Three tools
Failures in one tool do not corrupt the others
Graded, gate signed
Week 8
Monitored
A seeded failure pages someone and is recoverable
Graded, gate signed

The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.

8 entries, twelve weeks. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.

Reserve a seat

How we help you find a job.

The last block is not curriculum. It is the hiring sprint, and the proof you built in the ten weeks before it.

The course booklet

The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.

Get the booklet

1
Your hiring plan, from week 1
Six parts you and your instructor keep: target roles, the gap map from real postings, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. Read before every 1-1.
2
The hiring sprint
Weeks 11 and 12: CV, portfolio, applications, mock interviews, and demo day in front of hiring partners.
3
A record an employer can run
Your deployed projects and the recorded viva on /verify. An employer opens it, runs the code and watches you defend it.
4
The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
5
The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.

Questions people ask.

About AI Automation Engineer Bootcamp, answered from the plan on this page.

One cohort, one instructor. Hold your spot.

A cohort of 25, one instructor, 12 weeks, six things you ship. Spot holders hear the start date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.

Six deployed automations, monitored
The judgement to choose no-code, code or an agent
A recorded viva
Your record on /verify

A$200~~A$400~~