Fall 2026 · Cohort One
AI SCHOOLx Primal Moves
A full semester of AI school on a real campus in Venice. Build your AI. Build your body. Build your people.
Who This Is For
Three tracks. Choose the cohort you want to join — 12 spots each, first come, first serve.
12 spots
The AI Educator
For teachers, coaches, and creators who want to teach AI.
Learn it, then learn how to hand it to a room. You leave with your own curriculum, your own course, and the confidence to stand in front of students.
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12 spots
The AI Wizard at Work
For people with a job they want to become irreplaceable in.
Become the person your company can't run without. Automate your role, ship things nobody else can, and walk into your review with receipts.
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12 spots
The AI-Native Founder
For business owners building and scaling their own thing.
Automate the parts that eat your week, build the agents that do the work, and accelerate the business you already own.
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Tuition
$5,000 up front
or $1,800 per month
The pilot
We're starting with 36 students — 12 per cohort — for the fall semester pilot, with room to expand based on demand. First come, first serve.
Benza Maman, Danielle Lloyd & Dom Coryell teach the teachers and the small business owners.
Teaching assistants: Marco, Max, Steve, and Julian.
The Weekly Rhythm
Wednesdays
Mastermind Day
- Afternoon: Masterminds — small groups, real businesses, faculty in the room
- Then: Workout at Primal Moves — you build in a gym for a reason
- Evening: Evening of Gratitude — dinner together, every week
Gym access + dinners included in tuition.
Sundays
Bootcamp Day
- Afternoon: Hands-on bootcamp — ship something real, every single week
- Close: Dance party. Yes, every Sunday.
Leave with working AI, not notes.
The Semester Map
Thirteen weeks. Four arcs: Foundations → Build → Ship → Demo.
Weeks 1–4 · Sep 16 – Oct 11
Your AI kit installed, alive, and running your week.
W1 Opening — Opening day. Your kit, installed and alive.
Weeks 5–8 · Oct 14 – Nov 8
Agents, tools, and workflows built around your real business.
Weeks 9–12 · Nov 11 – Dec 6
Out of the sandbox — live, in front of real customers and users.
W11 Gratitude Week — Thanksgiving week. We feast.
Week 13 · Dec 9 – Dec 13
Your build on stage, in front of the herd.
W13 Demo Day — Final builds on stage. Closing dance party.
The Faculty
Eight builders. Full curriculum dropping soon.
Benza Maman
Claude Agents
The #1 AI instructor on Udemy — 500,000+ students, dozens of courses, 50,000+ reviews. He teaches Claude agents the way he teaches everything: hands on keyboard until it works.
Dom Coryell
Vibe-Coding & Tools
Head of AI Growth at Shopify. Founded Talkable (YC, 500 Startups). He shows builders how to describe an app out loud and watch it actually ship — no code required.
Marco Hansell
AI Life Alignment
Founder and self-described polymath: "I lost $35m and gained my life." He now builds living games and living systems, and holds the lane where your AI serves the life you actually want.
Danielle Lloyd
Holistic Health x AI
Founder, writer, and former international bodybuilder building at the intersection of AI, health tech, and human behavior — hormones, neuroscience, somatics, and the tech that moves them.
Adi Sideman
AI Video & Storytelling
Serial media founder, now building Popcorn.co — an agentic AI showrunner that produces brand video at scale. He teaches the story side: what to make, and why anyone watches.
Max Marine
Agentic Business · Host
Founder of the Grateful Giraffes and AI School. Max hosts the campus and teaches the agentic business operating system he runs his own company on.
Julian Melcer
Experience & Community
Co-founder of AI School. Experience designer, environmental activist, and somatic healing specialist — he curates every gathering and brings the human magic to the campus.
Steve Celi
AI Video Content
Turns AI video tools into real content, live — prompt to finished clip. He teaches the making side: how to actually produce what you post.
What It Looks Like
Filmed live at the AI Bootcamp — real students, real builds.
The People
A community of dreamers who get sh*t done.
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$5,000 / semester
or $1,800 per month
- ✓ 13 weeks · 26 sessions · every Wednesday + Sunday
- ✓ Primal Moves gym access + weekly dinners included
- ✓ Masterminds, bootcamps, Evenings of Gratitude, dance parties
- ✓ Demo Day — your build, on stage, in front of the herd
36 students for the fall pilot — 12 per cohort. First come, first serve.
Apply for Cohort 1
Two minutes. We read every application.
Grateful Giraffes · Heads in the clouds. Feet on the ground. Big hearts. 🦒