The CEO wants 2× velocity. The CFO wants 30% lower spend. Your team wants to know if Cursor is going to replace them. In 12 weeks, you'll rebuild your engineering org around AI-native workflows — and the standing to defend the redesign.
The Reality Check
You're a senior engineering leader: VP Eng, Head of Eng, CTO. You're accountable for shipping velocity, platform reliability, hiring and retention, and now — a CEO demanding an AI-first eng org by next quarter.
You've trialed Copilot, Cursor and Claude Code. You've drafted three versions of the AI dev policy. You've sat through four vendor demos that all promised 10× engineers.
But you don't have time to chase every coding agent. And you can't afford to be the eng leader whose org gets quietly outshipped by a team half your size.
You need to redesign the org. Not get reorganized around.
The Opportunity
The pattern is visible: engineering leaders who rebuild their workflow around coding agents are shipping 2–3× more features per sprint with the same headcount. The ones still trialing tools without changing the workflow are losing senior engineers to teams that already shipped the redesign.
AI fluency at the engineering-leader level has gone from differentiator to default. Boards now ask CTOs about their AI dev workflow before they ask about uptime. And a small group of eng leaders has gone further — building portfolio careers as fractional CTOs, advisors and product-engineering coaches, on the back of the AI systems they shipped themselves.
This program makes you more valuable inside your current role first. Then it gives you optionality.
The Solution
A 12-week peer advisory program for sitting CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Heads of Eng. One goal per week, five tasks per goal, 12 live sessions, and 5 anchor outputs you actually ship — plus one live AI dev workflow running in your real codebase.
Get past the vendor noise. Using Claude Code, Cursor and a curated tool stack, you'll ship working AI dev workflows tailored to your codebase: PR review agents, test-generation bots, on-call summarizers, RFC drafters.
You won't leave with just opinions. Every cohort member ships five anchor outputs + one live AI dev workflow — the kind you can demo on a CEO 1:1 or in a CTO peer dinner.
Pressure-test your eng strategy in a curated, NDA-protected room of fellow eng leaders. Peer pairs, weekly check-ins, no vendor pitches, no recruiters.
Learn the exact sequence to make yourself indispensable where you are — and, when you're ready, to land fractional CTO mandates or advisory seats. On your timeline.
The Five Anchor Outputs
Who This Is For
CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of Eng, Senior Directors at Series B+ startups, scale-ups and mid-market enterprises.
Tired of being asked 'so what's your AI strategy' on every board call. Ready to ship the redesign, not narrate it.
You still write or read code most weeks. You want a curated room to install AI-native workflows for compound impact — not another webinar.
Not for: Engineering managers early in career, individual contributors, or anyone looking for a generic 'intro to LLMs' course. This is an eng-leadership room.
Your Guide
Veteran CTO · Engineering Leader · Forward Achieve Partner
Your guide has scaled two engineering orgs from 6 to 80+ engineers, shipped production AI features at unicorn scale, and currently runs a fractional CTO practice powered by the AI dev workflows the cohort will build. The curriculum draws on the Forward Achieve eng-leadership library, the Beast Score diagnostic and a library of unlisted CTO interviews.
What to Expect
Frequently Asked
Yes. Every workflow you build runs in your real codebase, on your real CI/CD. We don't make you adopt a tool you don't use.
Hands-on. You'll be in Claude Code and Cursor every week. This is for eng leaders who still ship — not those who've been out of the IDE for five years.
2–3 hours most weeks, ~5 in the three build weeks. If your on-call rotation can't hold that, this isn't the right cohort.
No. It's a capability-and-optionality program. You leave more valuable where you are, with the assets to choose a portfolio path if and when you want one.
Most training teaches you to think about AI dev workflows. This one ships them — five anchor outputs, one live workflow in your codebase, and a Demo Day.
Ship Anchor 1 by the end of Week 3 and decide it's not delivering — tell us and we'll refund in full. [CONFIRM refund terms before publishing.]
The Full Syllabus
Three stages. Twelve weeks. Click any stage to expand.
Run the Eng Beast Score with the cohort. Diagnose your AI Velocity Gap. Draft your 12-week target.
Session 1 · 90 min · Cohort orientation.
Map your dev workflow against the 3-tier framework (Substitute / Augment / Elevate). Identify your top 3 automation candidates.
Session 2 · 60 min · Task-stack clinic.
Run the Clarity Prompt against velocity, quality and cycle-time data. Ship a one-page diagnostic. Pressure-test with peers.
Session 3 · 90 min · Diagnostic clinic.
Install Claude Code + Notion or Obsidian. Load your RFCs, postmortems and architecture docs. Query your own KB.
Session 4 · 60 min · Build session.
Move from AI Operator to AI Translator. Ship one production-ready coding-agent prompt for a real PR.
Session 5 · 90 min · Prompt-engineering lab.
Lock the coding-agent stack, prompt patterns, PR review automation. Roll out to one squad in week.
Session 6 · 60 min · Workflow clinic.
Build the dashboard — cycle time, PR throughput, AI-assist ratio. Push to live. Send to your CEO.
Session 7 · 90 min · Dashboard shipped live.
Pre-score 3 candidate leveling rubrics. Run the Stream Filter Test live. Lock your anchor leveling rubric.
Session 8 · 60 min · Leveling clinic.
Sharpen rubric + scorecards. Push one open role through the new system. Send three calibrated offers.
Session 9 · 90 min · Hiring role-play.
Walkthrough of squad shapes that work post-Copilot. Decide on a 90-day org-design experiment.
Session 10 · 60 min · Org-design audit.
Ship one AI workflow end-to-end in your real codebase — PR review, test gen, or on-call assistant. Runs in CI.
Session 11 · 90 min · Workflow built live.
Present your 5 anchors + live workflow. Sign your 90-day plan.
Session 12 · 90 min · Demo Day.
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This is the inaugural run of the program. Pricing, access, and the seat at the table all reflect that — and won't repeat in future cohorts.
We build AI workflows for a living. For this room, the intake is a conversation, not a form — so there's one step:
Internal: Sales playbook — ICPs, Apollo search & 5-touch sequences ↗
If you're a sitting CTO, VP Eng or Head of Eng ready to lead the AI shift inside your org — let's talk.