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Content Design AI Accelerator

Take a real problem from your work and turn it into a working tool. Over four weeks, you’ll learn to plan, build, and test your project, with live instruction and personal help along the way. Leave with skills you can use again, and again, and again.

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Meet your peers

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Patrick Stafford

Patrick Stafford

UXCC, MYOB

Patrick Stafford is the CEO and Cofounder of the UX Content Collective. He hosts the Writers of Silicon Valley podcast, and was previously the Lead Digital Copywriter at MYOB.

Next cohort

US $1200

Includes UXCC Membership (worth US $200)

Enrolling teams? Need an invoice or PO? Get in touch.

“If you want to build AI apps for content design this course is a great place to start! I’m now using the app I built and am confident I can expand and improve it.”

Sonja McShane

Senior Product Content Designer, PaperCut Software

“This course gave me a huge boost. I now feel more confident in thinking about how to use AI and what the process looks like and how it works.”

Rebecca Salerno

Director Digital Strategy, Kelley School of Business

“I walked in with an idea and walked out having built something I’m proud of. The skills, insights, room to experiment, and fantastic peers helped bring my idea to life. I couldn’t have done without this class.”

Robert Ballard

Robert Ballard

Senior Content Designer, PayPal

“By the end of the program, I had built something I could bring back to my workplace and I walked away more confident in my work and my future as a content designer in an AI-driven world.”

Casey Webb

Casey Webb

Senior Content Designer, Snap Finance

You'll likely be a good fit if…

  • You're a content designer or UX writer with a real workflow problem you'd like to solve.
  • You've experimented with AI but aren't sure how to turn ideas into working software.
  • You want a supported environment in which to learn, build, and ask questions.
  • You're willing to do the setup and project work outside the live sessions.

This may not be the right fit if…

  • You're already comfortable independently building and shipping AI applications.
  • You're looking for advanced model training, fine-tuning, or machine learning engineering.
  • You want a passive lecture series, rather than a program in which you build something yourself.
  • You need a guarantee that your employer will approve or deploy your tool.

Build something useful. Learn how to do it again.

01

Build a project that matters to you
Start with your own idea, define the smallest useful version, and get it running.

02

Understand what’s happening under the hood. Get comfortable with project files, AI coding tools, GitHub, and the process behind a working app.

03

Get help when you hit a wall
Build live, ask questions, and use weekly one-on-one time to work through your own blockers.

04

Learn to test, not just demonstrate
Check for errors, build a small evaluation set, and see where your tool gets things wrong.

A four-week program built around your project

A complete system for learning, practicing, and proving your skills.

Live teaching

Four weekly sessions combining instruction with time to build your project

A working tool

Finish with a project, its documentation, and a framework for testing it

Weekly 1:1 coaching

Get individual support to solve problems and move your project forward

Guides and recordings

Follow written instructions, revisit demonstrations, and work at your own pace

The full schedule

A comprehensive education in AI skills for content designers

Week 1: Learn how to build

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Get comfortable actually using AI to build instead of just edit or create content.

Learn to organize your brief, AI instructions, and reference documents; review the AI’s plan; make changes deliberately; and get a rough first version running.

Week 2: Building together

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Take on a second, short build sprint with the cohort. Then learn from what you made: use another model to audit code, choose models for different jobs, keep files manageable, and manage context across build sessions.

Week 3: Advanced techniques and evals

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Define what correct output looks like. Create examples your tool should catch, and examples it should not flag. Run the tests, track misses and false alarms, and create evaluation sets.

Week 4: Evaluation frameworks

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This week you’ll build an evaluation framework for your specific project: defining criteria, building a test corpus, and learning when to use human review versus automated evaluation. You’ll leave knowing whether your tool is actually doing what you built it to do.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to have completed other AI workshops?

No! Not at all. The program is built for people who are new to building with AI.

Week 1 helps you scope a realistic project, but you should come in with a general problem area you want to solve (content audits, style guide consistency, documentation generation, etc). As long as you have a problem, that’s the main thing. We’ll help with the rest.

That’s fine, the program is built to teach skills across multiple tools. 

Many participants get employer sponsorship since you’ll be building a tool that solves a real work problem. We can provide a detailed curriculum outline and expected deliverables to support your request.

This isn’t an AI engineering course. You’ll learn practical skills for scoping a tool, system messages, complex prompts, context engineering, evaluation, and documentation within content design constraints. If you’re looking for model training, fine-tuning, or advanced machine learning concepts, this program won’t cover that.

Have questions? We’re here to help.

We can combine self-paced courses, workshops, or create custom sessions for your team based on unique needs. Get in touch – we’d love to speak with you.

Dhanushka

Customer Success Manager

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