✦ Practical AI education

Learn how AI actually works.

Sixteen narrated courses that go from "what is a language model" to training a real transformer in your browser. Every course is a single file you download and own — no platform, no subscription, no expiry. Built for people who want to understand the thing, not collect a certificate.

First course free, in full · Works offline · Refund on request, no questions

Five levels

🌱Foundations
Builder
🔧Engineer
🛡Production
🧠Frontier
16Courses in the ladder · 9 released
13Chapters in every course
$0To start — first course is free
1 filePer course, downloaded and yours
Why this looks different

Online AI education has a credibility problem.

You already know the pattern: a countdown timer, a wall of five-star reviews from people who may not exist, a promise about replacing your salary, and a subscription that quietly renews. We think the format itself is the problem — so we changed it.

THE USUAL

Testimonials you can't verify

Stock photos, first names, invented job titles. We publish none — not because we dislike praise, but because a new catalog with glowing reviews is telling you something false on day one.

THE USUAL

Numbers with nothing behind them

"12,000 students." "Save 6 hours a week." Every figure on this site is generated from what exists on disk, and every figure inside a course is computed live from inputs you can edit yourself.

THE USUAL

A preview that shows you nothing

Most free previews are a trailer. Ours are the genuine first four chapters, complete. The paid chapters are physically absent from the preview file — there's no script to bypass, because the content isn't there.

INSTEAD

You own the file

A course is one HTML file you download. No login, no DRM, no streaming platform that can revoke access or shut down. Back it up. Read it on a plane in ten years.

INSTEAD

We can't sell what isn't built

The site checks every course file before publishing and marks anything unfinished as "in production" with no way to pay for it. That check runs on every build — it isn't a promise, it's the code.

INSTEAD

No claims about your income

These courses teach skills. They don't promise a job, a raise, or a side business, because nobody honest can promise you those. What we will say is exactly what you'll be able to do at the end of each one.

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The curriculum

Four ways in

Start where you actually are. Each course states its prerequisites plainly, and none of them assume you were pretending to follow the last one.

The core
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The full curriculum

Sixteen narrated courses across five levels. Press play and a real teacher walks you through a build while the working demos sit on the page beside you.

  • Foundations → Builder → Engineer → Production → Frontier
  • About an hour each, written to be listened to
  • Working demos and exercises in every chapter
  • Four free chapters before you decide on any of them
Flagship
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Train a real transformer

Not an animation of training — actual training. A small model learns in your browser while you watch the loss fall, then you sample from the model you just trained.

  • Attention visualised on your own text
  • No cloud, no GPU, no framework
  • Parameter count computed live, compared honestly
  • The same mathematics as frontier models, at toy scale
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The free course

The whole story of AI in about an hour — what it is, why it gets things wrong, where it genuinely excels. Free in full. No email required, nothing withheld.

  • The complete course, not a sample
  • A live model demo you can experiment with
  • The verification habit that changes how you use AI
  • If it isn't worth an hour, you've lost nothing
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Teams and custom work

Licensing for a team, or a private course built around your actual stack and workflow. That's a conversation with a person, not a pricing tier.

  • Team licensing for any course or bundle
  • Custom single-file courses, built to order
  • Your tools, your data policy, your schedule
  • Ask below — you'll get a real reply
How it works

Download it. Listen. Build alongside.

No app to install, no account to create, no video platform buffering at 480p. A course is a single HTML file — the entire classroom travels inside it.

01

Open the file

Double-click the file you downloaded. It opens in any browser, on any machine, online or off. That's the entire setup process.

02

Listen and build

A narrator teaches while the page works: live demos, exercises, and a transcript that highlights as it's spoken. When the voice says "try this", the thing is right there.

03

Keep it permanently

The file is yours. Revisit it next year, run it on a laptop with no internet, hand it to your future self. Nothing about it can be switched off.

Pricing

Pay once. Keep it.

Courses go on sale when they're finished — never before. No launch pricing, no countdown timers, no price that changes depending on how long you've been on the page.

No subscriptions, ever. You buy a course the way you buy a book.

Start free

The first course in full, plus real preview chapters from every paid course.

$0
No email. No account. No card.
  • AI in One Hour — the complete course
  • Chapters 1–4 of every paid course
  • Identical format to the paid material
  • Decide with your own ears
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Single courses

Take one rung. Each course stands alone and says who it's for.

$29–$79 each
Priced by level · flagship $79
  • Foundations $29 · Builder $39
  • Engineer and Production $39–49
  • Frontier $59 · Flagship $79
  • Level bundles from $69
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Team licensing or invoicing? Get in touch →

The first course costs nothing

Judge it by the free one.

Take the free course. If it earns the next one, continue. If it doesn't, you've spent an hour and come away understanding how AI actually behaves — which was worth the hour anyway.

Contact

A person reads this.

Not sure where to start? Need licensing for a team? Found an error in a course? Write it here and you'll get a straight answer from someone who worked on the material — not a sequence of automated emails.

✉️ hello@theprompt.school
🕐 Replies usually within a day or two
🌍 Fully remote · every timezone welcome

Received — you'll hear back from a person. ✦

The ladder

Sixteen courses, five levels

9 released so far. Start free and climb as far as you like.

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