The IC PM Kickoff: Build Your First Agent with Claude Code
Join Praveen Kashimsetty (Principal PM · Microsoft) for a free live session.
Praveen Kashimsetty
Principal PM · Microsoft
⭐ 4.8 / 5
You know about Claude Code. Now build your entire workflow around it.
The top 1% of PMs today don't just use AI — they operate from the terminal. They build their own agents, get their own answers, and ship AI features they actually understand. This 5-week course turns you into that PM. You'll build a full agentic chief of staff, connect Claude Code to your real data, ship agents from scratch, and learn how to lead an AI-native team — not just talk about one.
What You'll Learn
Agentic Chief of Staff
Build calendar, email, and analytics agents that triage your inbox, analyze your week, and surface insights — running on your real accounts by Week 2.
MCP Data Connections
Set up MCP servers for Snowflake, Notion, Linear, and Google Workspace. Query your own data in natural language — no data scientist required.
Eval Suite and Ship Decision
Write eval suites that catch model regressions before your users do. Produce a documented ship/hold decision backed by coverage analysis and regression results.
AI-Native Team Playbook
Design the access, training, and builder day format that moves your org from AI-curious to AI-operative — and rewrite one career ladder expectation to make it a real standard.
Who Is This For?
This course is designed for:
Product Managers
Who want to go beyond prompting and actually build the agents and workflows that make them 10x more effective at their job.
Senior PMs & CPOs
Who want to model IC behavior for their teams — getting their own answers, building their own tools, and shipping with real technical depth.
PMs on AI-Native Teams
Who are shipping LLM features and need to understand evals, model swaps, and distribution-first product thinking — not just user stories.
Course Outline
5 weeks · 3 sessions per week
Projects You'll Ship
Leave with real work to show, not just a certificate.
Agentic Chief of Staff
A working calendar + email agent suite running on your real accounts — triaging, analyzing, and drafting, with you in the loop on every action.
Analytics Agent + Eval Suite
An MCP-connected data agent querying your real systems, plus an eval suite for an AI feature you own — with a documented ship/hold decision.
IC PM Playbook
Your personal agentic workflow + an AI-native team playbook with access plan, builder day design, and one rewritten career ladder expectation — presented live.
Your Instructors
Praveen Kashimsetty
Principal PM · Microsoft
⭐ 4.8 / 5
Praveen is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, known for shipping large-scale, real-world products across cloud, security, and AI systems. With deep experience across Microsoft, Meta, and startups, he helps builders move from idea to production — fast and reliably.
What Students Say
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"I built my calendar agent in Week 1 and ran it every day for the rest of the sprint. By Week 5 I was pitching my entire team on builder days. This course changed how I work."
Priya Kapoor
Senior PM · Rippling
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"The evals week alone was worth it. We swapped models on a production feature and for the first time had actual data to back the decision. No more shipping on vibes."
Marcus Webb
Product Lead · Linear
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"I went from never having opened a terminal to running three agents daily. The setup in Week 1 is so good that even non-technical PMs get unblocked immediately."
Ananya Bose
CPO · Brex
Course Schedule
All sessions are instructor-led and live. Recordings available within 24 hours.
SUNDAY
10:00 AM PDT
Live BuildBuild alongside the instructor. Every session ends with something running on your machine.
WEDNESDAY
6:00 PM PDT
Coaching SessionSmall group debugging and iteration. Bring your setup issues and agent problems.
THURSDAY
6:00 PM PDT
Ship SessionFinish and test your weekly deliverable with peer review and instructor feedback.
Frequently Asked Questions
Related reading
The JD-backed research behind this course — from Dexity Intel.
Claude Code in 2026: What It Is and How Teams Use It →How far do you want to go?
Start free to experience our offering, choose the program length you would want to commit to.
You build. Nobody demos at you.
Every session is follow-along — you build the thing yourself while a practitioner works beside you. That is why the hours look long: they are yours to build in, with an expert on hand to guide you. None of it is a traditional lecture.
In the session, you'll: