Learn to decide what AI should build — not just how to ship it faster.
A 6-week cohort for product managers and technical leads across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. Six graded artifacts, one capstone GTM pitch, zero code required.
Every Coursus course is being refreshed for this cohort. Join the list and you're first to apply, before the public announcement.
The GenAI Value Stack · Week 1
Applicationprompts · guardrails · UI
Middleware / OrchestrationRAG · vector DB · agents
Foundation Modelclosed vs open-weight
Infrastructurecompute · inference cost
Live cohort, not a recorded courseZero code required, judgment-first curriculumGraded by a real panel, not an auto-quizNamed frameworks: NIST, ISO 42001, EU AI Act, NDPA
Role positioning
AI Product Manager, not AI Project Manager
Comparable programmes blend the two lanes. Coursus owns one of them — the one that decides whether a feature should exist at all.
Dimension
This programme
Delivery lane
Core question
Should we build this, and will it create value?
Will this ship on time, in scope, at acceptable risk?
Primary artifact
Feasibility sheet, eval set, pricing model
RAID log, delivery roadmap, status report
Success metric
Adoption, retention, model quality, unit margin
On-time delivery, budget adherence
Seniority path
Associate PM → Director of AI Products → CPO
Project Coordinator → PMO Lead
Structure at a glance
Six weeks, six graded artifacts
Every abstract concept is grounded in a concrete deliverable before the week closes.
WEEK 01
AI Literacy & Technical Empathy
Abstract code fear → concrete stack literacy.
GenAI Stack Architecture Blueprint
WEEK 02
Opportunity Framing
Classic agile discovery → AI-lifecycle discovery.
3-Way Feasibility Framework Sheet
WEEK 03
The Data Moat
Static data assets → living feedback loops.
Implicit Telemetry Tracking Map
WEEK 04
Interacting with Probability
Deterministic UX → non-deterministic UX.
Poka-Yoke UX Edge-Case Flow
WEEK 05
The Death of the Vibe Check
Manual prompting → programmatic evals.
The Golden Test Evaluation Set
WEEK 06
GTM & Unit Economics
Feature thinking → unit-economics thinking.
Consumption-Based Token Cost Ledger
Capstone scoring
Graded like a real portfolio, not a quiz
Every panel member applies the same bar — the six artifacts are scored individually, then the assembled pitch is scored as a whole.
90–100
Distinction
All six artifacts are internally consistent and reference each other. Real, defensible numbers throughout.
75–89
Merit
Complete and individually strong, but the connective narrative between artifacts is thin.
60–74
Pass
Complete but at least one artifact is generic rather than grounded in a specific product idea.
<60
Fail
A mandatory artifact is missing, or the pitch cannot survive basic panel questioning.
Governance, privacy & regulatory risk
Named frameworks, not general ethics language
AI governance skills grew 150% year over year per LinkedIn's 2026 Skills on the Rise report. Graduates should be able to name every framework below.
NIST AI RMFUS · voluntary baseline
ISO/IEC 42001International
EU AI ActEU · extraterritorial
NDPA 2023Nigeria
Kenya DPA 2019Kenya
Regional case studies
Grounded in named companies, not generic claims
Fintech · Nigeria
Fraud detection at scale
87.5% of surveyed Nigerian fintechs use AI for fraud detection — the Central Bank of Nigeria's clearest live opportunity-framing exercise.
Edtech · West Africa
uLesson's Ask feature
AI homework help paired with offline SD-card delivery — a localisation constraint most Silicon Valley curricula never train for.
Healthtech · Rwanda
Babyl's symptom assessment
Two million+ registrations on an AI-supported triage layer — the highest-stakes fallback-design case in the programme.
B2B SaaS · Cape Town
Libryo's compliance positioning
Marketed as risk reduction, not AI novelty — the closing lesson for the unit-economics and GTM week.
Admissions
Applications open September 10.
Every Coursus course, including this one, is currently being refreshed ahead of the next cohort.
AI Product Manager — Elite Certification
6 weeks · 6 graded artifacts · Capstone GTM pitch
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Applications open September 10. Join the list and you'll get first access before the public announcement.
Six weekly modules, each closing with a graded artifact
Capstone GTM pitch reviewed by a live panel
Named governance frameworks: NIST, ISO 42001, EU AI Act, NDPA, Kenya DPA
Regional case studies from Nigeria, West Africa, Rwanda and South Africa
No payment today. We'll email you the moment applications open on September 10.
Learn to decide what AI should build — before you learn to ship it.
AI governance skills grew 150% year over year. The judgment layer is what's scarce, and it's what this certification builds.
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