Live cohort sessions with senior practitioners, every weekend.
Real-World Projects
Build a portfolio with hands-on industry case studies.
Community Access
Join a cohort of peers and the wider Firstlincoln alumni network.
Internship Pathway
Transition from learning into real industry experience through our internship program.
Weekend Mentorship Sessions
More than recorded videos — this is a live cohort.
The AI Accelerator runs every weekend as a live cohort — small group, instructor-led, focused on applying what you learn at work the following Monday. You won't watch alone; you'll build alongside peers across financial services, healthcare, retail and government.
Live Q&A with senior practitioners every Saturday
Real industry case studies, not textbook examples
Cohort accountability with peer reviews
1:1 portfolio review at the end of the program
Sessions run Virtual or Physical — pick your format when you enrol.
What you'll learn
Prompt Engineering for Business
AI Models
Prerequisites
Zeal to Learn
Curriculum statistics
48
Hours
12
Live sessions
5
Courses
30+
Real projects
1:1
Mentor reviews
Curriculum
5 modules • 15 lessons • 6-8 Weeks
Foundations of Applied AI
3 lessons ▾
What AI actually is (and isn't)
The Generative AI landscape in 2026
How AI is used today in Nigerian industries
Prompt Engineering for Business
3 lessons ▾
Crafting prompts that produce reliable output
Few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured prompting
Building reusable prompt templates for your team
No-Code AI Tools
3 lessons ▾
Building workflows with n8n and Zapier AI
Document Q&A with NotebookLM and ChatGPT
Image and video generation for marketing
Building Your First AI Agent
3 lessons ▾
What is an AI Agent
Hands-on: Build a research agent with LangChain
Connecting tools, memory and the web
Capstone — Solve a Real Problem at Work
3 lessons ▾
Identify a workflow worth automating
Design, build and demo your AI solution
Peer review and cohort showcase
Reinforce your learning with real projects
Work on real world projects and get practical industry-relevant experience
Learning objectives
Design conversation flows for the Nigerian context
Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation over company docs
Deploy on WhatsApp Business API for real customer use
Customer Service Chatbot
A WhatsApp + web chatbot that answers FAQs and escalates to human staff
Learning objectives
Connect to your CRM via API
Summarise deal stages, blockers and next-best-actions
Email the digest automatically every Monday
Sales Pipeline Summariser
An agent that drafts weekly sales reports from your CRM data
Learning objectives
Generate Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram variants
Match Firstlincoln's brand voice
Schedule into Buffer or Hootsuite
Marketing Content Generator
A tool that turns one brief into a full week of social posts
Learning objectives
Parse multi-page PDFs into clean chunks
Embed and retrieve with vector search
Cite the source page on every answer
Document Q&A Assistant
Ask questions of any PDF and get cited answers
Personalized Roadmap
Start your journey with a learning path customised to your motivation and experience
Start
1
Master Prompting
2
Build with No-Code
3
Build your First Agent
4
Connect AI to Your Workflow
5
6
Ship Capstone Project
1
Start
2
Master Prompting
3
Build with No-Code
4
Build your First Agent
5
Connect AI to Your Workflow
6
Ship Capstone Project
Internship Pathway
From classroom to a real industry role.
Top performers progress into our Internship Pathway — a structured placement programme of 3, 6 or 12 months. Internships are either sponsorship-backed or guardian-supported, depending on the arrangement that suits the learner.
15+ years across data science, ML engineering and applied AI in Nigerian financial services and telecoms. Former lead at Echoo Innovation Lab. Trained 400+ professionals across West Africa.
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