Sixteen weeks. Eight tracks across AI/Cybersecurity, then two months of paid internship inside the Veenode Digital Agency. Live cohort delivery, global standards, African pace. One flat fee of $1,000 $200.
Every cohort moves through the same four phases in lockstep,designed so you never coast, and never get left behind.
Set the stack. Linux, Git, networks, Python, the AI vocabulary. Everyone arrives at the same baseline so the cohort moves together from week three.
Pick your spine,AI Engineering or Cybersecurity,then go deep across four weeks of live workshops, graded labs and 1:1 mentorship.
Two weeks to ship a portfolio-grade project end to end. Shipped in pairs across disciplines,an AI engineer and a security analyst together.
Four weeks embedded inside the Veenode Digital Agency on real client work,building, securing and shipping software with senior engineers.
A typical week during the training phase. Live sessions are scheduled in West-Africa-friendly windows and recorded.
No add-ons, no premium tier, no module unlocks. The $1,000 $200 you pay covers every line below,for all twelve weeks.
The fourth phase is not "apply to internships",it is the internship. Every learner who completes the training joins an 8-week paid rotation inside the Veenode Digital Agency, embedded in a small team building software, securing infrastructure or training models for paying clients.
Every graduate finishes with the same baseline,a portfolio, a certificate, agency experience and an alumni network. From there, the path forks.
Join an AI team in production,model deployment, evaluation, MLOps. Average alumni offer: $1,400/mo remote, $4k/mo on-site.
SOC, cloud security or GRC roles at fintechs, telcos and consultancies. Average alumni offer: $1,200/mo remote, $3.5k/mo on-site.
Build a client roster from day one,Veenode Agency refers overflow work to alumni. Median first-year revenue: $9,000.
We are able to price this way because the Veenode Agency subsidises CLD. Our learners become our pipeline, and our clients fund the runway.
Selective but not gatekept. We take applications on a rolling basis until each cohort fills.
10-minute application,basic info, motivation, track preference.
Short async screen: a writing prompt and a logic puzzle. 48-hour turnaround.
20-minute conversation with a Veenode mentor in your prospective track.
Offer issued within 5 working days. Hold your seat with a $100 deposit.
Pre-work, software setup and cohort intro 7 days before kickoff.
Live opening session with mentors, agency leads and your cohort peers.
No. We've admitted learners straight from secondary school as well as career switchers from finance, marketing and medicine. The screen looks for curiosity and follow-through, not credentials.
Plan for 18–22 hours weekly during training (Phases 1–3) and 35–40 during the internship (Phase 4). The schedule is published 4 weeks before cohort start so you can plan around it.
You can switch once between Week 2 and Week 3,the end of Foundations is designed to be the decision point. After that the curriculum specialises and switching becomes disruptive.
You can pay it all up front, or as 2 × $100,$100 to hold your seat and $100 by Week 1. We do not offer income-share agreements; the fee is intentionally low so we don't need to.
No. Anything that can run a modern browser and SSH works. All compute-heavy work (model training, security labs) happens on cloud sandboxes we provide.
Recordings post within 12 hours, and your mentor will help you catch up at your weekly 1:1. Miss more than three live sessions in a phase and we'll have a conversation.
Applications take ten minutes. Decisions in five days. The next twelve weeks could change the next ten years.