In partnership with #NYTechWeek · Midtown Manhattan · For all ages 20+
In partnership with Kyros Prep · For parents + teens 12–19
A live preview of the 6-week AI Startup program Alisha teaches in partnership with Kyros Prep — what students build, how it works, who it's for. Open to high schoolers and the parents figuring out what AI literacy actually looks like in 2026.
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The Playbook compressed into a single morning session. Walk in with an idea. Walk out with a pressure-tested concept brief, a build/skip decision on your top three features, and who you need to talk to before you write another line of code.
Apply for a seat (RSVP) →Six weeks, twelve seats. Live online. Ship a real AI product by graduation. Includes the full framework set, weekly office hours, peer accountability, and a final pitch session with feedback from operators who've been on both sides of an exit.
A 2-hour live session of the AI Founder Playbook methodology, currently hosted at NY Tech Week 2026. Walk in with an AI idea, walk out with a pressure-tested concept brief, a build/skip decision on your top features, and a call list. Approval-required.
For founders, PMs, and senior operators with a specific decision in front of them. Personalized sessions designed to create impactful outcomes & deliverables. Offered directly and also in partnership with AnitaB.org and the Grace Hopper Celebration.
White-label cohorts and custom AI literacy curricula for enterprises, foundations, and education partners. Currently delivering programs in partnership with Kyros AI, Brown University, and U.S. Department of Education (via USDR). Inquiries by introduction.
Most AI courses teach you to use AI.
This Playbook teaches you to ship something worth doing.
The five-layer test for whether your idea solves a paid problem — or just an interesting one. Where most AI products quietly die.
How to find the three signals that confirm a problem is worth solving — before you've written a line of code, vibed another half-baked prototype that ChatGPT claims will "change the world" or burned another sprint on a feature that no one asked for.
The closed-loop feedback system that turns user behavior into product decisions. Adapted from systems shipped at scale to 500M+ users.
What to ship in v1, what to defer, what to kill. The single tool that prevents the "boil the ocean" trap that sinks most first-time founders.
A visual model for surfacing the ten decisions that actually determine whether your product ships, scales, or stalls. Used at TuneCore, Reuters, and Howard Hughes.
The framework for designing for retention from day one — because most products don't lose users; they were built to lose them. Ported from work with 500K+ creators.
Alisha Outridge built the AI Founder Playbook from 15 years of shipping — at Meta, at Reuters, at TuneCore, and at two acquired startups.
As CTPO of TuneCore, she led AI personalization that drove +25% revenue and +30% engagement across 500K+ creators. As CPO of FlyBy, she shipped the computer vision and AR work that seeded Apple's ARKit. As CPO of WHIM, she scaled a $1B smart-screen platform to 3.3M+ daily viewers across NYC Transit.
She now teaches at Brown University and Hunter College CUNY, advises the U.S. Department of Education on AI governance through USDR, and runs Byte & Chord — a venture studio building AI products across music fintech, education, and government.
The Playbook is what she wishes someone had handed her in 2010.
Cohort applications, masterclass dates, and a weekly note on building real AI products. No fluff, no "10 prompts that will change your life," no hustle bullshit.