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Alien Brain Trust
Secure AI Builder
Bootcamp
Beta Cohort Kickoff
August 1, 2026 · Jared Little · alienbraintrust.ai
About Me
25+ years building systems
that can't afford to break
Jared Little.
Two and a half decades in enterprise cybersecurity and identity & access management at a large financial institution — the kind of environment where mistakes are expensive and shortcuts get audited. I'm not an academic or an AI influencer. I've built, secured, and automated complex systems at enterprise scale, and now I'm doing it again with AI — in public, with you.
About My Company
Alien Brain Trust
Advanced intelligence for intelligent businesses.
ABT runs on its own methodology — built in public, 140+ blog posts documenting the real journey. The proof is the product. We're also seeding a community-built agent registry: 4 live reference agents so far, growing as this cohort and future ones build and share their own.
My Why
I want to be the person who trained and equipped the next wave of builders
AI is going to create an enormous number of new builders and new companies. I want to be known as the person who trained, equipped, and helped build them — not from the sidelines, but hands-on, in the work.
How I Got Here
I didn't plan this.
I fell into it.
Early Days
Playing with ChatGPT like everyone else — curious, not serious yet.
The Grok Moment
My first paid AI subscription, right after Elon announced Grok. My first thought: "an MBA in your pocket." That's when it clicked — I had to actually learn this.
Building My Own Lab
Stood up alienbraintrust.ai as my own personal learning lab. I was worried a large financial institution wouldn't roll out AI capabilities fast enough, and I wanted to learn it my own way — my own guardrails, limited constraints, real but manageable token and subscription costs. A safe place to explore.
Falling In Love With It
I found myself 8-20x more productive. I replicated my own engineering team's workflows. I integrated the same kinds of tools I use at work — just running my own company with them.
What I've Built With It
Not theory. Shipped.
All of this, while working a full-time job — 10-15 hours a week.
Rebuilt and auto-deployed my own website
Shipped features in a single prompt — dark mode, blog, landing pages, research papers
Built skills and agents that handle repetitive work and keep brand and content consistent without me doing it by hand
Learned to build and deploy real agents — course tester, QA bot, social media agent, agent risk evaluator — running in isolated AWS sandboxes
Used AI to build this course itself, and to document the whole journey on the blog
AI is a level setter. It's the intelligence equalizer.
— Jared Little
My First Real Product
The AI Builder Cohort
Join the community, sign up for the cohort, and build alongside me — real AI agents, running on the same AWS ecosystem I use myself.
What Makes This Different
Not another AI course
Small by design — capped at 15, not a MOOC
Community-driven — you build alongside peers, not alone
Security-focused — nobody else teaches this credibly at this depth
Hands-on — you build a real agent, then we attack it
Built for anyone — no coding background required to start
Focused on AI-first companies, AI enablement, and responsible AI transformation — not just tool tips
Why Not Just Go Free?
The free courses are real.
So is the trap.
Some of the best AI training out there is free, straight from the vendor — Anthropic, Microsoft, and others put out genuinely good material. That's not a knock on them. But you can easily get lost in it, and it's a lot of theory with no one checking whether you actually built anything.
Free vendor courses
Deep, self-paced, theory-heavy. No cohort, no accountability, no one to unstick you. Easy to start, easy to stall out.
This cohort
A community. You build hands-on, alongside peers, and come out having actually harnessed an AI-assisted workforce — not just read about one.
The Gateway Skill
Chat is copy-paste.
Code is the unlock.
If you're only working in a chat window, you're mostly copying and pasting — great for prompting, but it caps out fast. Moving to a code assistant is what actually opens the door to unlocking and building your business with AI.
Chat-based AI
Copy, paste, repeat. Good for one-off prompts and drafts. Bounded by your own typing and attention.
Code-assisted AI
Tools like Claude Code turn AI into a teammate that reads, writes, and runs your actual systems. This is where automation and real business leverage start.
Proof, Not Theory
Alien Brain Trust lives in a repo.
The entire company's brain — thesis, ICP, course content, infrastructure, this deck — lives in a GitHub repo. AI isn't a chat window I copy-paste into. It's my thinking partner, my product owner, and my coder, working directly in that repo alongside me.
Thinking partner — works through strategy, positioning, and hard calls with me, in the repo
Product owner — scopes what's next, flags scope creep, keeps everything tied to the constraint
Coder — writes and ships the actual course content, infra, and site, committed straight to the repo
Let's Go Build
Time to look at the real thing
Tour of the website, the community, and the course, then we'll review the first three modules together, live.
What's Next
You're already in.
Here's how to go deeper.
Everyone here tonight gets free-level community access — a profile, the discussion, the course content, whenever you want it. No pressure to build anything.
Just exploring
Set up your community profile, click through the content on your own time. Come back for show-and-tells whenever something pulls you in.
Ready to build
RSVP for the hands-on track — next live session Wed Aug 5, through Demo Day Sat Aug 15.
Join the community (free option): community.alienbraintrust.ai/plan-subscription