Build with AI, in good company.

A live monthly session for non-technical builders. Learn what's new in AI and build with it, alongside people like you.

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Hosted by Thomas MeliAI educator and consultant
We meet live on the third Wednesday of every month.Next: In 13 days12:30–2:00 pm ET · 90 minutes on Zoom

Every month, one big idea.

Tom builds with AI 12+ hours a day. Each session takes one big thing from that work, or from the wider field, and teaches it in plain language. Pick a month to see what it covered.

  • Early User Feedback
  • Alpha Testing
  • Error Monitoring
  • Learning Experience Design
  • AI Planning and Evaluation
  • Reusable Skills

Session 7 ·

Learn from Real Users Before You Feel Ready

What Tom taught

  • Use a Guided Alpha to Learn from an Unfinished Product
  • Use Error Reports to See Problems Users Do Not Describe
  • Give Independent Jobs Their Own Working Context

The momentum comes from doing it with other people.

Tom“Can we make a research helper?”“I built a great content workflow!”“I need a dashboard for my users.”“How do I handle data privately and securely?”You“I automated my client intake!”
“How do I handle data privately and securely?”Tom“I built a great content workflow!”
“Can we make a research helper?”You“I need a dashboard for my users.”
Bring what you're working on, or what's stuck, and together we find your next step.

What people say about learning with Tom.

“Tom is the perfect teacher for this. He is a masterful tutor, meeting you at your level and mindfully guiding you to grow. He knows AI inside and out and is constantly learning. Working with Tom has given me such solid foundations on AI that I feel like I can keep up with any conversation in the space and even teach those around me. I have also learned a whole new way of thinking, one that affects my daily life and workflow. I feel significantly more empowered, creative, and productive. Thank you Tom!!!”

Dan LermanFounder, Brainstorm Tutoring | Co-Founder, LXT

“Working with Tom has been a stellar experience. He is amiable, insightful, & very bright. His guidance and feedback truly have inspired me to dig into the world of AI as a tool for professional and personal use. Highly recommended!”

Scott DotyCo-Founder, LXT

“With my AI informed business, Thomas has been a lifesaver numerous times over, especially helping me critically think about how to apply it successfully for my clients. His aptitude, passion and fervor for teaching is remarkably valuable & insightful.”

AdamFounder & Entrepreneur
Thomas Meli, smiling, in a navy jacket.

Your host, Thomas Meli.

10 years
running a tutoring business
8 years
as a software developer
Top 1%
on the Kaggle machine learning platform
Since 2016
when AlphaGo captured his imagination

After Kaggle, he dove deep into the applied side of AI, focusing on what these tools can build for everyday businesses.

As the founder of Deep Test Prep, he knows what it means to juggle lesson planning, student progress, and billing while trying to do your best work. For the past two years, he's been helping entrepreneurs and creatives build with AI through his consulting practice and the AI Mastermind.

Browse Tom's AI guides and prompt library

From idea to “I made this.”

For people ready to get in the game and build.

  • You can feel what AI could do for your work
  • You have ideas waiting to be built
  • You’re ready to sit down and build
  • You’d like people around you when you get stuck

AI Mastermind membership

Your monthly level-up

$97per month

  • A live 90-minute mastermind session every month
  • Full access to the member portal
  • Submit and vote on session topics
  • Session replays and recaps
  • The community wins board
  • Automatic pro access to the full ai.thomasmeli.com prompt and guidebook library

Sessions are recorded for members, and membership renews monthly until you cancel. By continuing to Stripe, you agree to the Terms and the recording, AI use, and community notice.

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Next live session · In 13 days12:30–2:00 pm ET on Zoom

Questions before you join.

  • Not at all. This is built for non-technical builders. We use AI tools that let you describe what you want in everyday language, then turn it into something you can test and improve. You just need to know what you want the tool to do, and we guide the build step by step.

  • All kinds: automating client onboarding, building personal dashboards, creating AI assistants trained on your own content. Sometimes we work through exercises together to build a new skill, and even those are personalized so you walk away with something useful for your world.

  • No worries at all. Live sessions are recorded and transcribed so members can catch up afterward. You can submit a question in advance, join with your camera and mic off and take part through chat, or use the replay whenever it works for you.

  • Yes. It is month-to-month through Stripe, one click from the billing portal whenever you need.

  • Usually between 8 and 25, small enough that you can ask a question and get individual attention. If the group gets bigger, we split into smaller cohorts so nobody gets lost.

  • That is normal, and a lot of people start that way. We help you find something that fits your work. Sometimes the best project idea comes from watching someone else build theirs: you see a client onboarding flow and think, “I could do something like that for my invoicing.”

  • You will want at least one paid subscription, something like ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro. Free tiers work for experimenting, and the paid versions are noticeably better for the kind of work we do here.

  • We lean toward building. You pick up concepts as they come up, and the goal is always to leave with something that works.