Learn AI from someone who builds it —
not someone who resells it.
A 2-week crash course that puts a real AI workflow on your real machine: the environment, the toolset, the day-to-day practice, and the skill of building your own tools. Taught live, in a group of twelve, by the developer who wrote the software you'll be using — then you stay in the community after.
The AI course market is broken. You've probably already paid for it.
Somewhere out there is a $2,000 course recorded by someone who has never shipped a line of AI tooling — repackaged summaries of documentation, sold with a countdown timer. People buy it because there's nothing else. Foundry is the thing they were actually looking for: primary source, from a working studio, at a third of the price.
Everything you need to actually run this stuff.
Not information — infrastructure, workflow, and access. The three things the scam courses can't sell you because they don't have them.
The Kit
A pre-built environment that runs on whatever machine you already own — our curated toolset, pre-configured, with welcome videos and a setup guide. Boot it and you're at the starting line. No partitioning, no bricked laptops.
4 live sessions
Two 90-minute calls a week for two weeks — half working through material on screen, half Q&A and hot-seats on your setup. Every session recorded. The recordings are yours to keep.
The real workflow
Watch how a working studio actually uses AI day to day — prompting, agents, multi-tool flows, the unglamorous parts included. This is the footage nobody else has, because nobody else's teacher does the work.
Build-your-own case studies
Warden, dockbox, graice — real tools from our studio, walked end to end: the problem, the build, the decisions. So you can build yours, not just use ours.
The Foundry Discord
During the course: a private cohort channel with async Q&A and office hours. After the course: the ongoing community you stay in. Stuck? You're asking the person who wrote the tool, not a community manager.
A shipped capstone
By week two, you ship one small real thing using the whole stack. You leave with proof, not a certificate.
Five modules, one capstone, four live sessions.
Each module maps to four live sessions across two weeks. The kit arrives before session one — we start on workflow, not tech support.
The Kit
Your student environment: a pre-built virtual image with the curated toolset, welcome videos, and a setup guide. Runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux — nothing to partition, nothing to break.
The Environment
Set up a real AI working environment from scratch — what each piece is, why it exists, and how the parts fit together. You'll understand your own machine, not just rent ours.
The Toolset
What's in the stack and why — the hundred hours of evaluation you get to skip — plus the evaluation skill itself, so you can judge the next tool without waiting for someone to sell you an opinion.
The Core Workflow
How the work actually gets done: prompting, agents, multi-tool flows, recovery when things break. Real footage from real projects — the part nobody shows because it doesn't fit on a slide.
Build Your Own
Our studio's tools as case studies — Warden, dockbox, graice. Here's a problem we had, here's the tool we built, here's how you'd build your equivalent. The graduate skill of the whole course.
Capstone
Ship one small, real thing using the whole stack. Live review in the final session. You leave with an environment that works, a workflow that's yours, and proof you can use it.
The credentials are public. Go read them.
AiOn Foundry is taught by Dominic, the developer behind our studio's tooling. No hidden instructor bench, no rented faces — the person on the call is the person who wrote the code, on camera, answering in the Discord between sessions.
Warden
Our open-source local multi-agent platform — drives a real browser, email, calendar, and messaging from one machine. The engine inside AiOn Onsite.
See Warden on GitHub →dockbox
Our collaboration suite — chat, projects, files, automations, calendar, vault, with the AI agent baked in. A live product, not a demo.
See dockbox.dev →Graice
A voice-first assistant for seniors — reminders, scheduling, family communication, and life-story capture, all by voice, running on Warden. A different problem, same orchestrator core.
See graice.ca →Every other course asks you to trust testimonials. We ask you to read code. If you want to know whether the teacher can build, the answer is on GitHub before you pay a dollar.
$597 CAD. Once. Then it goes up.
Cohort 1 is priced low on purpose: you're taking a small bet on us, and we're taking your feedback as part of the deal. Cohort 2 is $797. After that, Foundry becomes a recorded course at a higher price — and you'll already own the live version.
We invoice directly — a real invoice from AiOn Systems, not a checkout funnel with a countdown timer. Full refund within 7 days of cohort start or before session 3, no questions asked.
Join the founding waitlist →- The Kit — pre-built environment, toolset, and setup guide, yours to keep
- 4 × 90-minute live sessions over 2 weeks, with recordings you keep forever
- The Foundry Discord — async Q&A with the instructor, during the course and after (the ongoing community)
- Templates, configs & cheat-sheets for every module
- Capstone review — live feedback on the thing you ship in week 4
- 7-day refund — no questions, no forms, no exit interview
What's included — and what isn't.
The line is drawn now, publicly, so nobody is surprised later. This is how a course stays a course instead of quietly becoming an agency.
The environment, the curriculum, the live time, the recordings, the community, and honest answers to your questions — including "don't build that, use this instead." If a session runs long because a real problem surfaced, it runs long.
Done-for-you work on your projects — that's a 1-on-1 intensive, or an AiOn Managed engagement for businesses. There's no "secret software" upsell, because there is no secret software: the tools we teach from are public. And we support the kit as shipped (the VM), not custom bare-metal installs.
From waitlist to working environment in four steps.
Join the waitlist
Short application below — what you do, what you've tried, what you want to build. It filters for fit and it's free; no seat is sold yet.
Get your invoice
When cohort dates are set, seats are offered to the waitlist in order. You get a real invoice from AiOn Systems. Payment confirms your seat.
Onboard
Discord invite, Kit download, and a pre-cohort "kit check" office hour — so session one starts on workflow, not tech support.
Two weeks, live
Two sessions a week for two weeks, Q&A between them, capstone at the end. Then you stay in the Foundry Discord. You finish with a working environment and something shipped.
The ones everyone asks. Answered like we mean it.
Twelve seats. This is how you get one.
Three honest questions. Not because we're gatekeeping — because a cohort of twelve only works if everyone in the room is there to do the work. Dates go to the waitlist first.
Ask us anything.
Skeptical is reasonable — this market earned your skepticism. Email us the hardest question you have and you'll get an answer from the person who'd be teaching you.
tech@aionsystems.ca — answered by a human, usually same day.
Buying for a business?
If you want your team trained rather than trained-by-cohort — or you want the whole thing done for you — that's AiOn Managed.
Stop buying courses. Start running the tools.
Two weeks, live, twelve seats, one instructor who built everything he's teaching — then the Foundry Discord after. $597 CAD at the founding price — fully refundable if we're not worth it.