the living craft

Programmes

Three routes into the same work

An individual applies to the open cohort. An employer can fund that same individual place. A team is a separate enterprise programme with its own schedule and its own scoping conversation. What you do is the same in every case: build a working agentic system and practise explaining the decisions behind it.

Explore the open cohort  Learning for a team

6 weeks, live, at ~5 hrs / week. The cohort is capped at 8 seats.

Which route fits

Choose by who decides and who pays

Route one

The open cohort

You are an experienced engineer, architect or engineering leader joining as an individual, alongside people from other organisations. Admission is by application, after a conversation about fit.

Read the cohort page Route two

An employer-funded place

The same cohort place, paid for by your organisation. Apply as an individual and ask for the employer-funding summary; the application asks whether you are self-funded or exploring employer support.

Apply and name the funding route Route three

A programme for your team

A group from one organisation, with a schedule agreed for the group. This is a separate purchase and a separate scoping conversation — never counted as a set of individual applications.

Enterprise learning

The work itself

The same five areas, whichever route

The route decides who you sit with, who pays and how the schedule is agreed. It does not change the subject. Every route works through the same five areas against a system you have actually built.

  1. 01

    Purpose and constraints

    Frame the task, the context and the choices the system needs to support.

  2. 02

    Tools and authority

    Examine what the system may do, the evidence it needs and where a person should decide.

  3. 03

    Evaluation

    Inspect behaviour and failures, and connect findings to a useful design change.

  4. 04

    Reliability and cost

    Consider uncertain results, retries, review effort and the trade-offs around the model.

  5. 05

    Design review

    Explain the architecture, listen to challenges and identify the next useful piece of work.

The published guides work through several of these in full, if you would rather read the method before deciding.

How they differ

The parts that are not the same

Open cohort

Who is in the roomIndividuals from different organisations
Live hours6 weeks, ~5 hrs / week
Group size8 seats, capped
AdmissionBy application, after a fit conversation
Next stepThe cohort page

Employer-funded place

Who is in the roomThe same open cohort
Live hours6 weeks, ~5 hrs / week
What is differentA funding summary your organisation can act on
AdmissionYour application, on its own merits
Next stepApply and say “employer support”

Enterprise programme

Who is in the roomOne organisation’s group
Live hoursSchedule agreed for the group
Group sizeNormally 8–10 participants
AdmissionA scoping conversation, not an application
Next stepEnterprise learning

Before you choose

What is settled, and what is not

Applying is not a purchase. It starts a discussion. Admission, payment and attendance confirmation are three separate steps, and each one involves a different person saying yes.

Industry-specific practice is the default. You do not need a company project, and confidential company material should not be sent with an application or an enquiry. Company-specific work needs its own conversation about scope and permission.

There is no certificate. The focus is the capability you develop through the work.

The cohort starts September 2026. Fees are set per region and shown on the cohort page for your own region. Payment is due one week before the cohort starts, and applying commits you to nothing.

Next step

Start where your decision is

For yourself

The open cohort

The full page: who it is for, the returns example, the five areas, the commitment, and the application and enquiry forms.

Read it For a team

Enterprise learning

Readiness, what a group works on together, how coordination is handled and how a scoping conversation begins.

Read it

Advising a team through a live design decision is a different thing again — see advisory, or contact for which route goes where.

Written . Pending Sunil’s factual approval.