Applied LLM Foundations
9 February 2026 · 15 June 2026 · 7 September 2026
2026 intake
Write or call, match a programme to the workflow, pay S$400 to hold a seat, and settle the balance seven days before the first Wednesday. Twelve seats. A waiting list if the room is full.
Calendar
Start dates are first studio Wednesdays unless noted. Online seats use the same clock, Singapore time. Private sprints are booked apart from this table.
9 February 2026 · 15 June 2026 · 7 September 2026
16 March 2026 · 12 October 2026
4 May 2026 · 2 November 2026
15 June 2026 · 30 November 2026
3 August 2026 · 14 December 2026
Money
Public fees are S$1,980, S$2,480, S$2,880, S$3,400 and S$3,600 according to the line on the catalogue page. The figure covers instruction, sample corpora, recordings of the example halves, Saturday clinics, six months of cohort chat, twelve months of notes, the document of completion, and one 45-minute revision. API spend sits in your own account and is not part of the fee.
A deposit of S$400 holds the seat. The remainder is due seven days before the first Wednesday. Invoices are issued in Singapore dollars. Private sprints are quoted after a scoping call and are not listed as a public price.
Policy
Deposits are refundable if you write to [email protected] more than fourteen days before the start date. Inside fourteen days the deposit is kept and we move you once, at no extra fee, to the next published run of the same programme if a seat exists. After the first Wednesday the fee is not refunded because the notes, clinic and instructor time are already allocated.
If Aimasteryhub cancels a run, you choose a later 2026 date or a full refund of deposit and balance already paid. A programme may be combined with the following intake when fewer than six seats are confirmed ten days prior; anyone who cannot take the new date receives a refund.
Capacity
Each public cohort has twelve seats, including online. When the twelfth deposit is in, further names go on a waiting list in the order we receive complete forms. If a seat opens more than seven days before start, we offer it down the list with forty-eight hours to pay the deposit. Inside seven days we rarely add a new person because the evaluation-set work has already begun.
Two colleagues from the same organisation may sit together. Larger groups should look at a private sprint rather than occupying half a public room.
Questions
Nine questions we hear on the enrolment call. Answers match the JSON published in the page source.
For Applied LLM Foundations, Automation Studio, Retrieval & Data Engineering, and Model Evaluation & Guardrails you should be able to follow a README, edit a script, and run it locally or in a notebook. Spreadsheet fluency plus that much is enough for Foundations. AI for Operations Leads does not require a repository; you work in structured notes and tables. If you have never opened a terminal, say so on the call so we can point you at the right line.
The example half is recorded and placed in the cohort folder the same night. You still submit the Friday walkthrough. One missed studio evening is expected; two in a row usually means the artefact stalls, so we ask you to use Saturday clinic before the next week. We do not rerun a full evening for one person.
Yes. Online seats follow the same 19:00–22:00 Singapore time block, the same artefacts, and the same Saturday booking sheet for a screen-share clinic. You need a stable connection and a laptop you administer. Fees are the same as the room. Some employers still prefer the Bain Street seat for the second half of the evening, when the instructor is at the table.
You use keys in your own account. A Foundations week scored on a few hundred calls typically stays in a modest two-figure USD range if you keep the evaluation slice tight. Agent weeks cost more because of tool loops. We log tokens in class so the number is visible. Aimasteryhub does not resell tokens and does not set a shared key.
No. Bring a machine you can install a browser, editor and, where needed, a language runtime. The studio supplies desks, displays, wireless network and sample files. If a work laptop blocks local installs, tell us during enrolment; a notebook-only path is possible on Foundations and on Operations Leads.
AI for Operations Leads is written for that seat: four weeks, no production repository, emphasis on scoping, evaluation questions and a vendor or builder brief. The other public lines assume you will type in a repo. Mixing a lead and a developer from the same team on Automation Studio is a common pattern when the lead wants the longer build.
Yes. Completing the artefacts and the Friday walkthroughs earns a document of completion issued by Aimasteryhub. It is not an accredited award, not a degree, and not a licence to practise. We state that on the document so a hiring manager is not misled.
No. We work on anonymised extracts or synthetic sets that you generate before week one. Production customer files, credentials and unreleased documents stay off studio machines and off the live stream. If your legal team needs a written note of that rule, we send it with the enrolment pack.
The programme still ends on the published Friday. You leave with the evaluation log, the last passing slice, and a written list of what remains. The included 45-minute revision can be used to pick the next increment. A stalled task is a common outcome when the data was late or the owner was absent; it is not treated as a fee dispute if you attended and submitted the logs.
We reply within one working day and book a twenty-minute call to pick a line and a 2026 date.