Description

Advanced Workshop: Narrative Coding & Workflow Engineering

Stop Visiting AI. Make It Work For You.

Daily Maverick and Imagineers.ai invite GenAI Masterclass alumni to a two-day advanced workshop focused on practical, local-first AI execution: running models and workflows on your own machine, not inside browser chat windows.

Limited to 12 participants | Venue TBC (Rosebank/Sandton, Johannesburg)

Why This Workshop

In the Masterclass, you saw the shift:

• from prompting in cloud chatbots
• to operating AI directly from your laptop
• with tighter control over context, outputs, and process

 

That shift is now becoming standard practice. This session is designed to help you implement it in your own work, end-to-end.

What You Will Learn

This is a two-day hands-on intensive session. No theory-heavy lectures.

• Recap Session (Teams, Friday afternoon 27 March)
  Markdown, Obsidian, prompting, and advanced interaction patterns
• Fundamentals
  CLIs, apps, IDEs, and GitHub
• Running AI on Your Machine
  Setup, security, tooling, skills, and plugins
• Workflow Engineering
  Designing and operating autonomous workflows in natural language

Capstone Build: Lead Generation Workflow

You will build a working lead-generation workflow you can take home and run locally. This applies whether you are:

• a business finding customers
• a professional prospecting for clients
• an NGO identifying funders

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• operate AI tools on your own machine with stronger security and control
• review, create, and transform artifacts (docs, sheets, slides, code)
• design workflows that AI can run autonomously from natural-language instructions

Details and Investment

Dates: 30–31 March 2026 Time: 08:30–18:00 (both days)
Venue: Workshop 17, Rosebank, Johannesburg
Capacity: 12 participants

	Price (inc VAT)
Maverick Insiders contributing R200 or more per month	R16,000
Non-Members	R19,500

Included

• two full days of in-person training
• meals and refreshments
• workshop materials and resources
• ongoing resource access

Facilitators

The session is led by Imagineers.ai co-founders Rutger-Jan van Spaandonk and Chris Barker.

 

Prerequisites

• completion of the Daily Maverick GenAi (Exec) Masterclass
• a laptop (Mac or PC)
• paid access to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini
• recommended: Claude Max ($100/month) for best workshop throughput

Ready To Move Beyond The Chatbot?

The Masterclass made you AI-capable. This workshop puts AI to work on your machine.

Spaces are limited to 12.

Terms and conditions

Pricing

• Standard (Non-Insiders): R19,500 per attendee.
• Maverick Insider rate: R16,000 per attendee, only for active Maverick Insiders contributing R200+ per month at booking and up to the event date. One discount per active membership applies.
• If Insider status is not valid, you must pay the difference before attending.

Your Ticket includes:

• Entry to the in-person training session(s) on the event date.
• Digital resources after the event.
• Meals and refreshments as stipulated in product description.
• Not included: travel, accommodation, parking fees (unless expressly stated), meals not listed, and any personal costs.

Cancellations

• Cancel by email to [email protected] with your booking reference.
• Because we incur venue commitments and non-refundable catering costs, a reasonable cancellation charge may apply.
• You may substitute another attendee by email at least 48 hours before the event.

Cancellation charge caps
We charge no more than a fair amount, and reduce the charge if we resell your seat.

When you cancel (before start time):

• 7+ days: we retain 10% of ticket price
• 3–6 days: we retain 50% of ticket price
• 1–2 days: we retain 100% of ticket price
• Event day / no-show: we retain 100% of ticket price

Refunds

Approved refunds are paid back to the original payment method within 15 business days.

Postponement or cancellation by us

• Postponement: your ticket remains valid for the new date, or you may request a refund if the new date does not suit you (request within 5 business days of notice).
• Cancellation: we will refund the ticket price you paid.

Code of conduct

• We want a professional learning environment. We may refuse entry or remove an attendee (without refund) for serious misconduct, harassment, discrimination, violence, or unlawful behaviour.
• This is an in-person event and we do not provide recordings. Attendees may not record the session (audio/video) without our prior written permission.
• Training materials remain our intellectual property (or the presenter’s). You may use materials for your personal learning / internal business use. You may not share, sell, publish, upload, or reproduce materials without written permission.