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.
