Cohorte is a small school. We read every application personally, in order of arrival. The four criteria below are the only ones that matter. There is no essay prize. Clarity beats polish every time.
We look for people with a real AI use case inside a real organisation. It does not have to be deployed yet. It has to be something you have the authority to ship.
If you can tell us in one sentence what your system will do and what would make it a failure, you are already ahead of 80% of applicants. We will help you write that sentence in week one.
Twelve hours a week. A mentor 1:1 you actually keep. A written exercise you actually submit. The cohort is small and graded. Half-commitment is louder than no commitment.
The cohort reads every exercise. The mentors write down what did not work. If you need a credential without feedback, there are easier schools. We are not that school.
The other six are yours to draft however you like — short paragraphs, bullet points, a voice note pasted as a transcript. We read whatever you send.
We do not outsource admissions, score applications algorithmically, or run drip sequences. Every answer is written by a real person — usually CM or Tega — and arrives within seven days.
You will get a short email from Tega confirming we received your application and giving you a name to reply to with anything you forgot. Not a form-letter; a reply you can reply to.
This is slow on purpose. Nothing about admissions scales. If you applied on the deadline, you will hear back just as fast as someone who applied two weeks early.
If we say no, we say why. If we say “not this cohort,” we tell you what to do in the meantime and which cohort to aim at. If we say yes, a 20-minute kick-off call is proposed in the same email.
You send a short intake form and your first-week reading. Payment is invoiced (splittable over 3 months on request). You meet your lead mentor two weeks before the cohort starts.