S.P.I.D.E.R AI Agents Bootcamp
S.P.I.D.E.R AI Agents Bootcamp
Prompting gets you started. SPIDER gets you to production.
This bootcamp introduces the SPIDER standard: a structured framework for designing AI agents that are scalable, reliable, and autonomous. Move beyond ad-hoc prompting and start building agents with architecture.
What You're Joining
This is not a lecture series. This is not a passive online course.
Season 1 is a 14-week sprint where you:
Learn from founders and practitioners actively shipping AI products
Build with the latest AI agents frameworks, tools, and techniques
Network with 10,000+ other ambitious builders moving at speed
Get funded by pitching your project to the investors and sponsors in our community who are actively backing hot AI companies
Ship something real from proof-of-concept to demo-ready product
Over 14 weeks, you'll go from zero to having built and shipped an AI-powered product with a team you trust.
SPIDER Agent Series
These are the deep-dive technical sessions that power the cohort. Each is designed to give you hands-on, immediately applicable skills in building production-grade AI agents. All workshops follow the SPIDER Standard — a structured framework for scalable, reliable, autonomous agent design.
Workshop 1: Build AI Agents with the SPIDER Standard
When: Thursday, April 16 | 12–2 PM ET
Level: Intermediate (some AI experience recommended)
What you'll do: Move beyond prompting into systematic agent architecture. SPIDER is a structured framework for designing AI agents that are scalable, reliable, and autonomous. By the end, you'll have a working scaffold for building production-grade agents.
Special Session: AI Coding Agents
When: Friday, April 17 | 7–8 PM ET
Level: Beginner
What you'll do: Get started with using AI Coding Agents to build your projects by learning all about Devin, the autonomous coding agent from Cognition.
Workshop 2: Building Agents Securely
When: Thursday, April 23 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate
What you'll do: Security from day one, not day ten. Learn how to build agents that handle sensitive data, execute actions, and interact with external APIs — safely. Covers prompt injection defense, access control, and safe tool use patterns.
Workshop 3: Agentic Payments
When: Thursday, April 27 | 12–2 PM ET
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
What you'll do: Agents don't just retrieve info — the best ones transact. Learn how AI agents are beginning to pay, get paid, and move money on behalf of users and businesses. Explore payment APIs, rails, and design patterns for autonomous money movement.
Workshop 4: Guardrails for your Agents Spending with ampersend
When: Thursday, May 7 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
What you'll do: An agent without a wallet is an agent without autonomy. Learn how agents are provisioned with financial access, how spending limits and controls are enforced, and what tooling is available today for integrating agent wallets into your products.
Workshop 5: Identity for AI Agents
When: Thursday, May 14 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate
What you'll do: Every agent needs a verifiable, trustable identity. Learn how to assign, manage, and verify agent identities across services, APIs, and multi-agent systems. Covers decentralized identity, credentialing, and trust models.
Workshop 6: AI Agents Discovery
When: Thursday, May 21 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
What you'll do: Single agents are powerful. Networks of agents that discover and collaborate with each other? That's the endgame. Learn emerging standards and protocols for agent discovery, capability manifests, and interoperability frameworks.
Workshop 7: AI Agents on Ethereum
When: Thursday, May 28 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
What you'll do: The intersection of AI agents and blockchain isn't theoretical anymore — it's being built. Learn how agents interact with Ethereum: executing smart contracts, reading on-chain data, deploying wallets, managing transactions.
Special Session: Agent Abstracted Environments on Ethereum
When: Monday, June 1 | 6–8 PM ET
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
What you'll do: You'll explore how to build agent-native environments on Ethereum using a customized EVVM. The focus is on giving AI agents a smoother execution layer with far less friction than standard blockchain interactions.
Workshop 8: AI Agents Infra
When: Thursday, June 4 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
What you'll do: Your agent works in a notebook. Does it work at scale? Learn the backend building blocks for production-grade AI agent systems: orchestration, hosting, state management, observability, and deployment pipelines.
Workshop 9: Scaffold Agents
When: Thursday, June 11 | 7–9 PM ET
Level: Intermediate
What you'll do: Stop rebuilding the same agent architecture from scratch. Learn how to scaffold agent systems rapidly using modern frameworks and templates — reusable patterns so you ship faster.
Join Our Community
This cohort is not just for online classes. We're building a real community.
🌍 Events in NYC, SF, São Paulo, and globally (virtual)
🤝 50,000+ builders, founders, and investors
🚀 Mentorship from operators actively shipping AI products
💰 Backed by Cognition, Vercel, and leading AI investors
📈 Companies from past cohorts raising capital and hiring