AI-Native Engineering Leadership Cohort

The enterprise teams that move first on agentic delivery are pulling away. This cohort is the fastest way to join them.

  • 30 hands-on sessions across 6 weeks of focused live time, plus a one-off onboarding the week before
  • Solve real challenges from your own organization
  • Access the playbooks, agents and frameworks behind the 2x-10x delivery gains we see every day
  • Designed for CTOs, VPs and other senior engineering leaders
Next cohort
Mon 26 Oct
Live sessions
15:00 UK
Length
6 weeks
Early-bird · save €3,500
€6,500

Cohort 5 · early-bird

Starts Mon · 26 Oct 2026 · 15:00 UK

€10,000€6,500

Per participant · save €3,500

  • 30 hands-on sessions
  • Your own challenges
  • Playbooks, agents and frameworks

Full refund after Week 1 if not satisfied. No questions asked.

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Alumni results

What senior leaders built
during the cohort

  • Borja LoroñoBorja LoroñoHead of Managed Services, Europe · AgileTV

    Built in 2 weeks. Unified knowledge base for the 25-engineer team. Pattern now scaling to 150.

    Without the cohort, it was absolutely impossible to even think in that way. We built a unified knowledge base across all our repositories in two weeks - work that used to take hours of cross-team archaeology now gets resolved in a single query.
  • Dmitry KarpovichDmitry KarpovichPresident · Oxagile

    Multi-week effort → one afternoon. Internal iOS + NestJS product rebuild, shipped end to end during the cohort

    I joined already convinced. What I came out with were the proof points, the language, and the senior team alongside me - three or four top managers actively pushing AI adoption themselves.
  • Kirill YurkevichKirill YurkevichVice President of Services · Engineering Intent Corporation

    1 week → 4 hours. 25-page requirements document for a new project

    A 25-page requirements document that used to take a week is now done in four hours - and the system behind it is reshaping how we run twenty parallel customer projects. Months of internal AI discussion have become a directional plan.

In their words

You can’t lead in the AI era on second-hand understanding. So I didn’t send a team to the cohort and wait for a report back - I went myself, and took my CFO, CTO, CPO and others with me. Eight weeks later we had stopped debating what AI means for our business and started building.
Becs RoycroftBecs RoycroftCEO, Grayce
What you leave with

Yours to keep, and to scale

01

AI Readiness Diagnostic & Action Plan

Where your organization stands across the seven capability dimensions, and the sequenced plan to move

02

Transformation Playbook

A step-by-step guide your team can execute without you in the room, and keep running after the cohort ends

03

Agentic Blueprint

Complete set of PM, Architect, Dev, QA and PMO agents ready to deploy

04

20+ Production Use Cases

Real delivery scenarios, automated and proven in production

05

Architecture Canvas & Governance Charter

Frameworks to ensure quality, security, and compliance at scale

06

ROI Calculator

Model to quantify and communicate transformation value to stakeholders

07

AI-Native ways-of-working guidance

How sprint ceremonies, review gates and role boundaries change when agents do the production work

08

AI Champions Network Blueprint

Framework to build and sustain internal advocacy for AI-native practices

09

AI-Native Transformation Leader Certification

Industry-recognized credential demonstrating leadership capability

10

Alumni Network & Ongoing Support

Continued access to community, resources, and post-program coaching

Who teaches it

Taught by the people who do the work

  • Ihar ZharskiIhar ZharskiInstructor · Amsterdam

    Software delivery at scale (up to 1000+ engineers). Led AI Transformation Office, advised ASML, Philips, ING.

  • Ilya PukhalskiIlya PukhalskiInstructor · Amsterdam

    Tech strategy and architecture, complex program design. Transformations for IKEA, Ahold Delhaize, Brenntag, Primark.

  • Welin WelchevWelin WelchevInstructor · Berlin

    Technology strategy and scaling engineering teams. Former Agency CTO (500 ppl), ex-CTO EPAM. Built AI CoE at Xebia.

  • Alex BaradyAlex BaradyInstructor · Lisbon

    Ex-EPAM Co-Head of Europe. AI entrepreneur, executive advisor, and investor.

  • Sasha AstapenkaSasha AstapenkaInstructor · Amsterdam

    Scaled technology operations and strategy. Former EPAM country head, €100M+ portfolio.

  • Jonny ToozeJonny ToozeCohort Host · London

    Founder of LAB Group, a UK enterprise technology agency. Connects technology strategy to business outcomes.

In their words

The cohort fundamentally changed how my team and I prepare and decide. Personally, I’ve reclaimed about 70% of my execution time, shifting my focus from doing the work to shaping the direction.
Ronald WeststrateRonald WeststrateHead of Product, Tata
The curriculum

Six weeks, built to compound the knowledge and skills

Week 01

The AI-Native Shift

Establish the foundation. Why adoption is universal but impact is rare, and why the bottleneck has moved upstream from coding speed to specification quality and decision speed.

  • Where the 95% of AI pilots fail and what the 5% do differently
  • The 70/20/10 split: redesign the work before the tools
  • Vibe coding vs AI-assisted engineering
  • The agentic way of working: sprint ceremonies, reviews, roles
  • Where AI falls short, and how senior judgment closes the gap
Sun

Video primer: The AI-Native Shift

~15 min · Async primer

Async primer from Jonny framing the week ahead. Watch any time before Monday.

Mon

The State of AI: where we are, where we are going, and why it matters now

60 + 30 min Q&A · Live · 15:00 UK

The current state of enterprise AI adoption vs the hype. The GenAI Paradox. The perception/reality gap from METR. Why the bottleneck has shifted upstream to specification, decision speed and verification. Two waves of transformation: copilot bolted on vs agentic engineering as a ground-up redesign.

Tue

Vibe coding vs AI-assisted engineering

60 min · Live · 15:00 UK

Vibe for throwaways, context engineering for output that has to survive, agentic pipelines for work large enough to hand off. The decision framework for matching task to mode, plus the failure patterns each mode produces at scale.

Wed

Drop-in: Week 1 challenges working session

60 min · Drop-in · 15:00 UK

Optional live drop-in with a coach on the call. Working time on the two Week 1 challenges. First, map your product development lifecycle end to end with Claude and score every stage on the agentic engineering maturity model. Second, install Claude Code and automate one real repetitive task end to end. Bring anything left over from Monday and Tuesday.

Thu

The Agentic Way of Working

60 min · Live · 15:00 UK

DORA's mirror-and-multiplier effect: AI amplifies whatever flow it lands in, broken or sound. What changes when reviews shift left, decision authority moves to engineers who own outcomes end-to-end, and team size compresses. The cost of the redesign: senior identity shifts, Scrum rituals break, role boundaries blur. Week 1 runs as a single room for the whole cohort; the break-out rooms start in Week 2.

Fri

Peer introductions and Show & Tell setup

60 min · Live · 15:00 UK

Peer-led session. Introduce yourselves to the cohort, set up the personal build track, agree the codebase you will bring real challenges from. Founders observe and answer questions; the room is yours.

Pricing

Early-bird

Senior leaders

Early-bird rate until the cohort fills

€10,000€6,500per participant

Save €3,500

  • All 6 weeks of live instruction
  • Complete toolkit, agents, and templates
  • AI-Native Transformation Leader certification
  • Alumni network access
  • AI-Native transformation playbook

Full refund after Week 1 if not satisfied. No questions asked.

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Team rate · 3+ from one organization

Leadership teams

Three or more from one organization

€10,000€5,000per seat

Save €5,000 per seat

  • Bring your engineering leadership team and align them on a single methodology.
  • All 6 weeks of live instruction
  • Complete toolkit, agents, and templates
  • AI-Native Transformation Leader certification
  • Alumni network access
  • AI-Native transformation playbook

Full refund after Week 1 if not satisfied. No questions asked.

Apply as a team

Frequently asked questions

  • ENDGAME founders lead every session. They have built and deployed AI-native engineering practices at enterprise scale. Through the program they run the live workshops and the small-group coaching, review participant outputs and give architectural guidance.

  • The program is built for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors, Engineering Managers and Technical Leads responsible for engineering delivery. You bring the authority to drive transformation, accountability for productivity outcomes and a need to show ROI to stakeholders.

  • Graduates receive the AI-Native Transformation Leader certification, guidance on putting AI-native ways of working into your organization, and the full library of templates and artifacts. You also leave with your AI-Native transformation playbook and access to the ENDGAME alumni community for ongoing support.

  • Apply through the form on this page. We review applications personally, usually within two working days. Then we come back to confirm fit, talk through the challenge you would bring, and answer anything outstanding before you commit.

  • We screen for that. If a competitor applies for the same cohort, we flag it to you and you choose. Either we route one of you to the next cohort, or we run a private team cohort for your organization. It has never become a real issue, and we treat it seriously.

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