An Innorve company

AI-Native Architecture.
Taught by engineers who ship.

Innorve Academy is the credentialing body for the world’s first generation of AI-Native Architects. We teach the methodology of architecting AI-native systems — earned from real production work at banks, credit unions, and healthcare enterprises.

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Built from production lessons in banking, credit-union, and regulated systems.
Engineers
Fortune 500
Grade curriculum & instructors
Method
8 frameworks
Teachable. Public. Earned.
Credential
6 levels
L0 → Fellow. Evidence, not quizzes.
Cohort 1
June 14, 2026
Applications open · 60 seats

Every other AI academy is teaching the wrong thing.

01Courses teach you to prompt ChatGPT.

02Bootcamps teach you to build a chatbot.

03Influencers teach you to be “AI‑fluent.”

04Universities teach textbooks that are 5 years old.

Hiring managers at banks, insurers, and Fortune 500 AI teams are asking a different question: can you architect AI so it actually runs — reliably, safely, auditably — inside our organization?— Every CTO we’ve ever spoken with

Nobody is teaching that. That’s the gap we fill.

What we teach

The Innorve Method.

Eight teachable frameworks. Earned through years of real production work. Together, they are the discipline of the AI-Native Architect.

01

Skill Architecture Patterns

Decomposing any work into reusable, testable skills.

02

Policy-as-Code Methodology

Guardrails, permissions, and compliance as version-controlled code.

03

Evidence-by-Design Framework

Every decision produces an audit trail — by construction.

04

Skill Contract Schema

Typed interfaces between humans, agents, and tools.

05

Maturity Gate Model

L0–L5 readiness gates for every capability you ship.

06

Capability Graph Thinking

Organizations as capability graphs, not org charts.

07

Tenant-Aware Design

Multi-tenant, data-segregated systems that pass enterprise review.

08

Multi-Tool Strategy

Claude, LangGraph, MCP, Bedrock — chosen on fit, not fashion.

Read the public methodology overview →

The credential path

Six levels. One trajectory.

Innorve Academy is the credentialing body for AI-Native Architects. Your credential is earned through evidence — not quizzes or certificates.

L0
AI User
Everyone starts here.
L1
AI Builder
Free community active member.
L2
AI Operator
Launch tier graduate.
L3
AI-Native Architect
Scale graduate + capstone reviewed.
L4
Certified Architect
Architect exam + real engagement.
L5
Fellow
Contributed substantial IP to the community.
Five audiences

Individuals. Organizations. Institutions.

One methodology. One community. Five paths in.

01 · STUDENTS

Launch tier

Undergrads, career switchers, self-taught builders working toward their first AI-native role.

4 weeks₹9,999 / $249
02 · WORKING PROS

Scale tier

Engineers, PMs, and analysts whose jobs are being rewritten by AI this year.

8 weeks₹49,999 / $1,199
03 · SENIOR ARCHITECTS

Assure tier

Tech leads at banks, insurers, and healthcare shipping AI that must pass audit.

12 weeks₹1,49,999 / $3,499
04 · ORGANIZATIONS

Capability Workshop

Private cohorts for teams of 10–30 inside a single enterprise.

90 days₹20–50L
05 · UNIVERSITIES

Partnership program

White-labeled curriculum for CS, design, and business programs.

Annual₹5–40L
The bootcamp

6 weeks. 48 hours of live training. One production-grade AI system shipped — by you, from scratch, in your own GitHub.

W1

AI Fluency & Context Engineering

Prompting as engineering, not art. Skill contracts. Context windows as architecture.

ClaudeCursor
W2

RAG & Retrieval Systems

Production retrieval patterns. Chunking, rerankers, and evaluation of grounded answers.

pgvectorCohere
W3

Agent Engineering

LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, and MCP. State machines over vibes.

LangGraphMCP
W4

Evaluation, Observability & Trust

Eval-driven development. Audit trails. The week that separates hackathon demos from production AI.

The Moat Week
W5

Fine-tuning, MLOps & Production

When to fine-tune, when not to. Deployment, cost, latency, rollback.

ModalBedrock
W6

Capstone + Demo Day

Ship a production-grade system with a governance binder. Public review on LinkedIn Live.

Capstone

See the full curriculum →

The guild

A guild of AI-Native Architects. Not a classroom.

You’ll join a pod of 8–12 peers who ship publicly every week. Pods persist forever. The credential is earned in public.

Pod · apollo · 12 membersLive
PA
Priya A.
Scale · Cohort 1
12m ago
ShippedWeek 4 — my agent's first eval suite. 15 tests, 3 regressions blocked before prod. Exactly what I hoped for.
DK
Daniel K.
Assure · Cohort 1
1h ago
ShippedFinished the policy-as-code module for our CU's loan-approval assistant. Binder is 38 pages. Compliance signed off this morning.
MR
Maya R.
Launch · Cohort 1
4h ago
ShippedFirst retrieval pipeline live. 1,200 docs indexed, rerank working. Groundedness eval at 0.91.
SR
Sushanth R.
Fellow · Faculty
yesterday
Demo Day #3 is confirmed for May 31, 6 PM IST / 8:30 AM PT. Four capstones on the slate. Guests from two partner banks.
AT
Aarav T.
Scale · Cohort 1
2d ago
ShippedCapability-graph map of our PM org. 43 skills, 11 gaps, 3 that need humans, 2 that need agents. Useful model.
Pods

8–12 members. For life.

Mixed tiers and timezones. Once you’re in a pod, you’re in forever — long after the cohort ends.

Demo Day

Every 4 weeks. Public.

Capstones reviewed live on LinkedIn. Partner CTOs and hiring managers in the room.

Summit

Annual. In-person.

Alumni, Fellows, and partner enterprises — one weekend a year, one city at a time.

Our commitments

What we will not do.

×We will not distribute our private codebases.
×We will not install software in client environments.
×We will not hand students forked templates.
×We will not license the methodology to competitors.
×We will not compete on price.
×We will not create customer dependency.
×We will not hype.

These are identity commitments, not marketing positioning. They define us.

The team

Engineers who shipped production AI last quarter. Every one.

PORTRAIT · SUSHANTH RAIKAR

Sushanth Raikar

FOUNDER · INNORVE

Built AI for credit unions and Top-10 US banks. Led 19 production projects across regulated industries. Teaches the Method end to end.

PORTRAIT

Meera Iyer

STAFF ENG · INNORVE

Evaluation & observability. Ships eval suites for regulated workloads.

PORTRAIT

Arjun Nair

AGENTS LEAD

LangGraph and MCP architecture. Writes the Week 3 module.

PORTRAIT

Lia Thomas

GOVERNANCE

Policy-as-code, SOC 2 + HIPAA. Leads Assure tier for healthcare.

PORTRAIT

Kabir Shah

RAG + RETRIEVAL

Search systems background. Writes the Week 2 module.

PORTRAIT

Ruth Okafor

MLOPS · DEPLOY

Bedrock, Modal, Vercel AI. Ships Week 5.

Pricing

Priced for rigor. Not for volume.

Launch
For students and early-career
₹9,999 / $249
4-week cohort
  • Full methodology training
  • Pod of 8–12 peers, for life
  • Public shipped system in your GitHub
  • Capability graph credential
  • Free community access forever
Apply for Launch→
Scale
For working professionals
₹49,999 / $1,199
8-week cohort
  • Everything in Launch
  • Scale-tier architecture modules
  • 4 × 1:1 mentorship sessions
  • Career acceleration coaching
  • Priority access to Architect track
Apply for Scale→
Assure
For senior architects in regulated industries
₹1,49,999 / $3,499
12-week cohort
  • Everything in Scale
  • Full policy-as-code depth
  • SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, EU AI Act mappings
  • Vertical modules: banking, healthcare, insurance
  • Direct Sushanth 1:1 sessions
Apply for Assure→
Training a team? Corporate Capability Workshop starts at ₹20 lakh.Talk to our team →
FAQ

Direct answers to serious questions.

Yes. No credit card. No trial. No upsell pressure. If you’re serious about building AI, you’re welcome.
About 8 hours per week. Two live sessions (90 minutes each), one pod working session, plus your weekly ship. Doable while working full time.
Basic Python or JavaScript. Comfort with the terminal. We don’t teach coding from scratch, but if you can write a function, you can do this cohort.
No. We teach the methodology, not the artifacts. You leave with your own codebase, shipped to your own GitHub. That’s the point.
They sell courses. We offer a guild with a methodology. They teach theory. We teach shipping. They give certificates. We give you a capability graph, a pod for life, and a credential that’s earned.
Yes. Corporate Capability Workshops start at ₹20 lakh. Individual Scale and Assure tiers are tax-deductible as L&D in many jurisdictions.
Model card. Risk assessment. Eval report. Prompt register. Audit trail documentation. The artifact enterprises actually ask for before they deploy. Your capstone includes one.
Tire-kickers. Lurkers. People who want a certificate without shipping anything. If you won’t commit ~8 hours a week, please don’t apply.
Sessions run at two times: 10 AM IST and 6 PM PT. Pick either. Pods form by timezone. All sessions are recorded; live attendance earns the pod invitation.
Cohort 1 begins June 14, 2026. Cohort 2 opens August 9. Cohort 3 in late October. We run five to six cohorts per year.
Cohort 1 · June 14, 2026

Build. Ship. Compound.

The free community is open. First weekend masterclass is May 24–25. The first cohort starts June 14. Come architect AI — don’t just use it.

Apply for Cohort 1 →Or start with the free Weekend →