Build your one-person
AI company.
BayAIU — hands-on AI education connecting Silicon Valley practice with what learners actually need. OPCS is for people who want to run something on their own: pick a direction, stand up the workflows that stand in for a team, and take an idea to a working product you can put in front of customers. No coding background assumed. Now a $99 self-paced video course — watch anytime, keep it for life.
8 full session recordings · all courseware · student community · watch anytime, keep for life · CSTU × BayAI Circle
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Co-developed curriculum · Joint certificate of completion (not a degree or academic credit) · Academic backing
§01 — Courses
Everything we teach, in one list.
Live cohorts and self-paced video courses. Each course names who produces it. Pick the one that matches where you are.
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Everyday AI for beginners (AI 八讲)
CSTU
Beginner-friendly AI, eight live sessions. Every session ships one real deliverable — poster, deck, business plan, data report, short video, web page.
16 hoursLive + replayJoin mid-cohort · catch up on replaysStarted Sep 12
$199/$299online / in-person
Details - 02
AI marketing & customer acquisition bootcamp (OPCM)
BayAI Circle
A premium small cohort with hands-on coaching: positioning, content, landing page, affiliate, email, live selling — all of it, solo, with AI.
12 hoursLive + replayJoin mid-cohort · catch up on replaysStarted Sep 9
$499per student
Details - 03
Enterprise AI delivery bootcamp (FDE)
BayAI Circle
From writing code to landing large models inside a business. Four weeks, eight sessions, one end-to-end enterprise project: discovery, POC, evals, delivery.
16 hoursLive + replayFirst cohort: date TBD
$499/$899/$1,999online / in-person / VIP
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Run a one-person company with AI (OPCS)
CSTU
One person plus AI, run like a company. Silicon Valley trends and four monetization tracks — now sold as a self-paced video course (the live season has wrapped).
16 hoursRecorded videoSelf-paced — start any time
$99self-paced video course
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Muse in Practice
BayAI Circle
Stop treating Muse like a chatbot. 27 recorded lessons on turning Meta's Muse into an assistant that works around the clock — email, research, content, goals, scheduling.
Recorded videoSelf-paced — start any time
$39recorded video course
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A note
From the founders
“The next generation of billion-dollar companies will be built by individuals — not 50-person teams.”
Cursor was four people. Midjourney was eleven. Levels.io built six profitable products alone. The leverage AI gives a single founder today is unprecedented — and most professionals are still acting like it's 2019.
OPCS is not another “intro to LLMs” survey course. It's an operational playbook: first build the AI workflow that stands in for a team, then work through four real monetization tracks — operating companies solo, building an AI stock-research team, building and monetizing AI influencers, and producing AI short-dramas — without quitting your day job until you're ready. It's now a self-paced video course: watch anytime, keep it for life.
— Produced by the California Science & Technology University (CSTU) and BayAI Circle.
§02 — Syllabus
Eight sessions.
Yours anytime.
Technical tooling is interleaved with the monetization tracks — build the skill, then put it to work — so you never sit through four hours on one theme. Every session ends with something you ship. All eight sessions are recorded in full: watch them in order or jump to the one you need, and take questions to the student community. (The live season, which met on a fixed schedule, has wrapped; the next live cohort is to be announced.)
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Silicon Valley AI: trends & opportunities
Week 1 · Jimmy Cai
Where the Valley's AI industry stands today and where it's heading. The window AGI opens for solo founders — and what an OPC (One Person Company) actually is, and why it's the best model right now.
→ Define your OPC direction hypothesis.
2h - 02
OpenClaw & Hermes
Week 1 · Daniel
What these tools are and when to reach for them. Environment setup, the core workflow, and building one automation end-to-end — plus the pitfalls to avoid.
→ Your first workflow running locally.
2h - 03
OPC ① — Run companies solo with AI
Week 2 · Jimmy Cai
The one-person business architecture, from lead-gen to delivery to payment. Using AI to replace the key roles of a traditional team — ops, support, marketing, engineering — with teardowns of real cases.
→ A personal OPC business-plan draft.
2h - 04
OPC ② — Build your AI stock-research team, pt. 1
Week 2 · Jimmy Cai
Stand up an AI investment-research workflow: track prices, read filings, and follow catalysts. Wire up the data sources and agents that do the legwork — the foundation of your research desk.
→ Your AI research workflow, tracking its first tickers.
2h - 05
OPC ② — Build your AI stock-research team, pt. 2
Week 3 · Jimmy Cai
Turn the workflow into decisions: synthesize signals, manage a watchlist, and pressure-test ideas. How to use AI research to support — not replace — your own investment calls.
→ An AI-assisted research brief on a position.
2h - 06
Codex & Claude Code
Week 3 · Daniel
The capabilities and limits of AI coding assistants, and how to collaborate with them. Drive development in plain language to ship a usable tool or site — turning your business idea into a runnable product.
→ A deployable MVP.
2h - 07
OPC ③ — Build & monetize AI influencers
Week 4 · Jimmy Cai
Build a digital persona and a repeatable content pipeline, then grow it — and monetize through ads, live-commerce, paid content, and private community, with real account teardowns.
→ An executable AI-influencer playbook.
2h - 08
OPC ④ — Create & monetize AI short-dramas
Week 4 · Jimmy Cai
The AI short-drama market and where the money is. The full pipeline from script to storyboard to AI-generated video, distribution and revenue models, then a course wrap and student project showcase.
→ An AI short-drama demo + capstone.
2h
§03 — Faculty
Taught by operators, not lecturers.
Lead instructor
Jimmy Cai
Silicon Valley trends & 4 monetization modules · 12 hours
Visiting professor at California Science & Technology University (CSTU). Co-founder of BayAI Circle — one of the world's largest AI communities — and of the AGI Summit, and an early founder of the OPC community. Featured in World Journal and NetEase North America. Teaches the Silicon Valley trend session and all four monetization tracks.
Daniel
Technical instructor — AI tooling · 4 hours
Core technical instructor at BayAI Circle. Leads the hands-on AI development sessions — OpenClaw, Hermes, Codex, and Claude Code — turning each monetization idea into a real, runnable product. He also leads weeks 2–3 of the FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) bootcamp: structured prompting, RAG retrieval and reranking, agents and MCP tool calling, and evals in production.
Advisory
Paul Marca
Senior Advisor, BayAIU · Former Associate Vice Provost, Stanford University · Former Executive Director, Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD)
The operator who took Stanford engineering education online, productized it, and made it global: he launched Stanford's first online master's degree in 1996, oversaw 250+ industry-facing courses a year, and brought Stanford programs to more than ten countries. Today he is founding principal of Parallax Global Advisors, co-leads the Luminarian Fellowship on AI-era innovation leadership with Stanford Engineering, advises Eightfold.AI among others, and serves as First Vice President of IACEE. Three decades of top-tier online-education operating experience — wired directly into how BayAIU designs and quality-controls its courses.
§04 — Why bayaiu
The course we wish existed when we started.
University-backed
This course is co-produced with CSTU: the curriculum is developed together and the certificate is co-issued by CSTU and BayAI Circle. (AI Essentials is too; OPCM, FDE and Muse in Practice are produced by BayAI Circle alone.) It is a certificate of completion — not a degree, academic credit, or a professional license — but it comes with a verifiable link and real academic backing, not a Twitter-influencer badge.
Recorded in full, yours for life
Every one of the eight sessions was taught to a real cohort and recorded end to end. You get the complete recordings, all courseware, and the student community, on your own schedule — questions go to the community. The live season has wrapped; the next live cohort is to be announced.
Operators, not academics
Instructors are people running profitable one-person companies right now. The playbook you'll learn is the one they're using this quarter.
§05 — Questions
Asked & answered.
No coding required. The course is for working professionals — designers, marketers, PMs, engineers, consultants — who want to use AI to build a business. We do hands-on AI-coding sessions, but no prior dev experience is assumed.
§06 — Enroll
One course.
Yours anytime.
The complete 8-session curriculum — all recordings, courseware and community. Watch anytime, keep it for life.
Check out with email and a card — the full course unlocks immediately.