4-week program
Train your team to build
AI-powered automations.
Stop depending on external help for every workflow. In 4 weeks, your ops person becomes dangerous with n8n, AI tools, and automation thinking that applies to any department.
Trusted by B2B teams
Curriculum
What you'll learn
Four weeks from zero to shipping automations.
Week 1
Foundations
- Automation thinking: identifying opportunities in any department
- Data flows: how your tools should talk to each other
- n8n basics: triggers, nodes, and workflows
- Your first automation: alert notification to Slack
Project: Map your current stack and build your first workflow
Week 2
Data & Enrichment
- Working with APIs: authentication, requests, responses
- Clay fundamentals: tables, enrichments, formulas
- Data cleaning and transformation
- Building data pipelines
Project: Build a data enrichment or sync workflow for your team
Examples: lead enrichment, customer data sync, employee directory updates
Week 3
AI Integration
- When to use AI (and when not to)
- Prompt engineering for automations
- Claude/OpenAI in n8n: classification, extraction, generation
- Building AI-powered scoring, classification, and routing
Project: Add AI intelligence to your workflow
Examples: lead scoring, support ticket classification, expense categorization
Week 4
Production & Scale
- Error handling and reliability
- Monitoring and alerting
- Documentation and handoff
- Scaling patterns and best practices
Project: Ship a production-ready automation to your team
Format
How it works
Structured learning, real projects.
Live sessions
90-minute weekly calls with hands-on instruction. Small cohort, plenty of Q&A.
Real projects
Every week you build something for your actual job. Not toy examples.
Community access
Join the Shyft community. Get help between sessions. Network with other ops people.
Cohort size
8-12 people
Schedule
Thursdays 4pm CET (or async replay)
Duration
4 weeks
Time commitment
~5 hours/week (session + project work)
Portfolio
Graduate with a portfolio
Real automations you built during the program. Pick projects relevant to your role.
Sales & marketing
Lead enrichment pipeline
Automatically enrich new leads with company data, LinkedIn info, and technographics.
AI lead scoring
Score every lead against your ICP using Claude. Route hot leads to Slack instantly.
Finance & operations
Invoice reminder automation
Auto-send payment reminders at day 7, 14, 21. Escalate overdue to account manager with context.
Expense categorization
AI-classify expenses from receipts. Route for approval based on amount and category.
HR & people ops
Onboarding workflow
Auto-create accounts, assign training, notify managers when new hires complete each step.
Employee data sync
Keep your HRIS, payroll, and org chart in sync automatically.
Customer success
Customer health alerts
Calculate health scores from usage + support data. Alert CSMs when accounts drop.
QBR prep automation
Auto-generate quarterly business review decks with usage stats, health trends, and recommendations.
Is this for you?
Who Bootcamp is for
Bootcamp is designed for:
- Ops managers (RevOps, FinOps, HR Ops, CS Ops) who want to build
- Junior ops people in any department ready to level up fast
- Technical founders who want to automate without hiring
- Finance and HR leads tired of manual processes
- Anyone who's tired of waiting on engineering for "simple" things
You should have:
- Basic spreadsheet skills (formulas, lookups)
- Familiarity with your company's tools (CRM, HRIS, finance systems, etc.)
- 5 hours/week to dedicate for 4 weeks
- A real use case you want to automate (any department)
No coding experience required. We start from zero.
Pricing
Invest in capability that compounds
Individual
- 4 weeks live instruction
- Hands-on projects
- Community access (1 year)
- Templates and resources
- Certificate of completion
Team (3+)
- Everything in Individual
- Team exercises
- Private team channel
- 1 hour post-program review
After graduation
What happens after
Graduation is just the beginning.
Community access
1 year of access to the Shyft community. Ask questions, share wins, keep learning.
Alumni network
Connect with other graduates. Share workflows, troubleshoot together, refer work.
Advanced workshops
Periodic deep-dives on specific topics for graduates only.
Results
What graduates say
"I went from 'what's an API' to building automations my sales team actually uses. The ROI was immediate."
Sarah K.
RevOps Manager at Series B SaaS
"Finally I don't have to wait 3 weeks for engineering to build me a simple Slack alert. Game changer."
Marcus T.
Head of Operations at B2B Agency
"I automated our entire onboarding checklist in week 3. IT used to spend 2 days per new hire. Now it's 2 hours."
Jamie L.
People Operations at Growth-Stage Startup
"Our finance team was skeptical, but after I built the invoice reminder workflow, they wanted more. Now I'm the automation person."
Alex R.
Operations Manager at B2B SaaS
Ready to build?
Apply for the next cohort. We'll review your application and confirm your spot within 48 hours.