Founder story
Practitioners first. Curriculum second.
Manu Jayawardana and Aki Wijesundara, PhD — founders, TAI Labs
TAI Labs was founded by Manu Jayawardana and Aki Wijesundara, PhD — an exited AI founder and a machine-learning PhD who kept being asked the same question by teams they advised: not what AI can do, but how do we actually change the way we work.
Every cohort is led by someone shipping AI in production today. Manu runs custom programs for product and GTM teams from the seat of a founder building AI voice agents at Krybe. Aki leads enterprise engineering deliveries, having been Head of AI at Mainstreet Partners and a mentor in the Google AI Accelerator.
That is the whole editorial standard: nobody teaches here who does not build here.