Build your one-person
AI company.
OPCS — the 16-hour bootcamp for the founder of one, now a self-paced video course. Eight sessions of Silicon Valley trends and real monetization playbooks, with hands-on builds in OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, and Codex — taught by the people running it now.
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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 a 16-hour operational playbook: build the AI tool stack that replaces a team, then run 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.
— Produced by the California Science & Technology University (CSTU) and BayAI Circle.
§02 — Syllabus
Eight sessions.
Sixteen hours.
Two live sessions a week over four weeks. 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.
- 01
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.
§04 — Why bayaiu
The course we wish existed when we started.
University-backed
Curriculum co-developed and certificate co-issued by CSTU and BayAI Circle. Not a Twitter-influencer course — academic credibility you can list on LinkedIn.
Live, not pre-recorded
Real instructors, real Q&A, real cohort — taught live and recorded for lifetime replay. The in-person track keeps a small room; the online track runs in sync.
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, 16-hour curriculum — all recordings, courseware and community, self-paced.
Check out with email and a card — the full course unlocks immediately.