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So you stop waiting for someone else to build it.

Live AI School exists to put women at the forefront of the next wave of technology – not adjacent to it, not waiting on a queue for developer time.

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Abstract illustration of a path growing from a single point into a connected network
Sarah Pagel – Founder, Live AI School
Sarah’s story
From zero to directing whole systems.
  • London School of Economics
  • McKinsey & Company

I did not come from engineering. I came from a business degree at LSE and a consulting career at McKinsey, where the answer to “can we build this?” was always someone else’s diary.

When I started my own work, that queue became the whole bottleneck. So I learnt to build. Badly at first – one tool, then two talking to each other, then a whole system that ran overnight while I slept. Six months in, I had built a directory serving over 70,000 people a month on my own.

Nothing about that required a computer science degree. It required somebody to show me the order to learn things in, and the confidence to keep going when the first attempt broke. That is the whole programme.

The route

From asking AI questions to directing complete workflows.

You ask AI questions and get answers back. Useful, occasionally brilliant, but it stops when you stop typing.

Why for women specifically

The last technology wave was built without us in the room.

Not because women were not capable of it, but because the rooms, the funding and the teaching were pointed elsewhere. This wave is early enough that it can go differently.

Taught by a woman who learnt it from zero, so nothing is skipped as “obvious”
A room of female founders, so you are never the only one asking the question
Built around businesses run alongside everything else, not around free evenings
Ownership, not dependence – you leave able to build the next thing without me
How I teach

Plain English, real work, human judgement.

Plain English

No jargon, no maths, no assumption that you have seen a terminal before. If a word is not useful to you, it is not in the workshop.

Real work, not exercises

You build on your own business the whole way through. Nothing you make in the twelve weeks is a demo you throw away.

Human judgement stays yours

AI drafts, connects and runs. Deciding what is good, what is true and what goes out under your name stays with you.

Women at the forefront of the next wave.

Twelve weeks, self-paced, with me on Thursdays.