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CurioChat Academy

You’re using AI tools. The system underneath is missing.

Nothing you teach it is kept, so you fix the same things in January, in March, and again next month. We build the part that keeps them — three courses if you want to do it yourself, or an hour or two together on your own work if you’d rather not.

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Before you scroll

Two kinds of people land on this page.

“You want AI to just handle it.”

Sound familiar?

  • You’re hoping there’s a setup you do once — then the emails write themselves and the business runs while you sleep.
  • You’ve bought a prompt pack or two. They worked for a week.
  • Honestly, you’d rather not think about how it works.

That product is sold on ten thousand other pages — and we think it’s a toy. We don’t sell it, and we’d rather tell you now than after you’ve paid. If that’s where you are today, the honest next step is free: read along for a few weeks and see if the deeper argument grows on you.

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“You suspect the system underneath is the real work.”

Sound familiar?

  • You’ve used the tools — and watched the output quietly drift by week three.
  • You’ve noticed every fix you make gets forgotten, and you’re paying for the same lesson twice.
  • You’ve started to suspect that making AI dependable is a building job, not a shopping job.

You don’t want magic — you want an eye-level peer who adds the engineering to what you already know. That’s exactly what this academy is. Come in.

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Neither card quite you — but the problem sounds familiar? The free Sampler Pack is on its way: join the list and see what changes when your business starts remembering →

building bank systems that weren’t allowed to be wrong
36  yrs
one discipline, three operating systems
3  courses
across the catalog
59  modules
one connected method
65  named frameworks

Three Courses. One Discipline.

Pick the course that matches who you are and what you’re trying to build.

Enrollment is closed while the first installs are delivered. Every pitch page below is up, and every waitlist is open.

Software Engineers

Agentic Coding Mastery

Your AI writes code fast — and quietly makes design decisions you never signed off on. Learn to run AI coding the way senior engineers run a team: context that persists between sessions, explicit checkpoints before anything merges, and decisions you can see and audit.

35 modules · 23 frameworks · Foundation & Mastery tiers

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Question One — how do I get AI working in my business?

Solopreneurs

AI-Powered Solopreneur

Every morning your business starts from zero — yesterday’s corrections gone, last week’s refinements forgotten. Install AI inside your real workflows — email, content, client operations — so the business keeps what it learns. Built so the voice and judgment your clients pay for stay yours.

8 modules · ~15 hours · $497 USD

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Question Two — what is AI doing to me while I run it?

Practitioners

Stay Sharp

Your output is speeding up — and you can’t tell whether your judgment is keeping pace or quietly going soft. That’s what AI does to you, not for you. For professionals using AI every day: a way to check, not just a hope.

16 modules + capstone · 11 frameworks · ~6.5–8.5 hours

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The big picture

One method. Three operating systems.

If you like to understand the map before you move, start here. Everything we teach comes from one connected method — this is the big picture of how the pieces fit together. The full depth is one click away, and it’s there when you want it.

“Businesses don’t become intelligent by using AI. They become intelligent by remembering.”

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Pierre Boutquin

I’m Pierre Boutquin — 36 years building bank systems that weren’t allowed to be wrong. CurioChat is that standard, made teachable. Pierre also advises organizations on AI delivery governance.

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From the Blog

Notes on engineering-grade AI — the discipline underneath the tools.

Aug 30, 2026

This Week in AI: Six Times the Work, a Third More Delivered

A company with every advantage tried to become “AI native” this year, measured the result, and quietly stopped. The numbers Reuters obtained from inside Meta a…

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Aug 29, 2026

This Week in AI: The Environment Became the Attack Surface

The week’s most useful engineering document was an incident report. On 26 August OpenAI published its account of the Hugging Face incident, and it reads less l…

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Aug 26, 2026

A Pile Doesn't Just Sit There. It Gets Worse.

As a skill library grows from five entries to a hundred, the rate at which the right one actually gets used falls from 29.6% to 3.3%. That is not a claim about…

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The Saturday Reset

Find out whether I’m worth listening to first.

Most Saturdays I write up what I built that week, what it measured, and what I got wrong. You’ll know inside a month whether this is engineering or a nicer font on the same old promises.

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