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Imagine Qira
The Imagine Qira School · Catalogue №01 Spring 2026 · Six courses · One live cohort

A six-course catalogue · Inaugural release

A school for people who want to actually use AI — not just talk about it.

The headlines have moved on. The hype has cooled. What remains is a quiet, practical question — how do you take these new models, agents, video generators and voice tools, and make something with them that pays the rent, builds a brand, opens a door or starts a business? That is the only question this school answers.

By Bryan Leonard · Independent researcher & builder. Google TPU Research Cloud grantee. LOLM patent (US Prov. 64/002,166).

I.   The quiet shift of 2026, and why most people are still standing still.

Editorial · 4 min read

Two years ago, every magazine cover had a chatbot on it. Every article asked whether the robots were coming for your job. The answer, in 2026, turns out to be less dramatic and more consequential: the robots aren't coming for your job, they're coming for the part of your job you didn't know was the slow part.

A designer who used to need three days for mockups now spends half a morning. A marketer who used to outsource video to a contractor now records, edits, and ships before lunch. A founder who used to hire a frontend developer just writes the thing. None of them got fired. They got faster, and the ones who didn't are quietly being out-shipped by the ones who did.

"The real change of 2026 isn't that AI is everywhere. It's that not using it is finally expensive."

The expensive thing, then, is not knowing how to use it well — which model for which job, what to stop paying for, how to turn a subscription into a product, a skill into revenue, an idea into something you can show someone on the internet by Friday. None of that is taught by the "Intro to ChatGPT" videos on YouTube. None of it is taught by four-figure engineering bootcamps designed for people already employed at large companies.

This school exists to fill that space. Six short, honest courses, written by someone who ships things for a living and has been granted research compute by Google to build a new kind of language model. The courses don't give away that research. They teach you a method you can use on your own ideas.

That is the whole premise. Scroll on if it interests you. Close the tab if it doesn't.

II.   Who is teaching this, and why you should (or shouldn't) care.

The instructor

I started this school because every AI course I tried to take was either an introduction to a chatbot or a four-figure bootcamp aimed at engineers at big companies. There was nothing in between for the person who actually has to make this technology pay — the founder, the freelancer, the marketer, the person grinding their way out of a job they don't like, the parent looking for a side income that respects the kids being asleep by nine.

I'm an independent AI researcher. I hold a Google TPU Research Cloud grant, which gave me access to the same class of hardware Google's own researchers use, and I used it to build and train LOLM — a hybrid Transformer-SSM language model with its own provisional patent and paper. At 1.57 billion parameters, LOLM reaches about fifteen percent lower perplexity than the matched baseline. That is not a course — it is proof that I know what I am talking about when I tell you which models work, and why.

I also ship things that aren't papers. An arcade platform with live payments at goodgame.center — built from scratch, currently listed for sale at an estimated $1,588. A Solana volume bot at bot.autohustle.online that has real users paying real money. Three small landing pages I built and then sold — officiallysingleguy.com, azariabrown.info, roromode.com — for three-fifty to five-hundred each. A video pipeline that turns still images into animated clips. A handful of other things at varying stages.

"You don't need to be a researcher to use this technology well. You need a method. That is what this catalogue is."

None of my shipped products' source code is sold to you here. That is not what a course is. What you get is the playbook — every template, prompt, workflow and process the school teaches with, yours to use and modify on your own ideas. If you want to see what I've built, the receipts are below. If you want to skip the catalogue and learn beside me directly, the cohort is further down.

Six courses. Honest prices. No countdown timers. No fake testimonials. No upsell to a mastermind. What you see on this page is what you get.

— Bryan

III.   The catalogue — six courses, each one standalone.

Self-paced · Lifetime access · All sales final
i.

Course One · For founders & would-be founders

AI Business in a Box

An honest walk-through of how to use AI to start a real business — a store, a service, an agency, an information product — and get to paying customers without burning six months on things that don't matter. Not a listicle of "AI business ideas." A method for finding a niche, building the smallest thing that sells, and getting the first ten people to pay for it.

Inside:
  1. How to find a niche the new AI tools just made possible
  2. Building the offer — store, service, agency, or info product
  3. The AI-assisted stack (site, checkout, email, fulfilment)
  4. Getting your first ten paying customers without paid ads
  5. Your 90-day operating calendar
What you leave with: a positioned offer on the internet, a working payment rail, your first ten customers, and a 90-day plan you can read on a sticky note.
$297once
For: future founders, moonlighters, early-stage teams.
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Course Two · For creators, brands, marketers

The AI Social Media Engine

A working content engine for X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube that doesn't sound like a language model wrote it. Real workflows for text, image, video and voice — the same class of pipeline used to produce animated clips for a live memepage — tuned for creators who need to ship without losing their voice to the algorithm.

Inside:
  1. Finding and sharpening your voice (so AI amplifies, not replaces)
  2. The weekly content cadence that fits in 90 minutes
  3. AI video: from still image to short-form clip, with tools compared
  4. Thumbnails, hooks, captions — the hard parts the models do well
  5. Your first thousand followers, honestly
What you leave with: a content engine you can run in 90 minutes a day, a video pipeline you own, and a brand voice that survives ten posts in a row.
$297once
For: creators, solo brands, marketing leads, anyone building an audience in 2026.
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Course Three · For people changing jobs (or staying)

AI for Your Career

The most practical course in the catalogue. How to use AI to land a better role, prepare for the interview, negotiate the offer, become indispensable at work, and build a side income that respects your evenings.

Inside:
  1. The AI-assisted résumé and application loop
  2. Interview prep: role-specific, with live-play scripts
  3. Negotiation: framing, offers, and the awkward middle
  4. Becoming indispensable: the "2× output" workflow for your job
  5. Side income in your evenings — four honest shapes
What you leave with: a recalibrated résumé, a personalised AI workflow for your role, an interview loop that actually works, and at least one new income stream under way.
$197once
For: career changers, promotions-chasers, new grads, parents returning to work.
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Course Four · For everyone tired of guessing

Pick the Right AI Tool

The 2026 model map. Which model — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, one of the small fast ones — wins for which job. Image generators compared honestly. Video tools (Kling, Runway, Sora) tested on the same prompts, not just described. Voice, agents, vector databases, local models. Receipts, tables, and opinions you can disagree with.

Inside:
  1. The model map: who wins at what, and where each fails
  2. Image generation compared on identical prompts
  3. Video tools tested: Kling, Runway, Sora, and open alternatives
  4. Voice and agents: which stack is worth paying for
  5. Your printable reference card (updated quarterly)
What you leave with: a printed reference card, a personal tool stack tuned to your wallet, and the confidence to stop chasing every launch.
$197once
For: anyone paying for three AI subscriptions and unsure why.
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Course Five · For builders · Flagship

Ship Your AI Product

From an idea on Sunday night to a shipped, paid product by Friday. The flagship. Stack choice, wiring the AI in, distribution, the unglamorous middle. Works whether your product is a store, a SaaS, an app, a service, a newsletter, or something nobody has named yet. I'll walk through the case of taking a product from idea to live in seventy-two hours, including the parts that almost killed it.

Inside:
  1. Sharpening an idea until it fits on an index card
  2. Choosing the stack (and when "no stack" is the right answer)
  3. Wiring the AI: prompts, context, tool use, guardrails
  4. Shipping — domain, hosting, checkout, analytics, email
  5. Distribution in the first week without paid ads
  6. A full live case study: zero to public internet in 72 hours
What you leave with: a live product on the public internet, a real (small) revenue line, and a process you'll use for everything you make from now on.
$497once
For: indie hackers, builders, technical-enough founders.
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Course Six · For freelancers & consultants

The AI Freelancer Playbook

Turn what you know into client revenue. How to package an AI service nobody quite knows how to price, how to charge what it's actually worth, how to deliver fast enough that your clients stay clients, and how to turn one project into a retainer. Real outreach scripts, real proposal templates, real numbers on what closes and what doesn't.

Inside:
  1. Three productised AI offers you can launch this week
  2. Pricing without flinching (the per-value frame)
  3. Outreach that actually closes — scripts and reply-patterns
  4. Delivery: templates, QA loops, "done" defined honestly
  5. From project to retainer without pitching it awkwardly
What you leave with: three productised offers, a proposal template that closes, a five-client pipeline plan, and the spine to send the invoice.
$397once
For: freelancers, consultants, agency operators, anyone selling their expertise.

Bundle · All six

The Complete Library

All six courses. Lifetime access. Updates included for as long as the catalogue is published. Costs less than buying any four separately.

  • All six courses (01 → 06)
  • Future updates, free, forever
  • Private student community
  • Downloadable templates & prompt libraries

$1,497 once · save $385

Cohort · 50 seats · Begins August 2026

Imagine Qira Cohort 01

Six weeks. Live calls every Tuesday at 5pm Pacific (recorded). One private thirty-minute office-hour slot with me. A small, vetted community. Real case studies — yours, mine, and the other students'. Includes the entire Library.

  • 6 weekly live calls (90 minutes, recorded)
  • One 1:1 office hour with Bryan
  • Everything in the Library
  • Vetted cohort · capped at 50 seats
  • Certificate of completion (if that matters to you)

$2,497 once

IV.   The receipts — every claim on this page, traceable.

Verified · April 2026
Research grantGoogle Cloud TPU Research Cloudapproved · 64 chips · active 2026
PaperLOLM — Hybrid Transformer-SSM Latent Order Fields1.57B params · 33.2 PPL
Provisional patentHybrid Transformer-SSM architectureUS 64/002,166 · filed 2026-03-10
Open researchgithub.com/TheArtOfSound/LOLMprivate · under LOLM community licence
Live SaaSbot.autohustle.online — Solana volume toolserving paying users
Live consumergoodgame.center — full-stack arcadeshipped · listed for sale · est. $1,588
Lean launchofficiallysingleguy.com & rightbehindher.comidea → live in 72 hours
Built & soldofficiallysingleguy.com, azariabrown.info, roromode.comthree domains · $350–$500 each · 2026
Video pipelineKling-based image-to-clip production systemused in production 2026
CompanyQira LLC — ArizonaBryan Leonard, co-founder
This sitecourses.imagineqira.comdesigned, built & deployed by hand

V.   Questions, answered honestly.

F.A.Q.
Do I need to be technical?

No. Five of the six courses assume nothing beyond "I can use a web browser and I'd like to make some money." Course Five (Ship Your AI Product) and a section of Course Two are easier if you've touched code, but the first project in each is built without writing a line of code.

Will you teach me to use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini?

That is the floor, not the ceiling. The catalogue assumes you can already prompt these models. What it teaches is how to compose them into things that pay — businesses, content engines, products, and services.

Is this another "make $10k a month with AI" course?

No. There is no income guarantee and no results guarantee — what you do with the material is your work. There's no countdown timer, no fake testimonials, no upsell to a $30,000 mastermind. The prices on this page are the only prices you will see.

Will I get the instructor's actual code?

You will get every template, prompt, workflow and process the school teaches with — yours to use, modify, and ship. You will not get the proprietary source of LOLM, GoodGame, the AutoHustle tools, or the other shipped products. Those serve as proof of method, not as curriculum.

Can I get a refund?

No. All sales are final. The full course descriptions are on this page, every lesson outline is laid out, and the assistant in the bottom-right will answer any specific question before you enroll. Read it, ask it, and only buy when you're sure.

What is the cohort actually like?

Six weeks. One 90-minute live call every Tuesday at 5pm Pacific, recorded for anyone in a different timezone. One private 30-minute office-hour slot with the instructor. A small, well-moderated community. Capped at fifty students. Includes the entire Library.

How do I pay?

Stripe. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, or bank. International payments are fine. Receipt arrives immediately.

I have a specific question — can I ask before buying?

Yes. Click the "Ask a question" button in the bottom-right corner; the school's assistant answers quickly and honestly. For anything the bot can't handle, bryanleonard@imagineqira.com reaches the instructor directly.

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