Anthropic Claude Certified

Empowering Leaders to
Win the AI Era.

I'm Vaishali Shah — a 7-figure CEO, tech educator for over eight years, owner of multiple businesses, 2026 CEO of the Year (CEO School), and one of only a few hundred people globally certified by Open Machine in AI Agent Mastermind. With multiple Claude certifications, I teach and implement Agentic AI for the operators, founders, and small businesses ready to lead in the AI era.

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★ 1 of ~Few Hundred Globally · AI Agent Mastermind Open Machine · Allie K. Miller Multi-Certified by Anthropic · Claude ★ 2026 CEO of the Year · CEO School 40 Under 40 · Hartford Business Journal
2026
AI Agent Mastermind
15+
Years in Leadership
7-Figure
CEO
400+
Hired
4X
Scaled
Vaishali Shah — AI Agent Mastermind Certified, Founder theCoderSchool CT

The AI Agent Mastermind from Allie K. Miller's Open Machine has only ever run two cohorts. Vaishali was in the second. Worldwide, just a few hundred people hold this certification — and she's one of them.

★ The AI Credential

AI Agent Mastermind · Certified by Open Machine.

Only two cohorts have ever completed the AI Agent Mastermind program — Allie K. Miller's Open Machine flagship. Allie is the #1 most-followed voice in AI business and named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI. I was in cohort 2. Worldwide, just a few hundred people hold this certification.

The 4-week curriculum trains you to design, deploy, and manage AI agents in the real world — proactive autonomous agents, multi-agent coordination, orchestration locally and globally, and applying privacy best practices to real business workflows. Not theory. Not slideware. The operator's playbook.

On May 27, 2026, I begin teaching this to the inaugural Agentic AI cohort inside CEO School, founded by unicorn founder Suneera Madhani, who also named me 2026 CEO of the Year. Private cohorts for executive teams and founder communities are also available.

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AI Agent Mastermind Certificate of Completion — Vaishali Shah, signed by Allie K. Miller, CEO Open Machine
CredentialAI Agent Mastermind
Issued ByOpen Machine · Allie K. Miller
Cohort2 of 2 ever run
AwardedMay 16, 2026
Inaugural TeachingCEO School · May 27, 2026
Vaishali Shah
Vaishali Shah · Founder & Agentic AI Educator

About Vaishali

She's automated 80% of her tasks to AI and can show you the way.

In 2017, a single Google search my husband made in hopes of looking for STEM activities for my son, sparked the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey. At the time, I wasn't an entrepreneur—I had spent 12 years building a career in healthcare, working in clinical, management, and teaching roles. Like many people, I went to school expecting to work a traditional 9–5 career. But deep down, I knew I wanted more.

With no partners, no investors, and no financial backing from friends or family, I made the decision to go all in. I took a significant leap by investing our own savings and betting on myself and my family.

With no MBA, no marketing background, no technology background, and no business blueprint—just determination, resilience, and a willingness to figure things out—I built a 7-figure technology education business: four theCoderSchool locations across Connecticut, hiring 400+ people along the way.

What began as a leap into the unknown became a mission to help prepare the next generation for the future of technology. Along the way, I was honored to be named 2026 CEO of the Year by CEO School, founded by Suneera Madhani, and recognized as a 40 Under 40 honoree by Hartford Business Journal.

Now I'm writing the next chapter. I'm AI Agent Mastermind certified by Open Machine (Allie K. Miller, CEO) — one of only a few hundred people worldwide with this credential — plus multiple Anthropic certifications. I've also been named the inaugural Agentic AI instructor for CEO School's first AI cohort, starting May 27, 2026.

I teach and implement Agentic AI for the operators who built businesses the hard way. Because the people who already know how revenue, ops, and teams actually work are the right ones to lead the AI era — not watch it pass them by.

The biggest lesson I've learned is this: leadership isn't about the titles on your wall — it's about the resilience you build along the way. The same is true for AI. It isn't about which model you can name. It's about whether you can put it to work in your real business.

If you're ready to lead in the AI era, let's get started.

Credentials

Credentials

A growing stack of certifications — kept current because the AI playbook keeps evolving, and the work Vaishali brings into your business has to evolve with it.

AI Agent Mastermind · Certified

Open Machine · Allie K. Miller, CEO

1 of only a few hundred globally. Awarded by the firm led by Allie K. Miller — TIME 100 in AI, former Global Head of ML for Startups at AWS, builder of IBM Watson's first multimodal AI team, and the #1 most-followed voice in AI business.

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AI Fluency for Small Businesses · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's certification in AI fluency for small-business owners — Vaishali's exact audience. She's not learning alongside you; she's already credentialed in the playbook she'll teach and build for your business.

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Claude 101 · Certified

Anthropic

Anthropic's foundational certification on building with Claude — the AI model powering Vaishali's day-to-day automation work. Continuous learning, current credentials.

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Claude Cowork · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's certification on Claude Cowork — the agentic AI platform Vaishali uses to run her own day-to-day operations. Built and shipped, not just studied.

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Claude Code 101 · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's certification on Claude Code — Anthropic's agentic developer tool. Rounds out Vaishali's command of the full Claude stack: chat, small business, agentic platform, and code.

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AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's foundational AI Fluency course — the 4D framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence) Vaishali uses as the conceptual spine of every class she teaches.

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Recognition

Awards

Recognition for the journey — the businesses built, the people served, and the doors that opened along the way.

2026 CEO of the Year

CEO School · Suneera Madhani

Retail, Franchise & Hospitality category — honoring outstanding leadership, vision, and business impact.

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40 Under Forty

Hartford Business Journal

Recognizing Connecticut's top leaders under 40 making a significant impact in business and their communities.

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Women of Innovation

Good Morning Connecticut · WTNH

Featured live discussing the importance of women in STEM as a Women of Innovation Award finalist.

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Coding for Good

WNPR · Connecticut Public Radio

Featured on "Where We Live" discussing introducing Connecticut children to computer science.

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The Operator's Edge

You can't automate a process you don't understand.

Most AI implementations fail because nobody mapped the work first. Vaishali spent a decade building processes that have been proven to work and actually scale. That's the prerequisite to making agentic AI actually land in your business.

Built & Live · Proof

Vaishali's Digital Workforce.

CEO · Chief of Staff · Advisor · Six Directors · Seventeen Specialists

Vaishali
CEO
Summer
Chief of Staff · Opus
chief-of-staff
Rose
Memory Curator · Advisory
consolidate-memory
Allie
Daily TCS Ops
Sonnet
Aurora
Full sunrise schedule email
morning-tcs-schedule-check
Lark
Flags-only quick check
tcsmorningschedule
Malachite
People & Payroll
Sonnet
Scout
Candidate screening
hiring-agent
Penny
Biweekly Pike13 hours
run-payroll
Quartz
All-staff team emails
team-email
Atlas
Performance & Goals
Sonnet
Compass
Monday weekly KPIs
kpi
North
Manager accountability
goals
Citrine
Marketing & Growth
Sonnet
Beacon
Paid ads playbook
google-business-ads
Sunny
Daily GBP posts
google-business-post
Stella
5-star review graphics
coderschool-review-graphic
Spark
Per-lead parent SMS
texting
Sapphire
Finance & Bills
Sonnet
Ledger
Monthly bill tracker
bills
Onyx
Public Brand & Audience
Sonnet
Velvet
Burgundy/Sapphire branded decks
vs-branded-pptx
Slate
vaishalipshah.com operator
vaishalipshah-website
Glow
SEO YouTube descriptions
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Prism
Branded Instagram reels
video-editing
Fire
AI business strategy
ai-business

A digital workforce is how you scale — and how you get your time back.

The point isn't to automate everything. It's to clear the recurring work off your calendar so you can spend it on the high-end, visionary thinking only you can do. The goal is to take the AI agents that are built and create an operating system for only your business.

1 CEO · 1 Chief of Staff · 1 Advisor · 6 Directors · 17 Specialist Skills · 26 Total Agents

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Work With Me

Ways to Bring AI Into Your Business

Whether you want to learn it yourself, build it with me one-on-one, have it done for you, or bring me in to speak — there’s a path that fits how you work.

Live AI Class Series

$2,000 · 5 live classes · Starts September 2026

Learn to build real AI agents from scratch — live and hands-on. Five classes that take you from zero to building something you can sell.

  • Class 1 — Set up Claude, Claude.md, skills, connectors & your first agent
  • Class 2 — Memory, storage, privacy, and trust & security
  • Class 3 — Custom outputs: branded decks & docs, and your creator agent
  • Class 4 — Multiple agents, handoffs & your automation roadmap
  • Class 5 — Build something to sell
No tech background needed★ Limited spots available — join the waitlistSave my spot →

Build-With-Me Coaching

$1,500 / month · 1:1 · Ongoing monthly

We build your agents together, on your real business, until you can do it yourself. An ongoing monthly partnership — continue as long as it’s valuable, cancel anytime.

  • Two live 1:1 working sessions every month
  • Async help between sessions so you’re never stuck
  • Built on your own Claude — you own everything
  • Safe setup: connectors and guardrails done right
  • Ongoing monthly fee — month-to-month
Most hands-on

Done-For-You Agent Builds

$2,000 / agent · Built for you

Don’t want to learn it? I build the agent for you, on your accounts, and hand it over running. You never touch the technical side.

  • I build and test the full agent
  • Runs on your accounts — I never hold your passwords
  • 30 days of fine-tuning included
  • Short walkthrough so your team can run it
Fully done for you

Speaking & Workshops

Keynotes · Panels · Half-Day Workshops

For conferences, corporate L&D, leadership academies, and founder communities. Vaishali brings the operator’s perspective on AI — pragmatic, energizing, and grounded in real businesses.

  • “Lead the AI Era” keynote
  • “AI for Operators” workshop
  • “The Operator’s Path to AI” panel
  • Custom topics for your audience
  • Virtual or in-person
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Start Here · Free

Watch the Free Class.

Head over to my YouTube channel for the full free class and quick Shorts — no sign-up, just press play.

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The Payoff

What Could AI Give Back to Your Business?

Most teams lose hours every week to repetitive, automatable work — inbox triage, scheduling, follow-ups, data entry, reporting. Move the sliders to your reality and see what an AI agent could hand back to you.

Email, scheduling, follow-ups, reports, data entry — the work a human doesn't need to do.
Roughly what an hour of that person's time costs you, all-in.
A realistic range for well-scoped agents is 50–80%. Start conservative.
$20,280
Estimated value reclaimed per year
Hours reclaimed per week9.8 hrs
Hours reclaimed per year507 hrs
Full-time weeks given back12.7 wks
Map my real numbers on a call →

This is a planning estimate based on the numbers you enter, not a guarantee. On a discovery call we map your actual workflows, pick the highest-leverage agent first, and scope what's realistically automatable in your business.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★   Testimonials

What People Who've Built With Vaishali Say

Real words from people who've worked alongside Vaishali — building businesses, leading teams, and trusting her judgment in the room.

★ COHORT 1
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I joined Vaishali's AI Accelerator with an eye toward figuring out how to let the robots handle some of our lower level admin work, but she opened my eyes to not only how much more powerful and productive Claude can be, but also how to approach it in an organized way so we're getting the best out of it (and not just getting distracted by it). Today, only a few weeks in, I've built an incredibly impactful customer-facing AI Coach with 15 skills based on our proprietary methods, an internal AI assistant for our team with 20+ skills, and feedback loops to keep them getting better all the time with minimal lift from me. Vaishali's approach is empowering and eye-opening, without being overwhelming. Highly recommend.
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Whitney
AI Accelerator · Cohort 1
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Vaishali owns multiple businesses and launched her own AI company to help others, and none of it surprises me. She has a rare mix of creativity, business instinct, and determination, and she leads with both strength and warmth. What makes her exceptional is how she breaks something as intimidating as AI into steps anyone can follow. She doesn't just talk about automation; she shows you how to build it. If you want someone honest, collaborative, and genuinely able to build something from scratch with AI, I'd wholeheartedly recommend her.
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Nicole
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I met Vaishali when I opened my own business, and she changed how I run it. Her lesson stuck with me: you have to understand a process before you can automate it. She taught me to find the work that repeats in my day and turn it into something AI could handle, then showed me how to build real systems instead of just playing with tools. She doesn't gatekeep anything; she teaches you to build your own AI systems so they actually work for your business. Warm and sharp at the same time.
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Tammy
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Vaishali mentored me from coach to coordinator to manager in just four years, and I would not be where I am without her. Recently she trained me to use AI, specifically Claude, to automate my tasks, and it has saved me so much time. She understands how a process works and exactly which tools reach the goal, and she knows how to make AI useful in your day to day. The impact she's had on my career, and my confidence with AI, is hard to overstate.
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Kyra
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What makes Vaishali different is that she has lived the journey she teaches. I've worked for her for four years at theCoderSchool CT, and I've seen firsthand how she leads and builds. She was the person who introduced me to how useful AI can be in my daily work. Before, AI felt abstract and pretty intimidating; Vaishali made it practical. She showed me how the right tools and agents can save time, simplify repetitive tasks, and help you work with more clarity and confidence. Her guidance comes from real-world experience, and that makes it easy to trust her.
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FAQ

Questions? We've Got Answers.

What exactly is the AI Agent Mastermind certification?
The AI Agent Mastermind is a 4-week program from Allie K. Miller's Open Machine that trains business professionals to design, deploy, and manage AI agents in the real world. The curriculum covers proactive autonomous agents, coordinating multi-agent systems, orchestrating AI agents locally and globally, and applying privacy best practices to real business workflows. Only two cohorts have ever run. Vaishali was in cohort 2. Worldwide, just a few hundred people hold this certification.
Who is the Agentic AI Cohort for?
It's an executive-grade program for operators, founders, and small business leaders who are ready to go from AI-curious to AI-operational. The inaugural public cohort runs inside CEO School starting May 27, 2026. A private version is available for executive teams, leadership academies, and founder communities.
I'm not technical. Will I keep up with the AI program?
Yes — by design. This isn't a Python bootcamp. It's an executive-grade program for operators. If you can run a P&L, you can run AI agents. We work inside the tools you already use and build agents that fit your real business.
How is AI Implementation different from the cohort?
The cohort teaches your team to build and run AI agents. Implementation is done-with-you: we scope the highest-leverage agent for your business, build it alongside you, train your team to maintain it, and stay close while it goes live. Cohort = learn it. Implementation = build it together. Many clients do both — start in the cohort, then bring us in to implement.
Is there a free trial or introductory session?
I offer a 30-minute discovery call at no charge. This is to determine if the cohort, an implementation engagement, or a speaking opportunity is the best fit — and it's where the conversation can start. What are your three top tasks that you would like automated to AI?
Can you bring this work to my company or community?
Yes. I run private versions of the Agentic AI cohort for executive teams, leadership academies, and founder communities. I also speak at conferences and corporate L&D events on AI for operators. Book a discovery call and we'll scope it.
Do I need a tech background to take the class or work with you?
No. Everything I teach is built for non-technical operators — no coding required. We work in plain language, step by step, on your real business.
When does the Live AI Class Series start?
The first series begins September 2026. Spots are limited, so join the waitlist and you'll be the first to know when enrollment opens.
Can I cancel the monthly Build-With-Me coaching anytime?
Yes — it's month-to-month with no long-term contract. You continue only as long as it's valuable, and you keep everything we build together.
Can you just build an agent for me instead of teaching me?
Absolutely. That's the Done-For-You option — I build the agent on your own accounts and hand it over running, for $2,000 per agent. You never touch the technical side, and I never hold your passwords.
Let's Connect

Ready to Lead in the AI Era?

Book your free 30-minute discovery call or send a message — Vaishali personally responds to every inquiry.