Most engineers will
catch up to AI. A few
will shape it. Which one are you?
High Agency is where engineers come to do the work that shapes what AI becomes — not study what it already is. Deep technical builds at the cutting edge, with the people and mentorship to make sure you're the one defining what comes next. The kind of engineer every company is looking for right now.
Why “High Agency”?
High agency is the drive to figure things out and make them happen — especially when the path isn't clear.
AI made raw intelligence abundant. The people who stand out now aren't the smartest in the room — they're the ones who actually build things. That's the quality we look for and the quality we cultivate. We named ourselves after it.
Weekend Workshop
Get going with AI in a weekend.
A two-day, hands-on workshop. Bring a laptop and curiosity. Leave with a working AI prototype you built yourself. All tools, tokens, and tutorials included.
Weekend Bootcamp
Saturday & Sunday, full day
- —Two full days of hands-on building
- —Walk out with a working AI prototype
- —All API tokens, tools, and materials included
- —Small batch — personal attention guaranteed
- —No prerequisites beyond basic coding
Longer courses and custom programs coming soon. Talk to us for enquiries.
Community
Open events. No sign-up needed.
Our meetups and hackathons are open to everyone. Show up, build something, meet the community.
Meetups
Monthly sessions in Hyderabad. Engineers show what they built and how. No slides, no theory.
Hackathons
Weekend build sprints with real problems and real judges. Ship something in 48 hours.
Builder Network
A community of engineers and founders who are actually building with AI — not just talking about it.
Who's behind this
Two builders, different paths.
We started High Agency because we believe the best way to learn AI is to build with it — intensely, with people who are doing it at the highest level. One of us comes from the research frontier, the other from the trenches of shipping products. Together, that's the experience we bring to every workshop.
Swadheen Shukla
Microsoft Research, Deep Learning Group
Principal PM at Microsoft Research, where he works across generative AI, multimodal models, and conversational systems. Helped build a medical AI model trained on 15 million images now used in real research pipelines. Co-authored a paper that won an Outstanding Paper Award at ICML — one of the top 7 out of thousands. Holds multiple US patents on conversational AI systems.
Works at the intersection of research and product — where the next wave starts.
LinkedIn →Shahir M A
Builder, Haku · The Smart Language · SuperTutora
Didn't write a line of code until February 2023 — then couldn't stop. What started with AI products that are changing how the world teaches languages led to training models from scratch on Apple Silicon and writing GPU inference engines in Rust. Along the way, two international AI hackathon wins — one in education, one in healthtech. Runs on curiosity and an unreasonable number of commits.
20,000+ commits since 2023. Former language education entrepreneur.
LinkedIn →Interested?
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