A new class of builder is emerging in every organization: professionals who do not call themselves developers but are expert AI prompters — people who get impressive results fast using AI tools and have been building departmental solutions for months. They know how to craft a prompt, how to iterate quickly, and how to get an AI to produce what they need. But they are operating without the foundations that make AI solutions maintainable, safe, and explainable in production. Hallucinations reach end users. Solutions break when a model updates. There is no business case for what was built.
Catalyst Pro is designed for this audience. The program is hands-on, and built around a real problem you bring with you. You learn the correct foundations — hallucination prevention, reusable prompt libraries, agent patterns, how to integrate Compass Core into your departmental workflow — while simultaneously building the solution to your actual problem. You also learn to make the business case: how to frame an AI initiative for your department head or CFO with the problem, the solution, the ROI, and the risk — in a format that gets a decision rather than a delay.
What You Build
The session is structured around your business problem, not a generic exercise. You arrive with something you want to solve — a workflow you want to automate, a report you want to generate, a decision process you want to accelerate. Over the course of the program, you build a working solution to that problem using Compass Core and the appropriate Compass industry solution for your domain.
The solution is built correctly from the start: with validation layers so wrong AI outputs do not reach end users, with reusable components you can extend to other problems, and with documentation a colleague can use without starting over. Alongside the solution, you produce a business case document — a one-pager your department head can approve — that quantifies the time saved, error rate reduced, and competitive position improved.
Catalyst Pro: In Your Environment
The Pro tier starts before the session. TNE pre-integrates Compass Core and the appropriate Compass industry solution into your existing coding environment — whether that is Cursor, VS Code, Replit, or another tool you already use. When the session begins, the tools are already connected to your data and workflows.
This means the hands-on time is spent on your actual problem, not on setup and configuration. You build your solution in the same environment you use every day, with the same data you actually work with. The patterns you develop during the session are immediately portable after you leave — there is no translation from a training environment to your real tools. You leave with a working solution and a configured development environment, not just skills to apply later.
Who Attends
Catalyst Pro is designed for business professionals who are expert AI prompters — people who use AI tools to build things for their workgroup or department and get results fast, but have not been trained in the practices that make AI solutions reliable and maintainable over time. This includes financial analysts building Excel-replacement workflows, HR professionals automating processes, operations managers building reporting tools, and marketing teams building content pipelines.
No traditional programming background is required. If you are already getting results fast with AI tools and want to build on that capability correctly — with the foundations that make solutions safe, reusable, and justifiable to your organization — this is the program for you.
- Real problem first — you arrive with a business problem and leave with a working solution; the learning is embedded in building, not a separate classroom exercise
- Hallucination protection — learn to design solutions where wrong AI outputs cannot reach end users; required for any production departmental tool
- Reusable patterns — build with prompt libraries and agent structures you can apply to every subsequent problem, not one-off solutions that have to be rebuilt each time
- Business case skills — frame your AI initiative for decision-makers: problem, solution, ROI, and risk in a format your department head can approve
- Compass Core hands-on — build with the same agent foundations used in enterprise Compass fleet deployments, learning professional-grade patterns from day one
- Pro environment integration — Compass Core and your industry solution pre-integrated into your existing coding environment before the session starts