Ryan calls himself a recovering accountant. Before AI, he built a hiring-software company to 10,000 customers — without ever writing a line of code. That detail matters, because it is the whole point of how he teaches: the leverage was never in the syntax. It was in the systems.
When the AI wave hit, Ryan didn’t make content about it — he disappeared into the tools. Thousands of hours later, he came out the other side with something almost nobody has: a repeatable method for deploying AI systems into ordinary jobs — research engines, ROI engines, content engines — with the dollar savings documented, not claimed.
That method became the Certified Agentic Program: 90 days, four working systems built into your actual work, and twelve months of Ryan reviewing what you build and telling you when it’s wrong.