About
AI transformation starts with people.
AI Work Academy is an online course for non-technical professionals who want to use AI confidently at work. Founded by Camila Lima, an engineering manager who builds AI in production every day.
Hi, I'm Camila Lima.
I'm an Engineer-Manager who builds AI in production every day. I founded AI Work Academy to teach what I actually do at work, not what reads well in a slide deck.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, working globally. Bilingual English and Portuguese.
Connect on LinkedInWhy AI Work Academy exists
Most AI training is one of two things: too abstract to apply, or too narrow to scale. A lot of online AI courses teach concepts without ever showing what a real workflow looks like. A lot of corporate AI workshops are talks with no hands-on outcome. Neither leaves you with anything you can use Monday.
I built AI Work Academy because I wanted to teach the way I actually work: practical, hands-on, and grounded in what real tools can do today. Not what they might do next year. Not what a vendor wants you to believe. What works, right now, for someone who needs to get something shipped.
The course is for individual professionals who want to learn AI for themselves. The B2B services are for teams who want to upskill together. Same philosophy in both.
What I bring
Leadership across tech and business
My background is leadership. I led a QA team, and today I lead a software engineering team, so I have spent years close to how real products get built and shipped. I have also worked the business side, managing clients and staying focused on how the work actually moves the business. That mix is the point: I know what good engineering looks like, and I know the business side of the table too, which is where a lot of you sit. What changed recently is that AI lets me build real things myself, end to end. So when I teach a workflow, it comes from what I actually run.
AgentHub: my production AI platform
I built and operate AgentHub, a custom orchestration platform that runs AI agents on a daily schedule. It handles marketing strategy, content research, and growth analysis, each on its own cadence. It's the proof that the workflows I teach actually scale.
Estuddo: an AI app I built on my own
I designed and built Estuddo by myself, working with AI from the first line of code to the store listing. It's a pocket study mentor that helps Brazilian students prepare for their exams, and it's launching now on the App Store and Google Play. A different audience from this academy, but the same way of working I teach here: use AI to do real work, end to end, and actually ship it.
Empathy for the non-technical learner
The AI Work Academy course was built for non-technical professionals. Every module assumes zero coding background and ends with the student shipping something real. That design discipline shapes how I run team workshops too.
Bilingual, global perspective
I work in English and Portuguese, with experience across different markets and team cultures. Workshops can run in either language, and the materials translate cleanly.
What I believe about AI adoption
People matter more than tools. The best AI tool in the world doesn't move the needle if your team doesn't know how to use it. Adoption is the bottleneck, not capability.
Specificity beats sophistication. One workflow redesigned around AI for one team beats a generic AI strategy every time. Start small, ship something real, then expand.
Practical literacy compounds. A team that actually understands prompting, evaluating outputs, and workflow redesign will keep getting better as the tools improve. A team that just bought licenses won't.
Measurement matters. If you can't articulate what AI is saving or producing for your team, you can't defend the budget for it. We always end engagements with a measurable next step.
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