Learn AI with Zain  ·  Founding cohort: 30 seats  ·  Opens soon
DRIP.

Player 1  ·  Zain Qurashi  ·  integrations & automations engineer

Every company is racing to plug AI into its systems. Learn to be the one who does it.

I'm Zain. Ten years in tech, all of it making systems talk to each other. I built Drip, the coffee cup that explains AI, with an AI pipeline I run every week. This is where I teach the actual job: hooking AI up to real tools, safely, so it can take actions and not just talk.

Start free: the first build See the nine levels

Level 0 assumes nothing. Working engineers, skip to level 5.

LV 1  Curious 3D hey, i know him. Drip, a tall paper cup of coffee with dot eyes. A 3D character version of Zain: curly black hair, full beard, black shirt, arms crossed. Capp, a latte cup with round glasses, pointing up.
XPLV 1 → LV 9 Legend
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Choose your character

Same guy, four builds.

All four were made with the pipeline the Lab teaches: one reference photo in, a reusable character out, then any style you want. Tap one. It changes the hero above too.

3D  ·  selected Zain as a 3D character, arms crossed.

Level 8 is the case study on exactly this: a character you can regenerate on demand, and the legal side of owning one.

Zain as a 3D character at a desk, typing on a laptop next to a coffee cup, grinning at the camera.

Who's teaching

AI didn't take my job. It got me promoted.

I'm an integrations and automations engineer. For ten years my job has been making systems talk to each other. In the last two, every request that lands on my desk starts the same way: can we put AI on this?

So on my own time I built proofs of concept, demoed them, and they became the projects I was told to focus on. That's the whole method, and it's what I teach: be curious, build small things that work, show results.

Drip is the same method pointed at a hobby. A cup of coffee that explains AI, scripted, voiced, animated and posted by a pipeline I built. You'll see all of it.

10 yrsin tech, all of it integrations and automations
Dailystill doing the job, not just teaching it
160+AI tools tested and ranked on this site
1 cupDrip: script, voice, animation, posting, automated

The path

Nine levels. One build at a time.

This is the roadmap. Every level is a real thing you build, not a quiz. The videos are free on YouTube; the builds, projects and people are in the Lab.

ProgressLV 0 / 9
Level0

Start here

Free

You learnSet up your computer: VS Code, Python, a terminal, keys kept in a .env file.

You buildYour first automation, finished within 24 hours of joining.

Level1

Curious: how AI talks to software

Free

You learnWhat an API is. A prompt is not a question. Keeping keys safe. Tokens, cost, and model vs effort.

You buildA script that calls a model, with every line explained.

Level2

Connected: AI that decides

Free

You learnDecision models: yes or no, pick one, score it. Why context changes the answer.

You buildA tool finder that ranks 200 AI tools for a typed task. It runs this site's directory.

Level3

Builder: connect AI to your apps

Lab build

You learnAPIs, MCP and connectors. What an AI can and can't touch once it's plugged in.

You buildYour first MCP server, so an AI can use an app of your choosing.

Level4

Integrator: voice and media pipelines

Free

You learnHow voice to text works, end to end, and where it breaks.

You buildYour own transcription service, running on your machine.

Level5

Automator: automations and agents

Lab build

You learnWhich AI product for which job. Skills, plugins, schedules and webhooks. When an agent is worth it.

You buildAn automation that sorts and answers a queue while you sleep.

Level6

Shipper: AI at the enterprise level

Lab

You learnWhy a chat license is not an AI strategy. Identity and access, logging every agent action, cost limits, reliability, governance.

You buildA locked-down integration: the AI sees only what that user is allowed to see.

Level7

Engineer: portfolio projects

Lab

You learnHow to scope, ship and write up a project someone else can run.

You buildFour projects to show an employer or a client: tool finder, comment triage, transcription service, an MCP server for your own app.

Level8

Architect: automating a character

Case study

You learnThe Drip pipeline: script, voice, animation, posting. And the legal side: AI disclosure rules, who owns an AI character, voice and likeness rights, sponsorship rules.

You buildThe same pipeline, productionized the way a company would run it.

Level9

Legend: the career

Lab

You learnWhat the job is day to day. Portfolio, resume, interviews. Your first freelance automation client.

You buildA plan for your next twelve months, reviewed live.

Freeon YouTube and this siteLabinside the founding cohort

Quest 1  ·  free

Ship one automation in the next 24 hours.

Level 0 is a small build you can finish in an evening, with the code and a written walkthrough. It's the first thing every member gets, and it's the first thing I'll send you when the Lab opens.

one email when the lab opens, with the first build and this roadmap. that's it. no drip campaign, and you can leave from that first email.

Zain as a 3D character, holding a laptop and pointing at you. Drip, looking curious.

Start free, tonight

The free path is real.

Everything I've published is free and it stays free. Levels 0 to 6 are built from these videos; the Lab adds the builds, the projects and the people.

Drip on YouTubeThe explainers How MCPs work. How voice to text works. What is Jev. One idea per episode, no pipeline tours.youtube.com/@dripthecup → This siteEvery video, every link A summary of each video and every tool, repo and source we mentioned, with install commands./links → This siteThe AI tools directory 160+ tools in 24 categories, ranked for the task you type in. Level 2 shows you how it's built./resources → Zain on cameraThe career videos How AI saved my job. Getting a job in tech in 2026. Why every company needs an AI integrations engineer.tiktok.com/@zain_qurashi → Drip on InstagramDrip's Notes The notes Drip took while Capp explained: APIs, prompts, secret keys, effort, MCP. Swipe posts.instagram.com/dripthecup → Zain on XWhat I'm building this week Short posts on what worked, what broke, and which tool just came out.x.com/Zain_qurashi_ →

Level up with people

Drip the Cup Lab, taught by Zain.

One paid group on Skool. No free tier, on purpose: a small room of people who are actually building beats a big room of people who are watching.

Classroom

The nine levels, unlocked over time

  • Your first build within 24 hours of joining
  • Then fundamentals, enterprise tools, projects, and the Drip case study
  • Every lesson: video, walkthrough, code, a thing to try, a place to post it
Live

Two calls a week, one guest a month

  • A weekly build-along: we ship something together
  • A weekly Q&A: bring the error, we read it out loud
  • A monthly guest engineer who does this for a living somewhere else
Feed

Start here, Build help, Portfolio reviews, Wins, Tool news

  • Post the build, get it reviewed
  • I'm seeding the founding cohort with working engineers so questions get real answers
  • Levels and points: the more you help, the more unlocks

Founding rate

Thirty seats. The price you join at is the price you keep.

$49a month, or $490 a year. Locked for founding members for as long as they stay.

The rate goes up as the curriculum fills in. Founding members are the ones I build the first ninety days with, so I'd rather have thirty people who show up than three hundred who don't.

Founding seats Reserve a founding seat Opens on Skool. The founding list gets the link first.

Before you ask

Straight answers.

Do I need to know how to code?

Level 0 assumes nothing. By level 1 you'll be running small Python scripts, with every line explained in plain English. If you already code, skip ahead: the enterprise level and the portfolio projects are where you'll spend your time.

What's free and what's paid?

Every video is free on YouTube and summarized on this site, with every link. The Lab adds the builds, the four portfolio projects, the enterprise level, the case study, two live calls a week, and the people. Nothing free gets taken away.

Is this a course on making Drip videos?

No. Drip is one level inside the Lab, taught as a case study: how a one-person AI pipeline scripts, voices, animates and posts a character, what the law says about disclosure, ownership, voices and sponsorships, and how a company would run the same thing. The rest of the Lab is enterprise AI and automation.

Will this get me a job?

I can't promise that and I won't. I can show you what the job actually is, what I built to get ahead in mine, and how to put together a portfolio that proves you can do it. What you do with that is yours.

Is any of this from your employer?

No. Everything here is built on my own time, with my own tools, on public data and my own projects. Nothing from work is in it and nothing from work ever will be.

When does the Lab open?

When the founding thirty are in. Put your email in above and you'll hear first, once, with the first build attached.

Why Skool?

One place for the classroom, the feed and the calendar, with levels built in. You'll get a link when it opens; there's nothing to install.

Last call, no rush

Start at level 0. I'll be there.

one email when the lab opens. leave from that email if it's not for you.

Zain as a 3D character, holding a coffee, one hand in his pocket.
i'll be there too. mostly listening.Drip, smiling.