Civico runs practitioner-led AI leadership programmes where leaders learn inside the work: they bring a real initiative, whether a venture, an offering, an internal product or a workflow, build it with AI and measure it in their own numbers, at speed. We are judged on the decisions they take home.
Speed and AI are the two advantages leaders now compete on. Our programmes build both.
Sasin Connect+ EMBAHanoi edition, July 2026NPS +65Ho Chi Minh City edition, January 2027
Business leaders learn to transform their companies with AI by doing real work, not by being taught about it.
What we replace
An AI venture residential
A week of visits becomes a week of building: teams test a real problem with customers, build with AI and pitch.
AI as a partner on your own problem
AI is used in the room, on the work participants brought, in every build session.
Judged on decisions that held up
We assess the framing, the evidence and the decision, including the times people overruled the AI.
Your programme, run with you
We give your people the tools and the method, and they transform the company themselves.
For business schools, enterprises and other executive-education providers.
The experiential part runs at Vietnam speed, in one of Asia's fastest-growing economies, where new ideas get tested on the ground. Coaching and masterclasses run wherever your team is.
Vietnam Speed
For programme directors tired of study tours: executives build, test and pitch a real AI venture or initiative at Vietnam's pace.
Our AI Venture Residential: four days, in Ho Chi Minh City by default. Taught by our faculty, yours or both, and run on the ground by us: your school keeps the academic frame; we run everything that makes going abroad hard.
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For companies · CEOs and COOsAI Transformation Studio
For leadership teams whose AI pilots never reach the P&L: leaders bring their own AI initiatives and build them to a fund-or-stop decision in 12 to 16 weeks.
Two days in person start it; virtual labs and coaching carry it; a Pitch Day to your leadership ends it. Built on programmes our faculty run with Manulife, Linde and Sembcorp.
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Start with a one-day AI leadership masterclass.
A live demo and a hands-on session, for a school or a leadership team that wants to try us before committing to a programme.
Delivered in Hanoi. Asked back for Ho Chi Minh City.
Hanoi edition, July 2026: about 40 executives in four venture teams. Participants rated the build sessions above the company visits, and scored the week 8.95 out of 10 on whether they would recommend it. Sasin asked us back for the Ho Chi Minh City edition in January 2027.
Participant feedback, N=20 respondents (14 promoters, 5 passives, 1 detractor). Quotes anonymised.
The AI Transformation Studio's method is not new: our faculty have delivered it many times, for leadership teams at Manulife, Linde, Sembcorp, ASML and PETRONAS. The results above are from the AI Venture Residential. See the Studio →
It shifted me from answer-first to evidence-first leadership: seeing real systems, testing assumptions, and building from validated problems.
It is eye opening on Vietnam speed and how AI can enable us to move faster and amplify the value.
It has put me on a different playing field, where modern leaders compete with two defining advantages: speed and AI.
Speed is the curriculum, not the backdrop.
of high-speed railway decided in one vote
from passing its first AI law to having it in force
in Southeast Asia for AI readiness and trust
See. Frame. Build. Pitch. Deploy.
Every Civico programme runs on the same five-phase loop, and every session ends in something participants built, decided or planned.
See
Briefed visits to real operating environments. Each one ends in three evidence points and one implication.
Output Idea and evidence
Frame
The problem reframed and the model locked, with founders in the room.
Output A clear proposition
Build
Live customer calls, AI-assisted build sprints and a working prototype.
Output Proof and prototype
Pitch
Live to investors and executives, judged on framing, evidence and decisions.
Output Scored feedback
Deploy
The venture turned into accountable action back home.
Output Sponsor and plan
Six principles every programme holds to.
- Learning lives inside the workParticipants bring a real initiative: a venture, a spin-off, an offering, an internal product or a workflow. Nobody works on a case study.
- The problem decides what to learnFrameworks are pulled in when the problem needs them, not delivered in advance.
- Judgement stays humanAI is a partner in every build session. Leaders make the call, and log the times they overrule it.
- Judge decisions, not usageWe assess the framing, the evidence and the decisions that held up.
- Context at speedThe experiential part runs where markets move fast, starting with Vietnam Speed, our AI Venture Residential in Vietnam.
- No session without an outputEvery session ends in an artefact, a decision or a plan, and every programme leaves reusable studio artifacts: a canvas, a playbook and the agents the team built.
Every programme leaves reusable studio artifacts: a canvas, a playbook and the agents your team built.
What leaders should know about AI, with the sources.
We follow where AI money and AI-native firms are going: from selling the tool, to selling the work, to building the system that delivers it. We track which startups are funded, which workflows and industries are moving, and what agents can reliably do, with a short Insight each week linked to the data.
Open the research library →Banks are starting to put AI on the P&L. Few name the line.
In this month's results, Citi named the costs AI moved while several peers gave no figure. What the few with a number do differently, and who answers for it.
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Insight · 14 Oct 2026AI is in the survey. It is not yet in the P&L.
Most firms now use AI and most say it helps. Far fewer can show it in a revenue or cost line, and the gap is a measurement problem before it is a technology problem.
Read →
Tell us the challenge. See what the evidence says.
Type the AI question on your desk. The research library answers with its findings and sources, and points you to where to look next. Every question shapes what we research.
Explore the research library →Tell me the AI challenge on your desk, in your own words. I'll show you what the evidence says and where to look next.
Download the programme brochure
Both programmes in one short PDF: the AI Venture Residential and the AI Transformation Studio, how they run and what participants leave with.
Bring us a cohort or a problem.
A 20-minute call first, then, if it fits, a 45-minute walkthrough of how the Hanoi edition ran, mapped to your learning outcomes and dates.
Book a 20-minute call →A half-day scoping workshop on one leadership team and the AI initiatives it wants funded.
Scope a cohort →