Market Sensing Phase · Singapore · Cohort 1 · Sep 2026

Stop Learning AI.
Earn With It.

The Kydon AI Workforce Factory is Singapore's most intensive agentic AI programme. In 5 months of full-time training, you master the workflows powering tomorrow's businesses, then launch your own AI-powered One Person Company or work as a professional AI Operator.

5
Months of full-time
agentic AI training
8
Modules across
580.5 hours
2
Post-graduation
pathways
100K+
Learners on
Kydon's platform
Kydon is trusted by
Korn FerryResMedAustralian VolunteersUWC South East AsiaSpaze Ventures, ESG Accredited Mentor Partner

Stop Being the Processor.
Start Being the Strategist.

4.7%

of all job postings in Singapore now require AI skills, the highest share of any country in the world.

Stanford AI Index Report 2026 Source

15,000

AI practitioners Singapore aims to build, more than triple the current pool, under National AI Strategy 2.0.

Ministry of Digital Development and Information Source

AI is not coming for your career. It is coming for the parts of your job that should have been automated years ago: the admin, the reporting, the repetitive. What it cannot replace is your contextual judgment, your empathy, and your ability to turn ideas into outcomes.

The professionals who thrive will be AI-bilingual: fluent enough to direct AI as an extended brain, sharp enough to provide the human premium it cannot replicate. That is not a distant skill. It is something you can build deliberately, starting now.

01Recognize

Accept the AI reality without fear

02Engage

Actively work with new tools, not around them

03Weaken

Consciously drop legacy workflows that no longer serve you

04Embed

Integrate AI into your daily professional identity

What's shifting right now →

Compressed Team Economics

Every hour you spend on administrative work is an hour taken from your core expertise. AI handles the forms and the formatting. You focus on the thinking and the relationships.

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The Rise of AI Operators

Fluency in AI is the new professional baseline. Those who can synthesize, narrate, and direct AI systems will command the premium that purely technical or purely human roles no longer can.

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Singapore NAS 2.0 Mandate

The National AI Strategy 2.0 aims to more than triple Singapore's pool of AI practitioners to 15,000, yet no structured income pathway exists for mid-career professionals to get there.

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The OPC as the New Unit

One Person Companies, AI-augmented, are the most resilient economic production unit of our era.

Five Months of Training. Two Ways Forward.

Train full-time across 8 modules with Kydon and Singapore Polytechnic. Here is what graduates go on to do.

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Months 1 to 5

Training Programme

Full-time training across 8 modules and 580.5 hours. Delivered jointly by Kydon and Singapore Polytechnic. Combines classroom learning with asynchronous e-learning.

  • 8 modules across 580.5 hours
  • Kydon-led: Modules 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8
  • SP-delivered: Modules 2, 3 and 4
  • Full-time classroom and asynchronous e-learning
  • Intake: September 2026 · Singapore Polytechnic
Your Graduation Outcomes
Founder

Launch Your Own OPC

Graduates who go the entrepreneurship route build and run their own AI-powered One Person Company, serving real clients, operating lean, and growing on their own terms. Kydon's mentorship and ecosystem remain available to support your journey.

  • Identify your niche and validate your market
  • Build and launch a revenue-generating OPC
  • Operate with AI-powered systems from day one
  • Continue with Kydon mentorship and network access
AI Specialist

Become a Professional AI Operator

Graduates who take the AI Operator route step into a fast-growing market as qualified AI specialists, helping businesses build, deploy, and run AI-powered systems. The skills you build in this programme are exactly what organisations are looking for right now.

  • Deploy AI systems and automation for businesses
  • Operate as a specialist in a high-demand field
  • Apply your OPC skillset across multiple industries
  • Leverage your Kydon certification to stand out
580.5
Total training hours
8
Modules across 2 institutions
2
Post-graduation pathways
Sep 2026
Cohort 1 intake

8 Modules. 580.5 Hours. One Programme.

The OPC Launchpad is a single, fully integrated Kydon programme, delivered in collaboration with Singapore Polytechnic.

A SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme (SCTP) · Intelligent Data-Driven Digitalisation
About This Programme

The SCTP Intelligent Data-Driven Digitalisation programme is a SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme administered by SkillsFuture Singapore and delivered in partnership between Kydon Group and Singapore Polytechnic's School of Computing.

Kydon brings the OPC methodology: the business-building framework, agentic AI systems, and operator mindset. SP brings the academic rigour: three full modules in programming, databases, and data science delivered to SP's own accredited syllabus.

Together, the programme covers 22 approved learning outcomes across data engineering, AI development, low-code solutions, and professional skills, preparing graduates for four in-demand roles in Singapore's AI economy.

Graduate Career Roles
Data AnalystAssociate Data EngineerDigital Transformation ExecutiveProduct Analyst

Roles aligned to the approved IDDD course outcomes.

Arc 1 · Operator Foundations

The foundation of the OPC mindset. Participants develop the thinking patterns of an AI-leveraged operator, learning to identify opportunities, automate repetitive work, and use GenAI tools for everyday business productivity. This module is the on-ramp to everything that follows.

Learning Objectives
  • Adopt the operator mindset and spot high-value opportunities to pursue
  • Identify and automate the repetitive, low-value work in your day
  • Use GenAI tools to boost everyday business productivity
  • Build fluency across the core AI tools used throughout the programme
Certificate of Completion in Gear up! Essential Skills for Career Transformation and Professional Growth
Technical Foundations

Participants learn Python programming from the ground up with a focus on data science applications. Covers the core libraries used in professional data workflows and introduces techniques for handling both structured and unstructured data.

Certificate of Completion in Introduction to Programming for Data Science

Participants develop a working understanding of how data is stored, organised, and retrieved at scale. Covers relational and non-relational database design, data warehousing fundamentals, and the ETL processes that underpin modern data infrastructure.

Certificate of Completion in Fundamentals of Database Management Systems

Participants learn to take raw, messy data and transform it into clean, analysis-ready datasets. Covers Python-based cleaning techniques, handling data quality issues, and building effective visualisations using Seaborn.

Certificate of Completion in From Chaos to Clarity: Data Wrangling for Analysis and Visualisation
Arc 2 · The AI Stack

Participants build the core tool of their own OPC using no-code and AI-assisted development. Covers the full build cycle from environment setup through to deployment, with a focus on scalability and maintainability for a one-person operator.

Certificate of Completion in Building Business Solutions with Low-Code Platforms

The LLM engine room. Participants learn to reason with data and make decisions by prompting AI rather than building classical models. Covers the full arc from statistical thinking through prompt engineering, agent design, and RAG knowledge base construction, culminating in a working AI brain for the participant's own OPC.

Certificate of Completion in Unlocking AI: From Data to Predictions and Beyond

Participants assemble the full integrated AI business engine, connecting automation flows, API integrations, GenAI layers, and an operating dashboard into a single functioning system. The module culminates in the Without-You Test: can the OPC run without the founder for 48 hours?

Certificate of Completion in Integrating Data and AI with Low-Code Development Platform
Arc 3 · Launch Readiness

The final arc prepares participants to graduate and step into their chosen pathway. Covers OPC launch readiness, brand positioning, go-to-market strategy, AI-assisted decision-making from live business data, and the persuasive narrative needed for the D-Day Showcase.

Certificate of Completion in Leap Forward! Essential Skills for Career Transformation and Professional Growth
Total: 580.5 hours8 Certificates of CompletionFull-time over 5 months

What Happens After You Graduate?

Entrepreneurship Track

Launch your own AI-powered One Person Company with Kydon's continued mentorship.

See full pathway →
AI Operator Track

Enter the market as a qualified AI specialist, helping businesses build, deploy, and run AI-powered systems.

See full pathway →

Your AI Career. Structured, Not Hoped For.

01

Apply & Get Selected

We select professionals from any domain: marketing, finance, HR, operations, healthcare. Your existing expertise is the asset. The programme teaches you to amplify it with agentic AI.

02

Train Full-Time: 5 Months

Five months of full-time training across 8 modules and 580.5 hours, delivered jointly with Singapore Polytechnic. You do not just learn AI. You build with it. Every module produces a real deliverable for your own OPC.

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Graduate & Choose Your Track

Earn 8 Certificates of Completion and step into the future you trained for. Launch your own AI-powered One Person Company on the Entrepreneurship Track, or enter the market as a qualified AI specialist on the AI Operator Track.

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Grow with Kydon's Ecosystem

Whichever path you take, Kydon's network and mentorship remain available, connecting you to fellow graduates, advisors, and opportunities that keep compounding as your OPC grows.

What success looks like →

Your Domain + AI

You bring the professional expertise. We teach you to direct AI as your extended brain, so your contextual judgment and human insight do the work that no model can replicate.

8 Modules

580.5 hours of hands-on training, earning 8 Certificates of Completion, one per module.

Agentic AI Certified

Graduate with 8 Certificates of Completion issued by Singapore Polytechnic, one per module, upon successful completion of the SCTP Intelligent Data-Driven Digitalisation programme. Subject to final programme confirmation.

Join the Waitlist →

AI Talent That Delivers,
Not Just Advises.

Stop paying consultancy rates for workshops that produce slide decks. Kydon-certified OPCs are niche-specialized AI operators who build real workflows and generate measurable output at a fraction of the cost.

Partner with the Factory →
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Niche-Matched Operators

Our AI Marketplace matches your use case to OPCs with exact domain expertise across F&B, legal, HR tech, and more.

Outcome-Based Pricing

You pay for the workflow and the result, not the hours spent building it.

Kydon D-Day Certified

Every OPC passes Kydon's Checker system and live client simulations before they reach you.

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Scale Instantly

Engage one OPC for a pilot. Scale to ten for a division-wide rollout. No headcount overhead.

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Singapore AI Ecosystem

Kydon graduates are trained to the standard Singapore enterprises need. Our OPCs are vetted, niche-specialised, and ready to deliver from day one.

Real Training. Real Skills. Real Outcomes.

Kydon Group, Programme Operator
100K+ Learners on Kydon Platform
#1 Globally in AI Job Postings

Stanford AI Index Report 2026 Source

Agentic AI Skills, Fastest Growing Cluster
“Singapore leads the world in AI job density. The professionals who can design and deploy agentic systems are the most valuable in the market right now. We train them.”
Kydon Group · AI Workforce Factory Strategic Vision 2025

Backed by Singapore's Startup Ecosystem

Kydon OPC graduates don't navigate the startup ecosystem alone. We've partnered with accredited institutions to give you the support, mentorship, and grant facilitation you need to launch with confidence.

Spaze Ventures logo

Spaze Ventures

Accredited Mentor Partner, Enterprise Singapore

Spaze Ventures is an Enterprise Singapore-appointed Accredited Mentor Partner (AMP) with a track record of incubating and accelerating more than 100 early-stage technology startups across Southeast Asia. As Kydon's grant facilitation partner, Spaze Ventures supports qualifying OPC graduates through the Startup SG Founder grant process, providing mentorship, application guidance, and incubation support to help you access up to $50,000 in startup capital from Enterprise Singapore.

Learn more about Spaze Ventures →
The Startup SG Founder grant is administered by Enterprise Singapore. Grant approval is subject to ESG's standard eligibility criteria. Spaze Ventures provides mentorship and application support as an appointed Accredited Mentor Partner.

Everything You Need to Know

Official course details, entry requirements, schedule and fees for the SCTP Intelligent Data-Driven Digitalisation programme.

Official Course Title
[SP-SCTP-IDDD] Intelligent Data-Driven Digitalisation (Classroom and Asynchronous e-learning) (Full-Time) (TA-eligible)
Intake Number
SP-SCTP-IDDD-260004
TGS Code
To be confirmed
Total Training Hours
580.5 hours
Course Duration
6 Sep 2026 to 4 Mar 2027
Registration Period
24 May 2026 to 16 Aug 2026
Venue
Singapore Polytechnic
Delivery Mode
Full-time classroom and asynchronous e-learning
Awarded
8 Certificates of Completion (one per module)
Programme Partner
Kydon Group (OPC Launchpad)

This course is offered under the SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme (SCTP), administered by SkillsFuture Singapore. Programme details are subject to final confirmation.

Everything You Want to Know.

The OPC Launchpad is offered under the SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme (SCTP), delivered by Kydon in collaboration with Singapore Polytechnic. Cohort 1 is targeted to begin on 6 September 2026 and run to 4 March 2027. We are finalising the programme with our partners ahead of launch, so some details remain subject to confirmation. Joining the waitlist is an expression of interest only, with no commitment or financial obligation. We will notify all waitlist members directly with confirmed details ahead of applications opening.

Be First to Know.

The programme is being finalised with our partners ahead of launch. Join the waitlist to be among the first notified when Cohort 1 officially opens, and to help shape the programme.

Join the Waitlist →
  • First access to Cohort 1 applications
  • Full programme and funding details
  • Invitation to our pre-launch briefing
Training5 Months
Cohort Size30 Participants
LocationSingapore Polytechnic
Next CohortSep 2026

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Be First in Line.

The Kydon AI Workforce Factory is being finalised ahead of launch. Join the waitlist now to be among the first notified when Cohort 1 officially opens, and to help shape the programme before it launches.

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The first cohort is limited to 30 participants and is targeted for September 2026. Join the waitlist now to be among the first notified and to help shape the programme before it launches.

Programme fees and final details are subject to confirmation with programme partners. Joining the waitlist involves no financial commitment or obligation of any kind.