Leon Ghatas Launches The AI Operator Program to Teach Professionals to Build and Sell AI Systems

Dubai, UAE, October 30th, 2026, FinanceWire

Leon Ghatas, founder of AI company 187N, has launched The AI Operator, a programme teaching professionals to build AI and automation systems for businesses and sell that work commercially. The programme has already enrolled over 100 students within three months, reflecting growing demand for people who can implement AI systems in practical business settings.

Leon's background spans ethical hacking for government and commercial AI implementation across enterprise, oil, e-commerce and local service sectors. That experience now shapes how The AI Operator approaches technical education. Rather than teaching AI as a standalone tool, the programme focuses on the skills needed to deliver working systems to clients: defining tasks, agreeing expected outputs, testing workflows, and understanding where automation needs limits.

"People want to understand how to build these systems and actually use them in business," Leon says. "My mission now is to help other people do this themselves."

Building Systems That Businesses Can Actually Use

The cybersecurity foundation shapes how Leon thinks about AI implementation. Connecting AI to a business system introduces another actor into an arrangement that already includes users, permissions, and sensitive information. Someone has to decide what that actor can see and which actions it can perform.

The AI Operator is structured to address this in practice. The programme includes:

• 8 outcome-based modules with 152 executable lessons designed to take students from concept to deployed system
• Mission Control — a practical framework for managing AI workflows in real business environments
• 250 battle-tested 187N Agents — pre-built automation components students can study, modify, and deploy
• A 69-lesson Claude Code legacy course for hands-on coding with AI-assisted development
• Weekly coaching and a community built to get real systems live, not just certified

Rather than teaching AI as a standalone tool, the programme focuses on the skills needed to deliver working systems to clients: defining tasks, agreeing expected outputs, testing workflows, and understanding where automation needs limits.

Consider a customer-service assistant. Access to an order record might help it answer a delivery question. Permission to change the order, issue a refund or disclose customer details would give it a different level of responsibility. Each permission needs a reason, and teams need a way to handle situations outside the assistant's remit.

Testing reveals those boundaries. A workflow should be evaluated against situations it should decline as well as tasks it should complete. An incomplete data source, an ambiguous instruction or an unexpected input can change the result. Recognising those situations helps the person operating it decide when to correct the instructions, ask for better information, or keep a decision manual.

For students aiming to sell systems commercially, this understanding also supports client relationships. Explaining where an answer came from or why a workflow failed helps a builder make a precise correction. A client needs someone who can discuss the problem and deliver the agreed work.

From Custom Builds to Teaching Others

187N operates from Amsterdam and Dubai, delivering custom AI systems for sales, customer service, reporting and internal knowledge alongside managed services for creative production and customer support. For custom builds, the company delivers agreed code into client environments with documentation and operating instructions, allowing businesses to take ownership or arrange continued operation separately.

The AI Operator sits alongside this commercial activity. Leon continues to build systems for companies while teaching others to develop similar capabilities. The experience spans enterprise organisations, oil companies, e-commerce brands and local services, giving the programme a business context that extends across sectors.

About Leon Ghatas and 187N

187N builds and operates AI systems for business growth and operations. Led by Leon Ghatas, the company develops automation, AI agents, and data-driven systems for businesses across industries. Its work includes custom systems and managed services, with operations presented as Amsterdam and Dubai. Through The AI Operator, Leon also teaches people to build similar systems for other companies and sell their work. Leon reports that the programme reached over 100 students within three months and is growing exponentially.

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