5 Secrets to Building an AI-Native Career in 2026

2026 will belong to the professionals and founders who understand how to operate in an AI-native world and not just use AI tools. In this fast-paced, highly actionable session, you’ll learn the strategic frameworks, mental models, and practical steps needed to build long-term leverage in your career or entrepreneurial journey.

This masterclass is led by two operators who’ve built global cloud, security, and AI platforms, led engineering organizations of 900+, hold 20+ patents, shipped enterprise-grade products, secured regulated industries, and delivered $1B+ in transformations across Fortune 500 clients.

Whether you’re job seeking, leveling up, launching something new, or exploring your next chapter, you’ll walk away with clarity on where your unique strengths intersect with the AI era — and how to turn that insight into opportunity.

OVERVIEW

AI is rewriting the rules of value creation. Tools change. Models evolve. But what doesn’t change? The advantage held by people who understand how to think, operate, build, and lead in an AI-native way.

This webinar shows you how to:

1. Identify your unfair advantage
2. Map it to AI-native opportunities
3. Build a long-term, market-proof path forward in your career or in a future company

Expect a rare mix of enterprise-grade insight, emerging founder tactics, and highly practical guidance, distilled to what matters most for 2026. By the end of the session, you’ll know exactly what to do next, whether that’s leveling up in your job, reinventing your career path, or building something real.

WHAT YOU LEARN:

• The AI-Native Advantage Framework: How elite operators think about AI (very different from ‘enthusiasts’ and side-hustles)
• Your “Career Moat”: How to build long-term defensibility in a world where AI automates everything that’s easy
• The 5 AI-Native Paths to career security, income expansion, or entrepreneurship (only 1 involves building a weekend project)
• Why your domain knowledge is a gold mine, and how to translate it into AI-native value most people can’t replicate
• Real examples from cloud, cybersecurity, product, marketing, operations, compliance, consulting, and more
• The exact difference between “using AI tools” vs operating like an AI-native founder or executive
• A live exercise: Design your AI-Native Advantage Map (you’ll walk away with yours)
• What AI still cannot do, and the human skills that will matter more than ever
• The fastest path to becoming AI-native in your career, even if you’re not technical

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH:

• A personalized AI-Native Advantage Map (completed live)
• 2–3 high-clarity directions for career reinvention or business creation
• A strategic understanding of how AI reshapes value (far beyond the “use ChatGPT to write emails” level)
• The confidence and vocabulary to talk about AI intelligently in interviews, consulting pitches, and conversations with executives
• A preview of January's 6-week program (for those serious about building something real)

AI won’t take your job — but someone using it strategically will. Join us on December 12th and learn the playbook operators use to stay invaluable, earn more, and build things that last.

Seats will fill fast. Join us and invite someone who needs a real advantage in 2026.

ABOUT SOHAM BANERJEE

Soham is a software engineer, Google Summer of Code contributor (’22 & ’23), and partner at RedHold who has built four AI-native products in the last year alone. Formerly at PwC security, he now leads RedHold’s engineering and product innovation — and shows professionals how to “100x themselves” with AI. Connect with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/soham4abc/.

ABOUT SHAAN MULCHANDANI

Shaan is the Founder of RedHold and a global leader in AI, cloud, and security transformation. He has scaled engineering organizations from 10 to 900, built an AWS/Cloud Security business from $15M to $800M ARR, delivered $1B+ in cloud transformations, and shipped enterprise platforms used across Fortune 100 healthcare, finance, and life sciences. He’s filed 11 patents, spoken at Black Hat and re:Invent, and advised regulators and C-suites worldwide on AI strategy, automation, and platform architecture. Connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaanm/.