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🎓 Cohort Mate: Sayli G. Milica asked to speak with a human. She’s in Outbound Orchestration Foundations Cohort 1 and needs a confirmed answer on whether course materials stay accessible after today’s deadline — she has a sales meeting today about moving to the new UI / Audiences plan and wants to finish the cohort after that transition. That cohort isn’t covered in our FAQ, so we couldn’t confirm the access policy.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Milica, thanks for asking!

I don’t have a documented answer for Outbound Orchestration Foundations Cohort 1 on whether the course materials stay open after today’s deadline, so I don’t want to guess on that.

What I can confirm across cohorts: • You can submit a cohort switch request once — including after the cohort ends, if you haven’t graduated — and continue in a future run. • That’s the documented path if you can’t finish before the deadline (e.g. you’re waiting on the new UI / Audiences plan).

For whether this cohort’s materials stay accessible after today without switching, you’ll need someone on the Clay team to confirm. Happy to pull them in if you want.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Tomas, thanks for asking!

Wedge is Clay's Startup GTM Accelerator for pre-Series A founders and early GTM leaders (teams under ~~20). It's ~~2 weeks, 5 async modules (about 5–7 hours), aimed at building a GTM engine: ICP, TAM lists, enrichment & qualification, personalized outreach, then testing and iteration. Current Clay customers can apply if they want to deepen those workflows — but it's built for that startup-GTM profile, not as a follow-on to Outbound Orchestration Foundations. If that program already covered a similar outbound GTM build, you'd likely see overlap.

Best next step depends on the goal: • Want to go deeper on AI in Clay? AI Skills (AI formulas, prompting, Claygent) — for Clay 101 grads / intermediate builders. No future AI Skills cohort is on the calendar yet; the latest, Cohort 10, is closed (ran Jul 22–31). • Want a full-time GTME job? AlphaForge — a month-long career bootcamp (~15 hrs/week), not product training, with a competitive application. No AlphaForge dates are on the calendar yet. • Early-stage founder building GTM? Wedge is the fit if you match that profile. Dates and applications: cohorts.clay.com/cohorts. • Enterprise customer? Ask your Enterprise Growth Strategist about Enterprise Cohort.

If you share whether you're aiming at AI depth, a GTME career, or startup GTM, we can narrow it further.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Aslam, thanks for asking!

No future AlphaForge cohort is on the cohorts calendar yet, so a next start date isn't scheduled there.

It's a month-long GTME bootcamp when it does run. If a new one gets added, that'll be the place to check.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Stephanie, thanks for asking!

There's no prescribed Wedge playbook for how to log ICP, positioning, and "ready for scale" signals — the program doesn't specify a tooling stack (Google Docs vs anything else).

What Wedge does cover on this theme: • Module 1 (Finding Your ICP): define and validate ICP hypotheses, then use Clay to identify potential customer segments • Module 5 (Testing & Iteration): analyze what's working, refine from market feedback, and build a methodology backed by evidence

So the intent is a tight, evidence-backed ICP/positioning loop — not a growing pile of docs. How you actually capture that (one living doc, a Clay table, etc.) is left open.

This is a great one for other Wedge folks to chime in on. If you want program-side guidance, Natalie S. can help.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Jason, thanks for flagging this — filling the same form just to get a capacity rejection is a bad loop.

I don't have live seat counts (capacity isn't published as a field), so I can't honestly say "this one still has room." Looping in Sayli G. to confirm what's actually still taking applications, and to pass along the request that listings show when a cohort is at capacity.

What I can share from the Cohorts Calendar & Timetable:

• AI Skills - Cohort 10: Closed (ran Jul 22–31; deadline was Jul 8). No later AI Skills cohort is on the calendar yet. • Clay 101: Currently paused / NOT OPEN YET. • APAC: Currently paused. • Enterprise: Access is by request through your Enterprise Growth Strategist. The latest calendar rows (ENT 5 and 6) still say OPEN that way, but their dates are already past (Apr / May 2026). • Wedge: Runs roughly monthly for pre-Series A startups — I don't have a capacity flag for the next one. • AlphaForge: Competitive application (take-home + interviews), not a first-come capacity list.

Best public place to apply / see listings: https://cohorts.clay.com/cohorts

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Nathan, thanks for posting — and sorry you’ve been waiting.

Which cohort did you apply to around 13 August? I want to pull the right timeline instead of guessing.

• AI Skills • Enterprise • AlphaForge • Wedge (Startup GTM Accelerator) • APAC • Clay 101

Reply with the one and I’ll check what typically happens next for hearing back.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Rohini, congrats — that's huge!

Wedge is a ~2-week Startup GTM Accelerator: 5 async modules plus optional live kickoff and graduation. Plan for about 5–7 hours over those two weeks.

A few setup notes: • Credits: joining credits land automatically the week before kickoff (once per workspace, not per person) • Slack: all cohort comms happen in a private channel in the Clay Slack community • Account: a free Clay account is enough — Pro features get enabled on your workspace during the cohort

Ping me here if anything about getting started is unclear.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hey Stephanie, thanks for flagging! I don't have anything on livestream access issues in what I've got, so that one's best flagged directly with the team for live troubleshooting. Looks like Utsav shared the direct link in the channel and you found an access code in that thread too, so hopefully that gets you in — if not, definitely loop in the team.

🎓 Cohort Mate: Hi Utsav — I don’t have a confirmed second AlphaForge cohort announcement on file.

AlphaForge is Clay’s month-long GTME career bootcamp (about 15 hours/week: async lessons, live fireside chats, coaching, and project builds). Applications are competitive (take-home + interviews). It isn’t limited to current Clay customers.

Upcoming dates and whether a next cohort is open are published at https://cohorts.clay.com/cohorts — that’s the best place to check for a second-cohort announcement. If you don’t see one there, Natalie H. can confirm whether anything has been announced yet.