The Dollar Skill Program
Twelve weeks of AI skills taught by a working freelancer with $58,000+ earned across 102 international contracts — now open to every student from sixteen upward, on two tracks.
Karachi
Why the programme runs on two tracks
International freelance platforms require the account holder to be eighteen. That is their identity verification, not a school rule — and there is no parental-consent route around it. Rather than turn away every student under eighteen, the programme is built as two tracks that share one teacher and one method.
Our position on student accounts
Burraq Academy will not open an earning account in a parent's name for a child to operate. It misrepresents who is doing the work, it puts the parent's tax file and bank account at risk, and it is the single most common reason freelance accounts are permanently suspended. Every student earns in their own name, on their own CNIC, or they do not earn yet.
The Earning Track
- Goal: a first paid international client inside the twelve weeks, with live proposals going out from Week 8.
- Full money rail built with you: FBR filer status, PSEB registration, bank account with a linked foreign-currency account, Payoneer, and a test transaction before a real client ever pays.
- Verified platform profile, live portfolio site, and three free industry certifications.
- Four weeks of supervised client hunting — every proposal read and corrected by the instructor before a single rupee of platform credit is spent.
- One tool taught properly — Claude Code — used to build real, sellable automation systems from the second week onward.
The AI Skills Track
- Goal: a complete, portfolio-backed AI skill set and a business ready to switch on the day the student turns eighteen.
- A shipped portfolio of five real pieces of work and a live portfolio website with the student's name on it.
- Three free industry certifications — Google Ads Search, Google Analytics and HubSpot SEO. No age restriction on any of them.
- Local paid work in rupees, into the student's own bank account under the State Bank's new teenager account framework. Legal at sixteen, and real money.
- The 18th Birthday Switch-On — whenever that student turns eighteen, they return for a free session where we open the platform account, port the portfolio across and send the first proposals together. Included in the fee, with no expiry.
One track in the evening, one in the morning
The academy has made both shifts available, so the two tracks are placed where each group of students actually is. Track A runs in the evening, when working-age students and graduates are free. Track B runs in the morning, in the shift that currently sits empty, for school students whose classes finish earlier in the day.
The pilot starts with Track A only
Track A is complete, timetabled and ready to run. Track B's curriculum is still being finalised and will open once its content is settled and the demand for the morning shift is confirmed. The exact clock times for both shifts are fixed with the academy before enrolment opens.
Track A commences 1 October 2026, with teaching beginning Monday 5 October and running to the week of 21 December 2026. The full session-by-session schedule is on the twelve-week calendar.
The ladder this course teaches is the instructor's own
This is not a syllabus assembled from videos. It is the exact sequence Sajjad Ali Mughal used to climb from twenty dollars an hour to seventy, on a public profile that anyone can verify.
"Increased my sales by triple."
Verified client review"Within 5 minutes we were on a Google Meet."
Verified client review"Cream of the crop on Upwork."
Verified client reviewEverything, with nothing added later
| Included | Track A | Track B |
|---|---|---|
| Twelve weeks of live instruction | 36 sessions | 24 sessions |
| AI foundations, prompting, and tooling | Yes | Yes |
| Live portfolio website, student's own domain | Yes | Yes |
| Three free industry certifications | Yes | Yes |
| FBR filer registration + PSEB registration | Yes — fee paid by the academy | At eighteen |
| Bank account + foreign-currency account opened with you | Yes — group appointment | Teenager account, PKR |
| Platform profile built and verified | Yes | Drafted and held until eighteen |
| Five weeks of supervised client hunting | Yes | — |
| Claude Code taught as the single working tool | Yes | — |
| The 18th Birthday Switch-On session | — | Yes, no expiry |
Two running costs sit outside the academy fee and are paid by the family directly to the software companies — a Claude subscription and Upwork proposal credits. Both are set out in the next section, and in full on the platform costs page.
An honest guarantee
We do not promise a figure. Nobody honestly can, and any programme that does is selling you the one thing it cannot control — how many hours your child actually puts in. What we guarantee instead is every single thing that is within our control, and we refund in full if we fail to deliver it.
If a Track A student attends ninety percent of sessions, submits every assigned proposal, and completes the twelve weeks without a verified platform profile, a live portfolio, PSEB registration and a working payment account — Burraq Academy refunds the fee in full.
What a student earns after that depends on their effort and their hours. The instructor's own ladder above is what the method produces when it is followed. How fast a student climbs it is up to them.
Fee structure
| Option | Fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Track A — paid in full | PKR 75,000 | Twelve weeks, everything included |
| Track A — three instalments | 3 × 27,000 = 81,000 | One instalment before each month of teaching |
| Track B — paid in full | PKR 45,000 | Twelve weeks, everything included |
| Track B — three instalments | 3 × 16,500 = 49,500 | One instalment before each month of teaching |
| Sibling / second enrolment | −10% | Second child only. Not combined with early enrolment. |
| Early enrolment — first eight seats | −10% | Closes on the date printed on the enrolment form. |
| Seat deposit | PKR 15,000 | Credited in full against the fee. Refundable within 48 hours; thereafter it holds the seat. |
Two costs the family pays directly — not to the academy
These are paid to the software companies themselves, not to Burraq Academy. They are stated openly here so that no family is surprised in Week 5.
| Cost | Per month | Over the 12 weeks | Why it is required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude subscription | $20 | $60 ≈ PKR 16,800 |
Claude Code is the single tool this course teaches. Without a subscription the student cannot do the coursework, cannot build, and cannot deliver client work. This is a must-have, not an optional extra. |
| Upwork proposal credits — 300 Connects | $45 | $135 ≈ PKR 37,800 |
Submitting a proposal costs credits. 300 Connects a month is the bare minimum for a student to compete on the world's largest freelance marketplace. |
| Total outside the academy fee | $65 | $195 ≈ PKR 54,600 |
Paid monthly, directly to Anthropic and Upwork. |
Said plainly, so no parent hears it late
300 Connects a month is a minimum, and it does not buy success. Upwork is the world's number one freelance marketplace and applicants compete for the same jobs, some of them spending far more credits than this. What the minimum buys is the right to compete at all — a student without credits cannot apply for a single job, no matter how good their work is.
Why the academy does not simply bundle these into the fee
Both accounts must be in the student's own name, on the student's own card or the parent's, because the profile, the reputation and the earnings belong to that student permanently. Rolling them into the academy fee would put them in the academy's name — and the whole programme is built on the opposite principle.
The batch runs at a minimum of fifteen students, and can go to twenty or twenty-four. Enrolment closes after week two, because the setup weeks cannot be retrofitted.
For comparison, on the academy's own fee sheet
A single Cambridge subject costs a family roughly PKR 15,000 a month in tuition, plus an examination fee near PKR 36,000 — and it produces a grade. Track A costs PKR 75,000 once, and produces a skill that is paid for in dollars for as long as the student chooses to use it.