Karachi
The Dollar Skill Program
Twelve weeks of AI skills taught by a working freelancer with $50,000+ earned across 102 international contracts — now open to every student from sixteen upward, on two tracks.
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.
- Platform subscription and proposal credits funded by the academy for the supervised phase.
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.
Evenings only, five nights a week
Both tracks run entirely in the evening, in the academy's existing teaching hours. The two tracks are deliberately placed on different nights rather than back to back, so that neither group is ever taught by a tired instructor and so the one-to-one proposal reviews that Track A depends on actually get the hours they need.
Both tracks begin together on Monday 7 September 2026 and finish in the week of 23 November 2026. The full night-by-night schedule, mapped against the academy's own term dates, 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 |
| Four weeks of supervised client hunting | Yes | — |
| Platform subscription + proposal credits | Funded for the supervised phase | — |
| The 18th Birthday Switch-On session | — | Yes, no expiry |
Platform subscription and proposal-credit costs are set out in full on the platform costs page, including what it typically costs to reach a first contract. Nothing on that page is billed to the family during the programme.
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. |
Seats are capped at twelve students per track. The cap is not a sales device — it is the number of proposals one instructor can genuinely read and correct each week. Enquiries beyond the cap go to a waiting list for the next batch at the same fee, with a confirmed date.
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.