Become the operations leader an established business can rely on.
OBM Pros is an application-based live program for experienced Filipino VAs, project managers and corporate professionals. Build the judgment, systems, communication and commercial skills required to lead online business operations.
This is not a course you buy and forget.
You will attend live sessions, complete assignments, practise difficult conversations, receive feedback, and create client-style deliverables. Every module asks you to show what you can do, not repeat what you heard.
The program is demanding on purpose. Operations leaders are trusted with people, priorities, systems, timelines and business performance. That trust has to be earned.
Move from dependable support to accountable leadership.
- Waiting for the founder to set every priority
- Becoming the backup plan for everyone
- Doing the work instead of building the system
- Attending meetings without leading decisions
- Accepting unclear scope to be helpful
- Pricing mostly on time and task volume
- Turning goals into operational priorities
- Defining ownership and decision rights
- Building systems the team can actually follow
- Leading projects and holding people accountable
- Communicating recommendations with authority
- Connecting the work to measurable outcomes
- Packaging and pricing a management-level service
You don’t just learn the role. You run it.
Every four weeks you take on a new mock client, three in all, each from a different industry. The first is a US-based consultant with a group program, one VA, two contractors, a launch next quarter, and a founder drowning in her own operations. You get the intake questionnaire, the discovery-call brief and the genuinely messy current state, and you work it like a real engagement. With each mock client you also build an AI agent that does part of the work. Antonio Thornton teaches that part: how to orchestrate agents, not just prompt them.
Diagnose
Read the business and find what is actually broken.
Build systems
Replace scattered tools with an operation people can follow.
Run a project
Lead it through team friction we introduce on purpose. Your agent does the reporting.
Plan the launch
Turn a next-quarter launch into a coordinated plan.
Report results
Show a founder what happened, and what to do next.
Throughout
Become an AI orchestrator, not an AI user. You leave with three agents you built that work for your business and your clients.
By the end, you are not saying you could lead operations. You are showing the work.
Train across the full scope of the role.
Twelve weeks of live cohort, followed by twelve months of membership. Sessions run on Philippine evenings and weekends so people with day jobs can attend.
Application and readiness
Your professional setup: tools, operating agreements and Philippine business-readiness, including registration, BIR, cross-border contracts and getting paid in USD.
From doer to operations leader
Systems architecture
Your first AI agent, built with Antonio, runs part of the system you design.
Operations, projects and team leadership
Growth operations, launches and metrics
The Communication Lab
Repeated practice writing updates, leading calls, presenting recommendations, discussing money and holding boundaries, with feedback each time. Clear communication matters more than sounding American.
The business of being an OBM Pro
Supervised practicum
Build evidence of your ability.
Subject to completing the required work, you will build:
- A leadership charter and role definition
- A systems build for the case business
- A 90-day operations leadership plan
- A launch operations plan
- A client-ready monthly report
- A written communication portfolio
- A recorded mock client call
- A positioned and priced offer suite
- A recorded mock sales conversation
- A capstone findings report and presentation
Every stage submission is reviewed against a rubric by a working practitioner and returned with written feedback. Not a completion tick. Actual feedback on your judgment.
These assignments are designed to show your thinking, not to decorate a portfolio with generic templates.
Most OBM Pros applicants start at the Launchpad.
Here’s what Launchpad students said. We will publish OBM Pros stories only after participants complete the work and approve their stories.
A very helpful class, especially for individuals like me who know we’ve grown beyond the traditional VA role but aren’t quite sure how to navigate that transition. It gave me much-needed clarity on how my existing skills and experience can translate into an OBM role, and helped me see a clearer path forward in my career.
It’s a great introduction to the role with useful tips on how to implement right away, starting with the right mindset. Take the course to determine if you’re a good fit for this job …
Such a valuable and eye-opening masterclass! I loved how well-prepared, light, and direct everything was. More than the lessons, I really appreciated how you shared your experience and challenged us to think differently about our work. … You truly walk the talk!
Who should apply.
The application protects the learning experience and protects you from paying for something you’re not ready for. Places are limited by our capacity to review work properly.
Who should apply
- An experienced VA who already coordinates projects, people, systems or priorities
- A project manager serving online businesses
- An operations professional moving out of corporate
- A corporate team leader with management experience
- Someone comfortable receiving direct feedback
- Someone able to attend live and complete assignments
Not a fit
- Beginners still learning basic VA services
- Anyone unable to join live practice
- Anyone looking for guaranteed employment, clients or income
- Anyone expecting templates to replace judgment
- Anyone unwilling to complete assignments
- Anyone who wants the title without the responsibility
Founding cohort investment.
- Apply with a ₱2,500 deposit. If you are not accepted, it is refunded in full.
- Once accepted, pay in full at ₱24,997, or 3 monthly payments of ₱8,499 (₱25,497 total).
- If you paid for the August 28 or October 10 OBM Launchpad, the amount you paid comes off your first installment. Seats for the November 20 Launchpad and later are not credited.
- All payments are completed before the cohort begins.
Accepted applicants receive the complete written terms, schedule and payment dates before anything beyond the deposit is due. After the 72-hour window, OBM Pros fees are non-refundable, with one free deferral available. Read the Refund and Transfer Policy before you apply.
- 12 weeks of live cohort training
- Required assignments with rubric-based written feedback
- The Communication Lab, weekly
- Client-style portfolio deliverables
- Supervised capstone and OBM Pro assessment
- 12 months of OBM Pros membership
Ready for live practice and direct feedback?
If you want work that reflects the real demands of operations leadership, apply for the founding cohort.