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Curriculum
built to expand.

Each track starts with a clear frame, then exercises, content, templates, and measurable outputs.

01
FOUNDER SKILL SET

Founder Skill Set

Market selection, customer pain, irresistible offers, pricing, sales, and distribution before writing too much code.

6 weeksBeginner → operating founder

Outcomes

  • Solo founder operating system
  • Team under ten
  • Funding or profitability decision
  • Founder control and vision

Topics

Solo founder mindset

Think big while staying lean in a company of 1 to 10 people.

High-performance small teams

Hire for AI-native speed, culture, and capability instead of headcount.

Product requirements in the AI era

Define products when AI can ship features overnight.

Fundraising versus profitability

Understand investor incentives, control, board pressure, and non-VC-style growth.

Scaling decisions

Maintain vision as the company grows past the founding team.

02
BUILDING IN THE AGE OF AI

Building in the Age of AI

Turn an idea into a fast product: prototypes, agents, automation, content, and analytics with modern tools.

8 weeksFounder → AI operator

Outcomes

  • Ship in days
  • LLM harness
  • Agent coding
  • Monitoring, cost, and security

Topics

Speed as advantage

Compress build cycles from months to days without giving up quality.

LLMs and harnesses

Understand how models work for builders and how to wrap them with tests and control.

Agent coding

Write code with agents and for agents, dividing work between humans and systems.

Deployment and local/remote development

Choose a development, inference, and deployment setup that fits a tiny team.

Observability, economics, and security

Monitor reliability, token cost, and risk when AI sits in the critical path.

03
BUILDER SKILL SET

Builder Skill Set

Execution skills for tiny teams: writing, design, AI-assisted coding, operations, support, and repeatable content.

6 weeksIntermediate → independent builder

Outcomes

  • Strong generalists
  • Design, docs, and code
  • Testing and deployment
  • Moat for a small team

Topics

From specialist to generalist

Why every team member must understand design, product, code, and business.

Documents and specs

Write clear documents and product specs with AI.

Build, test, deploy

Own the live product, test it deeply, and operate it after launch.

Change without burnout

Build a culture that accepts major product change every three months and reinvention every six.

Moats and learning paths

Choose what to learn next based on whether you start technical, design-oriented, or business-oriented.