From Concept to Product: The AI Build Program
Fourteen days of live instruction, mentor critique, and daily building. You arrive with a product idea. You leave with a working AI-powered product, designed, built, and tested on real users. Anyone can ship an impressive demo; we teach you to build one that holds up, with the verification, security, and cost discipline that keep an AI product from quietly becoming a liability. This is the most intensive program we offer.
- Format
- Program · 14 days
- Outcome
- Working product
- Teaching
- Live on Zoom, small groups
Next cohort in August 2026.
Risk-free. Full refund if you withdraw before the end of day one, then transferable to a future cohort.
Founders, product managers, and technical professionals who want to ship an AI product, not just understand how AI works.
What you'll do, step by step.
Orientation and idea pressure-test
Meet your mentor and cohort. Put your product idea under honest scrutiny before you build.
AI fundamentals for builders
How models actually behave, and what that means for what you can reliably build.
Scoping a buildable product
Cut the idea down to something you can genuinely ship in the time you have.
Prompt engineering foundations
The patterns that make model outputs reliable enough to depend on.
Retrieval and grounding
Connect your product to real data so it answers from truth, not guesswork.
Tool use and function calling
Let your product take actions and call real systems safely, with the guardrails that stop an agent doing something you never intended.
Architecture review and checkpoint
Live mentor critique of your design before you commit to building it.
Build sprint I
Begin building in your own stack, with daily mentor support on the floor.
Build sprint II
Get the core path working end to end. Solve the hard parts with help.
Build sprint III
Fill in the gaps and bring the product up to a usable state.
Integrations and polish
Connect the loose ends and make the experience something a real user can hold.
User testing
Put the product in front of real users and watch what actually happens.
Evaluation and refinement
Build the checks that let you trust the output, fix what testing exposed, and harden the product against the failure modes that quietly sink most AI builds.
Ship and demo day
Final refinements and your demo. You leave with something in production.
From Concept to Product: The AI Build Program
Next cohort in August 2026.