2weekAI Bootcamp — learn by building

Not your certificate — your app.

Adults don't learn this by watching. You can study every game of the season and still never make a shot. Lectures make Monday-morning quarterbacks.

That's why this is built differently. No endless overviews — you build a real, deployed application with your own hands. You leave with working software, the story of building it, and the confidence to build the next one.

Two in-person weekends · Hands on keyboard · Your problem, your code, your deployment

A man and a woman laugh together at a wooden desk in front of a wall covered with colorful sticky notes
Skills, not slides

What you actually walk out with

This is not a course you watch. It's a build you finish. You take one real project — your problem, your scope — through the full path from idea to a live URL, and you understand every decision because you made it.

Prepare

Get clear on the problem before touching a tool.

Plan

Set a target you intend to beat — on purpose.

Execute

Build in small pieces that work at every step.

Test

Prove it works before anyone else sees it.

Deploy

Ship it live, hand over the keys, tell the story.

You'll also leave with the two skills that keep projects from running over: knowing when to cut scope, and keeping contingency in the plan for what you can't predict yet. Good plans leave room on purpose. These are real skills — the same ones that finish big projects — not story time.

The tangible things you leave with
A deployed Phase 1 application at your own domain
A GitHub repo you own and control
A System Bible documenting what was built and how to run it
A parking lot that is the roadmap for Phase 2 and beyond
The full prompt library, organized and annotated
30 days of cohort Slack access after you go home
Try before you commit

The taste comes free

Every tool on this site was built with the same process taught in this room. Browse them. Run one. That's the curriculum, already working.

Free Tools & Courses

Real tools, built on the same stack you'll learn. Run one against your own business problem and see what the process produces.

Browse the free tools

Workflow Library

Plain-language walkthroughs of real business workflows — what breaks, what gets built, what it takes. The same thinking you'll do on your own project.

Browse the workflow library
The honest answer

Can you make money with this?

Three honest paths. No hype on any of them.

Your own business

Build an operational solution for your company — a lead capture system, a client onboarding wizard, a reporting dashboard. Something that saves time or makes money for your business starting Monday.

Freelance and sellable work

Build a product someone else would pay to use. Build it for your business first. Then sell it to the next business with the same problem.

For standouts — inside this network

The third path is not for sale. It's what can happen when someone builds well, in the open, in front of people who build for a living.

The locked line — read it twice

a DOOR, never a PROMISE. People who stand out may be invited into real work. Earned, never guaranteed.

Who's teaching this

Someone who ships, sitting in the room with you

Actual veteran

US Air Force. The discipline came first; the software came after.

Industry veteran

28 years of enterprise delivery — over 60,000 hours of doing, not theorizing. There's not much he hasn't seen break, and not much he hasn't fixed.

Solo founder

Runs eight platforms on the exact stack you'll learn. Your instructor is his own first customer — the struggle is the point, and he's still in it with you.

Twenty-eight years delivering for a dozen Fortune 500 companies — banking, insurance, lending, pharma, manufacturing, the most regulated industries there are. Security and compliance aren't an add-on at that level. They're the table stakes. That's the rigor this program inherits.

Honest pricing

What it costs, and what it buys

Coaching, reviews, and a blueprint to work against at every step. Your scope, professionally estimated before Weekend 1, live in production by the end of Weekend 2.

FormatPrice
Solo builder$3,997 one-time tuition plus your own tool budget, about $30–50/mo
Two seats, one project — bring someone$7,000 one-time tuition plus your own tool budget, about $30–50/mo

Deployment guarantee or full refund. You leave with a working, deployed application — or you don't pay.

Tool and infrastructure costs are not included in tuition — they're your own budget, by design: about $75–150 to set up, $30–50/mo ongoing, and roughly $10–15/yr for your domain. When it's your money, the decisions are real.

$3,997 buys an actual app, not a paper certificate — and after tuition, the only ongoing cost is your own tool stack, about $30–50/mo.

Straight answers

The questions everyone asks before applying

Do I need to already know how to code?

No. A technical background is not required, and previous coding experience is helpful but not required. What is required: a real problem to solve, willingness to commit four full days and the week between, a laptop you can develop on, and the ability to be wrong in front of peers and keep going.

How much time does it take?

Two in-person weekends with a guided week between them. Pre-work starts four weeks before Weekend 1, so you arrive with your accounts set up, a domain registered, and an approved build brief. During the week between, plan on one to two hours of homework a day. Phase 1 deploys on Weekend 2.

What's included in the tuition?

Coaching, reviews, and a blueprint to work against at every step; the pre-work diagnostic and brief review; the full prompt library, organized and annotated; and 30 days of cohort Slack access after. Tool and infrastructure costs are your own budget — by design. When it's your money, the decisions are real.

Is there a guarantee?

Yes. Deployment guarantee or full refund: complete all four days and you leave with a working, deployed application — or you don't pay.

What happens after the bootcamp?

Mastermind groups of three to four participants, monthly co-working sessions, and an alumni community where people post deployments and celebrate shipping. The community continues after you go home — see the community page for how the tiers work.

Next stop

Where builders go from here

Join the community

Tier 1 is free with open enrollment — foundational content, real-time questions and answers. Conversation, not lecture.

See the community

Try a free tool

Run a real tool against your own problem — the same process and stack the bootcamp teaches.

Browse free tools

Talk to Dave

One conversation, no pitch. Bring your idea and get an honest read on whether the bootcamp fits.

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What would you like to do next?

No pressure. Choose the door that matches how ready you feel.

Not ready to talk yet?

Run a free tool or browse the workflow library first.

Try a free tool

Book a 15-minute no-pitch call

Bring your idea — or your skepticism. We'll tell you honestly if the bootcamp fits, or if a free tool is enough.

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