Two weekends. In person. Hands on keyboard.
You leave with a deployed application at your own domain, a playbook documenting everything you built, and the skills to keep building long after you go home. No videos. No slides. No watching someone else do it.
"It's lonely to be a builder.
But it doesn't have to be."
Most people who want to build something with AI are doing it alone. Late nights. Bugs nobody else understands. Wins nobody else appreciates the way another builder would. This program puts eight of you in the same room at the same time — building your own things, solving each other's problems, leaving with work you are proud of and a community that keeps going after you go home.
The Program
The week between the two weekends is where the real learning happens. You go home with something half-built, stare at it Tuesday evening, try four things, three fail, the fourth works. That knowledge is yours permanently. The classroom cannot give it to you. The struggle does.
Every Role. One Person.
The person who has played every role never again asks naive questions when managing someone in that role. They know exactly what each position costs, what it needs, and what it produces — because they've done it.
What You Build
You pick your build during the pre-work diagnostic. The scope is fixed before Weekend 1 starts. You know exactly what done looks like before you arrive.
What You Leave With
The Stack
Not a training environment. Not a sandbox. The production stack. You own every account. You keep everything after the bootcamp ends. Budget approximately $75–150 to get set up.
Who This Is For
Your business needs to modernize. You've tried courses, consultants, and waiting for the right vendor. This is where you stop waiting and start building.
Stop being the person who sends everyone to watch videos. Be the person who built something and deployed it. That's a different conversation.
Complete the bootcamp. Build the technical capability. Start delivering AI builds for your own clients using the same stack and methodology you learned here.
Certificates collect dust. A live deployed application at your own domain, with a GitHub repo and documentation you wrote, proves something different.
You understand operational discipline. You understand what a real deliverable looks like. This program adds the capability to build the tools for your next mission.
You want a certificate. You're looking for theory. You can't commit four full days. You're not willing to be wrong in front of peers. You don't have a real problem to solve.
Built for Your Industry
The Bootcamp works differently depending on who you are and what you build. See the version built for your context.
Same people. Same hours. Double the capacity. The math, the builds, the business case for VA agencies specifically.
Come alone and build your own capability, or bring a client and build together. Two different outcomes, same program.
Day 1 — Optional
On Day 1, before you write a single line of code, you can give Dave one phone number. A friend. A family member. Someone who matters to you and has no idea what you're about to build.
Sunday evening — Weekend 2
"Hi — you don't know me, and I know it's Sunday. I'm Dave. I sat with Bob off and on for a week while he built his web app here at bootcamp. Here's the link. Check it out."
Nobody is required to do this. But the people who opt in have a name on the board and a real deadline — not an instructor's expectation, not a cohort's pressure. Someone at home who is going to get that text whether the link is ready or not.
The first person who clicks that link and says "you built this?" — that's the win. Everything else is how you got there.
Investment
The tuition covers the four days and the full program. Tool costs are yours — by design. There is no corporate sandbox here.
Tool budget, separately: Budget approximately $75–150 to set up your accounts before Weekend 1 and $30–50/month ongoing after Phase 1 deploys. This is your infrastructure. You own it. You keep it. When it's your money the decisions are real.
The Instructor
Dave Acevedo spent 28 years delivering software and infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies — then built a six-platform community reinvestment network as a solo founder using the same stack you'll use in this bootcamp.
He didn't take a course. He built it. Through nights at a keyboard where something didn't work and he had to figure out why. He knows every role in this program from the inside — not from a textbook, from production, with deadlines and budgets and consequences.
The struggle is not a warning label. It's the methodology. You will get stuck. Dave has been where you'll be stuck. He'll point you one degree in the right direction and let you find it yourself.
28 years United States Air Force. Program recovery and large-scale operational delivery under real constraints with real consequences. The discipline and structure of the bootcamp comes directly from service, not software.
28 years delivering technology programs for Fortune 500 companies. Has been every role in this program — project sponsor, PM, developer, QA, deployment specialist — in production environments with deadlines and budgets.
Built HomeSwerv — a six-platform community reinvestment network — as a single operator using the exact stack taught in this bootcamp. Not a demo. Not a case study. A live network you can visit today.
After the Bootcamp
Groups of three to four, organized by Dave based on compatible problem spaces. Every two weeks: what did you ship, what are you stuck on, what does the group see that you can't? They run themselves. Dave drops in.
Virtual or in-person. Cameras on. Everyone building. No agenda. Just shared focus. The magic of building alongside other builders — reproduced on a monthly cadence so the bootcamp energy doesn't fade.
Your parking lot is your roadmap. Dave thought HomeSwerv was a six-week project. Hundreds of hours of building later, it became six platforms. That's not failure. That's what happens when the foundation works and the vision expands.
Apply
Eight seats. Application only. The only qualification that matters: a real problem you want to solve and the willingness to sit with the difficulty until you solve it.
dave@2weekai.com — responses within 24 hours
Deployment guarantee: complete all four days and leave with a deployed app or your money back.