Phase 0 · Base Camp
12.97° N / API-01
The Bridge
The LLM mental model, model APIs, async & streaming, cost and token thinking. No "Python from scratch" — you already code.
Ship: your first model-powered call
A small founding cohort — fifteen to twenty-five engineers, hand-picked. Built around shipping real AI systems in the open, not watching lectures. We guarantee the learning. Not the job.
15–25 founding members · refundable deposit · application review
Three things that make this different from a recorded course.
Weekly live sessions where we build together — not a polished replay. You see what breaks in real time, how we debug it, and what the decision looked like before it was obvious.
Your code, your deploy, your eval — reviewed directly, not against a rubric. Feedback on the actual artifact. This is where the learning compounds.
Three to four shipped AI systems plus a capstone — all deployed, monitored, and documented. The receipt that backs your CV, not an attendance certificate.
A backend engineer gets a fast first win at base camp, then earns depth toward production. Every station ends with something shipped, deployed, and on your map.
The LLM mental model, model APIs, async & streaming, cost and token thinking. No "Python from scratch" — you already code.
RAG done properly, agents & tool-calling, structured outputs, guardrails, and a first real deployment.
Evaluation & observability, fine-tuning tradeoffs, serving & latency, reliability and failure modes — the moat the tutorials skip.
One production-grade AI system — deployed, monitored, documented. The centerpiece of a portfolio that is pure receipt.
We guarantee the learning, not the job. Here's exactly what that means — in writing.
The founding cohort is deliberately priced low. It rises with each cohort's documented outcomes. We will show you exactly why.
Once we have documented outcomes from founding members.
Profitable steady state. Proof accumulated, pricing power earned.
PPP-aware regional pricing. No "why do foreigners pay 5×" resentment.
We publish the pricing ladder openly so you know exactly where you stand and what buys the next increase. No surprise price jumps.
No countdown timers. No fake seats remaining. A small cohort, hand-picked, starting when we have the right group.
We'll review applications and reach out with next steps. You can also reply to any dispatch — applications are read, not filtered.