How long is the AI Founder Bootcamp?

12 weeks at about 15 hours a week. The weeks run as six two-week blocks; each block ends in a project you deploy and a gate you must pass before the next block opens.

Is the AI Founder Bootcamp live or self-paced?

Live. It is taught on Zoom by one instructor, with a 30-minute one-to-one every week. Nova, Square 1's AI tutor, grades every exercise and project between sessions against a rubric you can read.

When are the live sessions for the AI Founder Bootcamp?

Live sessions run on weekday evenings from 5:30 PM Sri Lanka and India time, with full-day sessions at weekends. That is 5:00 PM in Pakistan, 5:45 PM in Nepal and 6:00 PM in Bangladesh, so the sessions fit around a working day.

How much does the AI Founder Bootcamp cost?

A$200 for the founding cohort, paid once; the standard price is A$400. It is the same price in every country. Founding students keep their founding price on any second programme.

What will I build in the AI Founder Bootcamp?

6 deployed projects: The problem statement, In front of users, A real payment, The experiment log, The business and Demo day. Each is graded against a published rubric and kept on a record an employer can open at /verify.

What skills does the AI Founder Bootcamp teach?

customer discovery, AI prototyping, payments, growth, unit economics and pitching. It prepares you for roles such as Founder, Technical co-founder and Product lead at an early-stage company.

Does the AI Founder Bootcamp guarantee a job?

No. No placement rate is published because the first cohorts have not graduated. What you leave with is six deployed projects, a recorded defence of your code and a hiring plan worked through with your instructor, including a two-week hiring sprint at the end.

Live bootcampTaught live on Zoom, one instructor

AI Founder Bootcamp

Go from idea to a launched AI product with paying users in twelve weeks.

AI Founder Bootcamp is a 12-week live online bootcamp, taught on Zoom by one instructor at about 15 hours a week, with 6 deployed projects and a one-to-one every week. The founding price is A$200, down from A$400. Live sessions run on weekday evenings from 5:30 PM Sri Lanka and India time, with full-day sessions at weekends.

Taught with

ClaudeChatGPTCursorVercelSupabase

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By week 12, you will have shipped

Week 1Interview ScriptAn interview script and notes sheet for customer conversations about one problem
Weeks 1–2The problemTwenty customer conversations and a written problem statement, published
Week 3Landing Page TestA landing page with a sign-up form for your idea, deployed on Vercel
Weeks 3–4The prototypeA working prototype in front of users, deployed
Weeks 5–6The productThe product with payments live, deployed
Week 7Analytics SetupAn analytics setup that tracks sign-ups and activation for your product
Weeks 7–8GrowthA growth experiment log with results, published
Week 9Pricing PageA pricing page with two plans and a working Supabase sign-up flow
Weeks 9–10The companyThe capstone: the launched product, the numbers and a pitch
Weeks 11–12Demo day and next stepsDemo day

weeks, live on Zoom: 12
hours a week: 15
projects to build: 10
minutes 1-1, every week: 30

Who it is for, and what you receive.

People with an idea, or the willingness to find one in block one, who want to go from idea to a launched AI product with paying users in twelve weeks.

Before you start

An idea, or the willingness to find one in block one.

Skills

customer discoveryAI prototypingpaymentsgrowthunit economicspitching

A week, about 15 hours

Live on Zoom: 4h
Set reading and exercises: 6h
The project: 5h

1
Six deployed projects
Each graded by Nova against a published rubric and signed off by the instructor at the gate.
2
The twelve-week plan
Every week has its theme, its topics and what you build, published before you apply and taught live by your instructor.
3
Live on Zoom every week
A 90-minute live code review, a 60-minute squad lab, 60 minutes of office hours, and a 30-minute 1-1 with your instructor.
4
Your hiring plan
Opened in week 1 and reviewed in every 1-1: target roles, the gap map, the proof list, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome.
5
The record
Every grade and every project with its repository at square1ai.com/u/{handle}, and the recording of your viva, verifiable by any employer.
6
The certificate
A credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify to the real completion.
7
The hiring sprint
Weeks 11 and 12: CV and portfolio from graded work, applications, mock interviews scored against the role, demo day.
8
Nova for twelve weeks
A tutor with every submission of yours in its memory, at 2am as well as in class.

Twelve weeks in six parts.

Each part teaches for a week, then you build and deploy a project, then a gate checks it before the next part opens. The project and its gate are the part's entry on your record.

Live time each week on Zoom: a 90-minute class where the instructor reviews real submissions, a 60-minute squad lab, 60 minutes of office hours, and your own 30-minute 1-1. Nothing is lectured live; the recorded lessons do that.

Key skillsFinding a problem people pay to solveCustomer conversationsSizing and positioning
Week 1
The problem
- Finding a problem people pay to solve
- Customer conversations
- Sizing and positioning
You build: Twenty customer conversations
Week 2
Project 1: the problem statement
- Synthesising conversations
- Willingness to pay
You build: A written problem statement three people said they would pay for
Project 1 · the gate at week 2
The problem statement
Twenty customer conversations and a written problem statement, published
You hand in
- Conversation notes
- Problem statement
- Positioning
The gate
Three people said they would pay.

What you can do by week 12.

A launched product with real users and revenue, or a documented, honest reason it did not work, which is worth almost as much to the next attempt.

1
Find a problem people pay to solve through customer conversations, and size and position it.
2
Build the smallest product that proves it with AI tools, and price it.
3
Take a prototype to a product with auth, payments and support, reliable enough for one person to run.
4
Find distribution and measure which channel works.
5
Model unit economics, decide on fundraising, and handle legal, hiring and operations.
6
Defend the business to a panel.

Roles this prepares you for

FounderTechnical co-founderProduct lead at an early-stage company

No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.

Your record at week 12.

Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.

Graded, line by line: Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
Six gates: A block does not open until the previous project passes its gate. You always know where you are and what is next.
A weekly 1-1: Thirty minutes with your instructor, who has already read your code before the call.
One page an employer can run: Every grade, project and the viva recording at /verify. An employer opens it, runs the code and watches you defend it.

Record, AI Founder BootcampExample

Week 2
The problem statement
Three people said they would pay
Graded, gate signed
Week 4
In front of users
Five users completed the core action
Graded, gate signed
Week 6
A real payment
One real payment
Graded, gate signed
Week 8
The experiment log
One channel shows repeatable signal
Graded, gate signed

The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.

8 entries, twelve weeks. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.

Reserve a seat

How we help you find a job.

The last block is not curriculum. It is the hiring sprint, and the proof you built in the ten weeks before it.

The course booklet

The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.

Get the booklet

1
Your hiring plan, from week 1
Six parts you and your instructor keep: target roles, the gap map from real postings, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. Read before every 1-1.
2
The hiring sprint
Weeks 11 and 12: CV, portfolio, applications, mock interviews, and demo day in front of hiring partners.
3
A record an employer can run
Your deployed projects and the recorded viva on /verify. An employer opens it, runs the code and watches you defend it.
4
The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
5
The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.

Questions people ask.

About AI Founder Bootcamp, answered from the plan on this page.

One cohort, one instructor. Hold your spot.

A cohort of 25, one instructor, 12 weeks, six things you ship. Spot holders hear the start date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.

A launched product with real users and revenue, or a documented reason it did not work
A recorded viva
Your record on /verify

A$200~~A$400~~