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Sprout your first
app in 30 days.

From “I have an app idea” to “here’s the live URL.”

No spam · one email when doors open

Next cohort opens for enrollment soon. Founding rate: $697.

The moment after the tab closes

The first hour with an AI coding tool is electric.

You type a prompt. You get a working prototype. For a few minutes it feels like you’ve cracked the code.

Then you try to make a change and something breaks.

Then you wonder if the login is actually safe.

Then you find the Vibe Code Wall of Shame.

And… you close the tab.

So the prototype sits there. Half-built. Joining the others.

Sprout was built for the moment right after that tab closes.

Thirty days, one live cohort, the AI tools you already wanted to use — Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Claude — and a path that ends with a real URL you can hand to a real person without flinching.

The plan · how this works

Three things that make Sprout different from the course you’d skim and forget.

1

A small cohort with a real deadline.

Sprout runs as a cohort, not a self-paced library you’ll bookmark and abandon. You start when the cohort starts. You ship when the cohort ships. The deadline is part of the product.

What you need isn’t more information. There’s plenty of that on YouTube. What’s missing is a deadline, a small room of people doing the same thing, and someone to ask when you get stuck.

2

A live call and an office hour every week.

A weekly live call. Sixty minutes. I teach the week’s focus — the tools, the prompts, the patterns — and you leave with a clear next step for your own build. Recorded.

A weekly office hour. Sixty minutes. Open Q&A. Bring whatever’s broken. We debug it together.

3

Async Slack support.

A private cohort Slack with me in it. Ask questions between calls. Share what you shipped today. See what other people are building.

This is the part that separates Sprout from a course you watch alone. Most of the actual learning happens between the calls.

The process · four weeks

Build · understand · review · ship.

Week 1

Build.

Pick the app you’re actually going to ship. Set up your AI tools. Get a working prototype.

The first week is the fun part — and the part the tools already do well. The goal is to get familiar with the tools, and have something running by Friday.

Week 2

Understand.

Learn to read and evaluate what the AI wrote for you. Database schemas, API routes, environment variables, login flows.

By the end of week two you can open the files the AI produced and have an idea of what each one does.

Week 3

Review.

We walk through the things AI tools tend to get wrong — unprotected routes, leaked environment variables, half-wired auth, payment flows that look right but aren’t, and how to work with your AI to fix it.

Week 4

Ship.

Deploy for real. Custom domain. Real hosting. Real users.

We cover what to monitor after launch, how to continue building, and how to keep your app running when you’re back to a normal week.

Who’s teaching this

I’ve spent my career shipping software that has to work.

I’m a lead software engineer with nearly a decade of experience writing and reviewing code, architecting systems, and problem solving. I use AI coding tools every day — to prototype, to debug, to move faster on real codebases. I know what they do well. I know exactly where they fall over.

I’ve also taught people with zero coding background how to build software, and mentored developers earlier in their careers. That part matters for this. You’re going to ask me things you’re worried sound dumb. I’ve heard them all and none of them are dumb.

The gap I’m teaching to isn’t theoretical. It’s the same one I navigate at work, compressed into 30 days for someone whose first build is still in front of them.

I’ll teach you to verify what the tools built — so you can launch with confidence instead of crossing your fingers.

What’s included

What’s in a Sprout cohort.

  • ·4 weekly cohort calls 60 min each, live, recorded
  • ·4 weekly office hours 60 min each, live, recorded
  • ·Private cohort Slack weekday async support from me
  • ·A 30-day arc build, understand, review, ship
  • ·A deployed, live web app at the end your real URL, not a demo
  • ·The vocabulary to maintain it after the cohort ends

Format: small group cohort, capped to keep it small enough that I’m actually in your Slack threads.

Timeline: 30 days, cohort start to ship date.

Investment

$697 founding rate. $897 after.

The founding rate is the deal for the people who join the first cohort.

After the first cohort ships, the price goes up.

Payment in full at enrollment. Two-payment plan available on request.

No spam · one email when doors open

The details

The fine print, in plain language.

  • ·Enrollment closes when the cohort fills or 5 days before kickoff, whichever comes first.
  • ·Cohort dates are fixed at enrollment. If you miss a call, the recording will be available afterwards.
  • ·I'll be in Slack on weekdays, generally responding within a few hours during business hours (Pacific). Not a 24/7 service.
  • ·Sprout teaches you to review code the AI wrote. It does not turn you into a professional developer in 30 days, and it isn't a substitute for a security audit on a production app with sensitive user data.

The guarantee

If after week 1 Sprout isn’t working for you — wrong pace, wrong fit, wrong moment in your life — tell me before the week 2 call and I’ll refund you in full.

Why the first cohort

Two reasons to be in the first cohort, specifically.

Founding pricing, locked in.

$200 off the list price.

Direct access at the highest density I'll ever offer it.

The first cohort gets me in the Slack and on the calls at a level that won’t scale to cohort two. Future cohorts will be bigger. This one won’t.

What you walk away with

What you actually walk away with.

A real URL by day 30.

Not a demo. Not a screenshot. A live app you built.

The vocabulary to keep going.

You can read what the AI wrote, which means you can change it, fix it, and decide whether to ship it.

A small room of people doing the same thing.

The cohort is part of the product. Most of what you remember from a 30-day push is who was in it with you.

Permission to be in progress.

You’re not “learning to code.” You’re shipping one specific thing and learning enough to stand behind it.

Final call

Ready to sprout?

Join the waitlist. I’ll email you when the next cohort opens for enrollment — waitlist gets first access and the $697 founding rate.

No spam · one email when doors open

Good vibes, deeper roots.