Claude
Research synthesis. Turning a pile of interview notes into the two or three things that actually matter.
Toolkit
Eighteen tools,
Eighteen tools,
each one in
the week you
need it
Nothing is taught for the sake of the list. Every tool here does a specific job on a specific week, and you learn it at the moment that job comes up.
The stack
- Tools taught
- 18
- Phases
- 4
- Prior experience
- None
- Taught
- Hands-on
01 · The stack, by phase
Which tool, and when
If a name here means nothing to you yet, that is expected. You are not asked to arrive knowing any of it.
Validate
Weeks 1 to 2 · 4 toolsChatGPT
Interview preparation. Drafting the questions, then pressure-testing what you heard back.
Perplexity
Market research. Finding who else is solving this and where they fall short.
Notion AI
Organising findings so week 2 has something to build a scoped MVP from.
Design
Weeks 3 to 6 · 5 toolsFigma
Where your screens get designed and your design system lives. Weeks 3 to 6 mostly happen here.
Whimsical
User flows. Mapping every path through the app before any of it is drawn.
Midjourney
Moodboards and image assets, then product visuals you can actually ship.
Maze
User testing. Putting the prototype in front of real people and getting numbers back.
Stitch
Component generation, for getting a first pass on screen furniture quickly.
Build
Weeks 7 to 10 · 6 toolsCursor
The AI code editor. This is how someone without a development background produces a working app.
v0
UI scaffolding. Getting from a Figma screen to running interface code.
Supabase
Backend and auth. Accounts, database and file storage, deployed in week 8.
Expo
The native app runtime. One codebase, both app stores.
RevenueCat
In-app purchases, for the students whose app needs to charge for something.
PostHog
Analytics, so that after launch you can see what people actually do.
Launch
Weeks 11 to 12 · 4 toolsFramer
Your marketing landing page, live before the app is.
Runway
Launch video and motion assets.
Claude
App Store optimisation and launch copy. The same tool from week 1, doing a different job.
Product Hunt
The launch platform, and the playbook for using it properly.
02 · How they are taught
In the week the job comes up
- 01
Live, in the session
Each Tuesday workshop demonstrates the tools that week needs, on a real project rather than a toy example.
- 02
With prompts you keep
The AI toolkit is a curated library of prompts and templates for every tool here, and you keep it after the program.
- 03
Then in your own build
You use the tool that same week on your own app. Nothing is learned in the abstract and left there.
- 04
With help when it breaks
Async channels and drop-in office hours, because the tool that works in a demo is the one that fights you at 9pm.
Bring the idea
Leave with the app
The planning session is free and one to one. If this is not the right fit for what you are trying to build, you will leave knowing that.
At a glance
- Cohort 05 starts
- Sept 7, 2026
- Last day to register
- Aug 24, 2026
- Tuition
- Was
$2,400, now $1,200