Cohort 09 · Starts October 6

32 seats left 10 weeks · live Ship 3 real products

Stop watching tutorials. Ship the product people pay for.

Mastermind is a 10-week live intensive that turns engineers and founders into AI product builders. You leave with three shipped apps, a public portfolio, and the playbook to charge for what you make.

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★★★★★

Rated 4.9/5 by 2,400+ builders across 9 cohorts

mastermind ~ build/checkout-agent.ts

// Week 6 — ship a paid AI feature

const agent = defineAgent({

model: "reasoning-pro",

tools: [stripe, db, email],

goal: "convert trials to revenue"

});

await agent.ship();

+$11.4kFirst-month MRR, Cohort 08 avg

3 appsLive & deployed by graduation

The difference

Built to make you dangerous, not just informed.

Most courses leave you with notes. Mastermind leaves you with deployed products, paying users, and proof you can build the future on demand.

Ship in week one

No theory marathons. You deploy a working AI app to a live URL within your first seven days and iterate from real feedback after that.

Production, not toys

Auth, billing, databases, observability, and AI orchestration the way real teams do it. Everything you build is something you could actually sell.

Live mentorship

Two live sessions every week plus async code review. Get unstuck in minutes, not days, with engineers who have shipped to millions.

A revenue playbook

Pricing, positioning, and launch tactics drawn from products doing real MRR. Learn to charge confidently and validate before you build.

A portfolio that opens doors

Graduate with a public profile of shipped products, demo videos, and metrics. The artifact recruiters and investors actually believe.

Lifetime momentum

Keep the alumni community, all future curriculum updates, and a standing invite to demo days. Your cohort becomes your network for years.

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The curriculum

Ten weeks. Three products. Zero fluff.

A sequenced path from first deploy to a portfolio you can charge for. Every module ends with something shipped to a live URL and reviewed by a mentor.

10Weekly modules

40+Hands-on labs

3Capstone apps

Foundations & your first deploy

Week 1

Set up a modern stack and ship a live AI app before the first week ends. We cut straight to momentum.

Project setup, environments, and instant deploys
Wiring your first model call into a real UI
Streaming responses and graceful error states

Designing AI-native interfaces

Week 2

Interfaces that make AI feel fast, trustworthy, and delightful instead of a chat box bolted onto a page.

Optimistic UI, loading choreography, and motion
Prompt UX patterns that users actually understand
Component systems with a design language of your own

Data, auth & persistence

Week 3

The unglamorous core every real product needs. Build it once, reuse it forever.

Database modeling and migrations without the pain
Authentication, sessions, and row-level security
File storage, uploads, and signed access

Agents, tools & orchestration

Week 4–5

Move beyond single prompts into agents that take real actions across your stack.

Tool calling, function schemas, and safe execution
Multi-step workflows, memory, and retrieval
Evaluating quality and catching regressions early

Monetization & billing

Week 6

Turn your build into a business. Wire up payments and learn to price with confidence.

Subscriptions, usage-based billing, and trials
Metering AI cost so your margins survive
Pricing psychology and packaging that converts

Scale, observability & polish

Week 7–8

Harden what you built so it survives real users and real traffic.

Caching, rate limits, and cost controls
Logging, tracing, and alerting that you trust
Performance budgets and the last 10% of polish

Capstone & public launch

Week 9–10

Ship your flagship product in public, with a launch plan and a live demo day in front of the cohort.

Building your capstone end to end with mentorship
Launch copy, demo video, and distribution plan
Demo day and your published builder portfolio

Your instructor

Maya Okonkwo

Former Principal Engineer · 3x founder · Built AI products used by 12M people

Maya has spent twelve years shipping at the edge of what was possible, from the early growth team at a unicorn fintech to founding two AI startups, one acquired. She has hired and mentored hundreds of engineers and built the exact systems this course teaches.

"The market does not reward people who know things. It rewards people who ship things. Mastermind exists to make you one of the second kind."

Shipped to 12M+ users

1 acquisition, 2 startups

Mentored 400+ engineers

Keynote speaker, 6 conferences

The results

They came to learn. They left shipping.

Real graduates, real products, real revenue. Here is what changed when they stopped consuming and started building.

★★★★★

I had been "learning to code" for two years with nothing to show. Eight weeks in I launched a paid AI tool and crossed $4k MRR before the cohort even ended. This is the only thing that ever worked for me.

Daniel ReyesFounder, InboxTriage · Cohort 07

★★★★★

The mentorship is unreal. I would get stuck on something at 9pm and have a reviewed fix by morning. I shipped three products and used my capstone to land a senior role with a 40% raise.

Priya NandakumarSenior Engineer, Ramp · Cohort 06

★★★★★

Other courses taught me syntax. Mastermind taught me to think like a founder who ships. My capstone became my company and we raised a pre-seed three months after demo day.

Marcus EzeCEO, Vellum AI · Cohort 05

★★★★★

I am a designer who was terrified of code. By week three I was deploying real apps. The way the curriculum sequences momentum is genuinely brilliant. I never felt lost.

Sofia LindgrenProduct Designer, Figma · Cohort 08

★★★★★

Worth ten times the price. The billing and monetization weeks alone paid for the course within a month of launching. I finally understand how to charge for what I build.

James WhitfieldIndie Builder, $9k MRR · Cohort 07

The offer

Choose how you want to level up.

One-time payment, lifetime access to the community and all future curriculum. Cohort 09 pricing ends when the 32 seats are gone.

Self-Paced

The full curriculum on your own schedule.

$690

One-time · lifetime access

All 10 modules & 40+ labs
Full source for every project
Lifetime curriculum updates
Community access
Live sessions & code review
Demo day & 1:1 mentorship

Start self-paced

Live Cohort

The full intensive with live mentorship and demo day.

$2,400$3,200

One-time · Cohort 09 pricing

Everything in Self-Paced
2 live sessions every week
Async code review on every build
Demo day with hiring partners
Published builder portfolio
Private cohort channel

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Founder 1:1

Everything, plus private weekly time with Maya.

$6,800

One-time · 6 seats per cohort

Everything in Live Cohort
Weekly 1:1 with Maya
Architecture & launch review
Fundraising & pricing strategy
Intro to investor network
Priority support, 6 months

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14-day no-questions guarantee. Ship your first app or get every dollar back.

Questions

Everything you want to know.

Do I need to be an experienced developer?

No. You should be comfortable with basic programming concepts and be able to read simple code, but you do not need to be senior. We have graduated designers, product managers, and self-taught builders. The curriculum is sequenced so you are always one achievable step from your next deploy.

How much time will it take each week?

Plan for around 10 to 14 hours a week: roughly 3 hours of live sessions and the rest building. Many students do it alongside a full-time job. Sessions are recorded, so you can catch up if you miss one, and labs are designed to fit into focused evening blocks.

What exactly will I have built by the end?

At least three live, deployed AI products including a flagship capstone, each with its own URL, source code, and demo video. You also leave with a published builder portfolio and a launch plan you can execute the day after graduation.

What is the difference between Self-Paced and the Live Cohort?

Self-Paced gives you the full curriculum, labs, and source to work through on your own. The Live Cohort adds twice-weekly live sessions, async code review on everything you ship, a private cohort channel, demo day with hiring partners, and a published portfolio. Most students choose the Live Cohort for the accountability and feedback.

Is there really a refund guarantee?

Yes. If you complete the first two weeks, attend the live sessions, and still feel it is not for you, email us within 14 days of your cohort start and we refund every dollar. No forms, no friction. We can offer this because the work speaks for itself.

What if I cannot attend a live session?

Every live session is recorded and posted within hours, along with notes and the lab. Office hours run across multiple time zones, and your mentor reviews your work asynchronously, so you are never blocked waiting for a call.

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