Is this a subscription?
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No. All tiers are one-time purchases with lifetime access to the content available at purchase. Builder and Mentored tiers include future content drops as they're released.
Can I upgrade later?
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Yes. You can upgrade from Foundations to Builder at any time and only pay the difference. Contact support to arrange the upgrade.
What's included in the free tier?
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Free workshops (3 available), free prompts and skills from the libraries, community access for browsing, and the full AI tools directory. No credit card required.
Do I need coding experience?
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No. You'll learn to direct AI agents that write the code for you. You bring the ideas and domain knowledge. Track 1 and Track 4 start from zero.
What's in the Mentored tier?
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Limited to 10 students. Monthly 1-on-1 calls where we review how you direct agents and sharpen your approach. Direct message access, project reviews, and a custom learning path. It's an apprenticeship in directing AI agents.
What's the Watch & Build tier?
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Watch & Build With Me is a $2500/month subscription where we build together 4 nights a week. You watch how I direct AI agents in real-time,the prompts, the configs, the corrections, the workflow. Bring your own projects. It's the fastest way to learn because you see exactly how descriptions become shipped software. Session recordings included.
Can my company pay for this?
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Yes. We provide invoices and receipts formatted for L&D reimbursement. Many companies cover professional development,especially AI training. Team pricing available for 5+ seats (email support).
What counts as a "production agent" in the Operator program?
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Three things: it solves a real recurring task (not a toy), it is deployed somewhere agents can actually run it (Vercel, Render, a cron, or a local CLI), and someone other than you can fire it without your help. We grade against this rubric, not against lines of code or model novelty.
What if I have never opened a terminal?
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Track 1 (in Foundations and Builder) opens with "your first 30 minutes in the terminal." Install, navigate, run a command, undo a command. No prior shell experience assumed. By workshop 4 you are running Claude Code on a real project. If you bounce off it, the 14-day refund window covers you.
How is this different from a YouTube course or a Maven cohort?
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YouTube shows what AI can do; we teach you to direct it. Maven cohorts are typically tool-specific (Claude-only, or Cursor-only); we are tool-agnostic by design and teach the workflow that transfers across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Aider, and Warp. The Builder tier is also a one-time purchase with lifetime updates, not a 6-week sprint that ends.
Are the Operator cohort seats really limited to 10?
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Yes. 10 per cohort, with the 12-week program running quarterly. The cap exists because 1:1 review on every agent submission is the part of the program that does not scale. When a cohort fills, the next one opens for waitlist. We do not run hidden overflow cohorts.
Will the AI tools you teach be obsolete in 6 months?
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The tools change. The operator skill compounds. We teach the patterns (CLAUDE.md scaffolding, MCP server design, agent orchestration loops) that have stayed stable across the last three model generations. When a tool is genuinely replaced, lifetime tiers get updated lessons covering the replacement. You bought the skill, not the tool.
What if I am Black or first-generation and worried this is not for me?
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Express Intent is intentionally built for Black professionals, founders, and operators who have been priced out of, or talked down to by, traditional tech training. No coding required, no gatekeeping, real shipping.
Read the founder story if you want the full context. Then book the $150 call and decide for yourself.
Can I pay in installments?
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Stripe Checkout offers Klarna and Affirm financing on tiers $200 and above at checkout. Pick whichever payment method appears on the Stripe page. If your country does not support those, email us and we can do a 3-pay manual split for Operator and Mentored tiers.
How is my data handled?
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We collect only what is needed to deliver your tier and respond to you. No tracking pixels, no third-party advertising cookies, no AI-model training on your data. Stripe handles payment; Resend handles transactional email. Full details in the
privacy policy.