A live 4-Sunday AI workshop for teens 13–17. Taught by an AI SaaS Founder and Microsoft Engineers. Your teen designs their own AI learning system, ships it as a real working web app, and points it at a goal they choose. Cohort 01 just did exactly that.
Cohort 01 sold out and shipped. Cohort 02 opens this fall, 12 seats, waitlist gets first access.
★ Cohort 01 complete: 3 teens shipped 3 live AI apps and demoed them to parents · See what they built →
45 minutes on what AI is actually doing to how kids learn, and what to do about it. Free, no pitch, bring your questions.
Sunday 23 August · 6:00 PM PT · Google Meet
The thesis AI is an amplifier of whatever you point it at. We don’t teach app-building, we teach the loop behind it: name the problem, find the best framework, build the tool, aim it at your goal. The app is just the proof.
Cohort 01 ran June 21 to July 19. Each student picked a real summer goal, built their own AI learning system around it, and demoed a working web app live to their parents on Demo Day. These aren’t mockups, the apps are live right now.
A complete learning app he built for himself: questioning that never hands over answers, quizzes, flashcards, an explain-it-back mode, a concept map with locked levels, and a code snippet fixer. With XP and streaks, because of course.
Open the live app →
Paste a draft and it scores six rubric dimensions, flags the three biggest holes, generates citations, and analyzes your counter-argument. The AI-drafted example is deliberately non-copyable, his own anti-cheating rule.
Open the live app →
Pictured: his mechanical breakdown, each movement with a target to hit — 42–48° hip-shoulder separation, zero lead-knee collapse. Behind it sits a Growth Map that sorts his own mechanics into Solid, Shaky and Missing and lets him promote or demote each one as he improves. He built a system that makes him name what he’s worst at, then watch himself move it.
Open the live app →He missed Demo Day because his team made the baseball finals. Priorities, correctly ordered. He demoed it to us the week after.
Demo Day, July 19. Dev presenting his Paper Grader live, parents in the room, app running end to end.
Built by teens, over four Sundays. No coding experience required, that’s the point.
“I’m a software engineer and I tried to teach Ayush so many times, he never listened. After this camp he’s working on the homework by himself. That was a big surprise for me. I’m so proud.”
Yash · Ayush’s dad
“They can’t stop talking about you guys. Dev really enjoyed it, and what he learned will be really useful for his upcoming projects. We hope he continues to connect with you.”
Namita · Dev’s mom
“This is more than what we expected, and you delivered it. The Socratic technique, and teaching kids how to find the right framework for any problem: that’s a very good thing you are doing.”
Sunil · Shlok’s dad
Five moves, spread across four Sundays. Your teen learns the loop by running it on something they actually care about. The loop is the thing they keep.
They read an article, close it, and try to explain it back. Most can't. That's the gap, named out loud. Then they go looking for what actually works against it, and build their first coach: one that questions them instead of answering. Each teen names a real goal of their own to point it at.
Week 01Week 2 opens with one question: "what did you learn last Sunday?" Silence says everything. So they build the practice into the tool itself, so it makes them do the work rather than doing it for them. Everything assembles into one system: the brain of the thing they're building.
Week 02A chat window is a limiting body for a good brain, so they build a real one: tabs, quizzes, progress maps, streaks. One small feature at a time. Then they break it on purpose, make it tell them why it failed, and fix the cause rather than guessing. That's the habit engineers actually have.
Week 03Before launch they assume the demo has already failed, hunt down every reason why, and fix those first. Then they point the finished system at the goal they picked in Week 1 and present it live to parents: their story, their working app, end to end. Certificates and hosted portfolios follow.
Week 04Your teen will use AI through school, college, and their entire career. We teach them the right, ethical way to use it.
Most teens use AI to fake learning. Yours will use it to actually master what they care about. That's the difference between AI helping them think and AI doing the thinking for them.
Most AI workshops are built by curriculum companies. This one is built by AI engineers.
GSenior Software Engineer at Microsoft and Founder of Kaaizan (an AI productivity app). Teaches the build sessions and ships agentic AI for a living.
CSenior Software Engineer at Microsoft, MBA, and Parent of Teen. Knows how this audience learns because she lives with one.
YCo-founder of Kaaizan and Fractional CMO to early-stage startups. Builds AI automation workflows and writes the marketing playbooks other founders quietly follow.
8+ live hours with 1:1 coaching · a working web app they build themselves · hosted portfolio · verifiable certificate · recordings and playbook forever · alumni community + office hours
$599, all in.
That’s under $100 per live hour, taught by the people who build AI for a living. 12 seats only.
Most AI summer programs charge $1,500–$2,500. We’re running cohort 1 as a small founder-led pilot, so we’re pricing it differently.
Why cohort 1 is priced this way: this is the founding cohort, we’re capping at 12 to keep it tight, capture real feedback, and build the first wave of testimonials. Future cohorts will run at a higher rate.
No. They build AI tools using natural language, not Python.
Anything they care about. Past examples: a guitar piece, a working website, options trading basics, AP Chem, screenwriting, debate prep, a foreign language. Academic or non-academic both work.
The capstone is paired by topic interest. Peer learning at this age is genuinely powerful, teens unstick each other faster than instructors can. Solo off-ramp available by Session 3 if a pair stalls.
A verifiable digital badge signed and dated by the instructors. Add it to LinkedIn or link it from college applications. It's not an accredited certification, but it's a real, verifiable record of completion.
Your teen gets a hosted page with their capstone, tools, and demo video. Link it from college applications or scholarship essays. We host free for 12 months; after that they can self-host.
Every session is recorded and posted within 24 hours, yours forever. If they miss a Sunday, we'll also schedule a 1:1 catch-up call so they don't fall behind.
No. It's independent. Gaurav and Chetna work at Microsoft, but the program isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
Private link-only Zoom, parental consent required, written code of conduct. Online-only delivery means no in-person concerns.
Claude (primary) plus simple workflow tools where useful. We provide all access. No paid subscription needed.
Parents welcome at the Session 1 intro (first 10 min) and the full Demo Day on July 19.
We'll talk to you. Refunds aren't standard once the program starts, but we want teens excited to be there. If it's clearly not a fit, we'll work something out.
Three preview sessions, eleven teens total, including two full 90-minute Session 1 runs over Google Meet. Here’s what they built, what they said, and what they could explain back in their own words.
The real thing: all three Cohort 01 students mid-build, turning their master prompts into working web apps.
Three 8th-graders on Google Meet, each authoring their own AI study coach. Live, 90 minutes, no code.
Asked to explain how Einstein’s relativity affects GPS, three 8th-graders typed it out in their own words. No screen share. No notes. They just knew it.
Sunday afternoon, kitchen table. Session 1 running for real. Three teens, three laptops, one tool.
A complete Cold War study guide, generated in Session 1. The teen quizzed himself on it after, without looking at the screen.