Six weeks. Your app, rebuilt.

Senior designers take your real app from first impression to certified — live, one area a week, with you driving. Eight seats a cohort.

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$1,997 onceCohorts run continuouslyCertified, or your money back

Is this you?

Yes, if

You built something real with AI — Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor or Claude Code.
People sign up, then leave, and you can't tell why.
It looks like every other AI app, and you know it.
You'd rather learn the craft than hand it off.

Not yet, if

Nothing's built yet. Start with the Membership — prove people want it, then bring the app.
You want it designed for you. This is done with you.
You can't give it about two hours a week for six weeks.
You have a team and revenue and need a senior leader — that's the Fractional CXO.

One area a week.

Each week: a lesson, then a live teardown of every app in the room. Find it, fix it, prove it.

1The first impression
Can a stranger tell what it is in five seconds? We rewrite the first screen until they can.
The 5-second test · clarity
2Onboarding
Get new users to the first useful moment — in three steps, without a tutorial.
Recognition over recall · peak-end
3Decisions
One obvious next step on every screen. Fewer fields, fewer equal buttons.
Hick's law · cognitive load
4Trust
Proof before the ask, clear prices, no surprises at the moment of paying.
Aesthetic-usability · consistency
5Coming back
A reason to return tomorrow, and your 30-day plan to keep it improving.
Peak-end rule · retention
6Prove it
Live certification: Sumi 86+ and a senior's sign-off. You leave with a Launch Gate™ certificate and a page that proves it.
Launch Gate™

Seniors who've shipped it.

Designers who shipped at the companies below. Named profiles — photo, credential, employer — are being added; we won't show stand-ins. You'll know who teaches your cohort before you pay.

The offer.

One price, six weeks, your real app. Apply first — you only pay after a fit check.

Ship School™

Ready to rebuild it — with a cohort and seniors, live.

Small group — 6 weeks live, 8 seats

$1,997once

≈ $333 a week

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Six weeks · 8 seats a cohort · apply first, pay after a fit check. Membership not required.

Everything included

Six live weeks, one area a week
Your real app, rebuilt — not a practice project
Hot-seated every week
Sumi™ and the Crew™ on your app, all six weeks
Launch Gate™ certification + verify page
Every recording and template, kept forever
The lifetime alumni channel
Eight seats — real attention for every app

Certified, or your money back: finish without a certified app and the $1,997 comes back.

What it costs elsewhere

Ship School™

A senior contract designer, 10 hrs a week for 6 weeks: ≈ $4,800–$9,300
A full UX bootcamp — on a practice project: $7,000–$10,000

Categories, not vendors. The designer figure is 60 hours at $80–$155/hr (2026 contract rates); the bootcamp range is from a 2026 cost survey, checked October 2026.

Questions.

01What is Launch Gate™, and who decides?

Shippr's certificate. Your app scores 86 or more on the Sumi audit and a senior designer signs it off on a live review. Sumi measures; a person decides. Your public page shows the score and the date.

02Do I need to be a designer?

No. Every week is plain language and real examples on real apps. If you can build with AI, you can do this.

03Which builders does it work with?

Any. Sumi grades from a screenshot, code or a link, so it doesn't matter where you built it.

04What if I miss a session?

Every session is recorded and yours to keep. Hot seats are best live, but you never lose the material.

05Why only eight seats?

Every app gets reviewed live, every week. Eight is the most we can put on screen and still do that properly. We add cohorts, never seats.

06Do I need the Membership?

No. Ship School is its own product. Sumi and the Crew run on your app for the six weeks; keep them after with the Membership if you want to.

07What's the guarantee?

Do the work for all six weeks. If you finish without a certified app, you get the $1,997 back — and keep every recording and template.

08When's the next cohort?

Cohorts run continuously. Apply and we'll tell you the next start date and whether a seat is open.

Bring your app.

Six weeks. Eight seats. Certified, or your money back.

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