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Ship School™ · live · 6 weeks · 8 seats

Spend six weeks with the senior team you couldn't hire.
Your app comes out production-grade.

The senior engineers and designers behind the agents run their method on your app — the architecture, the scale, the operations — live, with you. Eight seats. Six weeks. You leave certified.

Next cohort · September 2026starts 8 seatsthe hard cap Live~12 sessions, on Zoom

Fifteen minutes. No pitch. If it's not a fit, we'll tell you.

/the gap

You shipped something real.
Now it needs what AI couldn't give it.

The app was the easy afternoon. Making it survive real users — the architecture, the scale, the operations — is a senior team's job. That's the gap. We close it, with you.

It demos beautifully. Nobody's checked if it survives a hundred users at once.
It works — until a database call you didn't know about falls over.
One bad delete, no backup, no undo. A senior team plans for that.
You can't fully read it — so you can't change it, scale it, or fix it at 2am.
/is this you

Built for the builder, not the engineer.

For you if…

  • You built something real on Lovable, Bolt, Replit, or Cursor — and people are using it.
  • You can't fully read your own code. It keeps you up.
  • You'd rather understand your app than hand it off and stay in the dark.
  • You want proof it's safe — the kind you can show a customer.

Not yet if…

  • You haven't built anything. Come back with an app.
  • You're a senior engineer who wants a scanner. You don't need us.
  • You want it done for you, forever untouched. This is done with you.
  • You can't give it ~2 hours a week for six weeks.
/what it is

The humans behind the agents.
Live. In the room.

The agents carry the judgment of the people who built them — engineers and designers who shipped at Apple, CBS Interactive, BCG Digital Ventures, Converse, Uproxx, and Cutwater. They don't wing it: they run a method — Reference Architecture™, LAPP Order™, the Blueprint Pack — on your app, live. Small enough that every app hits the screen. Built so you leave production-grade.

6 weeks~12 live sessions
8 seatseveryone hot-seated
Your appexposed → certified
For lifealumni access
The judgment layer — the interconnected system Ship School teaches you to see.
/the curriculum

Six weeks. Production-grade by the end.

One lesson, one live teardown of your app, every week. Find → Fix → Prove.

  1. 00
    Kickoff

    Score your real app, live. Meet the Crew — the people, not the agents.

  2. 01
    Lock the doors

    Secrets, auth, data, input — the four doors a stranger walks through. First.

  3. 02
    When it breaks

    Errors, backups, monitoring — so a bad day isn't a lost business.

  4. 03
    When it's loved

    Load and database under real traffic — and what you don't need yet.

  5. 04
    Taking money safely

    Payments, PII, and the ops to run it without a 2am panic.

  6. 05
    Know your own app

    Your 30-day Glow-Up Map™, built with you. Stop being a stranger to your own code.

  7. 06
    Prove it

    Live certification. You graduate Launch Gate™ certified — with a public verify page.

/who's teaching

Judgment you can't download.

The pedigree isn't decoration. It's why a seat beats a subscription.

Architecture & Security ex-Apple · Rackspace

Weeks 1–2. The foundation — how it's built, and who's allowed to touch what. A career on systems that hold up and can't be walked into.

Scale & Reliability ex-BCG Digital Ventures · Converse

Weeks 3–4. Load, database, the parts that break under real traffic. Products taken from prototype to millions.

Operations ex-CBS Interactive · Uproxx · Cutwater

Weeks 5–6. Running it day to day — deploy, recover, understand your own app. Ran production at real scale, then certified it.

Full instructor bios and cohort assignments confirmed on your fit call.

/the outcome

You don't leave with notes. You leave with proof.

A certified app

Your app, all-green and Launch Gate™ certified — live, with you driving.

A public verify page

A certificate anyone can check the moment they ask if your app is ready.

The judgment to keep it

You'll read your own app and know what to fix — long after week six.

Your 30-day map

A one-fix-a-day Glow-Up Map™. The app keeps getting safer.

The Crew, for a year

All six agents, every gate, no daily cap. Included.

A network for life

Lifetime alumni access and a private channel of builders like you.

/the offer

One membership. One seat in it.

Ship School is the intensive inside the Shippr membership. There is no separate price and no upsell — members apply, and eight get a seat each cohort.

8 seats per cohort

Your seat includes

  • The full 6-week live cohort — only 8 seats, everyone hot-seated
  • Your app taken exposed → Launch Gate™ certified, live
  • Hot-seat teardowns by the people behind the pedigree
  • Your membership running throughout — the full Crew, every gate, no daily cap
  • Cheat Codes library + Blueprint Pack
  • A public Launch Gate™ verify page for your certificate
  • Lifetime alumni access + private channel
  • Every session recorded — yours to keep
$149/ mo The Shippr membership — no separate cohort fee.
Founding 200: $99/mo, annual, locked for life, in exchange for your case study.
Apply for a seat

Apply by booking a 15-minute call. Eight seats a cohort, application-based — a seat is not automatic on joining, and we make sure it's a fit before anyone commits.

The Ship School Guarantee

Graduate certified, or the membership year is refunded — and you keep every recording, template and playbook. We'll never promise "no breaches." No one honest can.

A senior engineer runs $150–250/hr. A fractional CTO is $2,500 a month. This is a team of them, on your app, for six weeks.

/questions

The honest answers.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. It's built for builders who ship with AI and can't fully read the code yet. Plain language, exact fixes. You'll understand your app by the end — that's the point.

What if I miss a session?

Every session is recorded and yours to keep. Teardowns are best live, but you'll never lose the material. Week-5 office hours catch you up.

Which platforms do you support?

Lovable, Bolt, Replit, and Cursor are first-class. Built with an AI tool and it runs? Bring it. We confirm fit on the call.

Is my app too early — or too far along?

Sweet spot: "real people are using it, and that scares me a little." Nothing built yet, you're early. Got a security team, you don't need us. The call sorts it out.

Why only 8 seats?

Live teardowns don't scale. Eight is the most we can put on screen and still review every real app. We add cohorts, never seats.

What's the refund policy?

Graduate certified or get a full refund and keep everything. Conditional on doing the work — a promise, not a loophole.

Do you host or touch my infrastructure?

Never. We judge, teach, and fix. You keep control of your app and accounts the whole time.

/one seat

Bring your app. Leave production-grade.

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