What builders go on
to do.
MakerSquare graduates aren't just people who took a course. They shipped real AI products, demoed live in front of Austin's tech community, and went back to their industries with a skill most of their peers don't have yet.
What Cohort 1 actually built
Non-technical professionals, two weeks, real deployed tools. Here’s what two of them built — and why.
A SaaS account executive built a tool that researches accounts and drafts personalized outreach into Gmail. Read the story →
A job seeker built JobFit: upload a resume, get 30 best-fit companies ranked with hiring signals. Read the story →
What you get for life
after Demo Day.
Graduation isn't the end. MakerSquare alumni stay connected to each other, to the Austin tech community, and to everything being built in future cohorts.
Lifetime alumni Slack
Permanent access to the MakerSquare alumni network — builders across every cohort, sharing what they're shipping, answering each other's questions, and finding collaborators.
Demo Day access — every cohort
Priority invites to every future Demo Day. Watch what each new cohort builds, stay current on what's possible with AI, and keep showing up in the room where Austin's builders and investors gather.
Referral network
When someone asks "who built your AI tool?" — the answer leads back to MakerSquare. Alumni refer each other for consulting work, collaborations, and hiring. The cohort becomes a permanent professional network.
Shareable certificate
A certificate of completion shareable directly to LinkedIn. More importantly, you have live, deployed AI tools — a stronger signal than any credential.
Stay current as AI evolves
Curriculum updates as tools change, monthly live sessions, job board access, and peer review. Cancel anytime. First month free after graduation. See details →
Office hours access
Alumni can drop into future cohort office hours on Saturdays. When you're building something new six months later and hit a wall, the instructors and the room are still available to you.
What happens when you leave
with real, working AI tools.
Deploy AI at work
Most alumni return to their jobs and immediately start deploying AI tools to the problems they know best. The 2 weeks of hands-on building gives them the confidence and the vocabulary to execute — not just propose.
Launch something new
For founders, the capstone product often becomes the foundation of their company. With a working product, a Demo Day presentation, and a network in the room — many Cohort 1 builders come in with an idea and leave with a prototype live at a URL.
Lead AI for their team
Many alumni go back as the person who can actually build — not just supervise a vendor or evaluate a tool. That shift in positioning — from buyer of AI to builder of AI — changes how their colleagues and leadership see them.
Stay in the Austin tech network
Demo Day is the introduction, not the end. Alumni maintain lifetime access to the MakerSquare Slack and stay connected to the Austin investor and operator community that showed up to watch them build.
Keep building
The alumni Slack is where builders share what they're shipping next, ask technical questions, and find collaborators across cohorts. The skills don't stop at three builds — they compound.
Stand out in a crowded market
Everyone is talking about AI. Almost no one outside of engineering can demonstrate live, deployed AI tools. The people who can build are in a different conversation than the people who can't.
Cohort 1 starts July 6, 2026.
Applications now open.
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