Cohort 2 · Aug 3 · Austin, TX

You already know your industry.
Now learn to build with AI.

Austin’s school of applied AI. Join the 2-week intensive yourself, or send your team for private training. Either way, you actually build — real Claude agents, working products, automated workflows. No coding background required.

No coding test  ·  No interview  ·  Confirmed in 24 hrs
Cohort 2 starts Aug 3  ·  Enrollment closes July 20  See all dates →
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You ship by Demo Day
How it works

Everything you need to go from
idea to shipped product.

2 Weeks In-Person, Mon to Fri

Two full weeks off the grid. 9am to 3pm in Austin. Ship 3 real products. Public Demo Day on Day 10.

3 Deployed AI Products

You leave with three live tools you built yourself. Not exercises. Not a certificate. Real things you can show, sell, or put to work.

No Technical Background Needed

Doctors, lawyers, marketers, and operators ship here. Your domain knowledge is the edge.

Your week
MON
9-3pm
TUE
9-3pm
WED
9-3pm
THU
9-3pm
FRI
9-3pm
Two weeks. Mon to Fri, in Austin.
What you might build

Real products, from
real domain expertise.

Law firm

AI research assistant

Search case law, summarize findings, draft memos. 60% reduction in research time.

Real estate ops

Automated lease abstraction

Extract terms, flag anomalies, populate database. Eliminates 4 hrs manual review per property.

TOP FIT
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87
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Staffing agency

Candidate screening tool

Read resumes, score fit, draft recruiter notes. 1 recruiter does the work of 3.

Demo Day

The moment it
all comes together.

✓ Shipped
Q&A
Deployed live
> deploy sales-pipeline-agent
building… connecting Claude… wiring CRM…
✓ Deployed — live in production
LIVE

Your product. Their attention.

Every cohort ends the same way: you take the stage at Capital Factory and demo what you built to Austin's tech community — builders, founders, operators, and investors actively building with AI.

5-minute live demo on stage at Capital Factory
Austin's tech community and operators in the room
Connect with builders, founders, and operators
Real feedback from people actively building with AI
A full room watching live MakerSquare demos at Celis Brewery in Austin
Our last demo night — a full room watching non-engineers demo what they built · Austin, July 2026
Who it's for

You don't need a technical background.
You need to know your field.

Operators & business owners

You run something. AI should be doing half of it.

Reports, proposals, client emails, internal workflows. You know what needs automating. We help you build it.

Professionals & career builders

Your expertise is the advantage. Add the AI layer.

Years in marketing, finance, healthcare, law. That domain knowledge is the moat. We teach the technical layer on top of it.

Founders & first-time builders

You have the idea. Skip the technical co-founder.

A clear problem, a real market, the drive to ship. MakerSquare is the fastest path from idea to working product.

Not the right fit if…
— You want a certificate without building anything real — You're looking for a self-paced online course — You can't commit two full weeks in Austin — You want to learn theory before you're ready to ship something
Why full immersion

Not a certificate course.
An actual transformation.

We get it — 2 weeks is a real commitment. Here's why the immersion pays for itself, and why it's less disruptive than it sounds.

Depth a course can't give you.

Most "AI programs" are webinars with homework. You leave with buzzwords and nothing working. Real skill is layered — each day builds on the last. Two weeks of full focus is what turns "I've heard of Claude" into "I just shipped this."

The 2 weeks makes you the person who builds — three shipped products, and the skill to keep going.

You're not taking 2 weeks off work.

Every project you build at MakerSquare is your actual work. Real clients, real problems, real workflows — just solved with AI. You leave with delivered solutions, not fake portfolio pieces.

The program runs 9–3. Afternoons are yours if anything urgent comes up. Come back in two weeks knowing how to work twice as fast. You haven't fallen behind — you've leapt ahead.

See the full day-by-day curriculum →
Cohort 1 · in session right now · Austin, TX
Cohort 1 student presenting the product he built and deployed on the classroom screen
Presenting a deployed product — built in week 1
Two Cohort 1 builders at the whiteboard, one wearing the MakerSquare AI Builder shirt
The shirt says it — AI Builders, week two
Whiteboard session on Day 4 covering Supabase keys and row level security
Day 4: real database security, on a whiteboard
Built by operators
Marliis Schneider
Marliis Schneider
Founder & CEO
Ravi Parikh
Ravi Parikh
CEO, RoverPass · Advisor
Chris Shonk
Chris Shonk
Co-founder, ATX Venture Partners · Advisor
Meet the team →
As featured in Built In “The Biggest Winners of the AI Revolution Aren’t Engineers” Read →
Pricing

Straightforward pricing.
Everything included.

Enrollment Open · Cohort 2 · Aug 3
Cohort 2 · Aug 3 · Austin, TX
Enrollment open — 15 spots, first-come first-served.
$5,999, discounted to $3,999
10 days in person · 3 deployed AI products · Demo Day at Capital Factory · lifetime alumni network. See everything included →  ·  Do the ROI math →
Guaranteed: leave with 3 deployed AI products — or a full refund.
Payment plans available · $500 scholarship for vets, first responders & educators
Not sure yet?
Other dates: C3 (Oct 12) & C4–C5 also open →
Tools you'll learn to use
ClaudeClaude CodeWarp TerminalGitHubVercelRenderSupabaseComposioPlaywrightElevenLabsWhisper ClaudeClaude CodeWarp TerminalGitHubVercelRenderSupabaseComposioPlaywrightElevenLabsWhisper
Enroll

Cohort 2: August 3, 2026.
Enrollment closes July 20.

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Stop reading about AI. In 2 weeks you'll have 3 live products, a Demo Day under your belt, and a skill set you own for life.

Guaranteed: leave with 3 deployed AI products — or a full refund.
Aug 3, 2026 · Austin, TX · $3,999 · 2 weeks

"Most people say they can't do 2 weeks. Most of them, once they see the outcomes, find a way. The ones who don't aren't who this is for."

Questions

Things people
usually ask us.

No. Basic computer fluency and real experience in your field. That's it. We've had doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, and marketing directors build exceptional AI products.
Mon-Fri, 9am to 3pm for 2 weeks (30 hrs/week in class), plus optional Saturday office hours.
No — and that's intentional. AI skills compound on each other. Day 4 builds on Day 3. Space it out and you're relearning basics every week instead of pushing forward. Online AI courses have a 95% dropout rate because there's no consequence for skipping. Two weeks in a room with 14 other serious people means you show up, you build, and you leave with something real. The people who find a way to make 2 weeks work are exactly the people who get the most out of it.
15 seats per cohort. First-come, first-served — pay full tuition via Stripe. We ask a few questions to make sure you get the most out of the two weeks.
Three deployed AI products — live on the internet, not exercises. A 5-minute demo you delivered on stage to Austin's tech community. A cohort of operators who become your long-term network. And a skill set you own for life. If you complete the program and don't have all three products deployed, we refund you in full.
2 weeks in-person instruction, 24-hour async support, optional Saturday office hours, Demo Day, guest speakers, alumni network. Not included: ~$15–30 in AI service fees and housing (details shared after enrollment).
Absolutely. Austin has plenty of short-term rental options near campus. Housing details are shared after enrollment.
Yes. We issue invoices and can provide a proposal letter for your employer. Many alumni have their company cover it as professional development.

Cohort 2 starts Aug 3.
Enrollment closes July 20.

Or come see it first — Demo Day is Fri Jul 17 at Capital Factory, free.

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