AI Workshops in Austin, TX  ·  In-Person  ·  3 Days

While you’re waiting to “figure out AI,”
your competitors already have it running.

One weekend — Friday to Sunday. No time off work, no boss to ask. This workshop doesn’t teach you about AI. You sit down with your actual data, your actual tools, and your actual problem — and you build something that’s running before you leave the room.

NEXT UP
Oct 16 – 18, 2026
Ship Your First AI App
Early Bird $1,199 — ends Sep 25
November
Nov 6 – 8, 2026
Ship Your First AI App
Early Bird $1,199 — ends Oct 16

Same workshop both weekends. Pick whichever one works.

Reserve a seat Private team training
You deploy this on Day 1
3 days — in-person, Austin TX
No coding required
You build with your real data
Leave with something already running
The cost of waiting

Every week without AI
is a week your competitors are pulling ahead.

This isn’t a “learn at your own pace” situation. The gap between teams that use AI and teams that don’t is compounding right now. Not in 2 years. Now.

What most teams are doing right now
✕
Chatting with AI, building nothing
ChatGPT open in a tab. Copy, paste, repeat. Nothing runs without you.
✕
The same task, every single week
Reports assembled by hand. Documents typed into systems. Inbox triaged manually.
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Ideas waiting on a developer
The app you’d build, the tool your business needs — parked until you find (and pay) technical help.
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Paying for tools that don’t stick
Courses watched, subscriptions running — and Monday looks exactly like it did.
What workshop attendees walk out with
✓
A working AI agent — yours
Built on your real data, deployed on a schedule. Still running next month. (September)
✓
The recurring work, automated
Reports that assemble themselves, documents extracted, inbox triaged — on your real accounts. (October)
✓
A live app with a real database
From idea to deployed — no developer hired. (November)
✓
The skill to keep building
You built it yourself, so you can fix it, change it, and build the next one.
Next up · Enrolling now

Ship Your First
AI App.

One weekend — Oct 16–18, Fri to Sun in Austin. Walk out Sunday with a real app live on a real URL — database, logins and payments included. No time off work, no boss to ask.

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⏱ until the $1,199 early bird ends (Sep 25)
$1,199
$1,399 after Sep 25
✓Your app live on a real URL, with a real database behind it
✓Built on your real data and tools, not toy examples
✓1:1 instructor time · small group
✓Fully refundable up to 14 days out
✓$200 off the January 2-week program
Reserve your seat →
Capital Factory · 701 Brazos St, downtown Austin
Also this fall

Two weekends. Same workshop.

One curriculum, run on repeating dates. Hands-on, small group, led by MakerSquare co-founder Ravi Parikh. Every weekend ends with a working system built on your own work — demoed live on Day 3.

Oct 16–18, 2026  ·  Next up
Ship Your First AI App
Fri–Sun  ·  9am–4pm  ·  Austin TX

Every software product fills the same ten boxes. Three days learning all ten and using them — Friday you ship a live URL, Saturday it gets a database, logins and a real payment, Sunday you give it hands: agents and automations that run your recurring work without you. You leave with an app on a real domain and a map you can place any new tool into.

Claude CodeSupabaseVercelGitHubClerkStripeMCPComposio
  • Day 1 — your app live on a real URL
  • Day 2 — a real database, logins and a test payment, with the rules that keep your data yours
  • Day 3 — agents and automations doing your recurring work, on your real accounts
  • The ten boxes: a map that still works when every tool name changes
Early bird until Sep 25
$1,199
$1,399 after Sep 25
Reserve
Nov 6–8, 2026
Ship Your First AI App
Fri–Sun  ·  9am–4pm  ·  Austin TX

Every software product fills the same ten boxes. Three days learning all ten and using them — Friday you ship a live URL, Saturday it gets a database, logins and a real payment, Sunday you give it hands: agents and automations that run your recurring work without you. You leave with an app on a real domain and a map you can place any new tool into. Last workshop before the January cohort — attendees get $200 off the 2-week program.

Claude CodeSupabaseVercelGitHubClerkStripeMCPComposio
  • Day 1 — your app live on a real URL
  • Day 2 — a real database, logins and a test payment, with the rules that keep your data yours
  • Day 3 — agents and automations doing your recurring work, on your real accounts
  • The ten boxes: a map that still works when every tool name changes
Early bird until Oct 16
$1,199
$1,399 after Oct 16
Reserve
Inside the workshop

One curriculum, every date.
Here is exactly what your three days look like.

Every product you have ever used fills the same ten boxes. Over three days you learn all ten and use them on something of your own.

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Day 1 — From nothing to live
  • ✓The ten boxes: the map of what every software product is made of — so every new tool you meet after this has a place to go
  • ✓Claude Code in the terminal, reading and running your project — before lunch, even if you have never opened a terminal
  • ✓The loop that does the work: it runs the code, reads the error, fixes it, repeats. You describe the outcome
  • ✓Your CLAUDE.md — write your rules once and stop repeating yourself every session
  • ✓Your app deployed to a live URL before you leave
02
Day 2 — Make it a real product
  • ✓A real database behind it — live forms writing real rows, with the safety rules that keep your data yours
  • ✓Logins you did not have to build: real sign-up, real accounts, real password resets
  • ✓Take a test payment end to end — and see exactly what changes when you go live
  • ✓Reviewing work you cannot read: what changed, does it still run, make it prove it
  • ✓Break your own app on purpose — two accounts, and try to reach the other one’s data
03
Day 3 — Make it run without you
  • ✓Give the agent hands: MCP and Composio wiring it into Gmail, Slack, your sheets and your CRM
  • ✓Give it eyes: live search and real company data, so it stops making things up
  • ✓Build one automation that does a real job unattended, on your real accounts
  • ✓Keys and secrets — and the honest limits of asking an AI to check your security
  • ✓What it costs to run, what to do when it breaks — then demo it live to the room
Where you’ll build
Capital Factory · Station Austin

701 Brazos St, Downtown Austin — the center of Austin’s startup world, the same building where our Demo Days run. Doors 8:30am, we start at 9 sharp. Parking garages and street parking nearby.

What to bring
Your laptop and a real problem

A painful, repeating task from your actual work — and the real data it runs on. That’s what you build on from Day 1. No coding background needed: you’ll be working in the terminal before lunch, even if you’ve never opened one. The week before, we send a ~90-minute guided setup — you arrive connected, so Day 1 is all building.

✓1:1 instructor time ✓Guided setup before Day 1 ✓Materials + your runbook ✓Alumni Slack + $200 off January
“Just getting over the barrier of using Claude Code through a terminal was worth the time and expense.”
Ted Kilgore Ted Kilgore · Cohort 1, on LinkedIn
“The most valuable part was building the base — then taking that base to build the agent.”
Cameron Dowd Cameron Dowd · built his agent at MakerSquare, Cohort 1
“All the cutting-edge tools I had no idea existed — it completely upped my game in using AI in a serious way.”
Jennifer Francis Jennifer Francis · Cohort 2 graduate
Who’s teaching it

Taught by Ravi Parikh.

Ravi Parikh, co-founder of MakerSquare and CEO of RoverPass Ravi on LinkedIn →
Ravi Parikh
Co-founder, MakerSquare  ·  CEO & Founder, RoverPass  ·  Founder, Parikh Financial

Ravi co-founded the original MakerSquare, which trained thousands of developers before Hack Reactor acquired it. Today he runs RoverPass, an Austin campground platform that operates a live AI ops command center on the same stack you’ll use in this room. He also runs Parikh Financial, a fractional CFO and bookkeeping firm, on the same automations.

He isn’t a trainer who read about this. He builds with Claude Code, Supabase, Vercel and MCP every working day — and the ten boxes you’ll learn are the ones he uses to ship.

Built & sold a bootcamp Operating founder, not a trainer Austin, TX
Why this works

You’ve tried tutorials.
This is different.

The reason people finish AI courses and still can’t build anything: they learned on fake data with fake problems. We don’t do that.

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Your data. Your problem. Not a demo.
You don’t build on a sample dataset. You bring a real repeating task from your own work and build on your actual data, your actual tools, your actual problem. Which means when you leave, it’s already useful.
02
Real instructor. Real unblocking.
When you get stuck — and you will — Ravi unblocks you in real time. Not a forum post. Not a YouTube comment. Someone in the room who knows exactly what’s wrong and fixes it with you.
03
You leave with something running.
Every workshop ends with a live demo of what you built. Not a plan. Not notes. Something that runs. Plus 30 days of Slack access to the instructor if you hit a wall after you’re back at work.
Let’s talk about $1,199

An AI consultant charges $250–$400 an hour.
Three days of their time: $15,000.

And at the end, you’d have a report explaining what’s possible. Not a working system. Not the skills to maintain it. A PDF.

For $1,199, you sit in a room for 3 days and actually build the thing. With your data. With a real instructor. You leave knowing how to do it yourself — and that skill compounds every day after.

Reserve a seat — from $1,199
Invoice available on request
Pricing

Earlier is cheaper. Same seats, same instructor.

Price is based on when you register, not who you are. No negotiating — just book the early bird before it closes.

Workshop Seats

Open to individuals and companies. Buy multiple seats at the same tier — no special process needed.

Early Bird
Until 3 weeks before start date
$1,199per person
Regular
After early bird closes
$1,399per person

Invoice available on request. Email hello@makersquare.ai for PO-based payment.

Private Team Session

Your team only. Your dates. Content adapted to your tools and use cases.

Custom quote
Based on team size and topic
Proposal in 24hrsinvoice + PO friendly
What’s included
Same 3-day curriculum  ·  adapted for your context  ·  you choose the dates

Email hello@makersquare.ai — proposal within 24 hours.

Private team training

Want to train your whole team?

The same 3-day curriculum, built around your team’s tools, industry and specific use cases. You pick the dates. We bring the instructor and the curriculum to you — in Austin or on-site.

Team size
3–15 people
Duration
3 days
Location
Austin TX or on-site
Scheduling
You pick the dates
Customquote based on team size

Proposal within 24 hours

Get a proposal

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FAQ

Questions people ask before booking.

Because the gap between people who can use AI and people who can’t is widening every month — not every year. The ops manager or founder who learns this this fall has a head start on everyone who waits until next year. Ship Your First AI App runs Oct 16–18, and the group is deliberately small — once the seats go, the next one is November.
One workshop, Ship Your First AI App, on two more weekends in downtown Austin this fall (Capital Factory / Station Austin, 701 Brazos St): Oct 16–18 and Nov 6–8. Same curriculum both dates — pick whichever weekend works. All Fri–Sun, 9am–4pm. Early bird $1,199, regular $1,399.
No. If you can use a spreadsheet, you can build in these workshops. These aren’t for engineers — they’re for people who know their domain and want AI working for them in it.
You’re building with your actual data, your actual tools, your actual problem — not a made-up exercise. And when you get stuck, a real instructor unblocks you in real time. Online courses have a 95% dropout rate because there’s no consequence for skipping and no one there when it breaks. We fix both of those things.
The 2-week program is a deep immersive — you build 3 full AI products, go from zero to shipping real software, and present on Demo Day. Workshops are focused skill sprints: 3 days, one problem, something running when you leave. Many workshop attendees go on to enroll in the full program. Workshop alumni get $200 off with code WORKSHOP200.
Each day builds on the last — missing one means missing foundational work. If 3 consecutive days is a stretch, the private team format lets you break it into a custom schedule. But honestly: if you can’t find 3 days to invest in your own skills, that’s part of the problem we’re solving. AI gives you those hours back.
Yes. Email hello@makersquare.ai and we’ll send a proposal and invoice within 24 hours. PO-based payment is supported.
Full refund up to 14 days before the workshop start date. 50% refund up to 48 hours before. No refund after the workshop begins.
Yes, in the sense people usually mean it — you describe what you want and an AI writes the code. The difference from most vibe coding you have seen is that you leave with the app actually deployed at a real URL, on a real database, using the tools engineers use: Claude Code, Supabase and Vercel. Three days, no coding background required. It is a workshop rather than a bootcamp: 3 days, not weeks. If you want the longer version, that is the 2-week program.
Want to go deeper?

The 2-week MakerSquare program is the full build — 3 complete AI products, shipped and presented at a public Demo Day in Austin. Workshop alumni get $200 off with code WORKSHOP200.

See the 2-week program
Don’t miss the early bird

Ship Your First AI App — Oct 16–18.
Three days. You leave with it live.

Small cohort, early bird $1,199 until Sep 25. 3 days in Austin — you leave with a real app on a real domain, and the map to build the next one.

Reserve my seat — $1,199 Have a question? Email us
Fri–Sun  ·  9am–4pm  ·  Austin TX  ·  No coding required