A four-week live group for small business founders who want to stop just using AI for emails and start building tools for the way their business actually works. No code required. No developer needed. You bring the business problem. We build it together.
Reserve my seatThis page is for The June 2026 cohort of the Build with AI Bootcamp.
We run one cohort each month. The June cohort is the founding cohort, with founding pricing of £499 + VAT. From the July cohort onwards, the standard price of £999 + VAT applies. Bookings for the next month's cohort open on the first of the previous month.
The June cohort is the founding cohort of the Build with AI Bootcamp. Founding cohorts get more than a price discount.
You'll be the people I refine the bootcamp around. Your questions shape what makes cohort 2 better. Your builds become the case studies I share with future founders. Your feedback gets acted on directly.
Founding cohort members get the founding price (£499 + VAT vs £999 from cohort 2). They also get a 30-minute 1:1 with me after the bootcamp, something that won't be included as standard from cohort 2 onwards. And they get the relationships that come from being the first ones in, when the group is smallest and the attention is at its highest.
If you've been waiting for an entry point into building with AI, this is it. Founding cohorts aren't repeated.
Most founders' first instinct with AI is to use it for content. Drafting emails. Writing marketing copy. Summarising documents. That's all useful, but it's also where every employee in your business can use AI on their own with a £20 ChatGPT subscription. It doesn't create real advantage, it just makes existing tasks faster.
The strategic move, the one that genuinely changes the economics of a small business, is building bespoke software for your specific processes. The thing your business runs on, made for you, not adapted from generic SaaS. That used to require £20,000 and a developer. Now it requires £499 and four weeks.
This is the move most founders are missing. Building with AI isn't another thing on your AI to-do list. It's the move that gives you something your competitors don't have: tools designed around how your business actually works.
If you've already got AI handling your content and you're wondering what's next, this is what's next.
Most first attempts fail because the project was too ambitious. People pick something that needs auth, integrations, and edge cases handled, then quit when it falls over. Week 1 is about choosing a first build that is actually buildable.
Building with AI isn't just describing an idea and hoping the model sorts it out. There are specific patterns that work and specific ones that send the AI in circles. We work through both, hands-on.
The tutorials often end at "look, it runs on my laptop." That's where the real work usually starts. By week 4 your build is on the internet, at a real URL, and you understand how it got there.
Building alone is hard. When the AI does something unexpected and you don't know why, the tutorial can't help. The group can, and after the bootcamp the Builders Circle keeps that support going.
Not in theory. You'll have done it, with your own hands, on a real problem from your business. You'll know which prompting patterns work, which to avoid, and how to recover when the AI drifts off course.
Your tools, your accounts, your workspace, your deployment platform. Everything configured before week 1 and refined over the bootcamp so you can sit down and start a new build without setting everything up again.
You'll spend the four weeks building a real tool for your business. The skill is guaranteed. The build is the vehicle. If you turn up and put the time in, you'll learn how to build with AI properly. Where your specific build ends up depends on what you've chosen and the time you've put in, but that's true of any craft, and learning the craft is the point.
Once the bootcamp ends you stay in the Builders Circle for three months. A private community of fellow Build with AI founders, with a weekly live Q&A group call and ongoing async support between sessions. The first months after the bootcamp are where most people quit. The Builders Circle is designed to be the reason you don't.
Here are the kinds of internal tools and customer-facing apps that small business founders build in groups like this one. None of these need a developer. None of them require integrations beyond what you've already got. All of them are realistic for a non-technical founder to attempt in four weeks.
These are starting points, not a fixed menu. Your project comes from your business. What we work through in week one is helping you pick something that's both useful and realistic for the time you've got.
We standardise on Claude as the primary AI because it's strong at this kind of build work, but if you're already invested in another tool we show you how the patterns translate. The free tier of everything is enough to complete the bootcamp.
Each Monday session is 90 minutes on Zoom. The first 30 minutes is me walking through the patterns and concepts for the week, with screen-share so you see exactly what I'm doing. The middle 40 minutes is hands-on, your hands, on your build, with me available to look at your screen if you want, to answer questions live in the group, and to keep the energy moving. The last 20 minutes is debrief, what worked, what got stuck, what to try this week.
You don't have to share your screen if you don't want to. You can stay on mute, take notes, follow along, and apply it after. But the founders who get the most out of this are the ones who use the live time to actually build, alongside the rest of the group.
What makes a good first AI build project and what makes a disaster. As a group we work through examples, share candidates, and each of you picks one project to focus on for the next three weeks. The rule is simple: small, useful, well-defined, and close to a real business process.
You leave week 1 with a clear focus for your build, plus a backlog of future builds worth doing once you've got the pattern down.
Your hands on the keyboard. I work through the prompting patterns I use every day with the group building alongside. We cover how to brief the AI properly, how to read the output critically, how to course-correct when it drifts, and how to keep the build moving when it gets stuck.
It'll be fiddly. That's the point. Building with AI looks effortless in demos and is more like skilled direction in real life.
The bit between "it works on my laptop" and "the team can actually use this." We cover data, how to load real data into your tool, where to store it, what's safe and what isn't. We cover the things that turn a demo into something usable.
By the end of week 3 your build is doing real work with real inputs, not just a hello-world demo.
We work through how to deploy an AI-built app to a real URL on the internet. No SSH keys, no DNS panic, no server admin. By the end of session four you'll know how to deploy. Whether your specific build is fully ready depends on what you picked in week one and the time you've put in. The deployment skill is what you keep either way.
Then we get honest about what comes next. What's a prototype, what's production-ready, what would the next builds on your shortlist look like, and how to keep going with three months of Builders Circle support behind you.
I've spent 31 years in technology. I've seen every hype cycle since email, the actual email, the one I installed onto people's desktops when they were still asking why they needed it. AI is the first technology in a long time that's changed how I work day-to-day.
I build things with AI every day. Landing pages, internal tools, prototypes, automations. The page you're reading now was built with the same patterns I teach. I'm not an influencer who started learning AI in 2023. I'm a practitioner who happens to teach what I do.
CTRL+ALT+AI is the brand I've built around practical AI guidance for small business founders. New videos on YouTube, practical guides on the site, and monthly group bootcamps for founders who want to learn this properly, hands-on, with someone watching what they do.
Turn up to week 1, and if at any point in that first session you decide it's not for you, drop me a line and I'll refund you in full. No forms, no questions, no awkward email back-and-forth. The bootcamp should earn its place in your week. If it doesn't on day one, that's on me.
Read the guides, watch the videos, or connect on LinkedIn. Practical AI guidance for small business founders. No hype, no doom.
The founding cohort of the Build with AI Bootcamp runs Monday 1 to Monday 22 June. You'll be the first ones through. You'll shape what the bootcamp becomes.
£499 + VAT, plus a 30-minute 1:1 with me as a founding cohort benefit. Bookings close Sunday 31 May. The July cohort opens for booking on 1 June at £999 + VAT, without the 1:1.
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