AI Builders Club · 4-Week Build Sprint · Opens May 26 · 8 Builders
One painful workflow.
One working AI tool you actually deploy.
Four weeks.
You leave with the tool you built. The playbook to keep building. The skill to teach others how.
Opens Tuesday, May 26 — only 8 builders at $199. Price goes up after this group. Taught by Joe Wilson (Microsoft, Amazon, Rapsodo).
Joe Wilson
Microsoft · Amazon · Rapsodo · 25 years
Notice issued under
Orders: Report for duty in four (4) weeks.
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TO: The undersigned — any knowledge worker with a browser tab open to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Pursuant to the acceleration of general-purpose AI, you are hereby NOTIFIED that your role is being rewritten. You are required to respond to AI Builders Club within four (4) weeks to secure replacement-proof status. Failure to respond will result in continued acceleration without you— the people who don't build with AI will be the ones being acted upon, not acting.
Findings against the recipient:
- I.You have used AI — typed a prompt, pasted an answer into a doc, felt a shiver of what this could be. You have not yet built anything with it.
- II.You have watched coworkers quietly ship things you don't understand. You have wondered if you're already behind. You are right to wonder.
- III.You are out of time. The people who build with AI will be kept. The people who only chat with it will not.
You don't need to be technical. You don't need a startup idea. You just need one annoying workflow and 4 weeks.
Issued By
Joe Wilson, Director
Obey LLC · St. Louis, MO
Attachment B-3 · Working Sample Builds
Five demos you can poke right now.
The catalog above tells you what could be built. This section shows what HAS been built — five working capstone examples across all three sprints. Click any tile to open the live demo or read the full build brief.
Sprint 01 · Executive Visibility
Claude · EntryHartwell Weekly Briefing
Take 5 bullets, get a forwardable one-page leadership memo. Real Claude Project, real public link.
Sprint 01 · Executive Visibility
Code · AdvancedHartwell Operations Dashboard
Lena's Monday-morning dashboard. Click a customer to scope the whole view; click Generate weekly briefing to see Claude compose the memo from current state.
Sprint 02 · Your Own Leverage
Cowork · Entry1:1 Patterns Tracker
A Claude Live Artifact reads 8 weekly 1:1 docs from Drive and surfaces patterns no single meeting can show — “Marcus has promised the same thing in 8 of 8 meetings.”
Sprint 02 · Your Own Leverage
Code · AdvancedPersonal Knowledge Agent
A consultant's 8-year RAG pipeline over Notion + Gmail + Drive + Slack. Type a question, get top-5 ranked retrieval with citations.
Sprint 03 · Team Force Multiplier
Claude · EntryWestmont Internal FAQ Bot
A Claude Project loaded with the employee handbook + benefits + safety + cert tracker. Answers the easy 40%, escalates the rest to Dana with a flag line.
Every demo above is real working software, not a screenshot. Two are live deployments you can interact with directly; the rest are public Claude Projects + Live Artifacts. Click around. The Builders' version is your version of the same shape.
Attachment A · Subject Profile
Who this notice is for.
If even one of the following applies, your identification is confirmed. This notice does not discriminate between dabblers and champions.
You, today.
- ▸ You've used ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — even just once.
- ▸ You suspect you should know more about AI than you do.
- ▸ You've watched coworkers quietly ship things you don't understand.
- ▸ You are one working tool away from being on the right side of this.
You, in 4 weeks.
- ▸ Shipped a working AI tool deployed where it lives — your job, your business, a side project, or your own.
- ▸ Built a working AI tool — at whatever depth fits your stack. Could be a Claude Project running Monday morning, a Slack bot, or a deployed web app. Your call.
- ▸ A demo you can show in any interview or leadership meeting.
- ▸ A group of peers building the same kind of stuff.
Attachment E · Signatory · Statement of Record
Who issued this notice.
Statement from
Joe Wilson · Director
Microsoft · Amazon · Rapsodo · Founder, Obey LLC
Microsoft. Amazon. Rapsodo. 25 years building AI tools at three companies you've heard of. Now full-time on this.
In 90 minutes one night, I built an AI that calls real hotels, has full conversations with staff, and scores their customer service. Nobody could tell it was AI.
I wasn't an engineer. I didn't have a CS degree or a team. I had Claude Code, my dog at my feet, and one workflow I wanted shipped.
Every sprint I run, I teach exactly what I used to ship that — and what I've shipped every week since.
Joe Wilson
Obey LLC · St. Louis, MO · 2026
Exhibit · Deliverable Specimens
The work, not the pitch.
Two capstone briefs we issued. One is operator-shaped: no code, no app store, just a knowledge-work agent that does the job on Monday morning. One is engineer-shaped: a real iOS build for the advanced tier. Both real, both shipped, both yours to examine.
File 01 · Operator track // File 02 · Engineer track (advanced)
Module 3 · Knowledge-work agent · Docket 2026-CAP-MMD · Operator track
MONDAY DESK
Track A · Operator recruits · No code shipped
A Claude Project that reads last week's Slack threads, shared docs, and PR titles every Sunday night. Monday 7am: a single Notion page summarizing what your team built, who's blocked, and the three decisions you owe people.
Lessons
8
Duration
2 weeks
Code shipped
Zero
Outcome
Live agent
Recruit profile on file
“Sarah, Director of Operations. 47 staff. Spent every Monday from 9 to 11am writing the team digest by hand. Now spends that time in 1:1s. The agent is wrong twice a month. She fixes it in five minutes. Net hours reclaimed per week: ~6.”
No app store. No deploy. No git. The brief: pick a Monday-morning task you currently do by hand, build the agent that does it, hand yourself back the hours.
Brief · May 26 SprintModule 4 · iOS capstone build · Docket 2026-CAP-SSW · Advanced tier
SERVICESWIPE
Track C · Engineer recruits · Advanced
Tinder-style swipe app for finding local service providers. iOS native, real payments, real TestFlight users. Advanced tier — the upper bound of what a 4-week sprint can produce when the recruit ships at full code-tier depth.
Lessons
12
Duration
3–4 weeks
Cash out
~$110
Outcome
TestFlight build
Full brief: the pitch, vertical picker, 8-item MVP, tech stack, 12-lesson build path, grading rubric, and the six ways the build goes sideways.
Examine the brief →Attachment B · Case File Index
The Sprint Catalog.
Three skill sprints. Self-paced menu — pick the ones your capstone needs. Recommended cadence: one sprint per week, alongside your capstone build. No theory weeks. No warm-ups.
Custom routing on request — if your capstone needs a skill not listed here, tell us at kickoff and we'll route you a custom path.
Three skill modules. Pick what your capstone needs.
File No.
01 / S-01
Operation
Executive Visibility
Briefing
Build something your leadership will actually see, cite, and forward up the chain.
Week 4: your name is attached to a tool that gets read at the top of the org.
Pick Your Build · 6 Skill Modalities
Same skill, your stack — pick the depth/tool that matches your comfort. The skill rolls into your capstone.
6 options · pick 1
Claude
Chat · Artifacts · Projects
The One-Page Briefing Project
A Claude Project that turns five bullet points into a polished weekly leadership update in your exec's voice. Built in an afternoon. Used every Monday.
Competitive Watcher Artifact
A Claude Artifact that takes five competitor URLs, scrapes their weekly moves, and returns a side-by-side brief. You email your CEO the link. They click it.
Claude Cowork
Background Agents · Team
Monday Morning Digest Agent
A background agent reads your team's Slack and shared docs over the weekend. Monday morning — a one-page summary lands in your inbox. Forward to leadership.
Strategic Intelligence Team
Three parallel agents — competitor scan, financial signals, news sweep — coordinate and deliver a unified weekly position paper your CEO forwards up the chain.
Claude Code
Terminal · IDE · Deploy
Exec Email Generator (CLI)
Claude Code builds a script that reads PRs, Linear, and shared docs — writes your weekly exec email. One command. Run it on cron. Always current.
Full Strategic Dashboard
Claude Code builds a Next.js web app: ingests competitor data, financials, news, your team's output. Deploys to Vercel. Your CEO has a bookmark now.
File No.
02 / S-02
Operation
Your Own Leverage
Briefing
Build something that saves you five hours a week. Quietly. Forever.
Week 4: you spend one fewer afternoon each week on the same repeat work.
Pick Your Build · 6 Skill Modalities
Same skill, your stack — pick the depth/tool that matches your comfort. The skill rolls into your capstone.
6 options · pick 1
Claude
Chat · Artifacts · Projects
The Email Voice Project
A Claude Project trained on your past emails. Paste any draft — get it rewritten in your voice. The reply goes out in 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes.
The Meeting Prep Artifact
A Claude Artifact: paste a calendar invite, get back attendee research, past context, and three talking points. 30 seconds, not 30 minutes of prep.
Claude Cowork
Background Agents · Team
1:1 Patterns Tracker
A Claude Live Artifact reads your weekly 1:1 docs from Drive on every open and surfaces what no single meeting can show — recurring themes, deduped action items across the quarter, the manager promise that's been made 8 times and shipped zero.
Your Second Brain Agent
An agent indexes every doc, email, and Slack message you've ever written. Ask it, “what did I say about X last quarter?” — it answers with citations.
Claude Code
Terminal · IDE · Deploy
Meeting Prep CLI
Claude Code writes a local tool: type a meeting title, get research + past context + talking points. Runs in your terminal in 2 seconds.
Personal Knowledge Agent (RAG)
Claude Code builds a full retrieval pipeline over your Notion, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack export. Private. Local. Yours. Ask anything — get real answers.
File No.
03 / S-03
Operation
Team Force Multiplier
Briefing
Build something your team adopts without you pitching it. Then they tell your boss.
Week 4: a coworker asks who built the thing. You say: I did.
Pick Your Build · 6 Skill Modalities
Same skill, your stack — pick the depth/tool that matches your comfort. The skill rolls into your capstone.
6 options · pick 1
Claude
Chat · Artifacts · Projects
The Team FAQ Project
A Claude Project loaded with your internal docs. Teammates ask it questions via share link. Answers the easy 40%. Logs what it can't answer — so you know what to add.
New-Hire Orientation Artifact
A Claude Artifact: “Day 1 Orientation.” New hires open it in a browser. Walks them through tools, policies, people. Tracks every question they ask.
Claude Cowork
Background Agents · Team
Support Triage Agent
A background agent watches your shared support inbox. Routes to the right person. Auto-answers the easy 40%. Flags the edge cases for your actual team.
Onboarding Orchestrator
A team of agents: one greets new hires, one generates a personalized reading list, one schedules their first five meetings, one checks in on day 14.
Claude Code
Terminal · IDE · Deploy
Internal Slack Bot
Claude Code writes a Slack bot your team @-mentions. Reads from your internal wiki. Answers the common questions. One command to deploy.
Team Knowledge Platform
Claude Code builds a searchable internal wiki. Auto-updates from Slack, Notion, Google Docs. Deploys on your company domain. The tool nobody ever got around to.
Attachment B-2 · Capstone Project Brief
Your capstone.
Skill sprints build the muscle. Your capstone is the actual working AI tool you ship — one real workflow, one real deployment. At your job, your business, your side project, or just yours. Not a template.
Pick it.
Use BuildScope (free, no card) to turn the workflow eating your week into a buildable AI tool spec. That spec IS your capstone.
Refine it.
Live group kickoff. Last window to pivot or sharpen scope. Once kickoff ends, the spec is locked and you start building.
Build it.
Skill sprints run in parallel — pick the ones your capstone needs, recommended one a week. Each sprint teaches a pattern you apply directly to your build.
Ship it.
Deploy it where it lives — your job, your business, your side project, or your own desk. Demo Day Friday. Walk out with the working tool and the artifacts that prove you built it.
Attachment C · Operational Timeline
The 4-week operation.
~4 hours a week. Daily momentum. No off-weeks. Two parallel tracks: skill sprints (3 in the menu, recommended one a week, all optional) and your capstone build (running from Day 1). Demo Day Friday of Week 4.
Kickoff + first sprint
Live group kickoff — last window to refine your capstone spec; locks at end of week. Start your first skill sprint from the menu. Capstone work starts Day 1 and runs in parallel from here on.
Sprint + build
Your second skill sprint (pick from the menu). Capstone build active — daily async check-ins, ruthless scope cuts encouraged. Office hours twice a week.
Working version
Your third skill sprint (pick from the menu — or revisit one). Rough working capstone version expected by week-end. Peer review as you go. Mantra: working beats impressive, useful beats clever, shipped beats imagined.
Polish + Demo Day
Polish your capstone. Deploy where it lives — your job, your business, your side project, or your own. Hand it to someone who will actually use it. Demo Day Friday. Alumni community opens to you. Discharge Papers released.
Attachment D · Supplies & Provisions
Contents of the package.
Everything issued to each recruit upon acceptance of service.
Item 01
Live kickoff + demo day
Real group calls. Bookend the sprint.
Item 02
Daily async check-ins
Discord channel for the Builders. Unstuck in minutes.
Item 03
Twice-weekly office hours
Screen-share with Joe. No question too basic.
Item 04
Starter kit + blueprints
Working scaffolds you customize, not copy.
Item 05
Claude Code curriculum
The actual dev tool, not prompt hacks.
Item 06
Alumni community access
Unlocked when you ship. Gated by completion.
Attachment L · Theatre of Operations
Skool for the mission. Discord for the fight.
Two surfaces, two jobs. If it needs to be remembered, it lives in Skool. If it needs to happen live, it happens in Discord.
Theatre A · Skool
The campus.
Curriculum, calendar, capstones, the official record. Where you go to remember what week it is, find your assignment, and submit your demo.
- — Week-by-week lessons + assignments
- — Live-call calendar + recordings
- — Demo Day submissions + wins gallery
- — Members directory + leaderboard
- — Templates, blueprints, reusable scaffolds
- — Native iOS / Android apps with push
Theatre B · Discord
The workshop floor.
Live build sessions, voice rooms, peer support, the unstuck-me pings. Where Luna and NYX live alongside you as embedded members.
- — #build-room + #stuck-help live channels
- — Twice-weekly office hours (voice)
- — Daily build prompts + group cadence
- — Pair-programming + peer review
- — Luna + NYX active as Builders' peers
- — Demo stage voice room for Week 4
Attachment J · Before & After
Before the sprint. After the sprint.
The shift isn't mindset. It's artifacts. You leave the sprint with things that didn't exist when you started.
Where you are now.
- ▸You repeat the same workflow every week.
- ▸You keep asking AI for help, but nothing operational changes.
- ▸You wait for engineering, RevOps, IT, or leadership to prioritize your pain.
- ▸You know the bottleneck because you live inside it.
- ▸You have AI access, but not AI leverage.
Where you walk out.
- ▸You have a working AI tool.
- ▸You have a demo.
- ▸You have a reusable build pattern.
- ▸You have a workflow that runs Monday morning — at work, in your business, or on your own time.
- ▸You have proof that you can build with AI.
Attachment K · Discharge Papers
What you walk away with.
Not knowledge. Artifacts. Eight items released to your possession on discharge. Career insurance, not coursework.
Your capstone — the working AI tool you picked at enrollment
Refined through Kickoff, built parallel to your skill sprints, demoed Week 4. Deployed where it lives — your job, your business, your side project, or your own. Not a notebook, not a slide.
A demo you can show a boss, team, or future employer
Recorded, three minutes, end-to-end. The portfolio piece most operators do not have.
A before / after workflow map
Inputs → outputs, hand-drawn or in Notion. Proof of how the work used to flow vs. how it flows now.
A reusable build blueprint
Problem → Inputs → Outputs → AI behavior → Approval points → Test cases. The pattern you re-use for the next workflow.
A short case study
One page. What was broken. What you built. What changed. Anchor for LinkedIn, your annual review, your next interview.
A quantified time-saved estimate
Hours / week reclaimed, conservatively. The number leadership cares about when the budget conversation happens.
A LinkedIn-ready post
Drafted with you alongside the other Builders. The "I built this with AI" post that doesn’t read as fluff because the artifact is shippable.
Access to the alumni builder room
Permanent. The Discord room that stays open after the sprint — for stuck-points, reviews, and the next workflow.
Attachment G · Embedded Operatives
AI peers, not bots.
Two AI peers embedded in your Discord. They have personas, opinions, and they push back. They remember what you’re building between conversations and won’t be polite when you’re avoiding the work. No competitor has them — your tuition includes them.
Real Luna + NYX live in Discord with the Builders. The floating web chat is the demo.
Codename
LUNA
Operative · Pink-coral · Coaching lane
Voice
Warm, push-back, pulls you back when you spiral. Names what you’re avoiding.
On the record
“Show me what you tried. We’ll fix it from there.”
Codename
NYX
Operative · Cool-blue · Build-correctness lane
Voice
Technical, ethics-first, names the trade-off before you ship it.
On the record
“That’ll work. The cost: a slower build and a brittle migration. Worth it?”
Attachment M · Pre-Enlistment Worksheet
Not sure if your workflow ships?
BuildScope takes ten minutes. Give it the painful workflow that's eating your week — repetitive reporting, manual triage, the spreadsheet you keep redoing. Get back: a buildable AI tool spec, a UI concept prompt, and a Sprint Fit Score.
If your workflow scores high, you're ready for the sprint. If it doesn't, you'll know exactly what to scope down before day one. Either way: ten minutes, real output.
This spec is your capstone. Bring it to your sprints. Walk out Week 4 with the tool that matches it.
Output: Sprint Fit Score · Tool Spec · UI Concept Prompt
Pain → spec → capstone → Week 4 demo.
Attachment I · Schedule of Charges
Tuition.
Three terms of service. Pick the one that fits your stage. Founding pricing locks for life — limited to the May 26 sprint. Price goes up after this group, depending on demand.
Term P-01
Sprint
$199
one-time · founding pricing
4 weeks. One real problem. One working tool shipped where it lives — your job, your business, or your own.
- Founding $199 · locks for life. Limited to the May 26 sprint — price goes up next.
- Group-tracked 4-week sprint (Week 1 build-together → Week 4 demo)
- Demo Day at end of Week 4
- Peer review from the other Builders in your sprint
- One working tool deployed in your stack
- Pick-your-build: Claude · Cowork · Code
Term P-02
Pro Community
$29
per month · ongoing
Stay embedded after the sprint ends. The room you ship from every week.
- Discord access · operative network
- Daily-build prompts
- AI peer feedback from Luna + NYX
- Weekly thread cron
- Win cross-post handler
Term P-03
30-Day Trial
$0
first 30 days · then $29/mo
Pro Community on probation. No payment up front. Cancel before day 30 with no charge.
- Full Pro Community access
- No card required to start
- Auto-converts at $29/mo on day 31
- Withdraw at any time
Refund Clause
Full refund within 7 days of the start, no questions asked. If you ship nothing in 4 weeks, the sprint cost is on us.
Form 2026-AI-04 · Sprint Reservation
4-week sprint · 8 builders · opens Tuesday, May 26
Status
Reservations Open
Reserve your seat.
Reserve a seat in the next sprint. Founding-pricing holders get the locked-in $199 price, early access, and notice of sprint dates before public enrollment opens.
No spam. One notification per sprint opening. Unsubscribe anytime.
Attachment F · Frequently Asked
Answers for the undecided.
Do I need coding experience?
Helpful but not required. Three tracks — Claude (chat, projects, artifacts), Cowork (background agents), and Claude Code (terminal, IDE, deploy). You pick the depth that fits your role. If you've ever followed a step-by-step setup guide, the entry track is for you.
How much time per week?
About 4 hours. Kickoff and demo day are live (60-90 min each). Everything else is async with optional office hours. Most people do their building in two focused evenings.
Do I pick the project or do you?
You pick your capstone at enrollment via BuildScope — the AI tool you'll ship for yourself, your job, your business, or your side project. The 3 skill sprints have fixed themes (like Meeting Follow-Up Assistant) but the menu is optional — pick the ones whose patterns help your capstone. By Week 4 your capstone is deployed where it lives.
What tools do I need?
A laptop, a Claude account (free tier works to start), and one real problem you want solved — at work, in your business, on a side project, or just yours. We walk you through the tech setup on day 1 — including Claude Code if your track needs it.
What if life gets in the way and I can't finish?
Roll into the next sprint free. Sprints run back-to-back. One skip is built in.
When does the next sprint start?
The May sprint opens Tuesday, May 26 — 8 builders, $199 founding pricing locked for life for this group only. Price goes up after, depending on demand. Waitlist members get an invite before public signup. Sprints run back-to-back — new one roughly every 4 weeks.
Attachment H · Disqualifying Conditions
Who this notice is NOT for.
Service is voluntary, but selection is not. The following recruits should decline this notice and seek other channels. We would rather you bounce here than burn a seat the other Builders need.
You ship AI features in production already.
Senior engineers running tool-call loops, RAG pipelines, or multi-agent systems at work — this is not where you upgrade. Go to vendor docs and the Anthropic and OpenAI cookbook repos directly.
You want a free community without a paid sprint.
Sprint enrollment is $199 per sprint. Continued Discord access after demo day is $29 per month. There is no free tier of the alumni room and no observer pass — every seat is gated by a finished build. If that math is not yours, this room is not yours.
You need someone to walk you through git clone.
We assume you can follow a step-by-step setup guide on a laptop. Group kickoff covers Claude, accounts, and the dev tools your track requires — it does not cover learning to use a terminal from zero. Start with a no-code builder first, then come back.
You want to read about AI without building.
No theory weeks. No warm-ups. Week 4 you demo a working tool deployed where it lives — your job, your business, your side project, or your own. Lurkers and "just exploring" skimmers won't survive the sprint. This room is for builders who finish.
You came for a certificate.
No badges. No completion certificates. No LinkedIn ornament for finishing. The deliverable is your shipped tool, the demo, and the people who saw you build it. We award outcomes — not credentials.
If none of the above apply, your identification stands.
Final Order
Stop experimenting. Ship something.
4 weeks. One working tool. A group of Builders doing the same. Or — do nothing. Your call.
Bring the bottleneck. Build the tool. Demo the work.
4-week sprint · 8 builders · opens Tuesday, May 26