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AI Masterclass · founding cohort · 15 spots

Build the AI that runs your busywork, so your business runs while you sleep.

Build with AI to free up your time. A hands-on masterclass where you set up your own AI brain and ship real automations that do the work for you. People call it vibe coding. You'll just call it your edge.

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Founding cohort. No dates yet, I'm hand-picking the first 15 builders.

You're not behind on AI. You're stuck using it the slow way.

You open a chat. Ask a good question. Get a decent answer. Then you go and do all the actual work yourself, again.

Fifteen tabs open. Tools that don't talk to each other. Every project starts from zero. You're the bottleneck for everything, and the to-do list never ends.

Here's the rub: you're renting your intelligence. One chat window, one subscription, no memory. Meanwhile the hype crowd sells you another prompt pack. None of it builds you a thing that runs on its own.

Picture this instead

The busywork just handles itself.

You send a voice note on a walk. By the time you sit down, it's captured, sorted, and turned into the right tasks.

Your content gets drafted in your voice and posts on a schedule. Bookings, payments and follow-up emails run without you touching them.

You spend your day making decisions and building the next thing. The machine handles the rest. That's not a someday. That is what you'll set up.

Voice notes
Docs & chats
Your tools
YOUR
BRAIN
Content
Operations
Automations

How it actually works

You build one thing: your own AI brain.

Capture everything once, in plain files you own. Organise it so any AI can read it. Execute real work against it. Compound: it gets sharper every day.

The leap that makes it click is moving from chatting with AI to building with it. Telling it what you want and watching it ship. People call that vibe coding. No computer science degree required.

This isn't theory

I run a farm and five brands from one brain.

Built over 18 months, not a developer by training. A full website with booking, payments and automated emails, set up in an afternoon. It used to take two months.

31

repos run from one brain

1,300+

pages of living memory

10+

projects at once

52

custom tools built

Lucid Living

Before

Bookings, payments and reminders done by hand.

After

Someone picks a time, pays through Stripe, a Zoom link is created, and the confirmation and reminders send themselves. Hands off.

BROS

Before

Running men's events off DMs and spreadsheets.

After

Monthly live events and regular flagship gatherings with full payment and signup automations. All of it deployed by chatting with Claude Code.

Mangaroa Farms

Before

Slow systems, stuck on Squarespace, endless manual work.

After

A fully automated events system, an online meat-sales machine, automated marketing pipelines for fast content, and new systems shipping every week.

I can see exactly how to apply this to what we're building.

Cam Watts, Race for Impact

Welcoming, interactive and balanced. I felt warmth and immediately comfortable.

Todd

Community, connection and humanity ran right through it. Super powerful.

Adam

So much better than ChatGPT just agreeing with me. Loving the practical prompts.

Claire

I read your AI emails every week. Less doom, more building.

Dan

These newsletters are mindblowing, to say the least.

Louis

Keen to be part of this next technological age.

Mu

I can see exactly how to apply this to what we're building.

Cam Watts, Race for Impact

Welcoming, interactive and balanced. I felt warmth and immediately comfortable.

Todd

Community, connection and humanity ran right through it. Super powerful.

Adam

So much better than ChatGPT just agreeing with me. Loving the practical prompts.

Claire

I read your AI emails every week. Less doom, more building.

Dan

These newsletters are mindblowing, to say the least.

Louis

Keen to be part of this next technological age.

Mu

Straight from the DMs

Real messages from people on the journey.

And yes, that last one is the brain writing its own testimonial from a chat about itself. Even this website is a case study: the whole thing built with Claude. The only other app I use is Gmail, and I still write my newsletters by hand.

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What you walk away with

Come with an idea. Leave with it running.

  • Your own AI brain, set up and running on your machine
  • One real automation built live, start to finish
  • Weekly masterclass sessions, run in two timezones
  • Every session recorded, yours to keep
  • A small room of builders to build alongside
  • The resource library and prompt frameworks

The masterclass

AI Masterclass

Small group, capped at 15 founding builders. This is the first cohort, and founding terms won't come back for the rounds after it.

Lifetime access to everything you build and every recording.

Register your interest

All the risk is on me.

See results in two weeks or get a full refund. Show up, do the work, and if it hasn't paid off, you don't pay. I'd rather have committed builders than uncertain ones.

Register your interest

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

  • + You've got a project or business you want to accelerate
  • + You're tired of AI giving advice while you do the work
  • + You want to own your system, not rent it
  • + You learn by building alongside others

NOT FOR YOU IF

  • × You want a passive course to watch and never use
  • × You're chasing a get-rich-quick AI hack
  • × You won't commit a few hours a week

Who you're building with

Billy Lewis

Ten years telling stories with a camera. Then AI changed everything, and I went from storyteller-who-uses-tools to builder-who-ships-systems.

Now I run a regenerative farm and five brands from a single AI brain I built myself, from a paddock in New Zealand. Not from Silicon Valley. Not selling theory from a penthouse. Just someone who worked out how the pieces fit and wants to hand it over.

Questions you might have.

Do I need to be technical?+

No. If you can type and talk, you can do this. You tell the AI what you want in plain English (people call it vibe coding) and watch it build. I'll walk you through the setup.

What do I need before starting?+

A laptop, a Claude or ChatGPT subscription, and a project or task you'd love to automate. That's the whole list.

What if I can't make a live call?+

Calls run in two timezones and every one is recorded and shared. You'll never be locked out.

Do I have to use one specific AI?+

No. The brain you build is yours, plain files any AI can read. Switch providers whenever you like and lose nothing.

What happens after the masterclass?+

You keep everything you built, forever, on your own machine. Plus lifetime access to the recordings and the community.

15 founding spots · no dates yet

Tell me what you'd build.

Two minutes. I read every single one myself, and I'll come back to you personally over the next couple of weeks with the details and whether it's a fit.

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First things first, what's your name?

So I'm not talking to a stranger.

P.S. If you're feeling the pull and the doubt at the same time, that's normal. Everyone who built this said the same thing first: “I don't know if I'm technical enough.” They all were. You are too.

Stay human, Billy

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