Most founders spend twenty or thirty grand and the better part of a year paying developers to build one app. There’s a faster way. Two full days at the top end of Collins Street, with our engineers in the room, and you walk out with a live marketing site, a lead magnet, a CRM, a 3-part nurture, and an AI program plan, all running on your own data. You also learn the 18 protocols we run on every client job, so you keep building long after you head home.
James Murray had been quoted A$300,000 to build a longevity coaching app running on more than 300,000 records of data, an idea he had circled for over ten years. With his AI engineer Trac and some team support across two retreats, he shipped V1.0 in eight weeks. Then he kept building: a healthcare dashboard, a nutrition tool for his daughter the personal trainer, and more, six projects in all.
A dev shop charges A$20,000 to A$50,000 to build one CRM. You get 3 months of headaches. An AI bootcamp is A$5,000 and you go home with a notebook. This is two days and a four figure seat, and the software is live before you get home.
Arrive with an idea. Leave with a live lead magnet website, a CRM with customer and admin logins, a 3-part nurture, the 18 protocols in your hands, and a detailed AI program plan.
The sprint is measured by what you ship, not by what we promise. Three examples from past cohorts.
This is not a workshop. Not a course. A two-day founder build sprint capped at 30 people, in 6 pods of 5, each with a dedicated AI Engineer for the full event.
Two faculty instructors run the programme content across all pods. Every pod has one dedicated AI Engineer embedded across both full days, building alongside you so no one gets stuck.
Every Founder Seat includes a 1:1 pre-event call with Dave to scope your build before you arrive in Melbourne.
“I built this for the operator who has been saying I should build this for two years. Two days forces the issue. You leave with a live site, a CRM, a nurture, and a program plan, not another notebook of ideas.”
Two full days, 9 to 5. From foundations and the 18 protocols, to a live build, to an AI program plan and a one-shot prototype.
Priced at what each piece costs on its own. Add it up, then look at what you pay. That gap is the whole point.
A$3,600 for a Founder seat. Add a Mac mini with your 8 agents for A$5,100, or go White Glove at A$6,600 for 40 human tokens of post-event polish. Build a stack worth multiples of the price, then keep building after the two days.
A$3,600 for a Founder Seat. Add a Mac mini preloaded with your 8 AI agents for A$5,100, or go White Glove at A$6,600 for 40 human tokens of post-event engineering. Lunch both days, accommodation not included. Add team members at A$1,800 each.
Bring another person from your business. Full event access, working alongside you in your pod.
Everything the two days need to put working software in your hands is in the Founder seat. The Mac mini and post-event polish are tier upgrades, and things that scale with your business after, travel, ad spend, ongoing software, are not.
If something is not answered here, write to hello@ai-officer.com and Dave or someone on the team will reply within a business day.
Not the early-stage startup founder looking to raise. The person who has been saying “I need to build this” for two years.
Best categories: expert consulting, AI-enhanced services, lead generation, health and wellness, niche e-commerce, local services, education, B2B advisory products, memberships, internal automation for an existing company.
Deep SaaS builds are out of scope for the first cohort. The goal is a live, testable, AI-enabled business asset ready for its first customers, not a finished software company.