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Zero to AI-Native
Free · 21 days · 15 minutes a day

Stop reading about AI.
Start building with it.

A 21-day program for the AI-curious. Fifteen minutes a day. By the end, you'll have a personal AI system that knows your work, drafts the things you draft most, and ships custom tools for problems only you have.

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No signup wall · No upsell · Inspired by Hilary Gridley's Couch to 5K for AI
21
days, structured and sequenced. Not 100 hours of YouTube.
15min
a day. Done before your second coffee. Capstones run 30 minutes.
1
personal AI system at the end — yours, on your machine, that compounds.
Why this works

Most AI courses teach you tools.
This one builds an instinct.

The bottleneck isn't knowing what AI can do. It's the reflex to reach for it. After 21 days you stop asking "should I use AI for this?" the way a runner stops asking "should I run today?"

Behavior change > tool knowledge

Tools change every six months. The instincts you build here — communicating with AI, decomposing work, setting a quality bar — transfer across every model and every tool you'll use.

Scope expansion, not productivity

The real ROI isn't faster output. It's that you start taking on problems you wouldn't have considered before. Your sense of your own capability expands.

Local files, not cloud chat

Real fluency lives in a personal context directory on your own machine. By Day 14 your AI knows you, your team, and your work — without sending any of it to a third party.

Designed against abandonment

Each day is small enough that refusing it feels absurd. The progression is invisible by design — the win shows up around Day 12.

What changes

The same Tuesday,
21 days apart.

Before
  • ·You ask ChatGPT for help with a hard email and accept the first answer it gives.
  • ·You spend 30 minutes Googling "best practices" for a decision your team needs by EOD.
  • ·You need a quick tool for something small. You don't build it. You work around it.
  • ·You write your weekly update from a blank page. Again.
  • ·You wonder how everyone else seems to be moving faster.
After
  • ·You hand AI three examples of emails you've sent and get back a draft that sounds like you.
  • ·Perplexity researches case studies. Claude turns them into a recommendation. You decide in 10 minutes.
  • ·You ship a small custom tool to a real URL the same morning the problem appears.
  • ·Your weekly update drafts itself from your daily notes. You just edit and send.
  • ·Friday at 5pm, your system reflects on your week — without you asking.
The program

Three weeks.
One shift each.

Each day takes 15 minutes. Capstones (Days 7, 14, 21) take 30. Open the day, do the exercise, check the box. Skip a day if life happens — the program advances at your pace.

DAY 1 15 min
Define good first
Ask AI to define what excellent looks like before it does the work. The single highest-leverage prompt-layer trick. Side-by-side comparison.
DAY 2 15 min
Context, side by side
Same prompt with vs. without your real context. You'll see why context isn't optional — it's the variable.
DAY 3 15 min
Research before recommending
Make AI look at comps and case studies before it suggests anything. The 3-tab dance: Claude → Perplexity → Claude.
DAY 4 15 min
The four-check stack
Falsify, steelman, domain-expert, calibrate. Stack imperfect checks to catch what one prompt can't.
DAY 5 15 min
Examples > descriptions
Show AI three things you've written and ask it to articulate the patterns. Then write to those patterns.
DAY 6 15 min
Model picker discipline
Build your personal flowchart for which AI to reach for first. Stop defaulting to whichever tab is open.
DAY 7 Capstone · 30 min
First Claude Code session
A file on your computer changes because of something you typed. The line between chatting with AI and using AI as a tool.
Who this is for

Built for the AI-curious.
Not the AI-overwhelmed.

✓ For you if
  • You've used ChatGPT or Claude a few times but it hasn't really changed your work yet
  • You're a knowledge worker, founder, operator, PM, leader, or chief of staff
  • You can spend 15 minutes a day for three weeks
  • You'd rather build something real than read another article about AI
  • You're willing to install a desktop app and touch a terminal once or twice
✗ Not for you if
  • You're already shipping production AI agents at work daily
  • You want a deep dive on transformers and how LLMs work under the hood
  • You won't open the same desktop app on Day 7 that you opened on Day 6
  • You're looking for a course you can complete by reading, not doing
What you need

A laptop and
one paid AI subscription.

Required
Claude Pro · $20/mo
Or ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Advanced. The exercises are tool-agnostic; we recommend Claude.
Recommended
Perplexity Pro · $20/mo
For the research-before-you-recommend exercises. Free tier works for most days.
Week 3
GitHub + Vercel · free
For shipping the tools you build. We walk you through setup.

Nothing on this site is sponsored or affiliate. We don't sell tools — we just point at the ones we'd use ourselves.

Day 1 takes
five minutes.

Drop your email and we'll send Day 1 right now, plus a daily push at 8am for the next 21 mornings. Reply "skip" or "pause" anytime. No upsell.

21 days · 15 min/day · 100% free
Frequently asked

Honest answers,
in advance.

Is this really free? +
Yes. No paywall, no upsell. We built this because we wanted it to exist. The only thing you'll spend money on is your AI subscription, which you'd want anyway.
Won't this be obsolete in six months? +
Tools change. Instincts don't. The durable skills — communicating with AI, decomposing work, setting a quality bar, sensing the jagged frontier — transfer across every model and tool. We focus on those.
I'm not technical. Will I be lost? +
No. Days 1–7 are entirely in a browser tab. Day 7 onward you'll install a desktop app and use Claude Code — but the meta-skill we teach on Day 7 is asking AI to walk you through anything you don't understand. That skill alone is worth the program.
What if I miss a day? +
Skip it. Tomorrow's day will arrive on schedule. The program advances at our pace, not yours; if you fall a week behind, the days are still there waiting on the site.
Why 21 days, not 30? +
Three weeks is enough to build the foundation, the system, and the shipping reflex. After that, Day 21's capstone teaches your system to write the next phase of your own education. We trust you more than we trust a 30-day calendar.
Who is this from? +
Cameron Sorsby and the team behind Founders School, a 4-year entrepreneurship high school launching in NYC, Fall 2026. We built this for ourselves first. The structure is inspired by Hilary Gridley's Couch to 5K for AI — go read it; we did.
Can I share this with my team? +
Please do. Forward the URL. Run a cohort at your company. We'll add a team mode in v2.