A 5-week live bootcamp

Learn to build real software with Claude Code. No coding background required.

In five weeks you ship one working internal tool for your company. Not a certificate. A tool that runs, that you built, that you can maintain after the program ends.

Apply for the founding cohort Need approval? Send your manager this page.
Starts
September 2026
Format
Live cohort, flipped classroom
Rhythm
One 90-min session + office hours weekly
Cohort size
5 seats

You're the person at your company who should be building this. You just don't know how yet.

Every Friday you rebuild the same spreadsheet. The report your VP asks for takes most of a day to assemble by hand. And five questions keep landing in your DMs because the answer lives in a doc nobody can find. You've described the fix to engineering twice. It never got prioritized.

"I know exactly what my team needs automated. I just can't build it."

Marketing

"Our workflow is too specific for any off-the-shelf tool."

Sales Operations

"I don't want to manage a consultant. I want to own the tool myself."

Customer Success

"Engineering agreed it was a good idea. It's been in the backlog a year."

Customer Support

"We pay forty thousand a year for software we use about 20% of."

Business Operations

"I want a skill that pays off at work, and maybe on the side too."

Product

What's missing isn't an engineer. It's you, with the ability to build. You understand how the business actually works. That's the harder half.

What you'll ship

A real tool for your real job.

A spreadsheet ritual

Onboarding tracker

One place to see every client's status, owner, and next step. No more Friday copy-paste across three tabs.

A day of assembly

Automated weekly report

Pulls from three systems, formats itself, lands in the inbox Monday morning. Built once, runs every week.

The human FAQ

Internal answers tool

Trained on your company docs, so the same five questions stop landing in your DMs.

The handoff scramble

Request intake queue

One form and one queue for requests arriving by Slack, email, and hallway. Everything triaged, nothing dropped.

The gut-feel forecast

Renewal risk board

Every account, its renewal date, and the signals that actually predict churn, in one view instead of four tabs and a hunch.

The copy-paste proposal

Quote and proposal builder

Fill five fields, get a formatted proposal. No more duplicating last quarter's deck and hoping you caught every number.

Curriculum

You ship something live in session one.

WEEK 1

Fundamentals, and your first live site.

What Claude Code actually is, what GitHub and Vercel do, and how the pieces fit together. Then you build and deploy a real website before the session ends.

DELIVERABLE: A working site, live on the internet, that you built yourself.

WEEK 2

Build a real app together.

The whole cohort builds the same project management tool: logins, user roles, and a drag-and-drop board. It’s the skeleton underneath most internal tools, and you keep the code.

DELIVERABLE: A working Kanban app with real authentication, running and deployed.

WEEK 3

Pick your project and plan it.

The week that matters most

Decide what you’re building for your company, set up a Claude project to hold your context and prompts, and turn it into a PRD and milestone plan Claude Code can execute.

DELIVERABLE: A PRD, a milestone plan, and milestone one already running.

You’ll book your private 1:1 Scope Session after Week 1 and take it between Weeks 2 and 3, so you walk in with your problem already chosen and pressure-tested.

WEEK 4

Build it.

Hands on keyboard with support. Real data, real edge cases, and the things that break for everyone the first time.

DELIVERABLE: A V1 you can put in front of a colleague.

WEEK 5

Demo day, and what comes after.

Show what you built to the cohort. Then documentation, a maintenance plan, and the workflow for shipping your next feature without me.

DELIVERABLE: A working tool at your company, and the ability to keep improving it.

Flipped classroom. Short recorded modules before each session, so live time is spent building, never lecturing.

What's included

Everything in the program.

The Build Modules

Short recorded lessons before each session, so live time is never spent lecturing.

Live Build Sessions ×5

Ninety minutes a week where the whole cohort builds at the same time.

The Scope Session

A private 1:1 to pick the one problem at your company worth building first.

The Unblock Session

A private 1:1 you book the moment you're stuck. No waiting for the next class.

Weekly Office Hours

Open working time every week. Bring your screen, leave with the problem fixed.

The Builders' Guild

A private Slack with your cohort and every cohort after it. Lifetime access.

Demo Day + The Portal

Ship it in front of the cohort. Every recording and resource stays in your portal.

The Starter Kit

Context files, prompt patterns, and worksheets pulled from a real production build.

The Fundamentals Library

GitHub 101, a one-page command cheatsheet, and reference material you'll reopen.

Fit check

5 seats means we're picky. So should you be.

This is for you if

You know the tool your team needs. Nobody's building it.

You live in spreadsheets. You've never written code.

You can protect five hours a week for five weeks.

You want to own the tool, not hand it off.

This is not for you if

You're an engineer who already ships software. You'd be bored.

You want a passive video course to watch on your own schedule.

Your company prohibits AI tools. Sort that out first.

You want a certificate more than a working tool.

Guarantee

The Shipped Tool Guarantee

Show up, do the work, and by demo day either a working tool you built is running at your company, or we keep working together until it is. Full refund through the end of Week 2.

Builds

What the first cohort built.

Cohort 1 build

Reserved for a real build

Cohort 1 build

Reserved for a real build

Cohort 1 build

Reserved for a real build

Filling up after Cohort 1.

Getting approval

A tool that saves your team 5 hours a week pays for the program in the first month.

Most companies approve this the same way they approve a conference: one email. Here's the one to send.

approval-email.txt
Subject: $1,499 request — building the [tool name] internally

Hi [manager],

I'd like approval for Claude Code Bootcamp, a 5-week live program that
teaches non-engineers to build working internal software. It starts in September.

What I'd build: [the tool], the thing I currently do by hand every week.
By the end of the program it's running, and I own it.

- Cost: $1,499, one time.
- Time: one 90-minute session a week, plus my own build time.
- Outcome: a working tool at [company], built and maintained in-house.
- Guarantee: full refund through the end of Week 2.

For comparison, a SaaS tool that almost fits runs about $12,000 a year,
and a consultant build is around $15,000 and we wouldn't own it. This is
$1,499 and the skill stays on our team.

If it saves me 5 hours a week, it pays for itself in the first month.

Happy to share the details page: claudecodebootcamp.io

Thanks,
[name]
See the one-page version for managers
Peter Gustafson, instructor
Instructor

I teach in operator language, not engineer language.

Took two coding bootcamps as a student, so I know exactly what learning this from zero feels like.

Taught an iOS development bootcamp at City Colleges of Chicago, where my class outperformed every other cohort.

Spent the past several months building a complete SaaS platform end to end with Claude Code: payments, email, forms, client portal, coach portal, now shipping as a Mac desktop app.

A decade-plus in B2B SaaS across product, ops, customer success, and solutions engineering.

My job isn't to turn you into a developer. It's to make you the person on your team who ships.

Founding cohort
$1,499 $1,999
5 seats · September 2026

Five live build sessions and the recorded modules

Two private 1:1s: Scope Session and Unblock Session

Weekly office hours through the whole program

Lifetime Builders' Guild access and every recording

The Starter Kit from a real production build

The Shipped Tool Guarantee

Apply for the founding cohort

The alternatives: a $12k-a-year subscription that almost fits, or a $15k consultant build that rots. This is $1,499, and you keep the builder.

Founding builders trade honest feedback and permission to share their build as a case study for the 25% discount.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask.

Five weeks from now, a tool you built is running at your company.

Built by you. Understood by you. Maintained by you.

Apply for the founding cohort 5 seats · September 2026
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