The business school for the AI era

Don’t watch a course. Build your venture.

Learn by building — with an AI tutor beside you, on the real software a €4M company runs. 50 courses across 6 tracks. Your first lesson is always free.

Lifetime access · build-along Workbook (Claude Code in your browser) · certificate on completion

50
courses, each a standalone purchase
6
tracks — engineering to go-to-market
300k+
lines of real software you learn on
€4M
built into the products behind the school
Taught on the real stack behind cycleWASHCycleCNCCycleCADExplodeViewOutreachPro — five live products, not toy examples.
How it works

Read a lesson. Build the real thing. Earn the certificate.

No passive video binges. Every course is a guided build — you ship something real, lesson by lesson.

1

Start free

Open any course and read Module 1 on us — no signup, no card. Like what you see? Unlock the rest from €19.99.

2

Build along

Launch your Workbook — Claude Code, right in your browser — and build the real thing alongside the lesson, with your AI tutor guiding each step.

3

Finish & get certified

Mark each lesson complete, track your progress, and claim a verifiable certificate you can add to LinkedIn.

Two ways in

Take a course — or build the whole company.

The same AI-run methodology, at two depths. Start with a single course today, or commit to the full founder journey.

Self-serve · from €19.99

Courses & tracks

50 courses · 6 tracks · All-Access

Buy one course, a whole track, or the All-Access pass. Every course is a hands-on build with an AI tutor, a Workbook, progress tracking and a certificate. Your first lesson is always free.

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The full journey · Founders Year

Build your venture

One year: idea → a funded company you own

A guided year where you build and launch a real company — 6 AI tutors 24/7, human mentors, and a path from first lesson to a venture you keep 60% of. Applications are free.

Apply to Founders Year →
Why Kaern

The only school where you build on real software.

Most courses teach theory. Kaern teaches the way founders actually work — with AI, on production tools.

🤖

An AI tutor in the room

Each course is taught by a practitioner tutor and paired with Claude so you’re never stuck — ask, build, iterate.

🔨

Real, field-tried software

You learn on the actual stack behind cycleWASH, CycleCAD, OutreachPro and more — not toy examples.

📝

Build, don’t just watch

Every lesson ends in something you made. By the end of a course you have a working result, not just notes.

🎓

Certificates that count

Complete every lesson to earn a verifiable Kaern certificate — shareable, with a public verify page.

Your faculty

The faculty is AI. The wisdom is human.

Seven tutors, one per domain — available the moment you have a question, trained on the way Kaern actually builds.

M

Maya

Foundational AI — every founder’s required first week
C

Cad

Design · CAD · CAM
V

Volt

Electronics · PLC · IoT
A

Ada

Software · Web · Version control
M

Mara

Marketing · Sales · CRM
F

Fin

Finance · Economics · Ops
S

Sol

The Dean — operating with AI
A path that compounds

Five rungs, each feeding the next.

Start free, go as far as you want. Every step builds on the last.

Free
Module 1
Read the first lesson of any course
€19.99+
A course
One guided build, start to certificate
€890
Build Your Venture
Self-serve blueprint
€1,990/yr
Founders Year
The full academy
€20k
Consulting
Build it with Kaern
See pricing & courses →
Six tracks, 50 courses

Pick your path — or take the whole journey.

From the physical product to the pitch. Buy one course, a track, or All-Access.

Engineering & the physical product Industrial automation & robotics Software, web & the platform Commerce, data & dashboards Entrepreneurial & business studies Operating with AI
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Proof you can point to

A certificate the market trusts.

Finish every lesson and claim a verifiable Kaern certificate — with a public verify page and a unique ID. Add it to LinkedIn; anyone can confirm it’s real. Because it points at something you actually built, it means more than a transcript.

Start earning yours →
Kaern Schools

Certificate of Completion

awarded to
your name here
AI Agents & Automation
Verifiable · unique ID · public verify page
Questions

Good to know.

Is the first lesson really free?

Yes — open any course and read Module 1 with no signup and no card. Unlock the rest of that course from €19.99.

What is the Workbook?

It’s Claude Code running right in your browser, beside the lesson. You build the real thing as you learn, with your AI tutor guiding each step. Your notes and the full tutor conversation save automatically and export anytime.

Do I get a certificate?

Complete every lesson in a course and claim a verifiable Kaern certificate with a public verify page and unique ID — shareable on LinkedIn.

What’s the Founders Year?

A guided one-year journey from idea to a funded company you own — six AI tutors 24/7, human mentors, and a path to keep 60% equity in what you build. Applications are free.

Is funding available?

We’re pursuing approved-provider status so a Bildungsgutschein (and EU equivalents) can be put toward Kaern courses. See the funding page — you apply for the voucher yourself.

Your first lesson is free. Start building today.

Join the founders learning to build with AI on real software. Read Module 1 free — or apply to the Founders Year for the full journey.