The curriculum, the build-it module, the operating layer, the Brain, and the live proof — the full depth of how the academy works, in one place.
Below is just one of the academy's modules — building the website & commerce engine. Most "Shopify themes" stop at looks; Kaern students ship the operational layer underneath, the parts that actually make money and keep you legal. See the full curriculum →
Everything below is something Kaern students design, build and ship on real, live stores — grouped the way a business actually works. In this one module you learn to build the lot, with AI doing the heavy lifting while you learn to direct it.
Animated multi-level menu with slide-in panels and a mobile drawer — the kind of nav big brands pay agencies for.
Tasteful reveal-on-scroll, hover lifts, and transitions that make the site feel alive without hurting speed.
Full-bleed hero imagery with layered headlines and clear calls to action on every key page.
Fonts, colors and iconography driven from one config — duplicate the look across stores in minutes.
Mobile-first layouts with a dedicated mobile menu; verified across breakpoints.
Reusable card system for resellers and partners by country — flags, addresses, contacts, consistent everywhere.
Real products, variants, cart and checkout — fully integrated, not a bolt-on.
Live prices pulled from Shopify and formatted per locale (e.g. German money format) right inside the page.
Rich media galleries and customer-project showcases that turn browsers into buyers.
For expensive products, a Request-a-Quote path that captures leads instead of forcing checkout.
Forms post to an edge worker that delivers every lead straight to your inbox — reliably, with fallbacks.
Built-in filtering keeps junk out so you only see real prospects.
An automated cron pings the pipeline daily — you're alerted before a single lead is ever lost.
Every submission logged with a lightweight admin view — CRM-lite without another subscription.
Product JSON-LD with ratings, reviews, shipping & returns — the schema that wins rich results.
Machine-readable FAQs and how-to guides that surface directly in search and answer engines.
A glossary + guides hub engineered so ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google cite your store.
Pages targeting high-intent searches, in multiple languages, to pull in ready-to-buy traffic.
Content hub with showcase posts and owner's guides, structured for SEO from day one.
Core Web Vitals / Lighthouse audited, with a caching strategy that keeps it fast.
German, English, French, Italian with per-market URLs and localized policy pages.
Privacy-first banners and a German digital-goods checkout consent gate — compliance built in, not bolted on.
Refund, privacy and terms served correctly per language and market.
This is the meta-skill every Kaern student masters — and how the consulting arm operates. You don't click around dashboards; you just say what you want, and Claude edits, deploys, verifies and even purges the cache. Autonomously.
# just tell it what you want
you ▸ add a request-a-quote button to the V2-50 page
claude ▸ editing sections/main-product.liquid
claude ▸ pushing --only to live theme … done
claude ▸ verifying via section-render … live ✓
claude ▸ purging page_cache … fresh ✓
# spoken aloud, in ~20 seconds
It's how the consulting arm delivers — and what every student learns to run. You answer a few simple questions; Claude does the rest, end to end, until the site is live and secure on its own domain. This very website was built exactly this way.
Your logo — or even a photo of your business card — your brand colours, and a sentence about what your business does.
It extracts your exact colours and identity from the image automatically — no design files needed.
Google Stitch turns your brief into real, on-brand screens — your site takes shape in minutes.
Production-grade code with polished design and Framer Motion animation, assembled from the module library you choose — the LEGO bricks.
A Shopify store, payments and the Outreach-Pro lead funnel are wired in — your startup can take orders and capture customers from day one.
Pages, copy, structured data and multilingual versions are generated so your startup ranks on Google and answer engines — and your domain & DNS are configured automatically.
HTTPS is issued and enforced, the store is activated, and your startup is open for business on its own domain — site, shop and lead engine, all live.
The only thing you do is answer a few questions. Everything from idea to a live, secure startup — site, shop and lead engine — is automated by Claude. See exactly how it works →
The website is the easy part. The real value is the engine underneath — a private, ever-growing library of playbooks and prompts that lets Claude design, build, deploy and run a business end-to-end. We own it, and every project makes it sharper.
A degree costs years and a fortune to teach pre-AI theory. We make building and running a whole company — design, engineering, marketing, compliance, operations — something anyone with an idea can do in a single year. Here's why that changes everything.
Read the manifesto →No campus to staff, no bureaucracy. One operator directs AI agents that handle admissions, operations, finance and the entire back office; the teaching staff are AI avatars; and the real work is solving problems worth solving.
Every administrative and business function — admissions, operations, finance, support — runs on AI agents. The staff are avatars. One founder runs the whole institution.
Faculty isn't the point — finding problems worth solving is. Investors back the problems; the students and the arm build the solutions.
Every project teaches the agents; the lessons are stored in a private Brain. The company owns the assets — a moat that compounds with every build.
The product suite and methodology are sold through the consulting arm — and taught to students as the very same curriculum.
One founder. A fleet of agents. A company that owns what it learns. This is education, redefined for the AI age.
This isn't a concept. Everything here was designed, built and shipped with the same AI methodology — across commerce, CAD, industrial software and design.
Animated mega-nav, partner network, dynamic pricing, integrated shop, the Outreach Pro lead engine, and live machine control over MQTT.
Structured data, FAQ/HowTo schema, answer-engine glossary, multilingual buying-intent pages, Request-a-Quote funnel, §356 checkout.
A real B-Rep kernel in the browser, Text-to-CAD, in-browser FEA, 5-axis CAM with live machine control, multiplayer, and an MCP agent API.
Turn any STEP/CAD file into a 399-part WebGL exploded view with AR mode and AI part identification — embeddable in two lines.
Entire industrial controllers running as in-browser simulators — live ladder logic, energizing wiring, and a vendor-to-vendor migration pipeline.
Two tools every founder uses — the same instruments behind the curriculum and the consulting arm.
A founder's flight simulator. Take the helm of a startup for 20 quarters — set ten levers across commerce, operations and finance, read the three financial statements and ratios, and outlast four AI rivals. You learn business by running one, with the exact numbers a real operator watches. Available as a standalone paid simulation.
Open Plan My Venture →From an idea to the launch of a startup — without lifting a finger.
Describe an idea; get a complete company blueprint in seconds — business model, unit economics, product MVP, tech stack, brand directions, go-to-market + SEO, a legal checklist and a 12‑month financial plan. It's our consulting methodology, coded into a tool — the same engine the arm runs for clients.
Open Build My Venture →Kaern's senior mentors and operators run a consulting arm that builds real companies on the same methodology students learn — every engagement is a mentored student project. (The AI faculty teaches the curriculum; real humans run the arm.)
Fund the engagements, bring deal flow, and tap the consulting arm for their own portfolio companies.
Real senior operators & investors scope each engagement, coordinate the build and review the team's work — human oversight, quality assured.
Do the real building on a live client brief — paid experience and a portfolio that actually shipped, with investors and mentors behind them.
Get built and launched fast — and the returns & proof flow back, funding the next cohort.
↻ A flywheel: every company built makes the academy sharper, the students more proven, and the investors keener — which builds the next company.
When the Founder's Year opens, founders keep the majority of every venture they build. Investors negotiate a minority stake for the capital they bring; the school keeps a small share.
See the eight-layer architecture behind every Kaern build — and the commercial engine that turns a visitor into a company.
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