Anyone with an idea should be able to build a real, funded company — and master every skill to run it — in a single year, with AI doing the heavy lifting. That world is finally possible. We're building it.
It costs years and a fortune, teaches pre-AI theory, and graduates you into a job market — never having built or run anything real. The gatekeeping that made sense when knowledge was scarce makes none now that anyone can learn anything, instantly, from AI.
When one person can direct AI to design, engineer, market and run a company, the scarce skill is no longer knowledge or capital. It is knowing which problems are worth solving — and having the taste to direct the machine. That is what we teach, and it's where investors come in.
No lectures-only, no case studies that stay on paper. In the Founder's Year you build and launch a live company — learning engineering, software, commerce and the whole business of building a company by doing, with six AI tutors and your cohort beside you. You bring the idea and the taste. The machine brings the execution.
Priced out of a degree, or out of starting a company at all. AI removes the cost of skills; we remove the cost of starting — and back the ones who do.
Tuition from students, consulting from companies that hire the arm, and equity in every company we help build. Diversified from day one.
A private Brain of playbooks, prompts and assets that compounds with every project. Competitors see the output, never the engine.
Someone with a good idea and almost no money or technical skill can have a live, compliant, marketed, operating business in an afternoon — instead of spending months and tens of thousands. That unlocks an entire population of founders who were priced out of starting at all.
We took an idea, gave it a brand, built the site, hosted it, wired the domain, secured it with a certificate, wrote the repeatable method, and locked the intellectual property away in private — all autonomously, while a founder simply spoke. The product is its own demo.
Agentic AI has only just crossed the line where it can run the full loop of building and operating a business. The window to build the layer above Shopify is open now.
That's Kaern Schools — the business school for the AI era. Redefining education for the AI age.
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