What you'll build

  1. A daily content factory. 5 articles a day, end-to-end automated, costs $100/mo flat.
  2. A customer-research agent. Turns transcripts into ICP signals, JTBD, and follow-up questions.
  3. An ops orchestrator. Monthly close, weekly report, customer triage — running on a schedule.
  4. A sponsor pipeline. Outreach, pitch, rate card — with a rolling pipeline tracker.

The 8 modules

  1. Foundations. CLAUDE.md, sessions, subagents, MCP servers — the mental model that makes everything else easy.
  2. The content factory. 9-stage pipeline, quality gate, schema injection, IndexNow ping.
  3. Customer research at scale. Transcripts → ICP Bible → positioning → landing page copy.
  4. Ops automation. Monthly close, weekly report, alert routing, cron triggers.
  5. The sales agent. Cold email sequences, follow-up rules, reply-handling, pipeline tracking.
  6. The publishing layer. Beehiiv + Resend + Cloudflare Pages; the right glue for solo creators.
  7. Safety + observability. Plan mode, approval flows, cost monitoring, failure recovery.
  8. The 90-day playbook. Combine all of the above into the rhythm $500K founders use.

Who this is for

  • Solo founders or 2-3 person teams.
  • Comfortable with the terminal (you've used git and npm at minimum).
  • Building toward $500K ARR with AI as primary leverage.
  • Prefer "ship + iterate" to "study + plan."

Who this is NOT for

  • Pure non-technical operators (you'll need to add a CTO to make Claude Code production-grade).
  • Teams with 10+ engineers (different problems, different content).
  • Anyone looking for a "$10K/month side hustle" pitch.

Bonuses

  • Templates pack: every prompt, manifest, and skill we use at 500k.io.
  • The Quality Auditor rubric (Excel + Notion versions).
  • Private community for the first cohort (active for 6 months post-cohort).
  • Monthly office hours with Maxime for cohort 1.

Common questions

When does the first cohort start?

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Sprint 5 — exact date announced on the early-bird list. Plan for Q3 2026.

How much does it cost?

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Early-bird pricing: $297 (locks in lifetime access + future updates). Standard launch price: $497.

Who is this for?

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Solo founders or 2-3 person teams using AI as primary leverage. Comfortable with the terminal but not necessarily a senior engineer.

Will there be a refund window?

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Yes — 14 days from cohort start, no questions asked.

Will the course content be updated as Claude Code evolves?

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Yes — every cohort gets the latest revision. Buying once = lifetime access including future updates.