FDE · 3 weeks · 8–26 Sep 2026 · 8–12 seats
A 3-week live sprint for production / AI engineers who already write software. Judgment. Customer scenarios. Portfolio narrative. Real loops. First 90 days.
This is not an AI course. We will not teach you Python, models, or prompting. We will not promise you a job.
Your company can invoice. Same seat. Same $2,497 experiment. Ask for the employer invoice next to Apply.
Not a public PDF. Join the list. v1 exists as markdown. Practitioners are not in yet.
It should taste like the paid room: how the loop is actually run, questions taken from live job descriptions we opened, what the first 90 days punish.
On the freeze we used for the Guide: 88 opened live JDs, 30 written as a first FDE / founding / writing-the-playbook seat (FDE Field job DB, 18 Aug 2026). That is our opened set. It is not a market total.
Contributors are named if they want to be. We do not sell the Guide.
Six live 75-minute sessions. Not a video library. 8–26 September 2026. Practitioner-fronted. Operator unnamed.
Async critiques between sessions. No recordings-only seat.
$2,497. A price experiment, not a market rate. Invoice. Charged when we accept you, not when you apply.
Your company can invoice. Same seat, billed to the company. That is a first-class way in, not a footnote.
Apply by 5 September 2026. Sprint 8–26 September 2026.
You have shipped production software. You have sat with a user, a buyer, or a messy stakeholder.
If you want to “break into AI,” do not apply.
Named practicing FDEs, announced as confirmed. Brand stays faceless.
Two things: a customer-facing shipping story, and evidence you can be in the live room. Selection is the product. Applying is not a seat.
A 90-minute closed-door briefing exists as a parked product. It is not a lead on this page. No form. No book button.