Mind & Code Builders Cohort
In four weeks you'll have built the thing you keep describing to people.
Twelve people. Four weeks. Live with me. You bring the idea you've been circling for months — you leave with it built, working, and yours. No coding. No design skills. No prior anything.
Small on purpose. I can only do this properly for twelve.
- Format4 × 2h live
- Cohort size12 people
- You leave withA thing you built
- Premium seat$690
Pick your seat
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- Seat 01 $690 Premium
- Seat 02 $690 Premium
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- Seat 12 $690 Premium
Standard seat
$397Early-bird price
- All four live sessions, two hours each
- Your own project, built and shipped
- Membership in the Buzz community
- Guest session with a builder who shipped
- Certificate of completion
Premium seat 
$69012 seats
- Everything in the standard seat
- 2 × 1:1 coaching sessions with me, private
- Your project reviewed line by line
- First look at whatever I run next
One payment. No subscription. If a seat is gone, it's gone — I don't add a thirteenth.
Having been John’s Partner Manager at Shopify, I can attest to the high quality of work he produces for his clients and how vital he has been to our growth, not only in Norway but in the rest of the Nordics as well.
Amanda Marochko, Shopify
John has helped us built a sophisticated and flexible solution. It’s now 10x faster than a year ago…
Tom Morkes, Infostack.io
Before you decide
Questions worth asking
I’ve never written a line of code. Is this for me?
Yes. In fact, it’s better if you haven’t. We aren’t learning syntax; we’re learning how to talk to the machine. If you can describe what you want, you can build it.
What tools do I need to have ready?
You only need two things: a computer and a Claude Pro subscription ($20/mo). I will provide the rest of the “Builder Stack” (pre-configured) on day one.
What if I miss a live session?
All sessions are recorded and uploaded to our private area within 24 hours. You’ll have lifetime access to these recordings.
How much time does this take per week?
We have one live 90-minute session per week. Beyond that, expect to spend 2-3 hours “looping” on your project. The goal is to ship, not to study.
What happens after I pay?
After your payment goes through, you have activated and confirmed your 4-week Cohort program. After a few minutes, you will receive a welcome email with access details to our community app. The rest will happen in the community chat.
What's in the four weeks
Everything here exists to get one thing built: yours.
No library of videos to fall behind on. Four live sessions, a small room, and a project that's finished when we're finished.
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The whole point
You finish with a real, working thing you made.
Not a folder of notes. Not a half-done tutorial clone. You walk in with an idea on week one and walk out on week four with it built, running, and in your own hands. That's the deliverable — everything else is in service of it.
Week four is a demo, not a lecture. You show us what you made.
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01 · Live
4 sessions × 2 hours
Four weeks, one live session a week, two hours each. Cameras on, questions out loud, my screen shared the whole time.
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02 · Community
Membership in Buzz
The private room where the cohort lives between sessions. Ask at midnight, get unstuck by morning. Support and people building the same week you are.
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03 · Guest
A builder who shipped
One exclusive session with someone experienced who has actually put something into the world. What it cost them, what they'd skip, what they'd do again.
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04 · Resource pack
The prompt & skills pack
The prompts, skills and reference material I actually use, packaged up. It's the shortcut past the part where you don't yet know what to ask for — so you can build advanced things from week one.
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05 · Proof
Certificate of completion
Issued when you finish and demo your build — not for showing up. Something to put next to the thing you made.
The difference
Most people learn. You're going to build.
There's a gap between understanding how something works and having made one. Everything changes on the far side of that gap — how you talk about your work, what you charge for it, what you try next. Four weeks is enough to cross it, once, with someone watching.
The first thing you build badly is worth more than the tenth thing you read about.
Who this is for
You do not need to know how to code. That's the entire premise.
I built this for people who have an idea and no technical background — and who are quietly convinced that's a disqualification. It isn't. The skill you're missing isn't syntax. It's knowing how to think out loud with a machine until the thing exists.
If you can describe what you want clearly to another human, you have the raw material. I'll show you the rest.
If you've never opened a code editor, you're exactly who I wrote this for.
- ✕No coding experience needed. None. Not "a little helps".
- ✕No design skills needed — you'll get taste faster than you'd get Figma.
- ✕No maths, no computer-science background, no degree.
- ✕Nothing to install before week one. We set your machine up together.
- ✕No finished idea required. A rough one is enough to start.
Why now, specifically
The people who can build with AI are already being paid differently.
This isn't a prediction about the future. It's what the numbers already say about right now.
Same job, same title, same desk. People with AI skills are paid 62% more than the person sitting next to them without. Two years ago that gap was 25%.
Indexed to 100 · PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Report88% of companies say they're using AI. Only 7% have got it working across the business. The shortage isn't tools — it's people who can finish something.
McKinsey · MIT (2025): 95% of enterprise AI pilots returned nothing measurableJob titles mentioning AI have tripled since 2022, and almost two‑thirds of them sit outside tech — healthcare, marketing, logistics, management. [SOURCE]
Who's running it
I'm John Mac. I build things for a living, and I'm self-educated.
I've run my own business since 2001, most of it building custom websites for people who couldn't afford to get it wrong. No degree, no bootcamp — I learned by shipping badly and fixing it in public.
Everything changed when I stopped treating the machine as a tool I had to master and started treating it as something I could think out loud with. I build [10x] more now than I did a year ago, and I write less code than I ever have. Four weeks is how long it takes me to hand that over to someone else.
- Building since 2001
- 17 years of Taekwon-Do
- Works from coffee shops ☕️
Twelve people is small enough that I'll know what you're building by week two.
Four weeks from now
You'll either have built it, or you'll still be describing it.
That's honestly the whole choice. The idea doesn't get easier by waiting, and there are twelve seats in this room, all with 1:1 time, at $690. When they're taken, the cohort is closed.
Pick your seatSee you on week one.