Augmented Mind · Course Free

The AI-native engineering curriculum — free and self-paced.

Six weeks. The same path the Augmented Mind Bootcamp walks teams through — written down, fully readable, available now. No cohort to wait for. No invoice. Read at your own pace, ship the assignments on your real repo, install the practice on your own schedule.

This is the same six-week sequence I’ve used inside a 4-engineer team that sustains 210–450 PRs/month against shipping product. The paid Bootcamp adds cohort, coaching, an outcome-bound refund, and the deliverable sign-off. The curriculum itself is free.

How this course works

One week per chapter, six chapters in order. Each week describes a concrete shift in how your team operates, the principles behind it, one or more assignments to ship on your real repo, and a self-check at the end to gauge whether the week landed.

Read at your own pace. A motivated engineer can do a week in a few focused evenings; a team running it alongside day-to-day work usually wants the full calendar week. Either is fine. The point is that the practice installs into your actual workflow, not into a course portal.

No drip wall. Every week is public. Email signup below is opt-in for “new lessons + when the next live Bootcamp cohort opens” — not a gate.

The six weeks

Mirrors the Bootcamp curriculum — same sequence, same artefacts, same Friday demo + weekly planning ritual installed end of Week 1 and run every week thereafter.

  1. Week 1 · Walk → Run

    Repo-as-context + the foundational triplet →

    Everything for the AI, not for humans. Strategy docs, specs, decisions, planning — all in the repo as markdown, not SharePoint / Word / OneDrive / PowerPoint. Compressed planning cadence. The meeting-hygiene principle. Friday demo + weekly planning ritual launches end-of-week and runs every week after.

  2. Week 2 · Walk → Run

    The new operating routines →

    The week of installing every routine an AI-native team doesn’t do by hand anymore. Browser automation for coordination overhead. Meeting transcription pipeline. Deploy-to-prod as one skill. GitHub admin reflexive across multiple parallel branches. Environment hygiene as the substrate.

  3. Week 3 · Run

    The 10×-everything chapter →

    The single most important week. You can’t 10× engineering velocity alone — if testing, QA, monitoring, security, and DevOps don’t scale together, you bottleneck on the lowest-multiplier function and lose all the gains. Plus the framing that earns trust with engineers who feel threatened by AI.

  4. Week 4 · Run

    Ultra-fast iteration + cross-discipline expansion →

    The almost-never-say-no reflex. PR review automation. Cross-discipline scope expansion. And the honest chapter on the low-quality phase — the dip before you reach a higher final quality than slow-polish ever could.

  5. Week 5 · Run

    Calibrated quality + the political layer →

    When to polish, when to ship rough. Cross-team independence via mocks and replicas. The political conversation with managers and adjacent teams about processes that assume hand-crafted code — now with four weeks of evidence behind you.

  6. Week 6 · Run → Fly

    Synthesis + graduation demo →

    No new items. Demo one real outcome you couldn’t have shipped pre-course. Full Friday-demo + weekly-planning ritual run as the graduation exercise. Soft foreshadowing of the Fly tier (AgentHerder Bootcamp).

New lessons land roughly weekly until all six are out. Email below to be notified.

What you get — and what the paid Bootcamp adds

The curriculum is the same. The Bootcamp adds cohort, coaching, sign-off, and the outcome-bound refund — the things that make adoption stick when momentum is hard to maintain solo.

Free course (this page)

  • Full six-week curriculum, fully readable
  • Every principle and assignment
  • The Friday demo + weekly planning ritual recipe
  • Real-repo assignments to ship at your pace
  • Self-check at the end of each week

Not included (only in the paid Bootcamp)

  • Cohort — private channel with engineers running it the same month
  • Coaching — my eyes on your assignments + your repo
  • Team-retrospective deliverable signed off by me
  • Outcome-bound refund
  • Bonus artefact bundle (CLAUDE.md templates, skills library, transcription pipeline kit, NEXT-STEPS templates, function audit framework, post-bootcamp playbook)

If you can sustain the practice solo — or you’re evaluating whether this fits your team before paying — the free course is enough. If you want the support structure that helps the practice actually install during a normal-busy work month, the Bootcamp is what that costs.

Get notified when new lessons land

Week 1 is live. Weeks 2–6 land over the coming weeks. Drop your email and I’ll send one note per release — plus a heads-up when the next live Bootcamp cohort opens enrolment.

Want feedback, a cohort, and the refund clause?

The Augmented Mind Bootcamp is the paid, live, outcome-guaranteed version. Same six weeks, but with my eyes on your assignments, a private channel of engineers running it the same month, the bonus artefact bundle, a team retrospective signed off by me, and the outcome-bound refund.

$1,495 individual · $5,995 for a 5-seat team. Next intake opens monthly. Reserve a spot through the Bootcamp page.

See the Bootcamp → Start with Week 1 →

Already running 8+ parallel Claude Code sessions and want elite-practitioner mastery? See AgentHerder Bootcamp — the Fly-tier program that sits on top of this one.

Looking for AI in your personal life instead of your engineering team? See Adopt AI Bootcamp — the everyday-AI version under the same Augmented Mind umbrella.