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Stop Watching AI Content. Build Your First Real AI Project With Us.

Stop Watching AI Content. Build Your First Real AI Project With Us.

Shipyard is the free builder community for people who are curious about AI but haven’t built their first real agent, automation, or MVP yet.

You’re interested in AI. You just haven’t built anything real with it yet.

You’ve used ChatGPT. Maybe Gemini too. Maybe you’ve even played around with automations, prompts, or some no-code tools. But you still haven’t:

  • built your own AI agent
  • launched a simple automation that actually saves time
  • vibe coded an app from start to finish
  • turned AI from “cool tool” into real leverage

And that’s the gap.

There’s no shortage of AI content.
There’s a shortage of rooms where people actually build.

That’s why we made Shipyard.


Shipyard is where AI consumers become AI builders.

This is a free community for people who are still early, still learning, and still 10 steps behind, but hungry as hell to catch up.

Inside Shipyard, you’ll be around people actually trying to build:

  • their first AI agent
  • their first useful automation
  • their first simple product or MVP
  • their first real workflow that saves time or makes money

You’re not joining to collect more content.

You’re joining to get in the room, see what Ant and Jordan are building, ask questions, use the same patterns, and finally build something of your own.


This is for you if...

  • you’re curious about AI, but still early
  • you’ve used chat tools, but haven’t built anything real yet
  • you’re non-technical, lightly technical, or technical but underused
  • you want to stop lurking and start shipping
  • you’d rather build alongside real people than binge another 50 tutorials

If that sounds like you, you’re probably exactly who this is for.

Here’s what you get inside Shipyard

  • Free Discord Community Access

    Get in the room with other builders who are figuring this out in real time.

  • The Newsletter

    Get updates, lessons, and behind-the-scenes breakdowns from what Ant and Jordan are actually building.

  • Build-in-public access

    Watch the process, not just the polished version. The wins, mistakes, tests, and breakdowns.

  • Templates, walkthroughs, and resources

    As we build useful stuff, the community gets access to the same patterns and materials.

  • Builder accountability

    Less consuming. More shipping. More asking. More doing.

  • Low-friction support as the community grows

    We’re keeping this simple at first, then layering in more help as the room gets stronger.

Your goal in the first 30 days is simple

Pick one lane.
Ship one real thing.

That could be:

  • your first AI agent
  • your first automation
  • your first simple app or MVP
  • your first workflow that actually saves you time

Not “learn more.”

Not “get inspired.”

Build something real.

That’s the standard.


Why we’re making this free

Because right now, the best move is getting the right people in one room and helping them make real progress.

You get:

  • access
  • momentum
  • lessons
  • community
  • a place to actually build

We get:

  • feedback
  • proof
  • sharper ideas
  • a community worth building for

Win-win.
And way better than pretending we have some giant polished ecosystem before it exists.


Why listen to us?

We’re not coming at this like gurus selling theory.

We’re building in public.
We’re testing this stuff ourselves.
We’re learning fast.
And we’re bringing people with us.

Get inside. Get the newsletter. Start building.