Ghost Stack AcademySelf-paced. Recorded as I build.
You have an idea. You think you can build it if you just knew how.
A first version used to take a team of five to seven people and four to six months. My last one took under 30 days, built with Claude and Codex. Ghost Stack Academy shows you how to do the same with yours.
No cost to join, no obligation when the invite lands. If it isn't a fit by then, that's the end of it.
The full-stack team you didn't know you needed
Most people with a product idea think the next step is hiring a developer. A product that works takes a team. A typical bare-bones product team (exact titles vary):
Decides what gets built, and how it looks and works.$250,000 a year
Builds the screens people see, where the data lives, and the wiring between them.$150,000 a year
Builds the AI features inside your product.$170,000 a year
With AI, you get that whole team for $200 to $400 a month in tools. That's your ghost stack.
It writes, and your name goes on the product. You still direct the work and check the result. That's what this course teaches.
What that team costs
| Hiring a product team | Your ghost stack | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $47,500Salaries only | $200–$400AI tools only |
| To a first version | 4–6 monthsPlanning estimate | Under 30 daysMy last first version |
| The work | Three salaried people | AI does the jobs. You direct and check. |
Cost basis. A bare-bones team of three: $570,000 a year in salaries, using my estimates. Exact titles vary; benefits and overhead extra. Your time, hosting and other services cost extra.
Time basis. Hiring also needs an estimated 6–8 weeks to recruit and onboard. Project scopes differ; my last build is a personal example. Enterprise readiness takes further work.
Maybe you've already tried.
- The AI said it was done. It broke on the second click.
- You couldn't tell if what it built was right, so you asked again. And again.
- You lost track of what you'd decided and where you stopped.
- A month in, you were close to giving up on the idea.
That's a team with nobody directing it.
What you build
The same pieces as my client platform:
Live on your own domain.
People sign up and sign in.
Who sees what.
Taking money from day one.
Software people can rely on
A demo breaks on the second click. A product doesn't. You learn the part a product team does without being asked:
How you run your ghost stack
- The brief. Write down what you want before the work starts, so there's something to check against.
- The check. Compare what came back to what you asked for, before you accept it.
- The record. End every session with a note of what's done and what's next, so you never start from zero.
Every lesson leaves you a file, a decision or a shipped change. If a lesson doesn't, it's cut.
I'll show you how
Twenty years in product development. Hundreds of software developers hired. Building with AI since 2017. I've run the team the slow way and the ghost stack way, and I build this academy in front of you the same way you'll build yours.
My bias, so you can discount it
I think the hard part of building with AI is not getting it to write code. It is knowing what to ask for, whether what came back is right, and where you left off. I hold that harder than the evidence alone would support.
Who this is for
You need
- A product idea, even a rough one.
- A computer. Lesson one sets you up in the terminal.
- Willingness to check the work. Your name is on it.
You don't need
- Coding experience.
- Terminal experience.
- A finished plan.
- A team.
One price for the first 100 members.
Lifetime access, including every module added later.
After the first 100 members, it's $197 a year.
30-day money-back guarantee.
It's not going to work just like that.
It absolutely can work.
Join the waitlist, and I'll let you know the moment there's a seat.
No cost to join, no obligation when the invite lands. If it isn't a fit by then, that's the end of it.
Unsubscribe whenever. I would, too, if this weren't for you.