NO PRIOR CODE REQUIRED ✷ 8 DEPLOYED SYSTEMS ✷ REFUND ACCRUES PER GATE ✷ AI CLIENTS THAT PUSH BACK ✷ 28 WEEKS ✷ THE AGENT WRITES — YOU VERIFY ✷ NO PRIOR CODE REQUIRED ✷ 8 DEPLOYED SYSTEMS ✷ REFUND ACCRUES PER GATE ✷ AI CLIENTS THAT PUSH BACK ✷ 28 WEEKS ✷ THE AGENT WRITES — YOU VERIFY ✷
Field Manual · Issue Nº 001
Dispatch // Training DivisionClearance: None RequiredDuration: 28 Weeks

Don't take
a course.
Do the job.

Train as a Forward Deployed Engineer. You will be deployed to eight clients. The clients are AI. The software is real — built with AI coding agents, verified line by line, shipped to live infrastructure. No programming background required. Bring precision and stubbornness.

Take the entrance challengeRead the protocol
28
Weeks of deployment
8
Systems shipped & live
87
Mini-modules, drilled
10
Hard gates, each refunds
0×
Projects where all goes to plan
SEC. A

The Protocol

01

Get Briefed

Your client persona holds a hidden fact sheet — constraints, fears, contradictions. Nothing is volunteered. Your scoping is graded on what you extract under questioning.

02

Build With Agents

AI coding agents are standard issue from week two. Every diff reviewed. Every gate audits your understanding: three random lines, justify each. Vibe coding is a failing grade.

03

Survive The Incident

One per engagement, minimum. Scope reversal. Model outage. A key leaked in your git history. A runaway agent burning 40× the token budget overnight. Unannounced, by design.

04

Ship. Demo. Sign.

Deployed URL. Passing evals. Live demonstration to the client. Signature obtained — or engagement extended. Then a harder client, a vaguer brief.

SEC. B

Evidence

INTERCEPT — CLIENT CHANNEL · CASE 04 “THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD SYSTEM”LIVE SIM
[client] Your quote service hit our gateway 240 times in an hour yesterday. Care to explain before I firewall it?
[you] Bounded retries with jittered backoff ship today. Separate question — is there any overnight window when the TMS must not be called?
[client] …Nobody's asked that before. Nightly batch, 02:00–03:30. Touch the gateway then and I'll blacklist your IP. No exceptions.
✓ Hidden constraint surfaced · logged to brief 4/7 · this conversation is graded
SEC. C

Case Files

PHASE-00
FoundationsZero to shipped-and-verified. Four weeks. Agent-free week one.
4 WKS
CASE-01
The Overbooked ClinicA booking system. Deliberately no AI.
2 WKS
CASE-02
The Drowning InboxMachine triage. Human approval. First evals.
2 WKS
CASE-03
Two Thousand ManualsRetrieval that cites — and refuses to invent.
3 WKS
CASE-04
The Forty-Year-Old SystemLegacy integration behind a hostile proxy.
3 WKS
CASE-05
The Analyst FactoryMulti-agent pipeline. Hard unit-cost target.
3 WKS
CASE-06
The 2 A.M. PageInherit it broken. Keep it alive.
3 WKS
CASE-07
Hands OffAutonomy, bounded by audit trails.
3 WKS
CASE-08
The Real ClientA vague brief. A whole organization. Capstone.
5 WKS

The agent writes.
You verify.

Explain-This-Line

Three random lines at every gate. Justify each or remediate. Your name is on the commit.

Seeded Bugs

We sabotage working code. You find it by reading. Re-prompting is not finding.

The Agent Goes Dark

Once per case, mid-incident, no agent. You, the logs, and the debugger. The hour that makes you.

SEC. D

The Deal

Ten hard gates between enrollment and graduation. Every gate passed on schedule banks a slice of your tuition back. Paid at the end. No cliff. No asterisks. Progress is money.

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Illustration: six of ten gates passed · six slices banked · full mechanics

One weekend.
Prove it.

The entrance challenge requires no résumé and no prior code — only the stubbornness to finish. Cohort One is forming now.

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