Cohort 1 · Mountain View, CA · April 2026
OmegaFounders

12 Days. Zero to AI Founder.

The AI job market is splitting in two. One side has 3.2 open roles per qualified candidate. This program puts you on the right side — with a credential, a shipped product, and a cofounding team.

Claim Your Spot → See what you earn ›
20 Beta Founders
12 Days Intensive
$497 Beta Price
∞ Upside
● Mountain View, CA — Heart of Silicon Valley ● In-person + Online for global founders ● Claude Certified Architect — Official Anthropic credential ● Sam Wong · 21 Startup Secrets · Band of Angels ● Mystery Speaker 🎭 · Silicon Valley Game-Changer · TBA ● Cohort 1 · 20 spots · $497 Beta ● Mountain View, CA — Heart of Silicon Valley ● In-person + Online for global founders ● Claude Certified Architect — Official Anthropic credential ● Sam Wong · 21 Startup Secrets · Band of Angels ● Mystery Speaker 🎭 · Silicon Valley Game-Changer · TBA ● Cohort 1 · 20 spots · $497 Beta
What top performers earn

Five targets.
Yours to achieve.

These aren't handed to you. They're earned. We build the environment — pressure, mentorship, Silicon Valley network. The results are on you.


⚡ Target outcomes for top performers — not guarantees. Founders who show up and ship will win them.
🏛️
Claude Certified Architect
Pass Anthropic's official Foundations exam. The credential that signals you can build AI systems — not just chat with them. Right side of the K-split.
Earn It
⚙️
1 Real AI Product, Live
Not a tutorial. Not a prototype. A shipped, documented, publicly accessible AI product you built in 10 days. Permanent proof of work.
Ship It
💵
First $1,000 in Revenue
The moment your first dollar arrives is the moment you become a founder, not a student. We build the audience. You close the sale.
Close It
🤝
A Cofounding Team
20 builders from around the world, curated across skill archetypes: engineers, operators, sellers, researchers. The best teams are forged under pressure — not found on a job board.
Find Them
🌐
AI-Native Company
Marketing & Sales. Research. Engineering. Finance. Your company is born AI-native across every function — not bolted on later when it's too expensive to fix.
Found It
✍️
Paul Wu's Recommendation
Physical AI engineer, co-founder, Mountain View CA. Top performers get Paul's personal introduction to his network of Silicon Valley operators, investors, and founders.
Earn His Trust
The 12-Day Structure

Ten days
build. Two days
present & launch.

Days 1–10: one exam domain per day — learn, build, post. Day 11: every founder demos their AI product to sponsors and investors. Day 12: Sam Wong keynote + Mystery Keynote + graduation.

📖
Learn
45 min deep dive into that day's exam domain
⚙️
Build
60 min coding that concept into the live product
📢
Teach
30 min blog post + LinkedIn + YouTube script
🔁
Deeper
Teaching reveals gaps → back to learn with new questions
01
Agentic Loops
The heartbeat of every Claude agent
D1 · 27%
02
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Coordinator & subagent patterns
D1
03
Tool Design & MCP
The agent's hands
D2 · 18%
04
Hooks & Enforcement
Production guardrails that don't lie
D1
05
Claude Code Config
CLAUDE.md as your AI's operating system
D3 · 20%
06
CI/CD & Plan Mode
The builder's production workflow
D3
07
Prompt Engineering
Few-shot mastery & structured output
D4 · 20%
08
Validation & Batch
Production extraction pipelines
D4
09
Context & Reliability
Systems that don't break at scale
D5 · 15%
10
Exam + Final Ship
Pass the exam · Polish the product · Prep your pitch
D1–D5
11
Founder Demo Day
Every founder pitches · Sponsors & investors in the room
🎯 Demo
12
Speakers + Graduation
Sam Wong keynote · Mystery Keynote · OmegaFounders launch
🏆 Grad
🏗️
Your Host & Lead Mentor
Paul Wu
Physical AI Engineer · Co-Founder · Mountain View, CA · Claude Certified Architect
"I did this 10-day sprint myself. I passed the exam, shipped the product, and built the plugin. Now I want to take 20 people through it with me — and build something none of us could make alone."
The Split That's Already Happening

The AI job market isn't rising.
It's splitting.

Traditional knowledge work: flat or falling demand. AI architects who can actually build: 3.2 open roles for every 1 qualified candidate. The gap isn't closing. It's widening. Every week.

LOW-DEMAND SIDE
Flat ↔
Generalist PMs, standard engineers, knowledge workers who can "chat" with AI.
✗ Prompts vaguely, gets inconsistent results
✗ Trusts AI output because it sounds confident
✗ Can't prove ROI before burning tokens at scale
✗ "Be nice" is their security design
K
HIGH-DEMAND SIDE
3.2× ↑
Architects who design, build, and manage AI systems with 7 empirical functional skills.
✓ Writes literal specifications that eliminate ambiguity
✓ Catches "silent failures" before they reach production
✓ Calculates token ROI before deploying at scale
✓ Designs guardrails with blast-radius analysis
The 7 Skills That Cross the Line

What separates architects from chatters.

These aren't personality traits. They're learnable, empirical, testable. And — this is the surprising part — they often come from unexpected places.

🎯
Specification Precision
Write instructions so literal that AI never has to "read between the lines." Technical writers already know this.
🔬
Evaluation & Quality Judgment
AI is "fluently wrong." Build harnesses that catch errors objectively — not because output sounds professional.
🗂️
Task Decomposition
Break complex work into agent-sized chunks with defined guardrails. The managerial mindset applied to multi-agent systems.
🩻
Failure Pattern Recognition
6 specific failure modes — including Silent Failure, where the output looks right but is unacceptably wrong.
🛡️
Trust & Security Design
Analyze cost of error and blast radius. Know the difference between a typo and an incorrect drug interaction.
📚
Context Architecture
Build a Dewey decimal system for AI — persistent vs per-session context. Librarians are thriving in this market.
💰
Cost & Token Economics
Calculate blended cost per token and prove ROI before deploying agentic systems at scale. Applied high school math.
🔑
The Surprising Truth
You don't need a CS degree. Technical writers, lawyers, and librarians are out-competing traditional engineers — because they already have the bones: clarity, auditing, organizing complex information.
Invited Speakers & Mentors

30 years of Silicon Valley.
In the room with you.

Not recorded lectures. Live sessions with founders who have built, sold, and started over — sharing what the books and courses can't teach.

📘
Sam Wong
Author · "21 Secrets of Successful Startups"
CEO, FundableStartups.com · Band of Angels Member
5× CEO / CTO
3 Acquisitions
30+ Years in SV

5× startup CEO & CTO with three successful acquisitions. Sam's 30 years of Silicon Valley pattern recognition — successes, failures, near-deaths, and pivots — are distilled into his book and his live advisory work. He helps founders avoid the fatal mistakes before they happen.

Startup Execution Fundraising Product-Market Fit M&A Band of Angels
Demo Day Keynote
"21 Startup Secrets for AI-Native Founders"
Live mentorship + direct feedback on cohort projects · Band of Angels introductions for top teams
⚡
Mystery Speaker 🎭
Chief EQ Officer · Global Keynote Speaker
Founder, EPIQ Leadership · Former Amazon Worldwide Head of EPIC
1.5M People Reached
600M Alexa Devices
10K+ Audience Size

Built the world's largest corporate EQ community — 70,000 members at Amazon. As expert advisor to the Alexa team, he helped embed empathy into 600M+ devices. He speaks at Stanford, Wharton, UC Berkeley — and believes EQ is the only competitive advantage AI can't automate away.

Emotional Intelligence AI + Human Leadership Amazon EPIC Team Psychology Forbes Featured
Live Workshop
"Leading Your AI Team with EPIQ"
The EQ layer that determines whether a cofounding team ships or implodes · Continues in his Maven cohort (April 18–19)
Why Silicon Valley

People fly from Lagos, Seoul,
São Paulo, and Berlin
just to be near it.
You don't have to fly.
You just have to apply.

📍
Mountain View, CA
Google's backyard. The Computer History Museum. The highest density of builders per square mile that exists anywhere on earth.
🤝
Sponsor Deal Flow
Industrial sponsors join Demo Day to see the best AI founders first. Your presentation is their sourcing event.
🌍
Global by Design
In-person in Mountain View. Online for world-class talent who can't be here. The cofounder you find might be from your city — or Tokyo or Lagos.
🏆
"Built in Silicon Valley"
That sentence, in your LinkedIn bio and pitch deck, opens doors that credentials alone don't. It signals you played the real game.
20 Global founders per cohort
12 Days in the Sprint
5 Exam domains mastered
$1K Target first revenue
1 Official Anthropic credential
∞ What happens after
Recognition

The Hall of Honor

Every cohort produces legends. The best performers get permanently featured — and introduced to what comes next.

🏗️
The Builder
First founder to ship a live, publicly accessible AI product during the sprint. Permanent profile on the OmegaFounders alumni wall. Featured case study across all channels.
Alumni Profile · Case Study
💰
The Closer
First founder to hit $1,000 in online revenue during the 10 days. Paul Wu's personal introduction to investors in his Silicon Valley network.
Investor Introduction
🤝
The Team
The strongest cofounding team formed during the cohort. Sam Wong's personal introduction to one investor in his Band of Angels network.
Band of Angels Intro
Investment

Beta pricing ends
with Cohort 1.

The first 20 founders get the lowest price OmegaFounders will ever be. You help shape the program. If you ship, you get $200 back. Cohort 2 is $1,497.

⚡ Beta · April 13, 2026
Cohort 1 — Beta
$497
Ship all 3 criteria → get $200 back. Net cost: $297.
You're in the founding cohort. You help shape the program, build in public, and earn Silicon Valley credibility. That's worth paying for. Completing it is worth getting paid for.
🎯 Completion Bonus: $200 reward
✓ Deploy a live AI agent (public URL, not localhost)
✓ Earn your Claude Certified Architect
✓ Post 10+ days of learning with #OmegaFounders
Claim Beta Spot — $497 →
20 spots only. First come, first served.
Cohort 2 is $1,497. Alumni from Cohort 1 get in free.
Coming · Summer 2026
Cohort 2+
$1,497
Standard cohort pricing
The full OmegaFounders experience — proven by Cohort 1's public track record. Same curriculum, same speakers, same certification. Built on real alumni results.
✓ All 12 days · Mountain View + Online
✓ Claude Certified Architect
✓ Demo Day + keynote speakers
✓ Alumni network access (Cohort 1 + 2)
✓ Proven outcomes from Cohort 1
Join Cohort 2 Waitlist →
Cohort 1 alumni get in free — forever.
Selection Criteria

20 spots.
Who earns them?

Not selecting for credentials. Selecting for builders who are all-in for 12 days and have something real to build. $497 secures your seat.

1
You have a problem worth solving
You know what you'd build an AI company around. Doesn't need to be perfect — needs to be real and specific.
2
You bring a skill the team needs
Builder, seller, researcher, designer, domain expert, operator — all needed. We deliberately recruit across skill archetypes.
3
You're available for all 10 days
2–3 hours minimum, daily. No lurkers. No partial attendance. Your presence is the price of admission.
4
You'll build in public
Daily posts, open GitHub, teachable outputs. Your learning becomes the marketing. That's the deal.
5
You want a cofounder, not just a certificate
The cert is the floor, not the ceiling. This is a founding event. If you're only here for the credential, this isn't your cohort.
1 Secure your seat
$497
Complete all 3 criteria → get $200 back. Net cost: $297.
Pay $497 — Reserve My Spot
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Cohort 1 Beta seats 20 spots · April 13 · $497
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Forged in Silicon Valley

Yours to become.

The desert shall rejoice and blossom. Twelve days from now, you're on the other side.

Claim Beta Spot — $497 →

Mountain View, CA · April 13, 2026 · 12 Days · 20 founders · $497 Beta → Cohort 2 is $1,497