🔭 Cohort 1 — Explore. Embrace. Experiment. Evolve.

Don't specialise.
Build range.

A four-week programme that teaches you to build real products with AI — end to end. Not one narrow skill. The full scope: framing problems, designing solutions, prompting AI, building prototypes, automating workflows, and shipping to real users. Range is the new advantage.

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🔄 The shift is here

Anyone can build now.
The question is: will you?

AI has removed the barriers. You no longer need to code, design or deploy to create real products. The professionals who learn to build broadly — across the full stack of creation — will lead. Everyone else will be managed by someone who does.

There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

— Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI · February 2025

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Adapt faster than change

The half-life of skills is shrinking fast. Agility — the ability to pick up new tools, new workflows and new ways of creating — is now the most valuable professional skill there is.

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Train your brain to build

Neuroplasticity isn't just neuroscience — it's a competitive edge. This programme is built around the cognitive habits that make professionals adapt faster and learn deeper, for life.

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Become a builder

Builders don't wait for tools to be built for them — they create the products, automations and systems that everyone else depends on. That's the advantage. That's what we teach.

🚀 The full picture

Build the full scope.
Not just one skill.

Most programmes teach you one thing deeply. We teach you to build broadly — because the professionals who thrive in an AI world are the ones who can see the whole picture and create the whole product.

Narrow approach

Learn one tool deeply

Specialise early, hope it lasts

Master one AI tool or framework
Build isolated features or outputs
Limited when the landscape shifts
Dependent on someone else's vision

Builder approach

Build breadth first

Explore broadly, then go deep where it matters

Design, prompt, build, automate, ship
Go from idea to live product end-to-end
Adapt when tools and trends change
Create solutions nobody else can see

Range is the real superpower. When you can do all of it — frame the problem, design the solution, build the product, and ship it to real users — you become unstoppable.

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Builders rewrite the brief. Specialists accept it.

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Builders ship delightful. Specialists ship functional.

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Builders direct AI like collaborators. Specialists type commands.

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Builders have live URLs. Specialists have unfinished repos.

📊 Why now

The world of work is
changing fast.

The data is clear. The window to get ahead is open — but not forever.

85M

Jobs will be disrupted by AI — while 170M new roles emerge requiring new skills

World Economic Forum, 2025

44%

of workers' core skills will be disrupted or made obsolete by 2027

WEF Future of Jobs Report

40%

of the global workforce will need reskilling within 3 years due to AI

IBM Institute for Business Value

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Builders and AI-native professionals earn up to 3× more than non-technical peers

LinkedIn Workforce Report

The question isn't whether your role will change. It's whether you'll be building what comes next — or scrambling to keep up with it.

This programme exists for one reason: to put you on the right side of the biggest workforce transformation in history. Builders win. We teach you to become one.

🧬 It's in our nature

Building is human.
It always has been.

We've been making things for 40,000 years — long before machines, long before code. Philosophers call us Homo faber: man the maker. Creating isn't something we learned to do. It's something we are.

When we make something, the brain releases dopamine — the same neurochemical triggered by achievement, connection and reward. Making things builds identity. It produces flow. It gives us a sense of agency over the world around us. And it connects us to something larger than ourselves.

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40,000 years

Humans have been making tools, art and systems since before recorded history

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Dopamine

Creating activates the brain's reward system — making things feels good because it's meant to

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Flow state

Deep building triggers flow — the state of peak focus and fulfilment identified by psychologists

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Meaning

Making something that didn't exist before is one of the most powerful sources of human purpose

The professionals who thrive in every wave of change
aren't the most technically skilled — they're the ones who
reconnect with that deep human impulse and act on it.

🔭 The 4 E's Framework

Explore. Embrace.
Experiment. Evolve.

Built on a simple philosophy: range beats depth when you're starting out. You'll learn by doing — each week builds a real product, each week teaches a new mindset.

Week 1

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EXPLORE

The Sampling Period

Before you specialise, you sample. Play with every tool, break things on purpose. The best performers don't start by drilling one skill — they explore broadly.

Build: Your personal landing page — built 3 different ways

Week 2

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EMBRACE

Find Your Match

Pick a real problem from your world. Embrace the fact that it's messy, undefined, wicked. That's where your strengths thrive.

Build: A tool that solves a real problem in your field

Week 3

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EXPERIMENT

The Outsider Advantage

Mix approaches instead of repeating one. Connect your build to automations, APIs, other tools. The outsider who connects dots finds solutions specialists miss.

Build: Your tool + automated workflow that runs without you

Week 4

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EVOLVE

Test in the Open

Forget focus groups. You test in the open — launch it, get straight feedback from real users, and improve immediately.

Build: Your polished, shipped product — live in the world

📚 Full Curriculum

Week by week,
lesson by lesson.

Click each week to see the full lesson breakdown, live sessions, and what you'll build.

Week 1

🔭 EXPLORE

The Sampling Period

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📖The Builder MindsetSelf-Study

🎨Sample your toolkitSelf-Study

👁️Train your design eyeSelf-Study

🛠️Your first vibe buildBuild

🎤Cohort KickoffLive

💭Explore reflectionSelf-Study

Build: Your personal landing page — created 3 different ways to understand each tool's strengths

Week 2

🫂 EMBRACE

Find Your Match

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🔍Wicked problems are yoursSelf-Study

👥Who is it for?Self-Study

💬From problem to promptSelf-Study

⚙️Build your prototypeBuild

📋Build ReviewLive

💭Embrace reflectionSelf-Study

Build: A real tool solving a genuine problem in your field

Week 3

⚗️ EXPERIMENT

The Outsider Advantage

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🔀The power of interleavingSelf-Study

⚖️The ethics of building fastSelf-Study

🌉Connect the dotsSelf-Study

🔗Build your experimentBuild

✨Experiment ShowcaseLive

💭Experiment reflectionSelf-Study

Build: Your tool + automated workflow that runs independently

Week 4

🦋 EVOLVE

Test in the Open

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🚀Test in the openSelf-Study

🔮Where AI building is goingSelf-Study

⚡Final build sprintBuild

📖Tell your builder storySelf-Study

🎉Demo DayLive

💭Final reflectionSelf-Study

Build: Your polished, shipped product with real-user feedback

🎯 Range Wheel

10 Builder
Competencies.

What you'll develop by the end of four weeks — the skills that compound for the rest of your career.

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Problem Framing

See the right problem before jumping to solutions

Builder: Rewrites the brief. Specialist: Accepts it.

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Design Sense

Does this feel right? Layout, hierarchy, whitespace

Builder: Ships delightful. Specialist: Ships functional.

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Prompt Craft

The new literacy. Communicating intent to AI

Builder: Directs collaborators. Specialist: Types commands.

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Systems Thinking

How things connect. Data flows, user journeys

Builder: Has URLs. Specialist: Has repos.

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Ethical Awareness

AI bias, privacy, inclusion, sustainability

Builder: Builds responsibly. Specialist: Builds fast.

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Trend Literacy

Pattern recognition across AI, culture, and your industry

Builder: Sees patterns first. Specialist: Sees them last.

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Storytelling

Your build is only as good as your ability to explain why it exists

Builder: Tells the why. Specialist: Shows the how.

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Domain Bridging

Your unfair advantage. The teacher who builds ed-tech

Builder: Combines domains. Specialist: Works in one.

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Experimentation

How fast you try, fail, learn, try again

Builder: Tests in open. Specialist: Tests in private.

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Ship Discipline

Actually finishing. The gap between 'I have an idea' and 'here's the link'

Builder: Launches. Specialist: Ideates.

🎯 Who it's for

Built for people
with ideas and drive.

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Corporate & non-profit teams

You have ideas for tools that would transform how your team works — but no developer to build them. Now you don't need one. L&D budget eligible.

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Ambitious professionals

You want to be the person in your organisation who can actually build things with AI — a rare skill that opens doors and raises your ceiling.

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Future founders

You have a business idea that keeps waking you up at 3am. This is your runway — from idea to shipped product in four weeks flat.

🧩 Your experience is the edge

You'll build on what
you already know.

Your domain expertise isn't obsolete — it's the ingredient that makes AI-built tools actually powerful. You know what to build because you understand the problem. AI gives you the power to build it.

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Marketing

Build campaign tools, content systems and audience automations that run while you sleep.

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HR & L&D

Build onboarding flows, training tools and skills trackers tailored to your organisation.

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Consulting

Build research assistants, client dashboards and proposal generators that 10× your output.

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Finance & Ops

Build reporting pipelines, budget models and analysis tools that work faster than any spreadsheet.

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Product & Strategy

Build internal tools, process automations and working prototypes without waiting on a developer.

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Healthcare & Wellbeing

Build patient tools, intake flows and care communication systems that improve outcomes.

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Education & Training

Build interactive learning experiences, assessment tools and personalised study systems.

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Any field

Whatever you know deeply — your sector knowledge becomes the prompt, and AI builds the rest.

The builder advantage isn't just knowing AI. It's knowing AI plus your field. That combination is rare, extraordinarily valuable — and exactly what this programme creates.

Your builder-in-chief

Marco van Hout

Vibe Builder · Educator · Digital Innovation Pioneer

Marco has spent over two decades at the intersection of technology, learning and human potential. As co-founder of Digital Society School — one of Europe's leading applied university programmes for digital innovation — he helped hundreds of young professionals turn emerging technology into real social impact.

As co-founder of Global Goals Jam, he led a worldwide innovation sprint uniting tens of thousands of changemakers across 100+ countries to tackle humanity's biggest challenges. He knows what happens when you give people the tools, the mindset and the confidence to build — it changes everything.

Marco built Vibe Building Academy because he saw this workforce shift coming long before most. He watched the most agile, curious, builder-minded professionals rise in every disruption — and he wanted to build the programme that creates more of them. This is that programme.

🏫 Digital Society School 🌍 Global Goals Jam ⚡ Vibe Builder 📚 20+ years in digital education 💼 LinkedIn →

🎁 Early access benefits

First in line gets
the best deal.

Notification list members get exclusive perks that won't be available at general launch.

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Founding member pricing

Early list members get the lowest price we'll ever offer — locked in for life, even for future cohorts and advanced programmes.

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Priority seat selection

Cohorts are capped at 30 people. List members choose their spots first — before we open to the public.

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Exclusive pre-launch content

Start learning before the cohort begins. We'll share early access to tools, starter guides and a preview session.

Don't specialise.Build range.