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Course N°194 — AI & Automation

Ship It With AI: Build Custom Software Without a Developer

with Incipio Studio

Original curriculum by Incipio Academy

Use AI coding agents to spec, build and ship the internal tools and small apps your business actually needs, then run them safely without a technical co-founder.

18 lessons18 videos6h 11mIntermediateLifetime access

What you’ll walk away with

Skills, not certificates of attendance

01Decide build, buy or automate before you spend a single hour
02Write a spec an AI agent can execute without guesswork
03Ship a working tool with login, database and real user data
04Lock down secrets, backups and permissions before launch
05Cost your build and know the exact point to hire a real dev

Curriculum

4 chapters · 18 lessons

6h 11m total
01Scope Before You Prompt
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  1. 1Build, Buy or Automate: The 20-Minute Decision TestVideo
    16:40
  2. 2Find the Tool Worth Building: Mapping Your Manual WorkaroundsVideo
    19:25
  3. 3The One-Page Spec: Users, Screens, Data, RulesVideo
    24:10
  4. 4Sketch the Data Model Before Any Code ExistsVideo
    21:35
  5. 5Scope Traps: Features That Triple Your Build TimeVideo
    14:50
02Build the First Working Version
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  1. 1Choosing Your Stack: Agent, Hosting and Database in Plain EnglishVideo
    22:15
  2. 2The First Prompt: Scaffold, Run, VerifyVideo
    27:40
  3. 3Adding Login and User Accounts Without Breaking EverythingVideo
    25:05
  4. 4Debugging With an Agent: Error Messages, Logs and RollbacksVideo
    29:20
  5. 5Importing Real Data From Your Spreadsheets and CRMVideo
    18:45
03Ship It Safely
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  1. 1Deploy Day: Domains, Environments and the Staging RuleVideo
    20:30
  2. 2Secrets, API Keys and the Mistakes That Leak ThemVideo
    17:55
  3. 3Permissions: Who Sees What, and Why It Matters LegallyVideo
    23:10
  4. 4Backups and Restore Drills: Test It Before You Need ItVideo
    15:20
04Run, Improve and Hand Over
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  1. 1Getting Your Team to Actually Use the ThingVideo
    18:05
  2. 2The Weekly Change Cycle: Requests, Priority, ReleaseVideo
    21:50
  3. 3True Cost of Ownership: Hosting, Tokens and Your HoursVideo
    16:25
  4. 4When to Hire a Developer and How to Hand Over CleanlyVideo
    26:15

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Incipio Studio

Original curriculum by Incipio Academy

Incipio Studio is the academy's in-house curriculum team. Studio courses distill proven playbooks, frameworks, and operator interviews into structured, do-this-next lessons, researched and produced by Incipio Academy.

“I replaced three subscriptions and a very ugly spreadsheet with one internal tool I built in nine days. My ops lead uses it every morning.”

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