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TEST Startup425 AI Intensive

At the Founder Institute, you won't "learn" how to build a business. Rather, you will build your business alongside top startup experts using a proven, structured process that has helped some of the world's fastest growing companies raise over 2BN. 

The FI Agentic Program includes a series of challenging growth sprints, in addition to Weekly Feedback Sessions where you will receive constant feedback on your progress from experienced Mentors and Investors. 

See the schedule for the TEST Startup425 AI Intensive program below.

The Final Application Deadline for the TEST Startup425 AI Intensive program is Jun 16, 2026, and you can apply to the program at FI.co/join.

Onboarding

Learn about the Startup425 AI Intensive

Date: Jun 09, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

Welcome to the Onboarding Sprint of the Startup425 AI Intensive Bootcamp! To hit the ground running, you can begin working on the onboarding sprint as soon as you enroll. Good luck, and let’s turn your idea into a reality!

Kickoff: From Idea to Focused Product Scope

Set up your AI toolkit, define one problem for one customer, and leave with a product outline sharp enough to hand to a coding agent.

Date: Jul 07, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session helps founders narrow their idea to one problem, one customer, one core feature, and one revenue stream. Founders will define their target customer segment, clarify the problem they are solving, and create a product outline with a feature list, architecture summary, and MVP hypothesis that can be handed to a coding agent.

AMA #1: Idea Validation & Scope Check

Open Q&A session with program mentors to pressure-test your product scope, customer definition, and assumptions before you start building.

Date: Jul 14, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session gives founders live feedback on their problem statement, target customer, and MVP hypothesis. Founders will identify the riskiest assumption to test first and refine their product outline so they are ready to move into building.

Building Your MVP with AI

Start building your product with a coding agent — turn your product outline into a working frontend, backend, and database in a single session.

Date: Jul 21, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session helps founders translate their product outline into structured prompts and begin building with tools like Replit, Lovable, Bolt, or Base44. Funders will understand the basic frontend, backend, and database structure of their app, implement the core user flow, and deploy a first working version to a live URL they can share.

Integrations, Authentication & Data

Connect your MVP to the outside world, add user login, external APIs, and automations that make your product real.

Date: Jul 28, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session helps founders add the core infrastructure needed to make their product usable in the real world. Founders will connect user login, external services, and a real database, while also estimating AI API costs per user and setting an initial price using a simple cost-plus margin approach.

AMA #2: Build Troubleshooting & Mid-Program Check-In

Unblock technical issues and get your MVP ready for launch with direct mentor feedback.

Date: Jul 30, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session gives founders focused support on technical challenges, build issues, and launch readiness. Founders will get hands-on help with broken deploys, integration bugs, and coding agent prompts, then share their app progress with mentors and refine their launch plan by identifying their first 10 target users and how to reach them.

Launch & Go-to-Market

Launch your MVP to real users and take your first go-to-market actions through direct outreach and community channels.

Date: Aug 04, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session helps founders move from building to launching by deploying their MVP and taking immediate action to reach potential users. Founders will choose two go-to-market channels, write a clear one-sentence hook, and begin customer outreach or interviews to start generating real user feedback without relying on paid ads.

Customer Feedback & Validation

Collect structured feedback from real users, run the Superhuman PMF question, and assess whether your product is solving a real problem

Date: Aug 11, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session helps founders collect structured feedback, interview potential customers, and analyze early product usage. Founders will have tested their MVP with real users, evaluated their product-market fit signal, and prepared a concise Demo Day presentation covering the problem, customer, product, and key learnings.

In-Person App Demo Day with Jonathan Greechan

Present your working AI-built product live and use expert feedback to define the next step after the bootcamp.

Date: Aug 19, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This in-person Demo Day gives founders the opportunity to showcase a 3-minute live product demo during Seattle Tech Week 2026, with Jonathan Greechan as special guest host. Founders will present to mentors, peers, and the local tech community, receive direct feedback from experienced founders and operators, and leave with a shipped product, validated learnings, and a clear roadmap for what to build next.

AMA #3: Interpreting Feedback & Deciding What's Next

Open Q&A session to process customer feedback, decide whether to iterate or pivot, and plan your final product push.

Date: Aug 25, 2026
Starts at: 06:00 pm (America/Los_Angeles)

This session helps founders review feedback data with mentors, separate useful signals from noise, and apply a clear decision framework to their MVP. By the end of the week, founders will have reviewed their customer feedback, identified the strongest signals, and decided which changes to make before Demo Day. They will also refine their 3-minute presentation to clearly explain the problem, customer, product, and key learnings.