Project help & AI training
Expert help for building with AI. We step in on your project, or we train your team to build their own.
Pick your lane
For founders, operators and small teams with a specific project. You built it with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Lovable. Now it has to survive real users, real money and people trying to break it.
We review it, fix what will fail, and step in to build alongside you until it's live.
Where most projects stall
The first 90% is everything a demo shows: screens, sign-in, a checkout that takes test cards. The last 10% stays invisible until it fails. Where do your secrets live? Who can read whose data? What does a runaway loop cost, and who finds out first?
Most people who build with AI never get through that stretch. Talent isn't the problem. Nobody showed them the course.
We've run it. Now we coach it.
Who this is for
A composer doesn't play every instrument. They know how each one should sound, when it comes in, and when something is out of tune.
That's the job now. Claude, Codex and Cursor are your orchestra. You write the score. We train your ear, so what you ship holds up when people actually use it.
| Vibe coding | Software composing |
|---|---|
| Prompts until it runs | Knows why it runs |
| Ships the demo | Ships the product |
| Hopes the keys are safe | Knows where every secret lives |
| Hears about outages from users | Hears about them from alerts |
| Starts over when it breaks | Rolls back in a minute |
| Can't explain the architecture | Can defend it to a senior engineer |
The route
Every engagement covers the same six markers, from mile 25.2 to the finish. Together they separate an app that runs from an app you can stand behind.
Is your API key sitting in the browser?
We trace every key, token and credential from your repo to your bundle to your git history, then move each one where it belongs and set up rotation.
Signed in isn't the same as allowed.
We test every route as a stranger, as the wrong user and as an admin, and we try to talk your AI features into misbehaving.
Could you restore yesterday?
A backup you've never restored is a guess. We set up backups, run a real restore with you, and make schema changes safe to ship.
One runaway loop shouldn't cost you $2,000.
AI endpoints without limits are an open bar tab. We add rate limits, hard caps, caching and a per-user cost you can actually read.
Find out before your users post about it.
Errors that reach your phone, logs you can search, and uptime checks. When it's quiet, you'll know it's actually fine.
Deploy on a Friday. Calmly.
Preview environments, automated checks and one-command rollbacks. Shipping becomes routine, and you get a runbook anyone can follow.
Readiness check
Ten yes-or-no questions about the app you're building. Be honest. It runs in your browser, and nothing is saved or sent.
Project help · Virtual
One-on-one over video, on your real code. Start with an hour, get a full review, or bring us in to build it with you until it ships. You always work with a senior builder, never a junior handoff.
60 minutes
$295
A senior builder on a call with you and your repo. Architecture, stack choices, an AI workflow that ships, or the bug that ate your week.
Start here · 5 business days
$1,950
We review your codebase against all six markers, probe it the way an attacker would, and hand you a ranked punch list: what hurts first, how to fix it, and what to ignore.
2 to 4 weeks
from$7,500
We step in and build alongside you until it's live: secure, monitored and deployed on infrastructure you own. You keep the code, the docs and the skills.
For companies, nonprofits and small businesses. Hands-on training, in person or online, where your people build real tools for their own work with coaches beside them.
They leave with something that works, and the method to build the next one.
Companies
Engineering and product teams learn to build with AI and pass security review, using the same six markers we use on client projects.
Nonprofits
Program and operations staff build their own donor reports, intake forms and volunteer schedules.
Small businesses
Owners and their teams automate the busywork: quotes, scheduling, follow-ups and bookkeeping prep.
For teams new to building with AI
1 day
One hands-on day. Everyone builds a working tool or automation for their own job, and learns the method to build the next one.
For engineering and product teams
2 days
Compose, then ship. Day one builds the workflow and architecture habits that hold up. Day two runs the last mile, ending with everyone deploying.
Both run in person at your office or a venue we arrange, or live online for distributed teams. Pricing depends on team size and format. Bring a laptop and a problem worth solving.
Everyone demos what they're building in five minutes. We pick targets for the two days.
How we drive Claude Code and Codex on real work: specs, context, and checking the output.
Data model, sign-in, where code runs, and what each choice costs you later.
Heads down on your own project, with coaches at your shoulder.
Each person walks the room through what they built and why.
We tear down one volunteer's app in front of the room, so everyone learns where to look.
Secrets, access and data, fixed in your own repo.
Spend limits, alerts, staging and rollbacks.
Everyone ships to production.
Demos, a written punch list for each person, and what to do next.
Coaches
We don't teach theory. We teach what broke on us, and how we fixed it.
Architecture & infrastructure
Took Allison and Neil from first prompt to production on Cloudflare. Coaches the parts that keep a product standing: architecture, security, deploys and cost.
AI workflows & velocity
Learned Claude Code in March and has made nearly 7,000 GitHub contributions since. Founders already hire her to show them how to really build with AI.
Senior coaches
Shipped an AI-built product to real users? We're building a bench of coaches who have. Tell us what you've shipped.
Field notes · Video
Screen-recorded builds from our own projects, with the code. First episodes coming soon.
Subscribe on YouTubeFAQ
No. Most people we coach are founders, product people and operators who build with AI. We explain everything in plain language, and you leave understanding your own app better than when you arrived.
No. The Clinic is built for non-technical teams: operations staff, nonprofit program teams and small business owners. If you can describe your work, you can learn to build tools for it.
Yes. Clinics and Training Camps run at your office or a venue we arrange, and both also run live online. Project help is always virtual, so it works from anywhere.
Almost never. Rewrites are slow, expensive and rarely needed. We fix what matters, in your codebase, and show you why.
That's fine. We review apps built with any tool and hosted anywhere. If you're still choosing where to deploy, we'll show you why we build on Cloudflare.
Read-only access wherever possible, an NDA if you want one, and access removed when we're done. We don't paste your code into tools that train on it.
Then you get that in writing from a senior engineer, which is worth having when investors or customers ask.
Tell us what you're building, or who you want trained. We'll reply with the right next step.
Or write to hello@lastmile.coach