For new software engineers

Your first engineering role, mapped from where you stand.

Every morning: roles that fit you, the person to reach at each, and a note written for you. You send it in your own words, and every reply is tracked.

Two minutes. You keep your map either way.

Or join the free six-week sprint, from November 4

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    AI made code cheap to write. Teams now hire the people who find the real problem, define what good looks like, and answer for the result.

    bet 01

    Proof a person can check

    A real user, a written spec and its checks, something shipped and measured. A hiring manager can open it in ten minutes.

    bet 02

    AI with judgment

    Agents, evals, and the structure of a codebase are the new fundamentals. Using AI well means being able to check what it did.

    bet 03

    A route built for you

    Your map is built from your goal and rebuilt from what happens: a rejection, a new target, an interview that went sideways.

    bet 04

    People first

    Hiring runs on trust. Five honest notes a week to named people, with something they can check, beat a hundred portal applications.

    01 · New to the field

    Final-year, recent grad, or bootcamp

    Hundreds of applications and mostly silence. You need a resume that is ready, notes to real people instead of portals, and one project for a real user that a hiring manager can check.

    route build → proof first, then presence

    02 · Working, want better

    Shipping, but invisible outside your team

    Your best work sits behind an NDA and a resume line. You need it rewritten as public proof, aimed at the role you want next, and rehearsed until the technical round is the easy part.

    route career-first or defense-first

    03 · Between roles

    Laid off, and the clock is running

    You need applications and warm intros moving in week one, while one sharp project runs alongside. Speed without spraying: every application points at something a stranger can check.

    route career-first, sprint

    Not for you if you want someone to apply for you, you want a job guarantee, or you don't enjoy solving problems for people. The free tools stay free either way.


    What you leave with

    Four things a hiring manager can check in ten minutes.

    What your map builds toward. Shown here as empty specimens, because nobody can buy them filled in.

    01 · Reviewspecimen

    A change you shipped with agents, and checked

    The change, the check that catches the defect, and your explanation of why. The proof that you can review what AI writes.

    sync/retry.ts+2 −1
      for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) {-   await sleep(500)+   if (attempt >= MAX_ATTEMPTS) throw new RetryExhausted(job)+   await sleep(backoff(attempt))
    Review · sent back onceGood. Now show me the test that fails without line 2.
    02 · Real userempty on purpose

    A real user, in their own words

    A local business, a club or a nonprofit that gave you an hour. What they needed, written down the way they said it.

    What they do, and what gets in their way
    What you built for them
    What changed after
    03 · Case studyspecimen

    A page that makes the work easy to check

    On your own domain, in your own design. The problem, the baseline, what changed, and what the numbers cannot prove.

    yourname.dev/work/one-real-user
    problem
    baseline
    what changed
    limits
    04 · Walkthroughspecimen

    Your 90-second walkthrough

    The problem, the spec, the checks and the result, said out loud, then your answer to "how do you use AI?" The recording is yours to send.

    part 1your work, explainedpart 2how you used AI, and how you checked it

    How a week runs

    About 10 to 15 hours a week, and most of the busywork is done for you.

    Once your resume is ready: 5 sends a week (3 at the least), plus one step a week on your real-user project.

    every morning

    Your roles

    Roles that fit you, the person to reach at each, and the note written. In your inbox and in the app.

    5 a week

    Your sends

    You send them yourself, in your own words. Every reply is tracked, and silence gets a follow-up.

    1 step

    Your project

    A conversation, a spec, a check, or something shipped for your design partner.

    weekly

    Clinics

    In the sprint and the cohort: bring what's stuck, and leave with the next step.


    Who you work with

    I'm Aden. I build applied AI systems for engineering teams.

    My work is applied AI and agentic graph engineering: systems that map how a codebase fits together, and agents that make changes a team can check before it trusts them. These are problems engineering teams have right now, and they are the problems your map is aimed at.

    I learned to build before the AI era, writing systems from scratch and shipping software people depended on before LLMs arrived. When the wave hit, it was clear engineers would need help. The tools changed faster than anyone could explain them, and it got harder for a team to tell who was good.

    So this is where my time goes. I automate the busywork of a search with the same kind of systems I build, and I plan a map for each engineer around their own goal, so no week goes to work that does not move you toward the role you want.

    How it works with money

    • Free to start. The check, your map and the six-week sprint cost nothing.
    • The founding cohort is the program. $3,000, or 3 payments of $1,100, from January 4. Reservations open December 1, after a short fit step and a call with the grad on it.
    • Self-serve is there if you need it. Without the hours or a payer: $97 a month, or $997 for a year.
    • No job promises. Nobody honest can make one. From November 25 we publish our numbers, the weak weeks included.

    Three ways in

    Start free. Go further when it's earning its place.

    Every path starts from the free check, where you stand today.

    Prices are in US dollars and include any sales tax or VAT. Checkout shows them in your own currency.

    Freestart here

    Your map from the 2-minute check, and two course modules.

    • What's most likely in the way of interviews, and a ten-minute step for today
    • Profile images, and your headline, About and top roles, each with its film
    • The free six-week sprint when seats are open, from November 4
    • No card, nothing to cancel

    $0Keep your map with an email.

    Take the free check See a sample map
    The founding cohortStarts January 4

    Sixteen weeks with your coach and a small cohort: daily roles, a real-user project, and the proof employers can check.

    • Everything in Complete
    • A real-user project with a design partner, start to finish
    • Clinics with your coach, and a cohort at the same stage
    • Starts after a short fit step and a call, with the grad on it

    $3,000Or 3 payments of $1,100. Reservations open December 1.

    Start with the free check Or the free six-week sprint
    GridSchool Completeself-serve

    The same system, run on your own, for when you don't have the hours or a payer.

    • Every module and every film: profile, proof, people, search, interviews and the offer
    • Fresh roles that fit your map, who to reach on each team, and a note to each in your voice
    • Your resume, headshot and banner, and posts drafted from your own work
    • Your map keeps adjusting as you answer and as results come in

    $997 onceOr 7 days free, then $97 a month.

    Choose how to pay Give it as a gift

    Straight answers

    Will you get me a job?

    Nobody honest can promise that. What we do: roles that fit you every morning, notes to real people, a real-user project a hiring manager can check, and every reply tracked. A company's yes is theirs.

    I already have years of experience. Is this too junior for me?

    Your map starts where you are. For working engineers it usually goes straight to turning past work into proof a stranger can check, the titles that fit now, and the rounds where you stall.

    How is the map decided?

    The sentence at the top of this page drafts it from three answers, using the same steps the platform runs. The free check finishes it from your resume and where your search stops. Every step ends in something a person can check.

    Why not follow the map on my own?

    You can, and the map is yours to keep. What you'd be doing by hand: researching roles and the person to reach every morning, drafting each note, tracking every reply and follow-up, and finding a real user for your project. In the cohort you also get clinics and people at the same stage.

    Is this a bootcamp?

    No. A bootcamp teaches a stack to beginners. This starts from software you can already write and works on what gets you hired: a ready resume, sends to real people, and one project for a real user.

    Why trust you, with no placements yet?

    Don't take it on trust. The free check runs on your own situation before you pay anything, the sprint is free, and we publish the sprint's numbers at weeks 3 and 6, the weak weeks included. Complete has a 14-day refund on the one-time price, and the founding cohort's refund terms are on its page before anyone pays.

    Can a parent pay for it?

    Yes. Parents start with this page: what changed in hiring, what we do, and what we can't promise. The founding cohort starts after a call with the grad on it. A parent can also give the self-serve plan as a gift.

    Can I cancel the monthly plan?

    Any time, online, in two clicks. It starts with 7 free days, then $97 a month, and it stops on its own after 12 payments. We email you 3 days before the first charge.

    Two minutes to see where you stand.

    The free check reads where your search stops and builds your map. You keep it either way.

    Take the free check