For founders turning agent work into a paid-ready software asset
Forge is the 10-session cohort for building with Focusa — infrastructure that turns powerful but flaky AI coders into reliable, long-horizon superhuman collaborators.
Founders Forge is a 10-session agentic engineering cohort. Bring an idea or an existing repo. Leave with a deployed, paid-ready product, the receipts that prove it works, and the operating habits to keep shipping after the cohort ends.
$7,500 full seat or $1,500 deposit + $1,500 × 4 monthly installments over 12 months. Deposit reserves one of 15 seats and applies toward the full seat.
Product path
Founders Forge: $7,500 full seat or $1,500 deposit + $1,500 × 4 over 12 months.
Choose full pay, or start the payment plan with a $1,500 deposit followed by four $1,500 monthly installments over 12 months.
Product chooser
Focusa, UIAI Engine, and Founders Forge are connected. Pick by the job you need done now.
Connected product
The Arena is a public, verifiable surface for Focusa-powered agents. Every receipt, every evidence packet, every audit log — recorded where anyone can see it. Install Focusa for free, run an agent, and watch your work appear here.
Connected product
Focusa keeps the mission, memory, proof, project state, and next action linked together so agents can keep working across long sessions, model switches, context loss, and handoffs.
$697 Operator Lifetime License
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Founders Forge is a 10-session agentic engineering cohort. Bring an idea or an existing repo. Leave with a deployed, paid-ready product, the receipts that prove it works, and the operating habits to keep shipping after the cohort ends.
$1,500 deposit + $1,500 × 4 plan
Connected product
Connected product
UIAI Engine lets agents inspect the web, hold browser sessions, capture diagnostics, gather screenshots, turn public sources into proof, and hand bounded evidence packets back to Focusa.
$697 Operator Lifetime License
Connected product ecosystem
Focusa, UIAI Engine, and Founders Forge are intentionally linked: mission cohesion, browser proof, and founder enablement reinforce each other across the product ecosystem.
Software layer
Mission cohesion layer for AI agents: Workpoints, proof, trajectory, recovery, and session transfer.
Core mission layer used across long-running agent workflows.
Browser proof layer
Browser sessions, snapshots, diagnostics, responsive checks, and web evidence for AI agents.
Feeds proof and diagnostics into Focusa-style workflows.
Current site
Agentic engineering cohort for founders who want to build, deploy, operate, and package software products.
Teaches builders to use Focusa and UIAI-style proof workflows.
Public proof stage
Live-feeling public proof theater where Pi codes, UIAI proves, and Focusa keeps the mission through receipts, drift checks, and recovery loops.
Converts proof curiosity into Forge Cohort applications and sponsor-run transactions.
Founding cohort capacity
Applications close when the cohort reaches 15 accepted seats or when the application window ends.
The cap exists because each participant receives critique, Q&A access, Focusa setup guidance, and implementation support.
The 6-second demo
Loop shows the difference between shipping on faith and shipping with receipts.
What you leave with
Not vague skills. Concrete artifacts you can show, ship, or sell the day you finish.
A written product spec with named build slices, each with a clear pass/fail acceptance test.
Your chosen stack, infra, hosting, auth, and payment choices — with the receipt for why each one is right for your product.
A live URL on infrastructure you control. Not a Notion page. A deployed thing.
Stripe or equivalent wired to a real checkout, with a confirmed post-purchase state and a captured receipt.
The agent workflows you actually use, in plain markdown, with the prompts and tools you would copy to start a new build.
UIAI browser proof and diagnostics wired into your build loop. Every done is verified, not claimed.
A reusable launch checklist that turns the chaos of releasing into a sequence you can run on the next product.
A written day-1 to day-30 plan for what to ship, what to measure, and what to do when the first 3 users appear.
Your seat includes a Founding Focusa Operator License ($697 value) so the agent infrastructure stays alive after the cohort.
UIAI Engine access and the proof-workflow training so you keep catching false-done claims on your own after the cohort.
Install
Founders Forge is a 10-session cohort. After acceptance, you receive a personal license key. The cohort installer is separate from the public install gateway and includes cohort-specific extras (Focusa Mission Stack + UIAI Engine + cohort library).
curl -fsSL https://install.focusa.dev/forge -o forge-install.sh && less forge-install.sh && bash forge-install.sh –license-key "$FORGE_KEY" –accept-license
curl -fsSL https://install.focusa.dev/focusa | bash -s — –eval
bash forge-install.sh –uninstall
Not another prompt course
Choose the right product, structure the build, verify AI-generated work, deploy on infrastructure you control, and shape software into an asset.
Plan, slice, build, verify, deploy, and operate real software instead of collecting prompt tricks.
Understand domains, infrastructure, deployment, databases, auth, payments, and handoff basics.
Turn tasks into agent-executable workflows while humans stay in authority.
Verify code, browser behavior, logs, screenshots, diagnostics, and deployment outcomes.
Your seat includes setup guidance, workflow training, and a Founding Focusa Operator License.
Make software cleaner, more transferable, and easier to sell, license, operate, or hand off.
Who this is for
Save us both a meeting if you are in the right column.
Positioning
This page answers who it is for, what changes, why it is different, and what to do next.
For
Founders and builders who want to ship software with AI agents instead of passively watching course content.
Outcome
Leave with a real build path, agentic engineering habits, and a working software direction.
Different
Founders Forge is cohort/application-based and implementation-driven, not a generic video course.
Mechanism
Hands-on build sequence, AI-agent workflow, Focusa continuity, UIAI proof, and guided delivery pressure.
Offer
Clear offer details reduce uncertainty before the form.
Founders Forge is an application-based agentic engineering cohort for serious builders who want to turn an idea into a software asset with AI-agent workflows.
Proof
Concrete evidence and operating proof make the claim believable.
Proof
The Forge landing system is built using the same Focusa, Gravity, and UIAI workflow stack.
Built in public workflow
Proof
Applicants are evaluated for build seriousness and execution fit, not passive interest.
Application gate
Proof
The page itself now uses Gravity forms, Settings API configuration, responsive QA, and no direct mailto.
12-view QA gate
Questions
Short answers reduce hesitation and clarify fit.
No. It is designed as a serious builder cohort with implementation pressure and AI-agent workflow.
Founders, operators, and builders who want to build software assets and are willing to work through implementation details.
Your application is reviewed, then you receive the next acceptance/payment/access path through the configured workflow.
Yes. Capacity should be controlled through Focusa settings and updated by real Stripe/Gravity hooks when configured.
Trust
Support, terms, privacy, and access expectations are handled through the configured Focusa workflow.
Payment terms
The $1,500 deposit reserves your application/seat path and applies toward the $7,500 full seat. If you are not accepted, the deposit is refunded or voided. If accepted, remaining payment options are confirmed before onboarding.
Support path
Use the application/support Gravity path; no direct email CTAs.
Fit gate
Applications may be declined if the cohort is not the right fit.
License
Released under Business Source License 1.1 — cohort extras. Founders Forge cohort members receive all Operator + UIAI Engine features plus cohort-specific assets (10 sessions, critique, Q&A, install key, cohort library). Pricing: $7,500 full or $1,500 deposit with payment-terms path. See https://forge.focusa.dev/payment-terms and https://forge.focusa.dev/COMMERCIAL.md.
License (BSL 1.1)
Source-available under Business Source License 1.1. The $7,500 Founders Forge seat grants commercial use rights; the source remains under BSL until the change date. Eval mode is free; commercial use requires a license.
After you submit
A clear success path improves confidence before conversion.
Submit the Forge application.
Application is reviewed for readiness, fit, and seriousness.
Accepted builders receive seat/payment/onboarding instructions.
Price
No hidden upsells inside the cohort. Sessions, Q&A, private group, Focusa setup, critique, templates, replays, infrastructure, launch, and exit-readiness guidance.
Replacement value
This replaces weeks of guessing, fragmented courses, consulting calls, disconnected tool setup, and unguided agent workflow experiments.
The Forge Path
Ten sessions, each with a named outcome. You do not just learn tools; you leave each week with a more complete owned software asset.
Find the product worth building.
Turn the idea into screens, data, roles, workflows, and requirements.
Choose the software stack and infrastructure you can own.
Use AI agents as structured engineering leverage.
Keep mission, Workpoints, proof, and recovery connected.
Deploy on infrastructure you control.
Build the core product in controlled slices.
Verify before calling work complete.
Create payments, onboarding, and first-user flow.
Package the asset for operations, licensing, transfer, or sale.
Cohort portfolio
Founders Forge is opening its first public cohort. Until builders grant permission, the portfolio shows exactly what will be published: deploys, receipts, and proof trails.
Permission-based
Accepted builders can opt into a public showcase once their build reaches deploy-and-verify. No private repo, revenue, or customer data is published without permission.
Receipt-backed
The showcase is not a logo wall. Every featured build links to an Arena receipt that shows what shipped, what was verified, and what changed next.
Software assets
Micro-SaaS tools, internal workflow automation, paid proof pages, agent operations dashboards, and owner-controlled service businesses.
Instructors and mentors
The cohort is led by operators who use Focusa, UIAI, WordPress, Stripe, deployment infrastructure, and agent workflows in production-style work.
Program lead
Founder/operator behind the Focusa launch stack. Guides offer strategy, proof-first product scope, infrastructure choices, and the operating cadence that turns agent work into a shippable asset.
Mission + Workpoint mentor
Helps builders keep mission, decisions, evidence, and next actions attached across long AI-agent sessions, model switches, compaction, and handoff.
Browser proof reviewer
Runs browser diagnostics, screenshot/source checks, failed-request inspection, and public-safe proof reviews before a build is allowed to call itself done.
Apply now
Share your product, technical level, availability, and preferred payment path.
Applications open
Choose the $7,500 full-seat checkout, or start the payment plan with a $1,500 deposit followed by four $1,500 monthly installments over 12 months. Both paths include critique, Q&A access, Focusa setup guidance, implementation support, Operator, and UIAI Engine.