FOR PEOPLE WHO BUY THE TOOLS, THEN STALL AT SETUP

Wire any API.
Ship real tools.
Skip the tuition-by-fire.

A hands-on course that teaches the one repeatable method for connecting any API or connector — Anthropic, Vercel, Bright Data, GitHub, USPTO, or one you've never seen — safely, on budget, without leaking a key or eating a surprise bill.

Free placement quiz. No account, no card. Works on your phone.

Taught on the real stack — not toy examples

Anthropic API Vercel Bright Data GitHub USPTO MCP connectors

The real problem

You didn't fail. The setup did.

Most courses hand you code to copy. That's why it breaks the moment you touch a real API — you learned the what, never the how. Here's what actually stops people:

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Docs that assume you already know. You just wanted the one endpoint and the auth header — not a tour.
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A key that lands in a public repo. One commit, and it's scraped within minutes.
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A metered API that quietly runs up a bill. No alert, no cap — just a number you find later.
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It works locally, breaks in production. The env var you set on your laptop was never set on the server.
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The silent failure. No error, no data — and no idea which of the six moving parts went wrong.

The method

One loop. Any API. Seven steps.

Learn it once, reuse it on every tool you'll ever touch. The traps that cost money and days aren't footnotes here — each one gets surfaced and drilled before it can bite you.

01

Scope

The smallest useful win.

02

Source

Official docs — auth, limits, price. Verify live.

03

Key

Credentials, stored safe. Never in code.

04

Ping

The smallest call that works.

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Shape

Errors, paging, rate limits — read the response.

06

Wire

Glue it in. Retries, logging, a cost guard.

07

Ship

Deploy, budget alert, watch it run.

It meets you where you are

Start on the right rung.

A 60-second placement puts you exactly where you should begin — no sitting through what you know, no drowning in what you don't.

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Explorer

Never touched a terminal. Motivated to ship.

Starts at Level 0

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Builder

Has some pieces — ready for real data.

Starts at Level 2

Engineer

Already codes. New to this stack.

Fast-tracks to Level 3

"I spent thousands of dollars and months of nights fumbling these exact APIs — discovering auth models the hard way, eating surprise bills, re-leaking keys I'd sworn I'd never leak again. This is the shortcut I wish someone had handed me on day one."

— The founder. Your origin story goes here; keep it true.

What you get

Everything to make it stick.

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An adaptive mentor. Your always-on coach — it meets your level and walks you to each win, one step and one check at a time.
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Hands-on labs. You wire real APIs yourself, with binary "you should see ___" checkpoints so you always know it worked.
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A secrets-safe starter repo. `.gitignore` and cost guards already in place — you're safe by default from your first commit.
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Problem sets that inoculate you. Including "break it on purpose, then fix it" — so the traps that cost others money can't touch you.
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Your own Wiring Playbook. You leave with a reusable, personal method for any API you meet next.

Pick your depth

Three ways in.

Self-Paced

The core. Learn on your own clock.

$297
  • The adaptive mentor
  • All labs + problem sets
  • The secrets-safe starter repo
  • Lifetime access
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Cohort

Everything in Self-Paced, plus people and pace.

$1,497
  • Live office hours
  • A group wiring the same stack
  • Direct unblocking on your build
  • Accountability + deadlines
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Done-With-You

We wire your specific stack, together.

$4,997
  • 1:1 build sessions
  • Your real project, shipped
  • Architecture + cost review
  • Priority support
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You keep everything you build. We own the course materials; your projects are 100% yours.

Straight answers

Questions worth asking.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The placement starts non-coders at zero and gets a real API call working in your first session. If you already code, it fast-tracks you past the basics. Same course, different entry point.

Do you take a cut of what I build?

No. You own 100% of what you build — your projects, your code, your business. We own the course materials; you own your work. Full stop.

What will the APIs cost me?

Most examples run on free tiers, and you'll set a budget alert before any paid call. Managing cost is part of the curriculum, not an afterthought — avoiding the surprise bill is one of the first things you learn.

Do I work in chat or in Claude Code?

Both. You learn and plan in chat — which works on your phone — and build for real in Claude Code. The same mentor travels across both, so it feels like one continuous coach.

What happens when I get stuck?

The mentor debugs live. You paste the actual error, and you work it together — reading it, mapping it to the trap it belongs to, and fixing it so it never scares you again.

Two minutes from now

Find out where you'd start.

Take the 60-second placement and see your level, your entry point, and the first API you'd wire.

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