Five weeks, with other people, for free.

Each week you build in conversation with your agent, and you publish what you made. Once a week the cohort meets live, and you show that week's work to at least two other people and talk it through. You explain the decisions you made, not the code the agent wrote, and nothing you answer is ever graded.

Every session is shaped by what the cohort needs that week, so no two are alike. Before you leave one, you send your agent the first prompt of the coming week, so the next round of writing, playing, and publishing has already begun.

The whole cohort is one method, write, play, and publish, made a little larger each week. Every week leads with one of the three moves and asks you one question about your own app. You start by finding a problem in your own life that has gone unsolved for months and that your current tools cannot fix, and by talking with other people who have it, and you finish by publishing an app that tries to solve it to those same people.

Everyone gets stuck, and it is the normal shape of the work rather than a sign that you are doing it wrong. When you are stuck gathers the moments that have stopped people building this way, each with a question to ask yourself first, what to try, and who to ask.

Each week's call is on Google Meet™, and the Human Shaped add-on keeps the session's plan, its clock, the questions, and who is ready to show their work in Meet's side panel, so the hour stays on the people in it rather than on a second window. How the add-on works in a session says what it does, how to add it, and what it never does.

You need a GitHub account, your own copy of the template, an AI agent that can work in your repository, and a desktop computer. You bring your own AI, and it can be anything from a model running on your own computer to a Claude or Gemini subscription. The course shows the cheapest ways that work, and it never asks you to buy from one company.

You do not have to pay for an app store account to finish, either. Week three ends with your app on someone else's device, which a test track or a direct share can do for free.

Inside a cohort you work in a group of three that stays together, so there is always someone to show your work to even when one person is away, and you always know who your partners are and what the partnership asks of you. Groups are easy to change when one is not working. Everyone in the cohort can see one another's repositories, commits, and progress, along with the upcoming sessions and the current week's work.

Finishing a cohort earns a credential, and the evidence for it is the work itself. A web app of your own, live at a real address, is enough, and each further platform your app is published on adds a level. The credential’s own page says what each level asks for and how anyone can check one.

Everyone in a cohort builds by the Human-Shaped Principles, and they are what the cohort agrees on from the first day. Anything more formal than that belongs to the people actually doing the work together, so each cohort decides its own rules in its first session and changes them whenever it needs to.

Your app lives in your own GitHub account. Human Shaped reads your progress from GitHub rather than copying it, your classmates see your work only inside the cohort, and your app appears on the public apps page only if you choose to show it there. The privacy page lists everything the site keeps, who can see each part, and when it goes away.