Zero to Launch · Session 05 · Wed Oct 7, 2026
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Your site and every page that points at it
Ship AIPhoenix, ArizonaPress → to begin
What Ship AI is
Builders showing each other the work.
The best AI education isn't behind a paywall or on a stage — it's in the open, for free.
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Founder & Host
Founder and Lead Product Engineer building agentic AI systems. Founding product hire at ZBD — the money layer for games — $0 to $12M ARR, the EU's first MiCAR approval, and money transmitter licenses in 26 states and D.C. He started Ship AI to give Phoenix builders a room where you show the work, not talk about it.

The site is the one asset every channel points at.
Get it wrong and every visitor you earn leaks straight back out of it.
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Six Wednesdays, then the weekend. Every session is free and standalone — you don't have to attend all of them to compete in October, and catching up late is explicitly allowed.
None of these are fixed by a faster build. They're fixed by judgement — which is what tonight is for.
Act one
Every section has a job. Anything without a job gets cut, however nice it looks.
What it is, who it's for, one call to action. This is September's one-liner, unchanged if it was any good. A stranger decides here, in about four seconds, whether to keep reading.
Logos, numbers, one real sentence from a real user — right under the hero, before you've earned any patience. Proof placed halfway down the page is proof nobody sees.
Three steps. If it genuinely needs five, the product is explaining itself badly and the fix is upstream of the page. Show the thing doing the thing; a screenshot outperforms a paragraph.
Price, lock-in, security, "we already use X" — say the worried thing out loud and answer it. Otherwise they leave to go worry about it somewhere you can't reply.
The same call to action from the hero, repeated. Not a second one. Five competing CTAs is the same as none, and it's the most common self-inflicted wound on a builder site.
Five sections, five jobs. Anything on the page that can't name its job is decoration, and decoration is what you cut first.
If the positioning doesn't survive contact with the page, the positioning was the problem.
The hero is a test of session 04, not a writing exercise.
Adjectives
Evidence
You need less of the right-hand column than you think. Three real items beat a page of the left.
Plan, then write
/site-structure → /landing-copy
reading 04-positioning/README.md6 sections, 1 CTAwrote 05-site/structure.md
Structure first: sections, order, and the job each one does. Then copy from the positioning brief — hero, sections, CTA — so the page says what you decided in September.
The boilerplate handoff
/site-scaffold → /og-image → /perf-pass
scaffolding app/ …og images: 4 routesLCP 1.2s — deployed
Next.js routing, metadata and sections; then links that preview properly; then the Core Web Vitals fixes that actually move the number. Deployed on a real URL tonight if you're building along.
This is one of the two sessions where the boilerplate lands. Up to here the program runs light on purpose.
Act two
Session one promised this one. A brand isn't a logo you commission — it's a system in your repo that every surface imports.
Palette, type scale, spacing scale, the wordmark — one file the whole surface reads from. Not a Figma page someone copies hex codes out of by hand, but a module an agent can import. Decide it in an hour on day one and never decide it again.
Buttons, cards, tables, section headers, the footer. Build them once and consistency stops being discipline and becomes a dependency — you get it for free even at 1am on a Saturday of the hackathon.
Decks, one-pagers, case studies, OG images — rendered from structured content by the same components as the site. These slides are an array in a repo, drawn by the design system you're looking at. No export step, and a typo is a one-line commit.
The brand isn't only visual. The segment, the value props and the USPs from Sep 16 get baked into the strings every surface renders — hero, bio, pinned post, email footer. One brief, many outputs, no drift.
The pitch deck, the sales one-pager, the GitHub README, the banner, the receipt. A stranger meets you in a random order and shouldn't be able to tell which one you built first.
A design system on day one is the cheapest decision in the program. It costs an hour, and every artifact after it is close to free.
Polish is a build step now, not a hire.
Session one claimed polish takes you from looking like a 4 to a 9 — same product, same features, same founder. This is the build step that does it, and it's why the deck, the site and the one-pager can't disagree with each other.
Act three
Your site is one of maybe eight places someone lands when they go looking for you.
They'll check X, LinkedIn, GitHub, an app store listing, an old Product Hunt page. Each reads differently, so each gets set up individually — but every one of them refracts the same brief.
/social-audit finds the damage — usually a stale bio and a banner from two products ago. /social-profile fixes one platform per run.
Every page here is another door into the same brand system — same components, same claims, no second writing session.
Once the positioning is settled, the whole pass is mechanical.
Which means it belongs in an agent, not in an afternoon of tab-switching. The brief came from Sep 16; tonight it just gets rendered onto every surface that has one.
Thank you
Platinum sponsor · The venue
Workuity Biltmore hosts and sponsors every meetup in this series and the October weekend that closes this program. Thank Dan on your way out — nine days from now we're back in this room for real.

Sponsors
Ship AI is seeking corporate sponsors for the weekend and the next program. Tiers run $1,000 to $10,000 and they're published on purpose — cash, credits or hours, whichever you actually have. Opportunity at every price point, custom arrangements always welcome.
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Everything is open source — the deck, the skills, the template repo. Take it all.
Just ship it.
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Two days before the hackathon. Automated distribution, performance marketing basics, and the CAC ceiling that decides whether paid works at all.
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