You finish with 10+ deployed projects, a verified skill report, and a portfolio employers can run — not a certificate PDF.
The short answer
Square 1 AI teaches AI by doing — code or no-code. Nova, our AI tutor, grades every exercise and project against real rubrics, from your first prompt to your final deployed build. You graduate with proof an employer can open, run, and verify: 10+ live projects and a skill report.
Nikhil De Silva, Founder — Square 1 AI · About
You need AI to draft a product launch email. Which prompt gets a usable result?
Tap the one you'd trust — no wrong answers.
Every course graded by Nova. Tap any course to open its real syllabus — every module, every project brief.
Not sure which lane is yours? The free 3-minute skill check tells you.
Take the free 3-min skill checkHundreds of applications, no callbacks — it's not a you problem, it's a proof problem. Your degree gets you shortlisted — deployed proof gets you picked.
6.1% unemployment among recent CS grads — nearly 2× many other majors
Sources: Indeed Hiring Lab · Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Candidate A
Shortlisted, maybe. Picked on faith.
Candidate B
Proof attachedSame market. A CV employers can click, run and verify.
Square 1 turns you into Candidate B — project by graded project.
Start building proof — free 3-min skill checkDon't take our word for it — browse the 152 public starter repos on GitHubThis is not a prediction about your career. It is what independent research already found about the people you work with — and it is why proof of skill has stopped being optional.
got no AI training at all
Told to use it. Shown nothing. That's most of the workforce, in the last twelve months.
hide their AI use at work
From managers and colleagues — across 48,000 people in 47 countries. Only 47% were ever trained.
were sent AI “workslop”
Output that looks finished and isn't — costing the person who receives it about two hours to clean up.
Meanwhile AI Engineer is the fastest-growing role in the US — +143% year on year.
But only 2.5% of advertised AI-engineer roles accept 0–2 years of experience. Demand is not the bottleneck. Proof is.
Sources: LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise 2026 · Glassdoor postings analysis
Square 1 is the training nobody gave them. Every rep you do is graded against a real rubric, and what you finish with is work an employer can open and run — which is the only thing that answers a 2.5% door.
See where you actually stand — free3 minutes · email or Google to start
There aren't any — Square 1 is brand new, and we don't invent social proof. What we can show you is checkable: the product itself, and our deal with the people who join first.
A note from the founder
I started Square 1 AI with one belief at its core: that anyone — from anywhere, starting with anything — can learn, build, and change the direction of their life when they're given a real chance to practice and someone in their corner.
For too long, learning has stopped at theory. You watch the videos, you read the docs, you memorize the answers — and then you're left alone, quietly wondering whether any of it truly works, or whether you are truly ready. I lived that gap for years, and I built Square 1 to close it.
Here, you don't just learn a concept — you practice it in real, real-world scenarios, get honest feedback on the work you actually produce, and walk away with proof you can stand behind. From there, you go and get hired, or you start the business you've been dreaming about — and you begin to make a genuine, positive impact on the world around you.
Same outcome. Completely different numbers.
The Old Way
Cost
bootcamp tuition
founding rate — locked for life
Time to job-ready
tutorials, alone
one focused track
Real projects deployed
toy apps · maybe
live on GitHub
Code feedback
you guess
graded by Nova, our AI tutor
You can keep grinding the old way for years. Or you can take 3 minutes.
You start free — no credit card anywhere below. One membership, one price, both paths included: the career engineering tracks and the no-code role tracks. Founding members keep whatever they pay now; the price never goes up on you.
Skill check
$0
free forever
The skill check is 5 quick questions and takes about 3 minutes. Start it with your email and country — no password — or one-tap Google sign-in, and you get an instant skill snapshot plus an emailed copy. The full assessment is 20 questions across multiple choice, short answer, and real code; Claude AI grades it in about 30 minutes and builds your personalised learning plan. Both are free.
Yes. Cohort 01 early access is free with no credit card required. When paid plans open, founding rates are $29.90/mo on the 3-month track, $19.90/mo on the 6-month track, $15.90/mo on the 9-month track — and founding members lock their rate for life. It never goes up on you. Once founding seats close, new members join at the standard $34.90/mo rate.
Square1 Ai is an AI-powered learn-to-launch platform. We don't just teach you — we assess your level, personalise your path, grade every line of code you write, and walk you from day one to a deployed portfolio you can put in front of any employer.
Traditional education gives you theory and hopes you figure out the rest. $15,000 bootcamps rush you through and hand you a certificate. We give you 10+ deployed projects, Nova — an AI tutor that knows your code — and a skill report that proves you're ready. That's the difference.
10+ real projects. Live on GitHub. Run the code, not a PDF.
Content is free on YouTube. Personalised AI feedback on YOUR code isn't.
My goal was never only to teach skills. It's to help people become dreamers, entrepreneurs, and creators of positivity — the kind of people who look at the future and decide to build it, rather than wait for it to arrive.
So wherever you're starting from, please know this: everyone starts at square one. What matters is that you start — and I'll be right here, in your corner, every step of the way.
Let's make the world a better place — together.
Nikhil De Silva
Founder, Square 1 AI
Founding students
Cohort 01 · open nowFounding pricing — from $15.90/mo, locked
Whatever you pay now is your price for life — it never goes up on you.
A direct line to the founder
Feedback, stuck points, ideas — they land in my inbox, not a ticket queue.
Shape the platform
Early students decide what gets built next. Your gaps set the roadmap.
Being early is a trade: you get more access and a locked price; we get the feedback that makes this the best place to learn. The price only goes up as we grow — founding rates won't come back. Fair?
10+
projects per student
21
career paths
45
minutes per day
100%
code, zero videos
Check it yourself
152 public starter repos
Every project starter is a public GitHub template. Open the code before you sign up.
Certificate verification
Every certificate has a credential ID an employer can verify at square1ai.com/verify.
Cited research
Every statistic on this page traces to a named, dated source. Read them all.
Free · 3 minutes · No credit card
Founding membership
Cohort 01 · open now$34.90/mo standard rate after founding
from $15.90/mo
founding rate — locked for life · free while early access is open
For Teams
from $20/seat/mo
volume-tiered · free during early access
Being early is a trade: you get a locked price and a direct line to the founder; we get the feedback that makes this the best place to learn.
Every project you submit is read line-by-line by Claude against the project brief and a marking rubric. You get a score out of 100, what you did well, and specific fixes — not a generic tip or a video to rewatch.
About 45 minutes a day. Tracks are self-paced and typically run 3 to 9 months depending on the plan you choose and where the assessment places you.
No. The assessment finds your level first, and the curriculum adapts from complete beginner through to advanced — you start where you actually are, not where a syllabus assumes.
10+ real projects deployed to GitHub with live URLs, a verified skill report, and a portfolio an employer can open, run, and check — proof, not a certificate PDF.
There are 21 subjects, and each maps to a real role with a real salary range — AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Scientist, Security Engineer, and more. If you're unsure, the free 3-minute skill check recommends a starting track.
Neither. It's 100% code and zero videos — you learn by building, every line you write gets AI feedback, and Nova (your AI tutor) knows your code, your weak topics, and your current lesson.
No. The 'AI for your work' tracks are 100% no-code — you learn to use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini well in the job you already do. The career tracks are where you'd write code; the work tracks never ask you to.
Yes. There are role tracks for marketers, finance, founders, teachers, PMs, sales and more, all taught in plain English. You bring your job; we make you sharper at it with AI.
ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, covered even-handedly. The point isn't one vendor — the prompting and judgment you build transfer across all of them.
The career tracks make you job-ready as an engineer or data professional and involve real code. The work tracks make you more productive with AI in the role you already have — no code, just your day-to-day work done faster and better.
You practise on real work scenarios — a marketing brief, a finance model, a lesson plan — and Nova, your AI tutor, scores the prompts you write and gives specific feedback. It's hands-on practice with a coach, not slides to click through.
Every course maps to a real role with a real salary. That's the bar.
A free skill check shows you where you stand and exactly what to learn next — then claim one of the free early-access seats and your founding rate is locked for life. No credit card.
Or sign in21 subjects · career + no-code tracks · AI graded · Free during early access
Five screens from the Data Science track — the lessons, the marking and the projects exactly as they arrive on day one.
One place that always knows your next move — and how far you've come.
Resume where you stopped
The one line that matters
Nova's mark, written live
Clone your starter repoYour record after the track
Data Science
10
projects deployed
public repo + live URL
93
lessons completed
each one graded
11
modules mastered
beginner to advanced
Levels you move through
A portfolio page
One link an employer opens and runs.
A skill report
Strengths and gaps per topic, from marked work.
A verified certificate
Checkable by credential ID at /verify.