01Summer
Bangalore
The AI capital of Asia. Visits to active AI research labs and production shops.
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Kids · Expeditions · Ages 12 – 16
Ship real AI.
At fifteen. Abroad.
An international residency for serious teenage builders. Fifty students a year, five cohorts of ten. You travel, you build, you ship real AI systems with the studio behind Fairshift and Vani. You graduate with a portfolio, a global peer network, and a clearer view of what you are capable of.
Admissions note
“The kid who already ships things. Who keeps trying to build something real, and keeps running into the same walls.”
- Cohort size10 students, no exceptions
- SafetyDedicated child safety officer
- SupervisionFaculty + chaperone 24/7
- ComplianceMinor-custody documentation
01The numbers
Fifty students a year. On purpose.
The cohort is small because the students are specific. The residency is international because the peer network matters as much as the curriculum.
10per cohort
Students
Never larger.
5a year
Cohorts
Each in a different AI capital.
50total
Places a year
Half applications are rejected.
2weeks
Residency
Intensive. Delivered on site.
02The cohorts
Five cities. Five different kinds of AI.
Each cohort happens in a city where real AI work is being done — with site visits to the labs, companies, and teams shipping it.
02Winter
Dubai
Gulf innovation corridor. Ship something deployed across regulated-market infrastructure.
03Summer
Singapore
Southeast Asia's most institutional AI ecosystem. Government, startup, and multinational context.
04Autumn
Tallinn
The Estonia of e-residency. Build civic AI. Ship a product that interacts with a real national digital system.
05Summer
Bay Area
The original. Visits to model labs, agent companies, and the firms shipping what everyone else uses.
03Open cohorts
Applications currently open.
These are the cohorts with live application windows. Every cohort fills at ten students, rolling.
04What you ship
Three real AI systems. Before you go home.
Every student graduates with working systems they can show, install, and keep running.
01
A working voice agent
Built on the same Deepgram + LLM + TTS pipeline running Vani at millions of minutes. Deployed to a real number you can call.
02
A multi-channel AI assistant
WhatsApp + web widget + voice, unified. The architecture Fairshift ships to real businesses, compressed into your own build.
03
An original AI system
Your capstone. You propose, design, and ship something that did not exist before the cohort started. Graded on whether it works.
05The other half
How AI breaks people. We teach that too.
Your fifteen-year-old is about to be capable of building powerful systems. We make sure they also learn how those systems get weaponised — so they can spot the attack, and never be the one building it.
Spot the attack
We show students the real tradecraft. Phishing apps that look legitimate, deepfake videos, voice clones of a parent's voice used to extract money. Students learn to see it coming.
Never build it
Every powerful tool cuts both ways. We teach the boundary between building something useful and building something weaponised.
Verified, supervised, sandboxed
Students train on production models with studio supervision. Every deployment passes a safety review. Every output is auditable.
Real responsibility
By the end students understand they are now capable of building systems that affect other people's lives. How they wield that is no longer theoretical.
06Parent questions
Every question we have been asked. Answered honestly.
Twelve to sixteen year olds with a real interest in building AI. Not "loved the robotics club once." We are looking for kids who already write code, already use modern AI tools, already have an idea they have tried and failed to build on their own.
Your child is about to decide what AI means to them.
Put them in the right room.
Applications open for the 2026 cohorts. Begin the conversation, meet an admissions operator, and your child meets the cohort of ten they will build with.
Shipped by the studio
Everything we teach, we have already shipped.
Fairshift
Production AI platform. Voice, WhatsApp, avatar, kiosk, web. 12 LLM providers, multi-jurisdictional.
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Vani
Autonomous AI voice agent platform. 42 languages, sub-1s response, millions of minutes at 99.9% uptime.
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More products launching this year. Every new system we ship becomes the next thing Academy teaches — refreshed every term against what is actually shipping, not against what was current when the syllabus was printed.