Venture Studio · Guided Apprenticeships · Agentic Marketing Agency

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Build a website in 14 days

From an idea to a live URL with email capture, a connected domain, and a real first content piece — in two weeks. The flagship outcome for any captain who hasn't shipped yet.

Three ways in

01 · Free

Steal it

Free

Open-source starter kit on GitHub. Clone it, customize the CLAUDE.md, ship it. Use forever, never pay a dollar.

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MIT license · use commercially

02 · Members

The Blueprint

$101/mo

The deep walkthrough — every judgment call, every gotcha, the patterns we run with. Plus pair sessions with Max during build.

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Includes the whole MaxShip School community

03 · DFY

Fractional CMO

From $6K/mo

We embed as your Fractional CMO and deploy AI agents that ship the site, content engine, and distribution across marketing performance, social, lifecycle (email + SMS), and ops. Custom Command Kit personalization included.

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What you'll have at the end

  • Live URL on Cloudflare Workers
  • Custom domain wired through Cloudflare
  • Email capture form posting to D1
  • Transactional + welcome email via Resend
  • First content piece published
  • Analytics wired (PostHog or Datafast)

The stack we use

Proof — we shipped it ourselves

Field Report

How I Discovered the Captain's Flywheel

I didn't theorize this framework and apply it. I built 15 versions of an AI agent named Gary, and the methodology emerged from the practice. The flywheel was lived before it was named.

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