The Core Loop
Founders School students are domain experts who build an audience around their thinking and ship products that their audience wants. Year 1 teaches you to run that loop — expertise, audience, product — in miniature every week.
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Four years. Real businesses. Real revenue. You graduate with a company, and a diploma.
Total Balance
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Alpha School pioneered AI-accelerated education. The model works. The data proves it. And Founders School is built on it.
1350+
Average SAT
Across Alpha School Seniors
3 hrs
Daily Academics
AI-accelerated, mastery-based
100%
Accredited
Full high school diploma
Top 1%
Scores
Based on national standardized tests
The Model
Alpha School proved that AI can compress a full day of academics into three hours while consistently outperforming traditional schools on standardized tests. Founders School adds 1,000+ hours per year of hands-on entrepreneurial experience on top.
SAT Score
College Readiness
Daily Academic Hours
The Campus
Purpose-built for this program. Dedicated workspace, fitness facilities, and a cohort environment designed for focus. In-person only — because building real businesses requires real presence.
In The Press
Entrepreneur ↗
“AI-powered academics in two hours a day, with afternoons for life skills and projects.”
Nature ↗
“Degree of Change: AI is reshaping education, with models like Alpha Schools in the conversation.”
CNN ↗
“Is AI schooling the future of education or a risky bet?”
Newsweek ↗
“How schools like Alpha hand off academics to AI and what that means for teachers.”
What Students Have Built

The Largest Bike Park in Texas
Rhett designed, funded, and built a full-scale bike park from scratch, successully launching the largest bike park in Texas before he graduated high school.

An AI Plushy for Anxious Teens
From concept to commerce - a student launched a physical product brand, handling design, manufacturing, AI integraiton, and social media marketing.

Novel Marketing Strategies for Indie Films
A teen behind a new wave of digital creativity, featured in LA Entertainment Weekly for innovative movie marketing campaigns bringing indie films to theaters by leveraging social media and AI.

Superior EdTech for AP History
An Alpha student rebuilt the equivalent of $100M in EdTech—designing an AP history curriculum and running 100,000 AI-simulated students through it daily to refine the material.

AI Automations for Local Businesses
Branson booked $30,000 in the first month of a consulting practice helping SMBs implement AI to take over repetitive processes.

A Leading Education Publication
Perspectives on the best way to help your child thrive in this competitive world, based on adaptive learning applications and other facets of non-traditional schooling.
Why Now
Learn to think, sell, and ship, harnessing AI to futureproof your skills and career.
01
Time
Back
Three-Hour Learning gives you 1,000+ extra hours per year. Five hours every day traditional school wastes, redirected to building your business.
02
World-Class
Guidance
Founders, operators, and investors who've built what you want to build — in with you every week. Direct feedback on your business. Real relationships — not guest lectures.
03
AI-Native
Education
Learn to build with AI from day one — not as a novelty, but as a core skill. Vibe coding, AI agents, automation. Master them at 14.
Network
Elite apprenticeships. Real projects. Weekly mentorship from founders who've built what you want to build.
Justin Mares
TrueMed, Kettle & Fire
Zach Yadegari
CalAI
Claire Vo
ChatPRD
Dan Shipper
Every
Eric Jorgenson
Naval Almanack
Ben Wilson
How to Take Over the World
David Booth
A16Z
Tiffany Zhong
noplace
Kevin Lee
immi
Blake Anderson
10x
Joe Liemandt
Alpha School
Sarah Cone
Social Impact Capital
Curriculum
Character. Business. AI. Academics done by 11 a.m.
Trait Assessment
Revenue
$0
Customers
0
Conv. Rate
0%
Deal Pipeline
Reasoning
Vibe Code
Frontend
Design
Automation
Delegation
Average SAT
1350+
vs. 1028 national avg
AP Scores
4s & 5s
on all AP exams
Accreditation
100%
full high school diploma
Daily Commitment
AI-accelerated, mastery-based
Freshman Year
Full immersion in entrepreneurship and building. Students leave freshman year with the experience, skills, and mindset to go build a $1M company.
The Four Pillars of Founder Bootcamp
Founders School students are domain experts who build an audience around their thinking and ship products that their audience wants. Year 1 teaches you to run that loop — expertise, audience, product — in miniature every week.
Each session is 8 weeks. Sell strangers on the street. Build and ship a product in days with AI. Validate by running a loop a week. Grow using proven techniques. Scale past the limits of what you can do alone.
Developed all year across three pillars: Life Skills (integrity, courage, agency, communication, leadership), Entrepreneurship (building, selling, iteration, financial thinking, domain expertise), and AI (thinking partner, augmented building, tool literacy, automation, ethics).
Every student is paired with a working entrepreneur who pair-works with them every afternoon — not a lecturer. Elite founders, investors, and thinkers drop in every other week. Plus a specialist bench we pull from when your situation needs expertise the team can't cover.
What you walk away with at the end of Year 1
$50K+
Revenue from one validated venture
1400+
SAT, one AP, top 1% on standardized tests
$1M
By senior year — or full tuition refund
The goal entering sophomore year: a validated business with traction, a demonstrated skill stack, and the founder mindset and network to go build a $1M company — on a clear path to the Founders School guarantee for eligible students.
Go Deeper
Every sprint, skill, and capstone — laid out week by week.
The full freshman year plan: the five sessions, the fifteen skills, the capstones parents attend, and the observable work you'll deliver by the end.
See the full freshman year plan →Years 2–4
Sophomore
Commit
Junior
Scale
Senior
Finish
Daily Structure
Academics done by 11 a.m. Build until dark.
Founders School
Traditional
3h
Academics
5h+
Building
1,000+
Extra hrs/yr
Academics
AI-accelerated. Mastery-based. Done by 11am.
Daily Standup
Set goals. Get feedback. Stay accountable.
Lunch
Eat with your cohort. Recharge.
Build
Your business. Your time. Until dark.
The Guarantee
Not aid. Not a scholarship. A bet on you.
We're putting our money where our mouth is. If you don't hit it, we failed. Full refund.
Only applies for students who enroll as freshmen, and is subject to program terms. Some exceptions apply.
Admissions
As a member of the inaugural class of Founders School, you'll receive unprecedented support and resources in your entrepreneurial ambitions, while helping shape the program alongside us.
Admissions Steps
Application deadline: May 30, 2026
We understand some families may be on tighter deadlines with other admissions processes. Contact us after submitting your application to notify us of any special considerations you may need.
Questions
Yes. Full-time, in person, on campus. This isn't a remote program or a part-time accelerator. Students show up every day and build alongside their cohort.
$1M in profit. Real money. For students who enroll as freshmen, our guarantee applies — full tuition refund if you don't hit it. Some exceptions apply per the enrollment agreement.
9th through 12th grade — all four years of high school. The first class starts Fall 2026 with a cohort of 20 freshmen. We're primarily admitting freshmen, but will consider particularly strong sophomores and juniors.
AI-accelerated, mastery-based academics. Students work through core subjects at their own pace using AI tools — no lectures, no busywork. Most finish by 11 a.m., freeing up the rest of the day to build.
Yes. Fully accredited high school diploma with a complete college-prep transcript. College is absolutely an option — but after four years of building real businesses, you might not need it.
Founder Bootcamp gives you the skills, apprenticeships, and a validated business. Then three years scaling toward $1M.
Yes. Students who don't put in the effort or who drag down the cohort culture will be removed. The standard exists to protect the students who are all-in.
Five stages: online application, CCAT, a 15-minute screening interview with the Head of Founder Development, an entrepreneurship challenge + video, and an in-person interview & school visit. Each stage narrows the field.
If you're exceptional, we'll find a way. Don't let tuition stop you.
Yes. Families relocate for elite sports academies and performing arts schools all the time — this is the same thing for entrepreneurship. In-person only, no exceptions.
For parents
Yes, they'll receive a fully accredited high school diploma with a complete college-prep transcript. The learning is compressed, not cut.
Your child will still earn top test scores, while building a portfolio of real businesses. If they want to go to college after the program, they'll be well-prepared with the skills, mindset, and experience to succeed.
For students who enroll as freshmen, our guarantee applies: if they don't hit $1M in profit by graduation, you get a full tuition refund. Some exceptions apply — details are covered in the enrollment agreement.
Students who will thrive here already feel held back by the traditional school system. We're here to help them break through and build a business that can change their lives, while understanding they're still teenagers and will have ups and downs.
If we don't believe they're a good fit, we'll ask them to leave the program at the end of the year. In this case, you'll receive the refund, as it means either we made a mistake in admitting them or in providing the support they needed to succeed.
They're welcome to leave the program anytime. However, students who drop out are not elligible for the refund.