Personal Architect

Six weeks to become the architect of your own AI-powered life. Stop using AI like a toddler. Use it like your own superintelligence. Build three systems you actually own in six weeks.

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Who this is for

You work in or near tech. You use Claude or ChatGPT every day, but mostly to rewrite emails and summarize meetings. You’ve watched the person you don’t even like ship something cool with AI and felt it. The lag, the quiet shame of being outclassed by the moment you’re living in.

You are not a beginner. You can open a terminal. You know what an API is, more or less. You have opinions about your tools but no system you’ve actually architected yourself. You’re tired of “learn Claude Code in 10 steps” content that treats you like you’re five.

You want to stop consuming AI tutorials and start owning your stack.

Not for you:total beginners who’ve never touched AI, or people who already run their own agent infrastructure. This cohort sits in the middle.

The six weeks

Each week delivers one architectural idea, one build, and one homework. You leave with three AI-native systems you built yourself and use daily.

  1. 1

    Architecture thinking

    Why most personal AI tools are someone else's opinions about your life. The foundation move: design before you build, own your data, no subscriptions you can't leave.

  2. 2

    Your second brain

    Build a personal knowledge system on infrastructure you own, connected to any AI client. The thing I use every day. This is the anchor project.

  3. 3

    Pick your first build

    Finance tracker, productivity system, email triage, or your own wild card. You scope it, I pressure-test the architecture.

  4. 4

    Ship it

    Build the thing. Debug with the group. This is where the “I'm not technical enough” story breaks.

  5. 5

    Extend and connect

    Wire your system into the rest of your life — calendar, email, whatever tools you already live in. This is where it stops being a toy.

  6. 6

    Architect in the wild

    What to build next, when to use AI and when not to, how to keep the whole thing from becoming another maintenance job. Where you go from here.

Format

  • 10 seats. First cohort. Small on purpose — I want to know every person in the room.
  • 6 weekly group calls, 90 minutes each, live. Recordings if you miss one, but showing up is the point.
  • Async support between calls. Real replies from me, not a bot.
  • Private community space for the cohort. Threads, builds-in-progress, troubleshooting, code review.
  • Homework and a build each week. You leave with three working systems or you get your money back (see Investment).

Investment

$2,500 — pay in full.

3 payments of $834 — over three months.

Both options enroll you immediately. No “discovery call” required. If you know, you know.

Guarantee:Complete the six weeks, submit the homework, and if you don’t have three AI-native systems you built yourself and use daily at the end of the cohort — full refund. The test protects both of us: the refund requires the work, and the work produces the transformation.

About

I’m Alex Habiby. I’ve spent the last decade architecting production systems for state governments and private companies — licensing systems serving millions of constituents, pandemic-era emergency platforms, Salesforce and MuleSoft builds at scale. Agencies pay me $300–500k/year to do this work.

I also failed out of my college computer science program. I spent the first three years of my career convinced I was a fraud, sold to clients as a “technical architect” before I had any right to the title. I shipped the project anyway. And every one after.

In the last two years I built my own AI agent stack — a personal second brain, a finance automation system that replaced four subscription products, a full personal infrastructure running on my own machines. Not because I had to. Because I wanted to own my tools instead of renting them.

This cohort is what I’d have paid anything for at 24, when I was drowning at a tech startup billing me as an expert while I googled “what is Heroku” at 2am. It’s architecture thinking — the thing CS programs don’t teach, the thing tool tutorials pretend you don’t need — applied to your own life.

I am deliberately not the guy selling you “Claude Code in 10 steps.” I think that genre is the education system’s worst habits wearing new clothes. I’d rather teach ten people to think like architects than ten thousand to copy and paste.

FAQ

How technical do I need to be?
Comfortable opening a terminal when walked through it. Have used Claude or ChatGPT daily for a few months. Willing to spend ~$20/ month on API credits during the cohort.
What if I can't make a live call?
Recordings go up within 24 hours. But plan to make at least four of six.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You need to be willing to read code someone else wrote and understand what it’s doing structurally.
What tools will we use?
Claude and Claude Code primary. Supabase for storage. Stripe/ Plaid APIs where relevant. Your existing stack as the integration surface. No vendor lock-in — everything you build, you own.
Will this replace my therapist / coach / productivity system?
No. It will probably make your existing systems work better.
What happens after six weeks?
You have three working systems and the thinking to build more. No ongoing fee, no upsell.
When does the cohort start?
[Specific date — TBD]. Ten seats. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

Ready to build?

Apply — 10 Seats Only

Application closes [date] or when the cohort fills, whichever first.

Application takes ~5 minutes. I read every one personally.