Comet Academy

For high school builders

In three weeks, you'll have built something real.

Evenings after school, for three weeks. Not a worksheet, and not a project that only works on your teacher's laptop. A real gadget, a real app or a real product you can hand to someone and say: I made this.

Full refund until seven days beforeStarts September 22, 2026 · 24 seats

A young engineer examining a drone frame at a workbench.
A young engineer assembling a drone in a workshop.

You end up with a thing, not a grade

On the last day you show your finished project to everyone. Then you keep it. Put it on a college application, show it in an interview, or just keep making it better.

A workbench with electronic parts and small tools laid out.

You use the real tools

The same equipment and the same AI that professionals used this year. Nothing is a simplified school version that you throw away afterwards.

Three teenagers building small robots at a table.

Someone is always there

Two live evening classes a week, with the instructor on the call and a small group building at the same time as you. Plus open help sessions for when it is late and nothing works.

What the three weeks look like.

  1. Week 1

    Get set up and pick your project

    You copy one line of text, paste it in, and your computer sets itself up. Then you choose what to make, and we check together that it can be finished in three weeks.

  2. Week 2

    Build it, with AI doing the heavy lifting

    You make the pictures, the voice, the music, the video and most of the writing and code using AI. This is the week people say feels like cheating.

  3. Week 3

    Put it out in the world

    Get it online, decide what it would cost, show it to ten real people, and fix what they trip over. On the last day you demo it live.

What should you build?

Answer three questions and we will suggest a real project, with what it costs and how long it takes. No sign-up, no email.

Deciding what to make is the hardest part of the first week. Doing it now means arriving with the decision already made.

Question 1 of 3

What would you rather have when you're finished?

$4,100 of value. $950 for the seat.

The AI usage alone would cost more than the fee. The electronics kit arrives before the first class. Every recording stays yours.

  • 12 live classes over three weeks$2,000
  • All the AI usage, paid for$1,000
  • Every class recorded, yours to keep$400
  • Twelve ready-made projects to choose from$300
  • A one-to-one session with the instructor$250
  • An electronics kit posted to your doorgadget projects only$150
  • You pay$950
Jack Baum, founder of General Intelligence Services.
Illustration, generated from a photograph of the instructor.

Who runs it

Jack Baum

Founder, General Intelligence Services

Jack Baum has spent his career moving real things: infrastructure projects between governments, goods across borders, commercial buildings in New York.

Now he builds the software that runs them. Station CRM, HardhatOS, Envkeep — shipped, in production, and public for anyone to read.

He is not a teacher who once built something. He builds every week, and this course is the method he uses.

In three weeks it gets you to the same place: a thing that exists.

Questions worth asking.

Three weeks from now, it either exists or it doesn't.

That is genuinely the whole idea. The deadline is what makes it happen.

Take a seat$950

24 seats in Cohort 01.