How much time does this really take?◆
Protect 4–5, 6–7, or 8+ hours of work a week. Estimated length: 8–10, 6–8, or 4–6 weeks. Meetings: 1h per week + 1h × 3 gates + 2 mentorship sessions (1h each), by the mentor of your choice. Status stays async. Week 0 is Alignment before delivery weeks. If life happens, you can pause without penalty up to two times; it is in the terms, not a favour.
What is a POD?
A POD is your cross-functional cohort team: a small seat group (for example PM, UX, strategist, engineer) that ships one product together under the same review bar.
Is there a faster intensive track?◆
Pods share one calendar shape: Week 0 alignment, then delivery phases with three review gates. Length follows the hours you protect. Solo own-pace is fixed at 6 weeks.
How is the project chosen?◆
Week 0 · Alignment: align on the product and its features, intro to what it means to be AI-native, identify the ideal customer to interview, and start identifying where to look for customers. Before kickoff we match pods by role and level. Then the 6-week programme begins.
What if the team falls behind?◆
The roadmap adapts. Every week the pod reviews the plan and re-shapes it around the team's needs. A delivery might slip to keep the quality of the work high, exactly as it would in a real team, while we work strategic workarounds to still meet the target launch date whenever possible.
Can't I learn all this free with ChatGPT?◆
The concepts, yes. The constraints, the team, the deadline, and the shipped evidence: no. You've had free access for two years. What did you ship?
How is this different from a bootcamp, or from renting an AI-native pod?◆
A course teaches frameworks. A bootcamp is better if you want more theory. This programme makes you ship as a real cross-functional team, under senior review, with feedback on whether your work meets a professional bar. You leave with real artefacts and the judgment to defend them.
There is also a newer option in the market: agencies now rent out ready-made "AI-native pods," teams of three to seven who build for your company as a service. That can solve a short-term delivery problem, but it leaves the capability with someone else's team, not yours, so the dependency lasts as long as the invoice. This programme is the other way round: you and the people in your pod build the capability yourselves, so it stays with you after the cohort ends.
Is this price real? It seems cheap.◆
Standard is €550, Leadership Track is €800, and Solo own-pace is €350. From 1 November 2026, Standard goes to €795 and Leadership to €1095. The review bar does not scale with the invoice.
Who owns the work I produce?◆
You do. Every artifact you produce is your intellectual property. WonderLead has no commercial rights over your work.
Can we build a paid product?◆
Use a free product for the programme. A paid product would need IP alignment and contracts with your teammates. Any direction toward paid can wait until later, once the team agrees.
Can I join as a mentor for free?◆
Yes. Senior engineers, PMs, designers, researchers, and strategists can apply on the Mentor track at no cost. You still pick the craft you bring so we can match you to a pod. In return you attend team sessions, run mock bar-raiser reviews, and give individual feedback at graduation. Approval is still required; it is not an automatic seat.
What's the refund policy?◆
Refund right ends after 7 days from the start of Week 0. After that, instalments simply stop if you withdraw: you never pay for weeks you do not attend.
What happens after Week 6?◆
Alumni network with free WonderLead community access, your permanent Registry entry, and monthly accountability sessions. You can also come back to mentor, or execute for free in later pods. Three months of REPLAN are included after kickoff. The artifacts keep working for you in every interview after.
