Agentic Buildcamp

Agentic Buildcamp is our instance of a Cognitive Gym: a mentor-led, cohort-based program for building a real AI product. Every builder gets mentor feedback through the group, both sync and async; a 1-on-1 mentorship add-on is available for extra direct time on top of that. Sherpa-B is the guidance tool that runs alongside both.

Why you can't passively watch someone lift and get stronger. Watching someone else build doesn't teach your hands what a broken retrieval pipeline feels like, or how to debug an agent that's confidently wrong. Buildcamp is built around your own project from day one, not recorded lectures.

Why a mentor watches your form before bad habits set in. Early feedback on your specific build prevents bad patterns from calcifying. Every builder gets mentor feedback through sync sessions and async review, the same reason a personal trainer corrects your form in the first few sessions rather than the last. The 1-on-1 mentorship add-on layers extra direct time with a mentor on top of that.

Why alumni come back. Alumni make up a meaningful share of every new cohort. Each cohort is a new project, not a repeat of the last one, and the group energy still helps even once you already know the lifecycle.

What building with Sherpa-B looks like

You work on a real project from day one. Sherpa-B guides you through the full development lifecycle as guided workouts inside Claude Code. At each phase you get a set of questions and frameworks, best practices delivered in context, and a thought partner that surfaces assumptions and blind spots. Each step produces a concrete artifact (problem framing document, evaluation dataset, architecture spec) that carries forward into the next phase.

The KnowledgeOps methodology covers the complete lifecycle:

Ideation and problem framing. Define the problem worth solving before writing a line of code.
Evaluation design. Establish how you will know the system works before building it.
Architecture and context management. Design the agent's decision structure and information flows.
UX and interaction design. Define how humans and the system interact.
Implementation. Build with Claude Code guided by the design decisions already made.
Deployment. Move from prototype to production with a clear deployment plan.
Go-to-market. Plan the launch: public demo strategy, positioning, and adoption.

Sherpa-B tracks your progress across workouts and prompts a reflection at the end of each one. For Agentic Buildcamp participants, your instructor sees those artifacts and reflections alongside the rest of your cohort's, so feedback accounts for where you actually are, not just the phase you're supposed to be in.