Turn ideas into real companies.
Rodin Academy is a brick-and-mortar school where the curious — kids and adults, in the same room — learn to build real things in the age of AI. Taught not by career instructors, but by entrepreneurs who've actually shipped.
No prerequisite but curiosity.
A curious ten-year-old and a forty-year-old ready for a second act, learning together. The mix is the point — different ages, different starting lines, the same drive to make something real.
Kids
Curious young builders who'd rather make a game, an app, or a business than just read about them. They learn by shipping.
Adults & second-acts
Career-changers, side-hustlers, and the merely curious. It's never too late to learn the craft that matters now.
Side by side
Kids and adults in the same room, learning from each other as much as from the mentors. Curiosity doesn't have an age.
The craft and the muscle.
Most schools teach one or the other. Rodin teaches both — how to make the thing, and how to turn it into a business that ships and survives.
Make real things with AI
The hands-on skills that matter right now — building with AI as your co-builder, not a buzzword.
- Vibe coding — build working software by describing what you want.
- Agentic AI — design systems that act, not just answer.
- AI fundamentals — understand what's really happening under the hood.
Turn a prototype into a business
The entrepreneurial muscle that separates a cool demo from a real company.
- Marketing — get the thing in front of people who want it.
- Sales — turn interest into customers and revenue.
- The grit to ship — finish, launch, and keep going when it's hard.
Founders, not
career instructors.
Every mentor at Rodin has actually built something — shipped a product, raised a round, made the first sale, survived the hard part. They don't teach theory from a textbook. They teach what they learned in the arena, while it's still warm.
Become a mentor →Built & shipped
Real products in the real world — not slideware.
In the arena
People still building, teaching what works now.
Honest about the hard parts
The grind, the pivots, the first ten customers.
Just as Rodin shaped raw stone into something alive, we shape curious people into founders and builders.The Rodin idea
You learn by shipping.
Come curious
No prerequisites, no entrance exam. Bring an idea or find one here.
Learn the craft
Build real things with AI alongside mentors who've done it — hands on a keyboard from day one.
Build the muscle
Take your prototype and learn to market it, sell it, and ship it like a business.
Walk out a builder
Leave with something real — and the grit to make the next one.
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