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Build Real Things With AI.

For non-technical builders. Entrepreneurs, creatives, and educators using AI to turn ideas into real tools and automations. AI handles the technical side — you bring the ideas.

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Every third Wednesday

Over Zoom

Your Idea

“Build a custom CRM dashboard for my real estate leads.”

Sources

AI can do a lot. The hard part is making it work for you.

There are a thousand tools and a thousand opinions out there. What you really need is someone who understands your specific situation.

This is a calm, practical place to work through that. You bring what you're building (or what's stuck), and we figure out the next step together.

Here's what's changing: non-technical people can now build their own software — custom tools shaped around their work that save real time every week.

The Live Experience

What 90 minutes looks like.

Each monthly session follows a steady rhythm, and most people are surprised how fast an idea turns into something they can actually use.

What's Worth Paying Attention To

A quick rundown of what changed in AI recently, filtered for what's actually useful to you.

Bring Your Blockers

Submit questions ahead of time. We work through them together, live.

Share Progress

Talk about what you tried and what you learned along the way — it's all progress here.

A Clear Next Step

You'll leave with one specific thing to build before next month.

What you can build here

Things you'll actually build and use.

  • •A personal assistant that drafts replies in your voice and remembers context
  • •A client intake flow that tags, routes, and follows up automatically
  • •A lightweight dashboard for tracking leads, projects, or content ideas
  • •A research helper that summarizes sources and turns them into outlines
  • •A content workflow that turns one idea into multiple publish-ready formats

If you can describe what you want clearly, we can usually get to a working first version — then improve it month by month.

Testimonials

What People Are Saying

Hear from members who are building with AI.

Dan Lerman

“Tom is the perfect teacher for this. He is a masterful tutor, meeting you at your level and mindfully guiding you to grow. He knows AI inside and out and is constantly learning. Working with Tom has given me such solid foundations on AI that I feel like I can keep up with any conversation in the space and even teach those around me. I have also learned a whole new way of thinking, one that affects my daily life and workflow. I feel significantly more empowered, creative, and productive. Thank you Tom!!!”

Dan Lerman

Founder, Brainstorm Tutoring | Co-Founder, LXT

Scott Doty

“Working with Tom has been a stellar experience. He is amiable, insightful, & very bright. His guidance and feedback truly have inspired me to dig into the world of AI as a tool for professional and personal use. Highly recommended!”

Scott Doty

Co-Founder, LXT

Adam

“With my AI informed business, Thomas has been a lifesaver numerous times over, especially helping me critically think about how to apply it successfully for my clients. His aptitude, passion and fervor for teaching is remarkably valuable & insightful.”

Adam

Founder & Entrepreneur

How It Works

A simple three-phase rhythm that repeats each month.

Share before the session

Log into the portal and share a question, a recent win, or what you're building. Members vote on topics.

Join live (or catch the replay)

We meet for 90 minutes on Zoom. If you can't make it, you can still submit a question — and you'll get the recording within 24 hours.

Build between sessions

You'll leave with one thing to work on. The portal keeps your recordings, submissions, and progress organized so you can pick up right where you left off.

Who This Is For

You're a business owner, creative, or educator who can feel what AI could do for you — but you don't want another rabbit hole.

You might be the kind of person who's always had builder energy — but until now, you didn't have the tools to turn those ideas into working systems.

You've had ideas sitting around for a while: a workflow that would save you hours, a tool you wish existed, something you've been meaning to finally build.

The common thread:

You're ready to finally turn one of those ideas into something real — somewhere low-pressure and grounded.

Access Pass

From idea to “I made this.”

A monthly session where you walk away with something you can actually use.

Steady momentum

You've explored tutorials and bookmarked tools, and now you're ready for the real thing: a place to sit down and build, with someone who can help along the way.

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$97/mo
  • Monthly live mastermind sessions (90m)
  • Full access to member portal
  • Submit & vote on support topics
  • Session recordings & recaps
  • Community wins board

For people who are ready to build something real.

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Background & Context

Thomas Meli

Thomas Meli
01

Thomas Meli has spent 10 years running a tutoring business and 8 years as a software developer. He's been immersed in AI since AlphaGo captured his imagination in 2016.

02

After ranking in the Top 1% on the Kaggle machine learning platform, he dove deep into the applied side of AI — focusing on what these tools can actually build for real businesses.

03

As the founder of Deep Test Prep, he knows what it means to juggle lesson planning, student progress, and billing while trying to do your best work. For the past two years, he's been helping entrepreneurs and creatives build with AI through his consulting practice and AI Mastermind group.

Logistics

Not at all — this is built for non-technical builders. We use AI tools that let you describe what you want in everyday language, then turn it into something you can test and improve. You don't need to "be technical." You just need to know what you want the tool to do. We'll guide the build step by step.

All kinds — from automating client onboarding to building personal dashboards to creating AI assistants trained on your own content. Sometimes we work through exercises together to build a new skill, but even those are always personalized so you walk away with something useful for your world.

No worries at all. Every session is recorded and posted to the member portal within 24 hours. You can also submit questions in advance, and they'll be covered whether or not you're there live.

Of course. It's month-to-month through Stripe — one click from the billing portal whenever you need.

Usually somewhere between 8 and 25. Small enough that you can ask a question and get individual attention. If the group gets bigger than that, we'll split into smaller cohorts so nobody gets lost.

That's totally normal. A lot of people start that way. We'll help you find something that fits your work. Sometimes the best project idea comes from watching someone else build theirs — you see a client onboarding flow and think, 'I could do something like that for my invoicing.'

You'll want at least one paid subscription — something like ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro. Free tiers work for experimenting, but the paid versions are noticeably better for the kind of work we do here.

We lean toward building. You'll pick up concepts as they come up, but the goal is always to leave with something that works.