The 6 Weeks
Build your business foundation, master AI operations, and ship real work—alongside 25 operators who get it.
The foundation, the system, the crew
We're an accelerator for your independent business, helping strengthen your business foundations, develop an AI-first operating system, and do it in great company with accountability from 25 smart peers.
Week by week breakdown
How it comes together
Monday Workshop
Positioning frameworks: define who you serve, what you deliver, and why you're different.
Build Lab
Use AI to validate your positioning against real market signals and rapidly iterate on offer language.
Small Group
Get to know your pod — share what brought you here and what you're hoping to figure out over the next 6 weeks.
Guest Speaker
An operator who nailed their niche shares how they found their positioning.
Mentor Network
Book time with a mentor who has experience in your target market.
Community
Share your draft positioning in Slack for reactions and encouragement from the full cohort.
How it comes together
Monday Workshop
Building your personal brand, choosing channels, and running growth experiments that get results.
Build Lab
Build content workflows that stay personal at scale — AI-assisted ideation, drafting, and distribution.
Small Group
Name the story you tell yourself about why this won't work — then let your pod challenge it.
Guest Speaker
A founder or creator shares how they built visibility from scratch without a big budget.
Mentor Network
Connect with a mentor who can review your content strategy and suggest high-leverage channels.
Community
Peer accountability kicks in — share your first content experiments and cheer each other on.
How it comes together
Monday Workshop
Lead generation, discovery calls, handling objections, and closing — without feeling salesy.
Build Lab
Build personalized outreach workflows — AI-powered lead research, qualification, and follow-up sequences.
Small Group
Talk about what's hard about putting yourself out there — the rejection, the vulnerability of selling yourself.
Guest Speaker
A successful independent shares their pipeline system and how they consistently close deals.
Mentor Network
Get warm intros from mentors to potential clients or partners in your space.
Community
Share outreach wins (and misses) — the cohort becomes your sales accountability group.
How it comes together
Monday Workshop
Value-based pricing principles, package design, tiering, and negotiation strategies.
Build Lab
Model pricing scenarios with AI, analyze market rates, and build calculators for your services.
Small Group
Explore the money stuff honestly — your relationship with charging, the guilt, the fear of asking for what you're worth.
Guest Speaker
Someone who raised their rates 3x shares the psychology and mechanics of pricing confidence.
Mentor Network
Pressure-test your pricing with a mentor who knows your market inside and out.
Community
Compare notes on pricing models and packaging strategies across different service types.
How it comes together
Monday Workshop
Contracts, proposals, financial tracking, client onboarding — structuring the unsexy but essential stuff.
Build Lab
Continue building your AI operating system — what stays human vs. what gets delegated, and design workflows that run your back office.
Small Group
Check in on energy and sustainability — are you building something you actually want to run, or just staying busy?
Guest Speaker
An operator shares their exact tech stack and how they run a lean, automated practice.
Mentor Network
Get advice on legal, finance, or ops from a mentor who has navigated the same challenges.
Community
Swap templates, tools, and hard-won lessons on the operations that keep a solo practice running.
How it comes together
Monday Workshop
Turn your expertise into scalable products — workshops, templates, courses, and repeatable deliverables.
Build Lab
Use AI as co-pilot to create a productized offering — from content to automation to self-service assets.
Small Group
Reflect on how far you've come and what you're taking with you — and make plans to keep showing up for each other.
Guest Speaker
A creator who built a portfolio of digital products shares what worked and what to skip.
Mentor Network
Get guidance on packaging and launching your first product from a mentor who has done it.
Community
Celebrate shipping your final projects — and plan how to keep the momentum going post-program.
Build an AI system that actually runs your business
AI fluency isn't a nice-to-have anymore — it's a baseline. The operators who build real systems around how they work will move faster, serve more clients, and win the work.
your foundation
Get fully set up with Claude Code — the most powerful AI tool available. It's way more than code, and we'll show you how to make the most of it with Skills, Connectors, Commands, and more.
your OS
Decide what to delegate to AI — finance, sales, marketing, ops — then build the system around it, together.
your automation layer
Get hands-on with tools like n8n and Granola, wired into your OS so everything works from one place.
your client advantage
Everything you build for yourself, you can bring to your clients — making you the operator who actually knows how to set this stuff up, not just talk about it.
In our alumni's words
Manual Override is the structured program to bring more clarity to your business, and the community to hold you accountable to keep going.
You'll leave clearer, more confident, and much better equipped to talk about what you do and what to charge for it.
It doesn't matter what stage you're at, MO can help you gain clarity, develop a strategy, and give you encouragement to execute it.
Let's face it: life as a solo can be lonely.
and we're proud of enabling small circles that create trust and accountability fast,
and real lasting impact through relationships. These are smart, generous people you can ask questions to anytime, and who you'll move forward with as supporters and friends.
Throughout, we'll push you to ship real work, encouraging momentum without guilt,
getting you off the couch to talk to real people, and keeping you pointed at growth — not just talking about it. You'll move very fast, and that speed will help you make decisions
without waiting for perfection.
Most of all, we're proud of our results: MO helped me get my mojo back. On a daily basis, I still use the toolset and mindset that I gained from my time in MO to manage my business, position my work, and connect with others.
I'm booked for the next year, and so much of what I do now exists because of what I built in MO.
What this adds up to
What you'll learn
- Positioning that differentiates you in the market
- Pricing and packaging you can quote confidently
- Client acquisition that doesn't feel sleazy
- Confidence understanding AI and using LLMs, Claude Cowork + Code, and n8n practically
What you'll leave with
- A clear offer: who you serve, what you deliver, why you're different
- An AI-forward operating system so you do more of the work you're great at - and less of everything else
- A pricing model that reflects your value
- A community of deeply engaged peers to continue forward with
Is this for you?
This accelerator is best for operators who:
- ✓Come from the tech and tech startup world
- ✓Already quit the full-time job, or are ready to go now
- ✓Are looking for a hands-on, active learning experience alongside peers
- ✓Imagine a portfolio of income streams, not just fractional or consulting work
- ✓Are excited to build with AI
- ✓Are ready to build in community, imperfectly
- ✓Can commit several hours a week for 6 weeks
- ✓Are in US, UK or EU time zones (ok for global operators, but you might end up joining our live sessions in the middle of your night!)
Spring 2026 Cohort
Dates
April 6 - May 15, 2026
Format
Online, live sessions
Cohort Size
Limited to 25 people
Investment
$3,800
Applications due March 27
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Frequently asked questions
The investment is $3,800 for the full 6-week program. This includes all workshops, small group sessions, access to our Mentor Database, guest speaker events, and lifetime access to the alumni community.
This accelerator runs from Monday, April 6 - Friday, May 15, 2026. It's a series of live, online workshops, small group meetings, and special events, like guest speakers. (Yes, we'll provide recordings if you can't make it live.)
You can expect 4 - 5 hours a week of live sessions, between workshops, small groups, 1:1s, and other events. Beyond the live sessions, we'd suggest setting aside another few hours a week to do the work: clarifying your offerings based on the workshop lessons, building your pipeline, meeting with other cohort members, and other activities to get your business moving. This would be incredibly difficult to participate in alongside a full-time job, so this program is best for people who have already committed their full-time to building independent businesses.
- Mondays: Workshops, 10am – 12pm PST / 1pm – 3pm EST
- Tuesdays & Wednesdays: Special events, like AMAs and Speakers
- Wednesdays: Build Lab peer coworking, 10am – 12pm PST / 1pm – 3pm EST
- Thursdays: Your Small Group meets
- Fridays: Ship It Friday — share your weekly progress
While our workshops are built to attend live, we'll provide recordings. If you anticipate missing more than 25% of the workshops, you may want to wait for future cohorts.
We keep things small, only accepting 25 people for each cohort. Our goal is to provide the highest quality peer set for you, and also be able to give strong support to each person who joins.
View the week by week breakdown above.
Mentors are successful independents, founders, portfolio careerists, and industry connectors. We've hand-picked each one because we think they could help you in some way: Some share their experience, some act as coaches, others connect you with companies that need your skills, and others make introductions that open immediate doors to opportunities.
We're booking people now! Check the Team page for speakers from the first cohort as examples.
Short answer: No. Longer answer: We're human, and will work with you if something exceptional happens in your schedule or life. We are unlikely to offer refunds for other reasons.
Short answer: Yes! Longer answer: We haven't decided on dates yet, but will likely run one more cohort in 2026.