Build your first working app.
Five plain questions, answered in order, then built with AI. No coding background, no tech speak. Every lap teaches you one new piece.
Veteran entrepreneurs who had never built software left our first class with a working app.
The Five Knows
Know it before you build it. Answer each one in order, then hand the whole page to your build tool. That page is your build prompt.
What it does
The purpose, in one sentence.
What it can do
The real jobs it does, added one at a time.
What it shouldn’t do
Tell the truth. Show sources. Nothing illegal. Real numbers only.
How it looks and feels
See it first. We use the right tool for the right capability: one to picture the look, another to build it. The build starts here.
When it’s done
One test that proves it works, and the loop that makes it better.
Then run it again
Put it in your hand. Use it. Come back. Each lap adds one new piece, learned because your build needed it. It gets more capable every lap, and never feels that way.
- Foundations. A working app at a link. Context, GitHub, going live, spend caps.
- Builder. An assistant that knows your files, mail and calendar.
- Operator. One command center for your business: traffic, tasks, issues.
- Advanced. Apps that are guarded, gated and cost-controlled.
- One question at a time, with two clear choices. Never a blank page.
- Short answers. Plain words first; the jargon gets named after you’ve built the thing.
- Whole, then parts. Hold the working app first. Break it down after.
- Think in systems. Loops, links and dependencies, drawn on one page.
The SmartPlay Build Engine
The Five Knows as one guided panel. It does the work in plain view, explains why, and shows a live preview, then your real running app. Nobody skips steps, so everybody learns.
Built by a veteran, for veterans first
A free working-app session
Leave with something real you can use.
Lifetime materials
Every lesson and workbook, for good.
Partner and sponsored seats
Seats through veteran programs, and seats funded by every custom build we deliver.
What do you want it to do?
That’s Know 1, and it’s the start of your first build. Get the workbook, or bring us your idea and we’ll build it with you.