Hey Asssa, it's the newline team.

Most workshops want anyone with a credit card. Our Miami workshop on June 13-14 is application-based for a reason. Thirty seats, two days, two of us in the room. We want it to be the right thirty.

Here's who actually belongs in Miami.

If you're a working engineer, you've already shipped real software. Maybe Python, maybe TypeScript, maybe Go. You've heard about RAG and Claude Code and agent loops, but every time you sit down to wire one in for your team, the gap between the demo and a production system swallows the weekend. You bring your real codebase. You leave with the production patterns that close the gap.

If you're a founder with a real product, you have customers, revenue, and a sense that the next 18 months belong to companies who get AI right inside their stack. You don't need another high-level "AI for founders" article. You need someone to look at your product and tell you what to build next and what not to build at all. You bring your roadmap. We tell you which features make sense.

If you're a consultant or operator with a service business, you already know how to deliver. The bottleneck is somewhere in the scaling arc: offer, delivery, leads, sales, distribution, or ops. Most operators try to fix the wrong one for six months before figuring it out. You bring your business as-is. Zao and Dipen tell you, in person, which part is actually broken and what to do about it.

Who you'll be in the room with

The cohort isn't random. We shape it deliberately so you're surrounded by the right people.

Engineers currently in our AI Accelerator. Roughly half the room. Advanced AI knowledge, shipping in production. You sit next to them during pair programming and learn from their working code, not from slides.

Founders with running products. Operators with revenue and a real next move on AI. Day 2 has a Founder Roundtable Lunch built specifically for them.

Alumni from past cohorts. People who already shipped what you're trying to build. Still building, still in the room because they want to be around the next wave.

A few engineers earlier in the AI journey. Paired with advanced attendees during workshops. The pairing surfaces questions everyone learns from.

Plus: Saturday rooftop social on the Novotel pool deck, a Collaborative Lunch on Day 1 with builder introductions and lightning talks, and small-group demos on Day 2 where you show what you built. These are the conversations a room and a weekend make possible. A Slack thread doesn't get there.

If you saw yourself in one of the first three, the workshop is for you. If you saw yourself in the second list, skip Miami and watch the courses on your own time.

Thirty seats. First come, first accepted.

- Zao and the newline team

P.S. The fastest sign that someone belongs in this room: they could describe their actual problem in two sentences before they finished reading this email. If that's you, the rest of the application is just paperwork.