5-Day Free Course · SaaS · AI

Build a SaaS with AI From Idea to Paying Customers

Architecture, authentication, Stripe subscriptions, LLM feature integration, and deployment. The complete technical path from blank repo to a monetized AI SaaS — built by engineers who have shipped it.

5 days self-paced
Free forever
Text + external video refs
No signup required
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No videos. On purpose.

This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on saas ai you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.

Practitioner-tested, not vendor marketing

This course is built by engineers who ship saas ai systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale — not how the documentation describes them.

Code you can run, not demos to watch

Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. The goal is understanding through doing.

Links to the canonical sources

Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on saas ai available on the internet.

Completes in 5 one-hour sessions

Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes, no quizzes.

The 5 Days

Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.

01Day One

SaaS Architecture and Tech Stack Decisions

Multi-tenancy models, the Next.js + Supabase + Stripe stack that ships fast, schema design for tenant isolation, and the architectural decisions that are expensive to undo after launch.

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02Day Two

Authentication and User Management

Supabase Auth with OAuth providers, row-level security (RLS) for tenant data isolation, user roles, invite flows, and the auth patterns that scale from 10 to 10,000 users without rewrites.

Supabase AuthRLSOAuthtenant isolation
03Day Three

Billing with Stripe Subscriptions

Stripe Products and Prices, the subscription lifecycle, usage-based billing for AI API costs, webhook handling, customer portal, and the SaaS billing edge cases (trials, upgrades, prorations) that surprise first-timers.

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04Day Four

AI Feature Integration and Cost Control

Integrating Claude or GPT-4 as a SaaS feature, per-user API key management vs shared keys, token counting and cost attribution per customer, rate limiting, and the cost control patterns that prevent a viral moment from bankrupting you.

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05Day Five

Deployment, Monitoring, and Growth

Vercel deployment with preview branches, Sentry for error tracking, PostHog for product analytics, Resend for transactional email, and the metrics (MRR, churn, activation rate) that tell you if your SaaS is working.

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The best external videos on this topic.

Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.

Read the source.

The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.

Three kinds of people read this.

Engineers Building Their First SaaS

The technical path to a monetized SaaS has a lot of non-obvious traps. This course covers the architecture, auth, billing, and AI integration in the right order.

Founders Adding AI to an Existing SaaS

Your product already has users and billing. This course covers the AI integration and cost control patterns specifically — not the SaaS scaffolding you already have.

Developers Evaluating AI SaaS Architectures

There are real trade-offs in how you integrate LLMs into a subscription product. This course explains them so you make informed decisions.

Want to Go Deeper In Person?

The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers SaaS development and AI product engineering in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).

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