The Founding Season · September 2 - December 31, 2026

Ten builds that stack into a business that runs itself.

One session teaches you a thing. Ten sessions, in order, build you the whole back end - your lead magnet, your offer, your SEO, your content system, then the admin, the skills, the automations. Every other Wednesday, live with me, from now through the end of the year. And three of them are already recorded and waiting in your library the second you join.

10 live builds 4 Build Clinics with me Sep 2 - Dec 31 Never auto-renews
Join the Founding Season · $497 → PERMANENT REPLAYS · All ten, yours forever

Ten sessions bought one at a time is $670. The Season is $497, once. One payment, no subscription, no renewal that sneaks up on you in January.

Already bought a paid session? Then you are not paying $497. Everything you have spent comes off the price, and your code is in your inbox. If nothing landed, reply to my email before you buy and I will get yours to you.

$497 · one time
Mandy Corcoran, founder of Creative Systems Lab, smiling at the camera in her kitchen with her own pattern design as a tile backsplash behind her
You leave with
Ten working systems, built one at a time, that keep running after the Season ends.
The Sacred Line

AI runs the business, never makes the art. The art stays yours.

This is not about generating art with AI. This is about using AI to run the business around your art - smarter, faster, with fewer hours lost to the stuff that isn't creating.

Who this is for: illustrators, makers, surface designers, POD and Spoonflower sellers, coaches, photographers, anyone running a business around something they create. If you sell what you make, this is built for you. Start with the free Session 1 replay if you want to see how I teach before you decide.

Why a Season and not a session

Single sessions don't compound. This does.

01

Each build plugs into the last one.

Your offer from Session 4 is what your SEO points at in Session 5, and what every caption routes back to in Session 6. Buy one and you get a good thing. Buy the Season and the good things wire together.

02

You stop deciding every two weeks.

Real talk: the reason most of us never finish the back end of the business is that every single step needs a fresh decision. Pay once, and the next four months of Wednesdays are already decided. You just show up and build.

03

You get four Build Clinics with me.

The part single sessions do not include. Four Build Clinics across the Season - live calls where I open real member builds on screen and untangle what broke. That is where the stuck stuff gets unstuck.

Ten sessions, four Build Clinics, one price, and everything you build is yours after December 31.

Mandy Corcoran at her digital drawing tablet in her studio, mid-build
Why This Works

"I'm not a tech bro teaching artists. I'm a tech instructor who became one."

I have a programming degree, 25 years in tech, and a decade teaching network engineering and web design at the high school and college level. I have spoken on multiple AI summits.

Then I left the tech track to homeschool my kids and rebuild as a working surface designer. I spent years pitching collections and building the art side. I know the silence after you hit send, and I know what it feels like when the art is good and the business underneath it is held together with sticky notes.

None of the art wins fixed the business. Systems did. So now I teach the systems - the same ones I used to teach engineers, translated for how artists actually think.

Multiple AI summit speaker 25+ years in tech 10 years teaching 2,000+ students
The Shape of It

Every other Wednesday, 1pm Eastern. Four months of them.

10
Live 90-minute builds
4
Build Clinics with me
3
Already recorded, instant access
$497
Once. Never auto-renews.
Join the Founding Season · $497 →

You can join any time between now and December 31. There is no cart close and no countdown. But every session that goes by is one you watch as a replay instead of building live with me. That's the only clock here, and it's a real one.

The Ten Builds

Here is the whole lineup, in order.

Sessions 3, 4 and 5 are recorded and land in your library the moment you join. Everything from Session 6 on runs live with me, every other Wednesday at 1pm ET.

Session
Date
Status
Session 3Build Your Lead Magnet + Welcome Email Sequence See details →
Jul 22
In your library now
Session 4Your Offer & Reason-to-Buy with Claude See details →
Aug 5
In your library now
Session 5Get Found: SEO Across POD, Etsy, Pinterest & Google See details →
Aug 19
In your library now
Session 6Caption & Content System See details →
Sep 2
Next one live
Session 7Get Out of Admin Chaos with Claude See details →
Sep 16
Live
Session 8Meet Cowork: Put Claude to Work on Your Desktop See details →
Sep 30
Live
Session 9Building Skills in Claude See details →
Oct 14
Live
Session 10Scheduled Tasks in Claude See details →
Oct 28
Live
Session 11Automations for the Solo Creative See details →
Nov 11
Live
Session 12MCP Servers: Connect Claude to Everything See details →
Nov 25
Live

Sessions 1 and 2, the free Foundations, come with it too. If you have never set Claude up properly, that is where you start.

The Part Nothing Else Includes

Four Build Clinics, where we get on a call and I fix what broke.

Four times across the Season we get on a live call and I answer your questions. You send them in ahead through the Question Box, so I show up already knowing what you are stuck on and we spend the hour fixing things instead of warming up. I share my screen and work through real member builds. You will learn as much watching me untangle someone else's as your own. That's what a Build Clinic is, and it's the part nothing else includes.

Sep 17
Thursday · 1pm ET · 60 min
Oct 15
Thursday · 1pm ET · 60 min
Nov 19
Thursday · 1pm ET · 60 min
Dec 17
Thursday · 1pm ET · 60 min

December is a Build Clinic only. No live session, because nobody builds systems in December.

Radical Clarity

What's in the Season - and what's not.

✓

What you get

  • All ten live 90-minute builds, Sessions 3 through 12
  • Three of them already recorded - Sessions 3, 4 and 5 land in your library the moment you join
  • Four Build Clinics with me - live calls, questions submitted ahead - September 17, October 15, November 19, December 17
  • Permanent replays of everything, yours after the Season ends
  • The free Foundations sessions (1 and 2) in your library too
  • The take-home guide and saved prompts from every session
  • One payment. It never auto-renews and there is nothing to cancel.
✕

What this is NOT

  • Not an AI art class. No Midjourney. No Stable Diffusion. The art stays yours, full stop.
  • Not a subscription. No auto-renew, no card on file waiting to charge you in January.
  • Not a group chat. There is no forum and no channel to keep up with. Ten builds and four Build Clinics, that's the whole thing.
  • Not 1:1 coaching. A Build Clinic is a room, not a private slot. If you want me on your business alone, that's the Art Biz Audit.
  • Not all on the free Claude plan. Sessions 3 through 6 are. Sessions 7 through 12 need Claude Pro, billed separately by Anthropic and not included in the $497.
$497
The Founding Season · Sessions 3-12 + four Build Clinics · September 2 - December 31, 2026

Ten sessions bought one at a time is $670. The Season is $497, once. The sessions alone justify the price - the four Build Clinics with me are not priced in, they are the reason to do it this way. No inflated "value stack" math. The price is the price.

How to buy
Price
What you get
One sessionAny single build, live plus permanent replay
$67
One session
The Founding SeasonSessions 3-12 plus four Build Clinics
$497
Ten sessions + four Clinics
Join the Founding Season · $497 →

Already bought a paid session? Everything you spent comes off the price and your code is in your inbox. If nothing landed, reply to my email before you buy and I will get yours to you.

It never auto-renews. When the Season ends on December 31, you decide whether to come back. Beginner-friendly. No code. If you can open a browser tab, you can finish.

All sales final. Sessions 1 and 2 are free so you see exactly how I teach before you ever pay. Founding Season pricing is the lowest this will ever be - it goes up for Season 1 in January.

Questions

Before you join the Season.

Four months is a long time. What if I fall behind?
You cannot really fall behind, because nothing expires. Three sessions are already recorded and waiting for you on day one, and every live build turns into a permanent replay the same afternoon. The Season is a schedule, not a deadline. The only thing you lose by watching later is building it next to me in real time.
Does it auto-renew?
No. One payment of $497 and that is the whole transaction. There is no card on file waiting for January and nothing to cancel. When the Season ends on December 31 you decide whether you want the next one.
Do I need Claude Pro?
Sessions 3 through 6 run fine on Claude's free plan. Sessions 7 through 12 need a paid Claude Pro account, because that is where Cowork, Skills, Scheduled Tasks and MCP live. Pro is billed separately by Anthropic and is not included in the $497. Telling you now, on purpose.
I already bought a session or two. Am I paying twice?
No. Every dollar you have already spent on a paid session comes off the price, and your personal code went out by email. If you bought a session and nothing landed in your inbox, reply to my email before you buy and I will get yours to you. Your money is your money.
What actually happens in a Build Clinic?
You send your question ahead through the Question Box. I open the submissions the morning of the call, share my screen, and work through real member builds live for an hour. A Build Clinic is a room, not a private slot - and honestly you will learn as much watching me untangle someone else's mess as your own.
Is there a group chat or a forum I have to keep up with?
No, and that is deliberate. There is no channel, no feed, nothing extra to check between sessions. It is ten live builds, four Build Clinics, and permanent replays of all of it. One more thing to keep up with is the last thing any of us needs.
Is this about making art with AI?
No. AI runs the business, never makes the art. Every single session is about the business around your work - the offer, the funnel, the SEO, the content, the admin. The art stays yours.
What if I only want one session?
Then buy one. Every session is $67 on its own with the replay included, and Sessions 1 and 2 are free. The Season is for people who already know they want the whole back end built, not a way to trap you into more than you need.
September 2 - December 31, 2026 · Sessions 3 through 12

Four months from now you could have the whole thing built and running.

Ten live builds, four Build Clinics with me, permanent replays of everything. $497 once, and it never auto-renews. The art stays yours.

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