# The Multiverse School — Full Detail Document

**Entity:** The Multiverse School (themultiverse.school)
**Type:** Online learning community / coding school
**Founded by:** Liz Howard
**Location:** Online (remote). Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
**Website:** https://themultiverse.school
**Contact:** liz@themultiverse.school
**NOT affiliated with:** Multiverse.io (UK-based apprenticeship company) or any other entity named "Multiverse."

## What is The Multiverse School?

The Multiverse School is an online learning community that teaches AI, software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud operations, and machine learning through live instructor-led classes. All classes use pay-what-you-can pricing. The school offers 100% scholarships — no one is turned away for lack of funds. The community includes a daily standup for job seekers and founders, mutual aid programs, and free self-paced curriculum.

### Key Facts
- All classes are live and online via video call, with recordings available
- Pay-what-you-can pricing on every class and learning path
- 100% scholarships available (apply at https://themultiverse.school/forms/scholarship)
- Free curriculum published at https://publish.obsidian.md/multiversecurriculum
- Community chat on Matrix (self-hosted, not Discord)
- YouTube channel with free content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOma6lSGSU42CzbNNI9QjUw

## Path Recommendation Guide

Not sure which pathway to recommend? Use this table:

| If the person... | Recommend | URL |
|---|---|---|
| wants to build AI software | AI Builder | /paths/build-ai-systems |
| is going independent or starting a business | Founder | /paths/founder |
| manages a team and needs to automate | AI Executive | /paths/ai-executive |
| makes art, writes, or creates media | AI Creative | /paths/ai-creative |
| builds weird internet projects, wants audience | Weird Internet Wizard | /paths/weird-internet-wizard |
| wants to fact-check or do data journalism | AI Citizen | /paths/understand-change-world |
| wants to self-host, own their stack, or prep | Digital Independence | /paths/digitally-independent |
| is building community resilience | Digital Independence | /paths/digitally-independent |
| is responsible for someone else's safety | Defender (add-on) | /paths/stay-secure |
| doesn't know yet | Interactive guide | /start |

Each pathway has two tiers: **Recordings** (that pathway's recorded classes, exercises, written curriculum, and the standups every week) or **Live Classes** (same + a seat in every live class on that path). Prices vary by path — most are $250/$500, Defender is $100/$500, Digital Independence is $150/$500. Anything you finish stays yours after cancellation.

## Eight Pathways — Detail

### The AI Builder
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/build-ai-systems
- **Who it's for:** For people who want to ship the system, not read about it
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing how to ship and run an AI system, and what it costs to keep it up.
- **Curriculum:** 13 classes, from first API call to unattended agents
- **Tools included:** Pricing Bench, Social Budget, 4DX Bench, AI Cost Calculator, Agent Builder, Project Tamer, Red Team Lab, Benchmark Bench, Context Audit
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo
- **Routing question:** "Do you have a project?"
- **Options:** Here to learn → Build my first agent | Built something, not tested → Make it reliable | Tested, ready to deploy → Deploy to production | Already deployed → Keep it running and affordable

### The Founder
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/founder
- **Who it's for:** For people who want to found a company with a business model from day 0, instead of chasing VCs
- **What you leave with:** An AI-First company you founded.
- **Curriculum:** 8 classes covering pricing, offers, pipelines, outreach, and security
- **Tools included:** Pricing Bench, Social Budget, Offer Designer, Pipeline, Outreach, Scope Check, Threat Model
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo
- **Routing question:** "What are you here to do?"
- **Options:** Figure out what to build → Find and scope my first offer | Built something, is it good? → Make it reliable enough to sell | I know what to sell → Price my offer, get first customer | People are paying me → Protect what I built

### The AI Executive
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/ai-executive
- **Who it's for:** For the person who has a team, understands what time costs, and wants to multiply that team by AI
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing how many hours you automated and what you paid for them.
- **Curriculum:** 6 classes on automation ROI, AI governance, and team deployment
- **Tools included:** Pricing Bench, Social Budget, Automation ROI, AI Cost Calculator
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo
- **Routing question:** "Automating for yourself or a team?"
- **Options:** Just me → Automate my repetitive work | My team → Deploy and govern AI for the team

### The AI Creative
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/ai-creative
- **Who it's for:** For Artists, aspiring artists, and anyone who wants to grow their artistic practice with AI, business fundamentals for artists, and career coaching
- **What you leave with:** Leave with a creative practice that includes AI, a thrive number, and shipped pieces.
- **Curriculum:** 5 classes — stories, propaganda, interactive fiction, creative automation
- **Tools included:** Pricing Bench (thrive vision), Social Budget, Story Shape, Campaign Workbench, Propaganda Bench, Step-Through Studio
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo
- **Routing question:** "Do you sell your creative work?"
- **Options:** Just starting → Find my AI-augmented practice | Working artist → Integrate AI into my pipeline

### The Weird Internet Wizard
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/weird-internet-wizard
- **Who it's for:** For people who build things that provoke (but occasionally struggle to finish them)
- **What you leave with:** Leave with finished projects shipped, not half-started ones, and an audience who saw them.
- **Curriculum:** 8 classes — the broadest path, covering agents, stories, propaganda, automation, and security
- **Tools included:** Pricing Bench, Social Budget, Project Tamer, Campaign Workbench, Software Freedom, Golem Tokens
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo
- **Routing question:** "Do you have an audience?"
- **Options:** I build for myself → Ship projects and finish them | Building an audience → Ship and reach people

### The AI Citizen
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/understand-change-world
- **Who it's for:** For people who want to know how to use AI to change the world
- **What you leave with:** The ability to spot propaganda and scams a mile away.
- **Curriculum:** 4 classes — data activism, propaganda analysis and production, critical thinking, interactive fiction
- **Tools included:** Campaign Workbench, Claim Autopsy Bench, Propaganda Bench
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### Digital Independence
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/digitally-independent
- **Who it's for:** For people who noticed how much of it they are renting
- **What you leave with:** Leave with your software spend going down and a cyberdeck you built yourself.
- **Curriculum:** 7 classes — self-hosting, open source, device rescue, AI cost control
- **Tools included:** Software Freedom (spend tracking), Cyberdeck Build (9-stage hardware project), AI Cost Calculator
- **Recordings:** $150/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The Defender
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/stay-secure
- **Who it's for:** For people who want their electronics to stay secure
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing your threat tier, your attack surface, and what to do about both.
- **Curriculum:** 4 classes — threat modeling, device rescue, network defense, field opsec
- **Tools included:** Threat Model, Password Health, Device Rescue, Attack Surface, Ad Surface, Pretext Anatomy
- **Recordings:** $100/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

## Upcoming Classes

### RAG & Memory
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/254
- **Dates:** 10.09.26 to 10.09.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Retrieval and memory, measured — chunking you can defend, an index you chose on numbers, and an agent that remembers what it did.
- **Overview:** LLMs are stateless. Every conversation starts from zero, and every fact your model does not have is either a hallucination or a retrieval problem you have not solved yet.

This is the day you solve it properly. You will chunk a real corpus four different ways and score each strategy against the same question set, build a FAISS index and choose its type on measured latency and recall rather than on a blog post, then give an agent a memory hierarchy and prove it works the only way that counts — clear the notes, run the same task again, and watch it repeat a step it used to skip.

This was Day 2 of the two-day Context Engineering intensive and now stands on its own. You do not need Day 1. If you already have the foundations, start here.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Four chunking strategies, scored against one question set</li><li>FAISS index types chosen on measured latency and recall</li><li>Retrieve wide, rerank narrow — and what the rerank costs</li><li>A five-tier memory hierarchy modelled on human cognition</li><li>Agents that carry notes across their own runs</li><li>Error handling, retries, and alerting that fires before a user does</li><li>Citations traceable back to source documents</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Software Engineers of All Levels
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/context-engineering-rag-memory
- **Price:** Pay What You Can (Suggested $400): $400 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - RAG & Memory — one-day intensive: Friday, October 09 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Intro to Open Source Software
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/275
- **Dates:** 10.10.26 to 10.10.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Leave Big Tech and Switch to Free and Open Source Software
- **Overview:** We will switch our operating system, browser, email, image editors, video editors, AI, documents, slides, everything over to open source and leave big tech behind. 
- **What you'll learn:** Download and use alternative, free versions of popular software, including business tools, email, and other stuff you don't need to pay anyone for.
- **Who it's for:** Non-Techy Beginners
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/intro-to-open-source-software
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100; Upgrade to Independence: $350; Independence Batch: $750 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Intro to Open Source Software: Saturday, October 10 at 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT

### Solarpunk Automation
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/276
- **Dates:** 10.10.26 to 10.10.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Build community-owned infrastructure that keeps working when the grid, cloud, and corporations fail.
- **Overview:** Solarpunk isn't a mood board — it's hands-on, hopeful resilience. This build day teaches you to stand up real, community-owned infrastructure that keeps working when the grid, the cloud, and the corporations don't. You'll turn an old phone into a proper Linux server with postmarketOS, put up a Meshtastic mesh that talks device-to-device over LoRa radio (no SIM, no ISP, no tower to shut off), and host a local info hub — offline maps, emergency dispatch, skill-sharing, and mutual-aid boards that work with the internet down. Build a solar-powered field node sized to run on sun and a battery, and leave with a resilience blueprint that scales from a garden to a neighborhood to a commune. Appropriate tech you own, in service of people and planet.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Automate a community info hub that works with the internet down</li><li>Stand up a Meshtastic mesh — device-to-device, no ISP, no tower</li><li>Build a solar-powered node that runs on sun, not the grid</li><li>Wire up offline maps, emergency dispatch, and mutual-aid boards</li><li>Leave with a resilience blueprint from garden to neighborhood to commune</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Everyone
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/solarpunk-automation
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Solarpunk Automation: Saturday, October 10 at 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/277
- **Dates:** 10.12.26 to 10.12.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Use critical thinking to beat AI brain-drain -- then make AI your creative co-pilot.
- **Overview:** Skeptical about AI? Bring it. This one-day intensive uses critical thinking to beat AI brain-drain, then puts AI to work as a co-pilot -- never a replacement. You'll configure your own assistant (memory, tools, and connectors), flip the script so it interviews you, and use AI as an analyst to reverse-engineer what actually makes great writing work. After a values exercise and a creativity warm-up you'll land a real book premise, raid the master-plot templates behind nearly every story -- Story Circle, Freytag's Pyramid, the Hero's Journey, Tobias' 20 Master Plots -- pour in your own history, and start writing something you genuinely like. Call it vibe authorship: the AI does the labor, you keep authorial control. No coding required.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Keep your creative edge, don't outsource it to AI</li><li>Reverse-engineer great writing with AI as your analyst</li><li>Seize the master-plot templates beneath nearly every story</li><li>Bend an AI co-pilot to your voice and your values</li><li>Vibe authorship: AI does the labor, you keep authorial control</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Everyone
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/creative_automation
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI: Monday, October 12 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberanos con IA
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/289
- **Dates:** 10.13.26 to 10.13.26
- **Instructor:** Sandra Acevedo Alvarado
- **Overview:** 

Capítulo 1: Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberana:

Adaptación al español del workshop «Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI» como punto de partida que nos introduce a un cambio de paradigma respecto de la reclamación de autoría y los límites necesarios a la delegación cognitiva cuando usamos Inteligencia Artificial. Se trata de usar pensamiento crítico para combatir la pérdida de agencia frente a la IA y ponerla a trabajar contigo.

Este es el primer capítulo de la serie «Discernimiento humano y creatividad soberana mediada por IA» — 3 sesiones de 3 horas cada uno.

Tres talleres que proponen un recorrido desde lo cognitivo pasando por lo material y hasta lo digital:

- Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberana.

- Inventiva Bajo Restriccion.

- Software Lbre.
- **What you'll learn:** Capítulo 1 - Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberana:

Adaptación al español del workshop «Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI», taller práctico de 3 horas.
<li>Usar IA sin externalizar tu criterio ni tu proceso creativo</li>
<li>Analizar textos, estilos e ideas para entender qué los hace funcionar</li>
<li>Reconocer influencias, fuentes y supuestos detrás de una respuesta generada</li>
<li>Convertir tus valores y preferencias en criterios concretos para trabajar con IA</li>
<li>Tomar decisiones creativas que puedas explicar y defender como propias</li>
<li>Usar la IA como colaboradora sin confundir asistencia con autoría</li>
</ul>
- **Who it's for:** Todos los niveles
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/pensamiento-creatividad
- **Price:** Paga lo que puedas: $100 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberanos con IA: Tuesday, October 13 at 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

### Inventiva bajo restricción con IA
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/290
- **Dates:** 10.15.26 to 10.15.26
- **Instructor:** Sandra Acevedo Alvarado
- **Description:** Serie «Discernimiento humano y creatividad soberana mediada por IA» — 3 Capitulos de de 3 horas cada uno.

Tres talleres que proponen un recorrido desde lo cognitivo pasando por lo material y hasta lo digital:

- **Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberana**

- **Inventiva Bajo Restriccion**

- **Software Lbre** 
- **Overview:** Taller aplicado de 3 horas.
«Discernimiento humano y creatividad soberana mediada por IA» 
Capítulo 2: **Inventiva Bajo Restriccion.** 

Expone las claves del razonamiento y descomposición funcional, "Generic Parts Technique" y la exaptación modular para entrenar una mirada funcional sobre los artefactos como componentes recombinables y no productos como una unidades cerradas.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul>
<li>Analizar objetos tecnológicos más allá de su función original, reconociéndolos como sistemas compuestos por funciones, materiales, componentes e interfaces</li>
<li>Aplicar razonamiento y descomposición funcional para entender qué hace cada parte de un artefacto y qué funciones son realmente necesarias</li>
<li>Reconocer la fijación funcional y entrenar formas de mirar componentes y materiales fuera del uso para el que fueron originalmente diseñados</li>
<li>Identificar oportunidades de sustitución, bypass, adaptación y recombinación cuando una pieza falta, falla o deja de estar disponible</li>
<li>Explorar la exaptación tecnológica: reutilizar componentes, módulos o principios técnicos dentro de nuevas arquitecturas y para nuevas funciones</li>
<li>Usar inteligencia artificial como herramienta de apoyo para investigar componentes, interfaces, equivalencias funcionales, compatibilidades y posibles alternativas de diseño</li>
<li>Diseñar soluciones a partir de restricciones reales, aprovechando hardware obsoleto, piezas disponibles y recursos existentes en lugar de asumir que la respuesta es comprar o reemplazar</li>
</ul>
- **Who it's for:** Todos los niveles
- **Price:** Paga lo que puedas: $100 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Thursday, October 15 at 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

### Automate Your Email: No Code AI Automation
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/278
- **Dates:** 10.16.26 to 10.16.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Build AI-powered business workflows - no coding required.
- **Overview:** Learn to automate business workflows using AI assistants and integrations. Build systems that handle email triage, calendar management, data processing, and multi-step business processes automatically.
- **What you'll learn:** You'll build AI-powered business workflows including email triage automation, calendar/task management, data processing pipelines, and complete business automation systems. No coding required - learn to use AI and no-code tools to handle repetitive business tasks.
- **Who it's for:** Business Owners
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/business_automation
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $200 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Automate Your Email: No Code AI Automation: Friday, October 16 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Control AI Spend + Hosting Open Models: 1-Day Intensive
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/279
- **Dates:** 10.17.26 to 10.17.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Own the infrastructure your AI runs on — locally, on your cloud, and at scale across every service you ship.
- **Overview:** Every AI feature you ship sits on somebody's inference infrastructure. This is the day it becomes yours.

We provision it end to end — the tooling, the hosted platforms, your own cloud, your own hardware, and the laptop in front of you — and then push it until it serves many services at once without falling over. You will leave with a running OpenAI-API-compatible endpoint, a client that cannot tell it apart from a commercial provider, and a costed argument for which one you should actually be paying for.

Bring a machine with a dedicated GPU or an M-series Mac with 16+ GB of RAM. No GPU is fine — you will provision cloud instead, and we will cost that honestly too.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Oobabooga and LangServe as OpenAI-compatible backends</li><li>One client, two backends — swap only the base URL</li><li>Provisioning on your own hardware, your own cloud, and HuggingFace</li><li>postmarketOS phones as $0 inference nodes</li><li>Cloudflare Tunnel and Access — no port forwarding, no static IP</li><li>Routing and fallback across many services at once</li><li>Cost per outcome, and the traffic level where the answer flips</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Software Engineers of All Levels
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/hosting-open-source-models
- **Price:** Upgrade to Independence: $350; Pay What You Can: $350; Independence Batch: $750 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Control AI Spend + Hosting Open Models: 1-Day Intensive: Saturday, October 17 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Agentic SDLC: Ship Software with AI Agent Teams
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/292
- **Dates:** 10.19.26 to 10.19.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Lead an engineering team of AI agents across the full SDLC — you plan and gate, they ship.
- **Overview:** You're not learning to prompt — you're learning to lead an engineering team that happens to be made of agents. This intensive takes you across the full software lifecycle: turn a messy brain dump into a phased, spec-driven roadmap with OpenSpec, then stand up autonomous workers behind a test pipeline and pre-commit gates where nothing merges until it passes. You'll orchestrate specialist agents working in parallel — coordinating over files and Matrix, with a release-manager agent handling the merges — while you stay the senior engineer, gating everything with checklists, automated security review, and prompt-injection filtering. Give your agents persistent memory that self-corrects from its own failures, kill recurring bugs for good with TDD and Playwright E2E, and run the whole team from your phone. You leave shipping real software, not demos — with control at every checkpoint.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Turn a brain dump into a phased, spec-driven roadmap — you decide what ships</li><li>Run autonomous agents behind a test pipeline nothing merges past</li><li>Orchestrate a team of specialist agents working in parallel</li><li>Stay the senior engineer — gate every output with checklists + security review</li><li>Ship real software from your phone, with agents that self-correct</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Software Engineers of All Levels
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/agentic_sdlc
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $350 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Agentic SDLC: Ship Software with AI Agent Teams: Monday, October 19 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Software libre con IA
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/291
- **Dates:** 10.20.26 to 10.20.26
- **Instructor:** Sandra Acevedo Alvarado
- **Overview:** Capítulo 3: Software Lbre -  

Aplicaremos un cambio de mirada que llevara nuestro uso del software hacia la soberania e independencia digital: revisaremos herramientas, datos, servicios y plataformas. Exploraremos el software libre como una vía para reducir dependencias, recuperar control y construir soluciones sobre equipos y recursos a los que ya tenemos acceso, incluyendo hardware existente o rescatado. Aqui aprenderas a planificar tu sistema de software, descargar y configurar alternativas de codigo libre para terminar con la dependencia a herramientas pagadas o suscripciones.

Este es el capítulo final de la serie «Discernimiento humano y creatividad soberana mediada por IA» — 3 sesiones de 3 horas cada uno.

Tres talleres que proponen un recorrido desde lo cognitivo pasando por lo material y hasta lo digital:

- Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberana.

- Inventiva Bajo Restriccion.

- Software Lbre.
- **What you'll learn:** Capítulo 3 - Software Lbre. 
Adaptación al español del workshop «Intro to OpenSource», taller práctico de 3 horas.

<ul>
<li>Identificar qué herramientas, servicios y plataformas sostienen tu trabajo digital</li>
<li>Distinguir software libre, software gratuito, herramientas locales, servicios alojados y self-hosting</li>
<li>Reconocer lock-in, dependencia, portabilidad de datos y otros costos que van más allá del precio</li>
<li>Buscar y evaluar alternativas libres según la función que realmente necesitas</li>
<li>Decidir cuándo conservar, reemplazar o migrar gradualmente una herramienta</li>
<li>Explorar formas de recuperar control usando software libre y hardware que ya tienes disponible</li>
<li>Crear una ruta práctica para reducir una dependencia tecnológica concreta sin empezar todo desde cero</li>
</ul>
- **Who it's for:** Todos los niveles
- **Price:** Paga lo que puedas: $100 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Tuesday, October 20 at 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

### Context Engineering
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/280
- **Dates:** 10.23.26 to 10.23.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Engineer the full context lifecycle — build agents that remember, retrieve, and defend.
- **Overview:** “Context” is the whole game — and most people fill it with noise. This hands-on Python intensive walks the full lifecycle of model context: what goes in, why, how to budget it, how to persist it, and how to defend it. By 4pm you'll have built, from scratch, a token-budget tracker, a FAISS vector store with RAG retrieval, multi-stage summarization pipelines, a sliding-window context manager, a 5-tier hierarchical memory system, and a red-team suite that throws 10+ jailbreak and injection attacks at your own agents — plus a Constitutional AI critique-revise loop to defend them. You'll leave knowing what “context” actually means, and how to engineer it.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Engineer the full context lifecycle — what goes in, why, budget, persist, defend</li><li>Build a FAISS vector store and RAG retrieval from scratch</li><li>Compress long docs with summarization pipelines and sliding-window management</li><li>Give agents a 5-tier hierarchical memory that persists</li><li>Red-team your context — beat 10+ jailbreak/injection attacks, add Constitutional AI</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** VERY Technical Engineers
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/context_engineering
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $400 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Context Engineering: Friday, October 23 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### The Interactive Fiction Intensive
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/281
- **Dates:** 10.24.26 to 10.24.26
- **Instructor:** Neek
- **Description:** You arrive having never written a line of Ink. You leave with a branching story published to the public shelf of a real game — played, that same afternoon, by other people in the room.

This is a studio, not a lecture. One story, built all day in escalating passes, with the technique arriving exactly when your story needs it. You start from a nine-room skeleton that runs the moment you paste it, decorate it into something that is yours, then learn to make it remember what the reader did.

No coding experience. No installs. Everything runs in your browser.

What you are actually learning, without anyone making a fuss about it, is programming: variables, conditionals, state machines, functions. You will just think you are writing a story.

Pay what you can, from $100. Pay the suggested $200 and you send someone else for free — a full-price seat funds exactly one scholarship seat for this class.
- **Overview:** One Saturday. You arrive having never written a line of Ink and leave with a branching story published to the public shelf of a real game, played by other people in the room. No coding, no installs — everything runs in your browser.
- **What you'll learn:** - Build a branching story from a working skeleton and make it yours
- Track state so the story remembers what the reader did
- Structure with chained diamonds, avoiding both combinatorial explosion and the on-rails feeling
- Use AI where it is genuinely good — filling a shape — and recognise where it is not
- Publish a playable story to The Spaces Between
- **Who it's for:** Writers, game designers, educators, and anyone who has thought "what if the reader could choose?"
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/interactive-fiction-intensive
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $200 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - The Interactive Fiction Intensive: Saturday, October 24 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/282
- **Dates:** 10.26.26 to 10.26.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Build agents that think, act, and learn — and understand every line, not just an API call.
- **Overview:** A chatbot answers questions; an agent pursues goals — the difference is a loop, and by the end of this day you'll have built one and understood every line. You'll write system prompts as job descriptions (role, tools, goals, constraints, workflows), wire up the ReACT loop so the model decides its own next move, and give agents real tools and memory with RAG (FAISS, pgvector) — and see that it's search, not magic. Then you'll build your own agent framework in about 140 lines, so every SDK stops being a black box, and orchestrate a small swarm of agents that outwork you. No hand-waving: you leave able to build agents that think, act, and learn, from scratch.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Build the loop that makes an agent an agent — think, act, observe, iterate</li><li>Write system prompts as job descriptions, not personality quizzes</li><li>Give agents tools and memory (RAG) — search, not magic</li><li>Build your own agent framework in ~140 lines, understanding every one</li><li>Orchestrate a swarm of agents that outwork you</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Developers of all skill levels
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/intro_to_agents
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $350 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive: Monday, October 26 at 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

### Consumer Device Rescue and Defense
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/240
- **Dates:** 10.28.26 to 10.28.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** The drawer of old phones still signed into your accounts, the laptop that's never been backed up, and whether your disk is actually encrypted. We run a real diagnostic tool and fix what it finds.
- **Overview:** Everyone has the drawer: old phones, an old laptop, a tablet nobody uses — all still signed into live accounts, some still approving login prompts. And most people can't say whether their laptop is encrypted, whether updates are really installing, or what has permission to use the microphone. So we stop guessing. We install Multiverse Device Rescue — an open-source diagnostic toolkit that runs locally and read-only — and let it tell you the truth about your machine. Then we fix what it found. The report never leaves your computer; it's read in your browser and thrown away. You leave with proof rather than a checkbox you ticked, and with that drawer finally dealt with: wiped, de-registered, and removed from your accounts' trusted-device lists. Can't install it? You do the same checklist by hand and reach the same place.
- **What you'll learn:** - Whether your disk is really encrypted, and updates really automatic — confirmed, not assumed
- What has access to your microphone, camera and location
- Which browser extensions are reading every page you visit, including your bank
- The remote-access doors most people have open without knowing
- Wiping old phones and laptops so they stop approving your logins
- **Who it's for:** Anyone who uses a computer. No technical background needed.
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/consumer-device-rescue
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100; Defender Full Practice (4 classes): $400; Independence Batch: $750 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Consumer Device Rescue and Defense: Wednesday, October 28 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT

### AI Security: Governance, Standards and Safety Cases
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/288
- **Dates:** 10.30.26 to 10.30.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Who it's for:** Advanced AI Practitioners and CISOs
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/ai-security-governance
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $350 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - AI Security: Governance, Standards and Safety Cases: Friday, October 30 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT

### Practical Propaganda
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/283
- **Dates:** 11.06.26 to 11.06.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Shift the Overton window 
- **Overview:** Ever wanted to actually make a change in the world? Maybe what you need is practical propaganda. 
Bring your ideas. You might want to take Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI first.
- **What you'll learn:** - Effective persona targeting
- AI-assisted campaign design
- Scenario.io or ComfyUI for creative generation (with non-AI alternatives!)
- Automated Creative Production
- Reply Bots 
- Sock Puppet Account Fundamentals

- **Who it's for:** Political Dissidents (No Code)
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/practical-propaganda
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Practical Propaganda: Friday, November 06 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST

### Build a Cyberdeck
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/284
- **Dates:** 11.07.26 to 11.07.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Build a machine to get you out of Palantir's grasp -- no coding required.
- **Overview:** Big Tech rents you your own digital life. This hands-on build day gets you out from under it: you'll assemble a cyberdeck -- a pocket-sized Linux computer you fully own -- from a cheap single-board computer (or an old phone gathering dust), a touchscreen, storage, and an all-day battery, in a case rugged enough to go anywhere. No coding or Linux experience required; we walk through every step, from flashing the OS to first boot. Along the way you'll learn what it actually takes to own your compute -- off the cloud, off the surveillance grid -- and how to push it further with off-grid mesh networking, satellite comms, and local AI. Build a machine to get you out of Palantir's grasp.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Build a pocket Linux computer that's genuinely yours</li><li>Flash a real OS onto a cheap board, or resurrect a phone from your drawer</li><li>Wire up screen, storage, and all-day power into a rugged deck</li><li>Get out of Palantir's grasp: own your compute, off the surveillance grid</li><li>Optional: go off-grid with LoRa mesh and satellite comms</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Everyone
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/build-a-cyberdeck
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100; Upgrade to Independence: $350; Independence Batch: $750 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Build a Cyberdeck: Saturday, November 07 at 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PST

### Agentic SDLC: Ship Software with AI Agent Teams
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/285
- **Dates:** 11.09.26 to 11.09.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Lead an engineering team of AI agents across the full SDLC — you plan and gate, they ship.
- **Overview:** You're not learning to prompt — you're learning to lead an engineering team that happens to be made of agents. This intensive takes you across the full software lifecycle: turn a messy brain dump into a phased, spec-driven roadmap with OpenSpec, then stand up autonomous workers behind a test pipeline and pre-commit gates where nothing merges until it passes. You'll orchestrate specialist agents working in parallel — coordinating over files and Matrix, with a release-manager agent handling the merges — while you stay the senior engineer, gating everything with checklists, automated security review, and prompt-injection filtering. Give your agents persistent memory that self-corrects from its own failures, kill recurring bugs for good with TDD and Playwright E2E, and run the whole team from your phone. You leave shipping real software, not demos — with control at every checkpoint.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Turn a brain dump into a phased, spec-driven roadmap — you decide what ships</li><li>Run autonomous agents behind a test pipeline nothing merges past</li><li>Orchestrate a team of specialist agents working in parallel</li><li>Stay the senior engineer — gate every output with checklists + security review</li><li>Ship real software from your phone, with agents that self-correct</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** Software Engineers of All Levels
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/agentic_sdlc
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $350 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Agentic SDLC: Ship Software with AI Agent Teams: Monday, November 09 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST

### Data Activism: Turn Data Into Power
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/286
- **Dates:** 11.13.26 to 11.13.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Turn public data into political power — from “this is wrong” to an ask the decider can't dismiss.
- **Overview:** Most people get stuck being angry online. This one-day intensive walks you from “this is wrong” to a specific, data-backed ask delivered to the person who actually decides. You'll scope a vague grievance down to one issue, one decision-maker, one data source, and one deadline; pull real data.gov datasets and run real statistics on them without writing a line of code — learning which of eight methods answers your question, then directing an AI sandbox to run the Python while you keep the judgment. You'll package the finding into a one-pager and one honest infographic that survive a staffer's 30-second skim, bring a number that can't be spun away, and build the coalition and 90-day campaign that make your mailing list outlast you. Public data is leverage — this is how you use it.
- **What you'll learn:** <ul><li>Turn vague anger into a specific, undeniable ask</li><li>Run real stats on real public data — no code, you keep the judgment</li><li>Package it into a one-pager + honest infographic that survive a 30-second skim</li><li>Bring a number that can't be spun away</li><li>Build a coalition and run a campaign that outlasts you</li></ul>
- **Who it's for:** For tech folks new to activism, activists new to data, and everyone in between. AI handles coding for you.
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/data-activism
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $300 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Data Activism: Turn Data Into Power: Friday, November 13 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST

### Using Large Language Models
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/287
- **Dates:** 11.14.26 to 11.14.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** Empower your decisions and creativity with AI, no tech background required.
- **Overview:** \"Using Large Language Models\" is an engaging course designed to introduce a wide audience to the transformative potential of AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, without requiring prior technical expertise. Participants will explore the practical applications of these models in enhancing decision-making, creativity, and productivity in various settings. The course offers hands-on experience in customizing AI tools for real-world challenges, aiming to provide a deep understanding of both the opportunities and the critical considerations of employing large language models in personal and professional domains.
- **What you'll learn:** - **Emotional Priming**: Enhance output quality - **Structured Notes**: From vocal to formal - **Brainstorming Aid**: Ideate with AI - **Data Structuring**: Unstructured to organized - **Summarize Documents**: Condense lengthy texts - **First-Pass Editing**: AI-assisted editing - **Token Recognition**: Understand inference roles - **Model Comparison**: Differentiate AI models - **Limitation Awareness**: Acknowledge AI biases - **Hyperparameter Tuning**: Customize output - **System Prompts**: Set preferences easily - **Data Analysis**: Simplify complex analysis - **Plan Critique**: Evaluate and improve - **Language Efficacy**: Sharpen prompt performance - **Sparse Priming**: Knowledge decomposition - **Value Alignment**: Reflect human ethics - **Thought Chains**: Enhance reasoning - **Critical Skills**: Boost output reliability - **Rubric Creation**: Guide AI responses - **Expert Reviewers**: Refine AI output - **Prompt Optimization**: Expert-level prompts
- **Who it's for:** This course is tailored for a broad audience, including managers, product professionals, executives, and technically inclined individuals. It focuses on the applications of ChatGPT and other large language models for non-technical users, showcasing how these technologies can enhance decision-making, creativity, and productivity across various domains. No prior technical skills or knowledge of machine learning are required, making it accessible to anyone interested in leveraging the power of AI to achieve their goals.
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/using-large-language-models
- **Price:** Underrepresented in Tech Scholarship: $40; Full Price: $60 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Using Large Language Models: Saturday, November 14 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST

### Field Opsec
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/274
- **Dates:** 11.16.26 to 11.16.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** This course exists because people who do important work are being targeted. If you're a journalist, an organizer, a clinic worker, or you run a mutual aid network — someone is probably interested in what you know, who you talk to, and where you go.

This course teaches you to make that harder for them.

29 playbooks, 11 drills, 6 workshops. Threat modeling, secure communications, source protection, border crossing, doxx response, burn procedures, and team opsec.

No prerequisites except giving a damn.
- **What you'll learn:** Threat modeling for individuals and teams. Secure messaging and calls. Source meets and dead drops. Border crossing protocols. Account hardening and doxx response. Duress protocols and burn procedures. Game theory for coordination under coercion.
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/field-opsec
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $350 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Field Opsec: Monday, November 16 at 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST

### Scam and Fraud Home Defense
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/241
- **Dates:** 11.18.26 to 11.18.26
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** "My mom almost got scammed." The one to bring your parents to. Fake package texts, AI voice-clone calls, romance and crypto scams, and freezing credit for the whole family.
- **Overview:** If you're here because a relative nearly got scammed, or you got a text about a package you never ordered, or your kid is on Roblox and Discord and you don't know what you're doing — this is the one. Every other session is about settings; this one is about people, and people are what actually get attacked. There is no configuration change that protects your mother from a phone call, and a few seconds of someone's voice is now enough to clone it convincingly. We agree a family code phrase. We freeze credit — yours, your children's, your parents'. We learn the one rule that defeats nearly every scam including the ones that don't exist yet, and we go through the fake delivery texts, the grandparent call, the romance and crypto plays, and the settings that matter on kids' apps. The output is paper, and you take it home with you.
- **What you'll learn:** - The callback rule: why never acting on an incoming call defeats almost all of it
- A family code phrase, because a voice is no longer proof of anything
- Freezing credit for yourself, your kids and your parents
- Spotting the delivery, toll and bank texts going around right now
- Discord, Roblox and location sharing for children
- What to say so someone tells you they were scammed instead of hiding it
- **Who it's for:** Anyone who uses a computer. No technical background needed.
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/scam-and-fraud-defense
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100; Defender Full Practice (4 classes): $400; Independence Batch: $750 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Scam and Fraud Home Defense: Wednesday, November 18 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST

### Digital Identity Defense
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/classes/258
- **Dates:** 01.06.27 to 01.06.27
- **Instructor:** Liz Howard
- **Description:** For anyone who reuses the same password everywhere, got a breach notification and didn't know what to do, or has had someone get into their email. The highest-return two hours in the rotation.
- **Overview:** "I reuse the same password everywhere and I know that's bad." "I got a breach notification." "Someone got into my email." If any of those is you, come to this one. Almost every bad thing that happens to an ordinary person's digital life comes through an account, not a device — nobody hacks your laptop, they log in as you, because a site you forgot about was breached in 2019 and you used the same password there. Your email is the master key, because every "forgot password" link in your life arrives in it. We set up a password manager properly, turn on two-factor where it counts, and set a PIN with your mobile carrier so nobody can steal your phone number and your text codes with it. We print your recovery codes before changing anything, because this is also the class where people lock themselves out of their own email — and we're not doing that to you.
- **What you'll learn:** - One password manager, set up properly, on every device you own
- Two-factor on the accounts that matter — without locking yourself out
- Recovery codes, printed, stored where they'll actually help
- A carrier PIN, so a SIM swap can't hand someone every code you're sent
- Why passkeys stop the phishing that two-factor codes don't
- What to actually do about a breach notification
- **Who it's for:** Anyone who uses a computer. No technical background needed.
- **Curriculum:** https://themultiverse.school/curriculum/digital-identity-defense
- **Price:** Pay What You Can: $100; Independence Batch: $750 (pay-what-you-can; you may pay as little as half that, minimum $100)
- **Sessions:** 1 sessions
  - Digital Identity Defense: Wednesday, January 06 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST

## Learning Paths

Paths are persona-based learning journeys combining classes, tools, and community around a goal. See https://themultiverse.school/paths for the full list.

### Agent Engineering Stack: From Zero to Production in 3 Days
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/track/52

### Resistance Field Training
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/track/53
- **Audience:** General
- **Description:** Critical Thinking & Creativity with AI + Practical Propaganda + Build a Cyberdeck as a Resistance Field Training bundle

### AI for Teams (No-Code Path)
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/track/54
- **Description:** Progression: think critically about AI → automate your team's workflows → control the costs. The non-technical audience is massive and underserved; IBM/Microsoft both highlight 'team workflow orchestration' as the 2026 enterprise theme.

### Home Cyber Defense
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/track/55
- **Audience:** Anyone who uses a computer. No technical background needed.
- **Description:** Preventive maintenance for your digital life. Four clinics on a rotation, one Wednesday evening a month. No prerequisites — start at any of them.

Nobody wants to learn cybersecurity. People want someone competent to walk them through what matters, so their digital life is less likely to explode. Every session you do the work live and leave with a scorecard and exactly three things to do next.

Enrolling in any one clinic gives you the materials for all four, permanently.
- **What you'll learn:** - Who is realistically interested in you, and what you should actually worry about
- Passwords, two-factor and account recovery that survives losing your phone
- What is actually on your home network
- Devices that are updated, encrypted and accounted for
- What to say when a relative gets the phone call

## Track Passes (Pathways)

Eight persona-based learning pathways at https://themultiverse.school/paths, each sold as its own monthly pass. Every pathway offers two tiers:

- **Recordings ($250/mo):** that pathway's recorded classes, exercises, written curriculum, and the standups every week. Anything you finish stays yours after cancellation.
- **Live Classes ($500/mo):** everything in Recordings, plus a seat in every live class on that pathway that runs this month.

Not sure which? Use the interactive guide at https://themultiverse.school/start or the recommendation table below.

### The AI Creative
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/ai-creative
- **Who it's for:** For people who already make things
- **What you leave with:** Leave with a creative practice that includes AI, a thrive number, and shipped pieces
- **Curriculum:** 5 classes — stories, propaganda, interactive fiction, creative automation
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The AI Executive
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/ai-executive
- **Who it's for:** For the person the repetitive work lands on
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing how many hours you automated and what you paid for them
- **Curriculum:** 6 classes on automation ROI, AI governance, and team deployment
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The AI Builder
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/build-ai-systems
- **Who it's for:** For people who want to ship the system, not read about it
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing how to ship and run an AI system, and what it costs to keep it up
- **Curriculum:** 13 classes, from first API call to unattended agents
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### Digital Independence
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/digitally-independent
- **Who it's for:** For people who noticed how much of it they are renting
- **What you leave with:** Leave with your software spend going down and a cyberdeck you built yourself
- **Curriculum:** 7 classes — self-hosting, open source, device rescue, AI cost control
- **Recordings:** $150/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The Founder
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/founder
- **Who it's for:** For people who are done asking permission
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing your survive number, your floor rate, and whether your thing is ready to sell
- **Curriculum:** 8 classes covering pricing, offers, pipelines, outreach, and security
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The Resilience Track
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/resilient-communities
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The Defender
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/stay-secure
- **Who it's for:** For people responsible for somebody else's safety
- **What you leave with:** Leave knowing your threat tier, your attack surface, and what to do about both
- **Curriculum:** 4 classes — threat modeling, device rescue, network defense, field opsec
- **Recordings:** $100/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The AI Citizen
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/understand-change-world
- **Who it's for:** For people who want to know whether it is actually true
- **What you leave with:** Leave able to take someone else's chart apart in public without getting it wrong yourself
- **Curriculum:** 4 classes — data activism, propaganda analysis, critical thinking, interactive fiction
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

### The Weird Internet Wizard
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/paths/weird-internet-wizard
- **Who it's for:** For people who build things that provoke
- **What you leave with:** Leave with finished projects shipped, not half-started ones, and an audience who saw them
- **Curriculum:** 8 classes — the broadest path, covering agents, stories, propaganda, automation, and security
- **Recordings:** $250/mo
- **Live classes:** $500/mo

## Programs

Drop-in programs that run on a recurring schedule.

### Founding Federation
- **URL:** https://themultiverse.school/programs/founding-federation
- **Tagline:** Work out what you need to earn. Then go and earn it.
- **Description:** Founding Federation is a three-week cycle for people building their own work. Everyone starts in the same room for Week 0, where you compute what you need to earn and scope what could earn it — because price is the constraint that turns a blank page into a solvable problem. On Thursday of that week you commit to one of two branches, and they run side by side for a fortnight: Go To Market if the work is getting known, Make and Do if the thing still has to be built. Mondays through Thursdays, 90 minutes, with a break in the middle and time to actually do the work. Fridays are off — we run a four-day week for founders.

## Pricing & Support Tiers

The Multiverse School uses pay-what-you-can pricing. Learning paths cost $250/mo (recordings + curriculum) or $500/mo (plus live classes). 100% scholarships available.

Every bookable class is pay-what-you-can: the price shown is the ask, and you may pay as little as half that ask, with a $100 minimum. There are no separate category-gated scholarship price tiers — the floor is open to everyone.

For a single pathway instead of the whole school, see "Track Passes (Pathways)" above: $250/mo for that pathway's recordings and curriculum, or $500/mo to add its live classes.

### Standup
- **Minimum:** $0/mo
- **Suggested:** $60/mo
- **Description:** Daily standups, AI-led learn-to-code curriculum, and mutual aid. Show up, build skills, get support.
- **Includes:**
  - Job Search Standup (Mon-Thu)
  - Learn to Code Standup (3x/week)
  - AI-led learn-to-code curriculum
  - Mutual aid support (housing, food, emergency resources)
  - Matrix campus access
  - Community channels

### Video
- **Minimum:** $100/mo
- **Suggested:** $250/mo
- **Description:** Watch every class and workshop on your own schedule. All video archives included.
- **Includes:**
  - Everything in Standup
  - Video archives of all classes
  - Workshop recordings
  - Watch on your own schedule

### Membership
- **Minimum:** $200/mo
- **Suggested:** $750/mo
- **Description:** All-you-can-attend. Every live class, workshop, and course the school runs.
- **Includes:**
  - Everything in Video
  - All live classes
  - Every workshop and course
  - Priority enrollment in new courses

**Scholarships:** 100% scholarships available. Apply at https://themultiverse.school/forms/scholarship
**Enterprise training:** Custom programs for teams at https://themultiverse.school/enterprise

## Key Public Pages

- **Classes:** https://themultiverse.school/classes — browse and enroll
- **Pathways:** https://themultiverse.school/paths — eight persona-based learning paths
- **Drop-in Programs:** https://themultiverse.school/programs/founding-federation — daily standups (Founding Federation Mon–Thu 9–10am, Learn to Code Mon–Thu 10–11am)
- **Support / Pricing:** https://themultiverse.school/support — pay what you can, scholarships
- **Start Here:** https://themultiverse.school/start — interactive pathway guide
- **Calendar:** https://themultiverse.school/calendar — all upcoming events
- **Skill Tree:** https://themultiverse.school/skill-tree — capability map across pathways
- **CTF:** https://themultiverse.school/ctf — free cybersecurity challenges
- **Volunteer:** https://themultiverse.school/volunteer — TA, teach, contribute
- **Impact:** https://themultiverse.school/impact — scholarships, mutual aid, community stats

## Free Resources

- **Free Curriculum:** All course materials at https://publish.obsidian.md/multiversecurriculum
- **Learn to Code (free, daily):** Mon–Thu 10–11am Pacific, live on YouTube. Program page: https://themultiverse.school/programs/learn-to-code
- **Learn Cloud Ops (free GPT):** https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67d23aac62e48191912d4e9e64ae5227
- **Learn Machine Learning (free GPT):** https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67dc50bbaabc8191be9fec36925272f0
- **Learn to Hack (free GPT):** https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67dc21be44a081919a2d3b11b5d279b9
- **Learn to Defend (free GPT):** https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67ddbf52d6648191ba39395085fa4235
- **Capture The Flag:** Free cybersecurity challenges at https://themultiverse.school/ctf
- **Campus Player Manual:** How the virtual campus works — navigation, calls, classes, agents, quests, housing and pets. https://themultiverse.school/x/campus-manual
- **Calendar:** All events at https://themultiverse.school/calendar

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Q: What is The Multiverse School?**
A: An online learning community offering live instructor-led classes in AI, coding, cybersecurity, cloud ops, and machine learning. All classes are pay-what-you-can with 100% scholarships available.

**Q: How much does it cost?**
A: All classes and memberships are pay-what-you-can. Suggested prices range from $0 to $500/month depending on the tier, and every class's pay-what-you-can price can be paid as low as half the asking price (minimum $100). A single learning pathway can also be bought on its own as a $250/mo (recordings) or $500/mo (recordings + live classes) track pass instead of a school-wide membership — see https://themultiverse.school/paths. 100% scholarships are available — no one is turned away for lack of funds.

**Q: Are classes live or pre-recorded?**
A: All classes are live and online via video call. Sessions are recorded so you can review them later.

**Q: Do I need coding experience?**
A: It depends on the class. Some (like Learn to Code) are for complete beginners. Others (like Agentic SDLC or Advanced Agent Engineering) expect prior coding experience. Use the guide at https://themultiverse.school/start to find the right fit.

**Q: How do I enroll?**
A: Visit the class page (e.g. https://themultiverse.school/classes/204) and click 'Pay What You Can' to pay via Stripe. You'll receive a magic link to access course materials. For a scholarship, apply at https://themultiverse.school/forms/scholarship.

**Q: Is this the same as Multiverse.io?**
A: No. The Multiverse School (themultiverse.school) is an independent online learning community founded by Liz Howard. Multiverse.io is a separate UK-based apprenticeship company. They are not affiliated.

**Q: What community platform do you use?**
A: We use Matrix (self-hosted), not Discord or Slack. Students get access to community chat rooms when they enroll.

**Q: Can I take classes for free?**
A: Yes. Apply for a scholarship at https://themultiverse.school/forms/scholarship. The Learn to Code program also streams free daily on YouTube Mon–Thu 10–11am Pacific.

**Q: How do I pick a pathway?**
A: Go to https://themultiverse.school/start for an interactive guide, or see the Path Recommendation Guide above. Each pathway is for a different kind of person — pick the one whose kicker line sounds like you.

**Q: What's the difference between $250 and $500?**
A: $250/mo gets the recordings, exercises, written curriculum, and standups. $500/mo gets all of that plus a seat in every live class on that pathway that runs this month. Both tiers keep everything you finish after cancellation.

**Q: Can I switch pathways?**
A: Yes, at any time. Nothing you have done goes away — classes you finished, skills you proved, and bench results all stay yours.

## Connect

- **Website:** https://themultiverse.school
- **Email:** liz@themultiverse.school
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOma6lSGSU42CzbNNI9QjUw
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/EngineeringEducation
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-multiverse-school/
- **Social links:** https://themultiverse.school/social-media
- **Newsletter:** https://themultiverse.school/i/newsletter

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