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The page — that is the product
A file in output/ a stranger can hold. Course Brief, Desk Panel, Weekly Run, or First Reply. If they have to open the chat to understand it, it is not done.
Undergraduate Session · Fall 2026 · Waltham, MA
On Oct 20 you open one system and run it.
Five Tuesday evenings. Next to your degree. Not instead of it. Not a paper. Not a chat you cannot restart on Wednesday. A named project on your laptop, standing orders in a file, and one workflow from work you already do.
- 27 seats
- 15 hours
- Claude Desktop
- $1,997 only if admitted
Night 1
Sep 22
Name the job. Create the Claude Project. Put real files on disk.
Night 2
Sep 29
First draft lands in output/. You can point at it.
Night 3
Oct 6
Connect one real source — Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, or search. Sandbox unless you and a faculty mentor choose otherwise.
Night 4
Oct 13
Break it. Lock one rule in CLAUDE.md so it still works after you quit.
Night five · present
Oct 20
Cold start. You press go. You walk the room through the file that appeared.
Sep 22–Oct 20 · 6:00–9:00 p.m. · LaCava Center · screenshot this for a roommate.
The outcome. Same for every seat.
Four things on your laptop. That is the project.
Track only names whose mess it serves — a course, an internship, a club, a family shop. The thing you present is always these four. If any one is missing on Oct 20, the step is still open.
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You press go
On Oct 20 you drop this week’s files and run one prompt. The page appears. The instructor points. He does not type on your laptop.
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A named project on your laptop
Claude Desktop. Name: [Job] — [Course or org]. Folder: Documents / AI-Rocket / [Name]-[Job]. This is how you find it next week.
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Standing orders in a file
A file named CLAUDE.md. What it does. What it must never do. Quit Claude. Open it again. It still knows the job.
Sample output · research track
This is the file. Not the chat.
SAMPLE. An HTML page the system writes to output/. A professor opens it in a browser. No PDF. No chat transcript.
Most of the tool is sitting unused
You own a personal jet. You're using it to go to the corner store.
Everyone in your class uses AI. Nobody can show you what it built for them. In five weeks, you will.
Why this year is different
The tool 6×’d. The homework did not.
Claude went from 60 million monthly users in January to 260 million in September. At this pace it is about 360 million by January 2027. Classmates still use it to polish a paragraph. Employers will ask what you can run — not what you can paste.
Family: this is why five Tuesdays sit next to the degree. Friends: this is the file you can send them. A future employer: this is the project that still works after the chat is closed.
If they stood on a map of the United States
60M
Jan 2026
East Coast
260M
Sep 2026
Through the Midwest
360M
estimate · Jan 2027
The whole country
What that looks like in three minutes
From something you already have. Deliver a file that speaks for itself.
Start with a real pile you already own — your notes, receipts, emails, a spreadsheet, a folder of PDFs. Build the system that turns that pile into one finished file: a report, a schedule, a tracker, a summary.
- 1. No fake data. If you had to make it up, it is not your pile.
- 2. No job-hunt chatbot. Career services already does that. Build something that does not exist yet.
- 3. The file has to stand alone. Hand it to a stranger with no explanation. If they cannot understand what it is and why it is useful without you walking them through the chat, it is not done.
You are not judged on the conversation you had with the AI. You are judged on the thing it produced.
Course Brief
Research or a faculty project
- Before the session
- Sources in five tabs. Notes in a doc no one else can follow. The next meeting starts from scratch.
- On Oct 20 you do this
- You drop the syllabus and two readings. A one-page brief appears: what you read, what is due, three questions for the professor. You hand them that page.
Desk Panel
Internship or work-study
- Before the session
- Three calendars, two inboxes, a supervisor who emails after hours.
- On Oct 20 you do this
- You open this week. The panel lists what is due, what is done, and what still needs you. A supervisor can read it without opening your inbox.
Weekly Run
Campus organization
- Before the session
- Intake in a group chat. Roster in someone’s Notes app. The weekly update nobody sends.
- On Oct 20 you do this
- A new name comes in. The roster updates. The weekly note drafts. You approve it. It is ready to send.
First Reply
Family shop or community work
- Before the session
- Messages answered when someone remembers. Follow-ups that wait until Sunday night.
- On Oct 20 you do this
- A message comes in. A first response drafts. A follow-up is dated. You still make the hard call. The shop does not wait until Sunday.
Who sees it
You present. Four people in the room who matter.
Night five is Oct 20. The instructor does not present for you. Faculty and family are invited. Bring classmates. A local employer can sit in.
Your professor
They read the brief or the panel. They do not have to trust a chat transcript.
Classmates
Night five is a critique. You stand up. They see the file.
Family
Invited Oct 20. They watch you press go. That is what the five Tuesdays were for.
A future employer
A named project you can restart, not a certificate of attendance.
What the session adds
Practice hours the degree does not have to carry alone.
The floor on Oct 20
You press go. A page appears. You hand it to faculty and family. That page is the product. Not a certificate. Not credit.
The stretch
Next week you drop new files and press go again. You do not rebuild the project.
A line that sits beside the degree
AI Rocket Undergraduate Session (Fall 2026). Built and presented a working AI system for [Course Brief / Desk Panel / Weekly Run / First Reply], alongside coursework. Waltham, MA.
What this is not
Not a paper the session writes for you. Not a job-hunt chatbot. Not a campus-wide app. Not a replacement for faculty or career services.
Four tracks. Pick one on the application.
The pile is yours. The object has a name.
Each track finishes in five evenings and extends work the student already does.
Course Brief
Research or faculty project
- Resume
- Built a living research brief and source tracker for [course / lab].
- What a parent hears
- They can walk a professor through the brief, not only a paper.
Desk Panel
Internship or work-study
- Resume
- Shipped an internship ops panel — calendar, inbox, what is due.
- What a parent hears
- The workplace sees they can run a desk, not only fetch work.
Weekly Run
Campus organization
- Resume
- Stood up intake, roster, and weekly updates for [organization].
- What a parent hears
- The club still moves when they are in class.
First Reply
Family shop or community work
- Resume
- Directed a first-response and follow-up system for a local operation.
- What a parent hears
- School hours went back into the family business or a community desk.
Why this sits next to the university
The degree does the long work. This session does the Tuesday work.
A university education is the foundation — judgment, writing, numbers, a field of study, and the people who teach it. That work takes years. It should. Nothing in this room replaces a professor, a syllabus, or a diploma.
The corner store is not the problem. Stopping there is. Most students already use AI to polish a paragraph. Fewer have a place, in the evening, to direct a system that helps a research project, an internship, or a campus organization — and then show that system to faculty.
This session is those practice hours. Students stay enrolled. Faculty are guests on Oct 20. The university keeps the credit. The student keeps the system.
The five Tuesdays
Evening studio. One job each night.
Sep 22 to Oct 20, 6:00–9:00 p.m., LaCava Center. Built to fit beside a full course load — not to compete with it. Claude Desktop is installed before night one so Tuesday is studio time, not setup time.
- 1
Sep 22
Name the job. Create the Claude Project. Put real files on disk.
- 2
Sep 29
First draft lands in output/. You can point at it.
- 3
Oct 6
Connect one real source — Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, or search. Sandbox unless you and a faculty mentor choose otherwise.
- 4
Oct 13
Break it. Lock one rule in CLAUDE.md so it still works after you quit.
- 5
Oct 20You present
Cold start. You press go. You walk the room through the file that appeared.
Night five · Oct 20
The instructor does not present for you.
You open the system. You walk a professor, classmates, family, and a local employer through what it does. This is a studio critique, not a replacement for a class presentation, and not a certificate ceremony.
If you cannot picture standing there on Oct 20, do not apply. The five evenings exist to earn that night.
Who the 27 are
Enrolled undergraduates. A use case from their studies.
Yes
- Enrolled undergraduate, 18 or older, who can be in Waltham every Tuesday, 6:00–9:00 p.m., Sep 22 through Oct 20
- Has a laptop with Claude Desktop installed — paid plan required ($30/month)
- Brings real files from a course, lab, internship, campus organization, or family operation
- Treats this as studio time next to the degree — not instead of it
Not this session
- Looking for university credit or a degree requirement — that stays with your registrar
- Wants to Zoom in
- Cannot make all five evenings
- Wants a chatbot chat with no file on disk and no one to show it to
Who runs the studio
Tim Regan, founder of AI Rocket.
A Waltham business owner who built this company's operation with AI systems. He is a practitioner in the room, not a substitute for faculty.
- Built the company's operation with AI agentsMission Control →
- 10 agents, tens of thousands of lines of code, built in 8 daysRead the 8-day story →
- A live product with real paymentsvsee.pro →
- An autonomous prospecting fleet that scanned 38,000 businessesSee the receipts →
Tuition
$1,997
Applying is free. Studio tuition for five supervised evenings — not university tuition, and it does not buy credit. Nothing is billed until you accept the seat.
If you are a parent
This is not a Bentley course and not for credit. Your student stays enrolled. On Oct 20 you can sit in the room and watch them present a system they built on their own laptop. The application asks who pays — student, parent, split, or sponsor — so that is settled before a seat is offered.
The fine print, up front
What do I actually walk out with?
A page that appears when you press go — a Course Brief, Desk Panel, Weekly Run, or First Reply. Plus the Project and CLAUDE.md so you can run it again next week. The university keeps the credit. You keep the machine that prints the page.
Is it an app I publish?
No. It lives on Claude Desktop. You name it, you run it, you show the file it produced. If it only works while a chat is open, it is not done.
Does this replace a university course?
No. Students stay enrolled. This is an evening studio — five Tuesdays next to the semester, not a substitute for it. Credit, majors, and graduation requirements stay with the university.
Is this a Bentley program?
No. The room is in the LaCava Center at Bentley University. The session is run by AI Rocket, an independent Waltham studio. We are grateful for the campus setting. We are not a university department and we do not speak for the institution.
Will faculty be involved?
Faculty are invited to night five on Oct 20. Students are encouraged to choose a pile a professor would recognize — a research thread, an internship, an organization they already serve.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You work on your own laptop. What you need: comfort in a browser, real files from your studies or work, and Claude Desktop installed before night one.
Where is it? Parking?
LaCava Center at Bentley University, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452. Parking on site. Reachable from Boston by commuter rail or car.
What do I need to bring?
A laptop with Claude Desktop installed before Sep 22, and a paid Claude plan ($30 per month). The day you are admitted you get a short setup note so Tuesday evening is studio time, not install time.
When do I pay?
Only if admitted. Applying is free. Nothing is billed until you accept the seat. Tuition is $1,997 for the five evenings.
What if I miss a Tuesday?
The same 27 people every night. All five evenings are the deal. If the semester already owns those hours, do not apply — a half-used seat is a seat another student needed.
Apply
Pick a track. Four questions. No essay.
Tuition is $1,997 — billed only if admitted. Name the project you will present on Oct 20.
- Track. Research, internship, campus org, or family / community shop.
- Sentence. What will that system do by Oct 20?
- Tuesdays. All five, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
- Payer. I do · A parent · We split it · Someone else (employer, sponsor)
The line that sits beside the degree
AI Rocket Undergraduate Session (Fall 2026). Built and presented a working AI system for [use case], alongside coursework. Waltham, MA.
Apply for the session
27 seats. You present Oct 20. Starts Sep 22.
Undergraduate Session · Tim Regan · AI Rocket · Waltham, MA · tim@airocket.pro
An independent studio hosted in the LaCava Center. Not a university course. Not for university credit. Offered as an extension of a student's studies.