Learn the skill your company needs this week.

Why founders learn differently

A founder rarely needs a whole subject. You need the slice of finance that gets a board deck right, the slice of sales that closes your first ten customers, the slice of SQL that answers one question about churn. Generic courses start at chapter one and assume you have a semester. You have a deadline.

Octo starts from the deadline instead.

How it works

1. Say what you want in one sentence. "I need to understand SaaS metrics before my seed pitch next month" is enough.
2. Octo interviews you. A short conversation about your company, what you already know and what you are trying to get done, so the course is built for your situation rather than an average student's.
3. You review the curriculum before anything is written. Chat with it to cut a chapter, add one, or reorder the plan. Nothing is built until you confirm.
4. Octo writes the lessons for you. Each one is generated for your goal, with examples from the kind of company you run.
5. Ask while you read. The Ask Octo tutor sits beside every lesson, and can answer a question, explain a passage more simply, or reshape the course when you realise you need something different.
6. Finish, and get a certificate. Finish every chapter and you receive a certificate anyone can verify online.

Skills founders learn with Octo

• Marketing for founders: positioning, your first channels, and writing that sells.
• Finance for founders: unit economics, runway, and reading your own numbers.
• Sales for founders: discovery calls, pipeline, and closing your first customers.
• SQL for founders: answering your own product questions from the database.

Those are starting points, not a catalogue. Octo writes a course for whatever you ask it, from pricing strategy to hiring your first engineer.

Built to be shared

Founders learn things so the team can use them. Share a class you built with a teammate and they get their own copy of it, free during their trial, and follow at their own pace.

30 days free

Everything before the lessons is free on every course: the interview, the curriculum, and refining it until it is right. Every course you build in your first 30 days is free, and yours to keep. Octo is in research preview, so tell us when a lesson gets something wrong.