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in a company's academy.
Free.

You build real projects. People from the company review them every sprint. You get known by what you make, not what you send.

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Today that's Relevate - built with Relativity, a legal-tech company. Their engineers and PMs mentor here, sprint by sprint. The company backs it - always free. Today that's Relevate, built with Relativity. The company backs it - always free.

sprint 3 · your submission · 2 reviews

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K

Kuba Classmate

Same bug bit me in sprint 2 - your scope is tighter than mine.

reviewed

M

Marta Mentor

Good call on the scope. One edge case left - see my note, then ship it.

approved

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Each one is built with a company. Their people mentor you, sprint by sprint - and it stays free, start to finish.

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Relevate

A legal-tech company. Its engineers and product managers mentor this one.

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Engineering (.NET)

beginner · 7 sprints, two weeks each

taught by 5 mentors from Relativity

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Product Management

beginner · 7 sprints, two weeks each

taught by 7 mentors from Relativity

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Customer Success

beginner · 7 sprints, two weeks each

taught by 4 mentors from Relativity

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Joyful Programming

Its people mentor this one.

for companies

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We build academies with companies that want to push this forward - your brand, your people mentoring, run together with us.

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One task, start to finish.

This is the whole product. Not a video you watch alone - a piece of work that somebody who does this for a living reads and answers.

  1. You get a task

    It comes with acceptance criteria, so you know what finished means before you start.

  2. You build it

    In your own hours. Stuck at midnight? There's a help room, and a live session with the mentors that week.

  3. Two people read it

    Someone from your cohort, and a mentor who does this at work. Both leave notes on the work itself.

  4. You get an answer

    Approved, or notes to come back with. Either way the next task opens when you're through.

Worth knowing before you apply.

Same in every academy. We'd rather you find this out today than in week three.

This works if

  • You can give it an hour or two most days - the sprint rhythm is shared, and your reviewer is waiting on you.
  • You'll work in English before you're comfortable in it. Sessions, reviews, chat - all of it.
  • You can read someone's unfinished work kindly, because they'll be reading yours. Contempt costs you your place here, however good your code is.
  • You're 18 or older. That one we can't bend.

It won't, yet, if

  • Your next three months are already full. The academies run again - a later cohort beats a half-finished one.
  • You want to binge it in two weekends. Sprints open on the cohort's calendar, so speed isn't the lever here.
  • You want a certificate rather than a review. The feedback is the product; the paper is a by-product.
  • You'd rather not have your work read at all. Everything you build here gets read by two people.

Built this way on purpose.

Every piece of the academy answers a real problem with how people enter this industry today. Here's the problem, and here's the piece.

A hundred CVs into silence.

The way in runs on paper, and paper says nothing about you.

So here, your work gets seen.

Every sprint ends in a submission that a person from the company reads and answers. By the end you have a track record, not a claim.

every submission · mentor review + peer review

Courses end in silence too.

You finish the videos, tick the quiz - and nobody ever tells you if your work is any good.

So feedback has teeth here.

People who do this work daily read yours and say what's good and what isn't. That's the product - not the videos.

clear acceptance criteria on every task

AI changed the job.

Typing code was never the point - now it visibly isn't. Judgment is.

So you learn with it, not around it.

AI-assisted development is a sprint of the program, and your judgment gets trained by people who use these tools at work.

sprint 2 of the program · AI-powered development

Learning alone doesn't hold.

Motivation dies quietly somewhere around lesson nine.

So you're in a cohort, on a shared beat.

Sprints unlock together, live sessions run on the cohort's calendar, and there's a help room for when you're stuck.

cohort room · help room · live sessions

Free usually means you're the product.

Somebody always pays. If it isn't you, it's worth asking who - and what they get.

So we name who pays: the companies.

A company backs each academy because it wants to meet people by their work. Your work speaks - and you decide to whom.

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the mechanics in practice: build → submit → get reviewed → next task

They came for the work.

Three people who did it, on what changed after. Two to three minutes each, in their own words.

“For me it paid off!”
Janusz · junior → mid, hired
“Focus on essentials that will benefit the most.”
Jakub · hobby → paying job
“A new, really cool job.”
Mateusz · stuck → new job

The things people actually ask.

Short answers. Where something differs between academies, that academy's own page is the one that decides.

Is it really free?

Free to apply, free start to finish. The company behind the academy pays for it, because it wants to meet people by their work.

Do I need a degree, or a portfolio?

Neither. What you need on day one is written on each academy's page - and for one of them it's nothing technical at all.

What if I fall behind?

Nothing expires and nothing locks you out. You can catch up in your own time, and if you go quiet for a week, a mentor will ask how it's going.

Can I go faster than the others?

Not through the sprints - a new one opens for the whole cohort every two weeks. Inside a sprint, the hours are yours.

My English isn't great.

That's fine, and it's the point. Everything runs in English and you'll be using it daily - fluency is what you leave with, not what you bring.

Will I get a job out of it?

We don't promise that, and you should be wary of anyone who does. What happens here is that people from the company read your work for months and know your name by the end.

Does everyone get in?

No, and that's why applying is worth something. Each academy says how it gets to know you - a few questions, or a small task.

What happens when it ends?

Your account and everything you built stay yours. Plenty of people carry on into the next academy when one opens.

Come build.
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