Fly to Saigon. Fly home with the software your business runs on.
Most founders spend $20,000 and six months hiring developers to build one app. In 3 to 5 days, with engineers beside you, you walk out with two or three working applications on your real data, a Mac Mini running 8 AI agents, and the system to keep building forever. The flights aside, everything is handled. You just build.
You’re not buying a course. You’re buying an asset.
A dev shop charges $20,000 to $50,000 to build one CRM. You leave with two or three working apps. An AI bootcamp is $5,000 and you go home with a notebook. This is days and thousands, and the software is already live before your flight home.
Per app. Months of waiting. You own a contract, not the skill.
You leave with notes and prompts. Nothing shipped.
2 to 3 apps live, a Mac Mini with 8 agents, and you can do it again.
Real software, running on your data.
Past teams have walked out with CRM systems, Applicant Tracking, Event Management, Survey Tools, and more. The kind of internal software companies pay $20,000 to $50,000 to have built, and you walk out with two or three of it.
2 to 3 working applications
Not slides, not a prototype. Real software running on your real data. Past teams have walked out with CRMs, applicant tracking, event tools, and survey systems worth $20,000 to $50,000 to build.
A Mac Mini with 8 working agents
Your AI team, configured and on your desk before you fly out. Accounts, dashboards, API keys, sync, all of it ready to run the software you just built.
The 18 Protocols, installed
The operating system we build every client on, mapped to your business. Where leverage lives, named. You leave able to keep building, not waiting for us.
The Polish, for 30 days after
40 human tokens so our experts take your builds to production quality once you are home, and maybe build the next one with you.
Here’s everything you get.
Priced at what each piece costs on its own. Add it up, then look at what you pay. That gap is the whole point.
- ✓2 to 3 working applications, built on your real data$20,000 – $50,000
- ✓A Mac Mini, pre-loaded with 8 working AI agents, yours to take home$5,000+
- ✓The 18 Protocols, the operating system we build every client on (a standalone AI bootcamp runs to $5,000)$5,000
- ✓AI engineers building beside you in the room for the full retreat$10,000+
- ✓The Polish: 40 human tokens to take your builds to production after you fly home$2,000
- ✓The Saigon concierge week: VIP immigration, private car and driver, the AIO Pad, daily lunch, the Travel Buddy app$5,000+
- ✓18 protocols learned and infinite leverage that keeps compoundingPriceless
$7,000 for a 3-day retreat, first person. Each extra day is $1,000. Each additional person is $1,000 per day, everything included. Build a $50,000 software stack for the price most people pay to learn about AI, then keep building after you land.
Built for founders done waiting.
A private retreat is for an operator ready to build the thing they have been saying they would build for two years, solo or with their team.
- ✓You have an idea worth building, not a pitch deck
- ✓You can free up 3 to 5 days, solo or with your operator-level team
- ✓You're done waiting for an engineer to make time for you
Pick your days and team, then reserve.
The total updates live as you adjust. Pay by card via Stripe and your dates lock in immediately.
What every day looks like.
Every retreat starts with a private CAIO roadmap session and ends with a live production deployment. The 3-day ships a focused build; 4 and 5 days add more build time and a dedicated launch day.
Blueprint and Roadmap
- Private CAIO roadmap session: where leverage lives, what to ship first
- Three-layer company model and Agent Org Chart for your business
- Concept selection, scope lock, success criteria
- Engineer paired, environment set up on a fresh Mac mini
Build Day
- Hands-on build with your engineer in the room
- Website, agents, data plumbing, integrations
- Goal: working software on real data by end of day
Production and Handoff
- Polish, harden, deploy to production
- Mac mini configured: accounts, dashboards, sync, API keys
- The Polish: 40 human tokens to perfect it over the next 30 days
Blueprint and Roadmap
- Private CAIO roadmap session: where leverage lives, what to ship first
- Three-layer company model and Agent Org Chart for your business
- Concept selection, scope lock, success criteria
- Engineer paired, environment set up on a fresh Mac mini
Build Day One
- Vibe-code the spine: website, primary flow, data model
- First agent on real data
- Daily sync with the CAIO on direction
Build Day Two
- Stack out: CRM, payments, email, automations
- Multiple agents wired into your real business data
- First end-to-end test of the production flow
Build Day Three
- Bug fixes, edge cases, error handling
- Performance, security, deploy infrastructure
- Mac mini configured: accounts, dashboards, sync, API keys
Launch and Handoff
- Push to production, smoke-test live
- 30-day launch plan: what to monitor, what to iterate
- The Polish: 40 human tokens to perfect it over the next 30 days
Included, and not included.
Everything the retreat needs to put working software in your hands is included. Things that scale with your business after, ads, ongoing API costs, domain renewals, are not.
- ✓Pre-retreat consultation to lock your scope before you fly
- ✓Project setup and a fresh Mac Mini configured with 8 working AI agents
- ✓A dedicated AI engineer building beside you for the full retreat
- ✓Private CAIO roadmap session on day one
- ✓2 to 3 applications shipped to production on your real data
- ✓The Polish: 40 human tokens (~40 hours) to perfect your builds in the 30 days after
- ✓For everyone on your team: VIP immigration fast-track, airport pickup, a room at the AIO Pad, daily lunch, a private car and driver, and the Travel Buddy app
- ×International flights
- ×Domain registration and SaaS subscriptions for your business
- ×API costs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.) past the included token allowance
- ×Advertising spend
- ×Legal or accounting work
AIO-pad, Lumiere Riverside.
Your team stays at the AIO-pad in Lumiere Riverside, in the leafy Thao Dien neighborhood of Saigon. Riverside views, a private car and driver, and the Travel Buddy app for everything else. 20 minutes to District 1.
The Polish. We don’t ship and ghost.
Working is not the same as production. Every retreat includes 40 human tokens, about 40 hours of expert time, for the 30 days after you leave. Our team uses them to take your builds to production quality, fix the edge cases, and, if there is room, build the next thing with you.
Want to keep building after the first month? The Human Tokens subscription is $2,000 a month for 40 tokens, cancel anytime.
Your CAIO, and a dedicated engineer.
A private retreat means private people. Dave runs the CAIO roadmap session at the start. A dedicated engineer is paired with your team for the full duration. The same Saigon-based team handles your post-retreat polish.
“The private retreats are for the founder who has a real idea and just needs a few days, a Mac, and an engineer to make it real.”
Dave Hajdu · Founder, Edge8
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