Founders and Coders
We run a machine learning apprenticeship for experienced software engineers who want to transition into AI-native software development and ship production AI systems.
Our programmes are in-person, one afternoon a week. Learners are surrounded by motivated peers and coached by practitioners. We're based in the heart of London at 27 Dingley Place, EC1V 8BR.
Founders and Coders has been training software developers since 2014. Our alumni includes many hundreds of developers working across the UK tech industry.
We provide a space and structure that guides motivated engineers toward mastery of machine learning and AI engineering.
Our pedagogy is peer-led. You'll learn by working alongside other experienced engineers, teaching each other, and building together. Each week you'll be programming at the limits of your understanding, tackling real problems from integrating semantic search into existing applications to building multi-agent workflows and implementing RAG architectures that handle real-world constraints.
Rather than following a fixed curriculum, sessions respond to the rapidly evolving AI landscape and what participants are actually building. You might spend one session building an MCP server, another optimising vector search performance, another fine-tuning open-source models. The focus is on shipping working features, not academic exercises.
Every software engineer in the country is going to have to retrain to keep pace with AI. Our programme exists to facilitate and accelerate that transition.
Each cohort brings together experienced engineers from different companies and industries. You'll learn alongside people solving different problems with different constraints, and that cross-pollination accelerates everyone's learning.
This isn't just a course you complete. It's a community you join.
Our Software Foundation programme is still running, but there are no dates set yet for the next intake of learners. Check back later in 2026.
Our Tech for Better programme will be returning soon. In the meantime, contact our sister agency Run in Tandem for any software development projects that you want help with.