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Featured Curriculum 8 May 2026 · 6 min read

Twelve deliverables — the anatomy of a Moonlabs cohort portfolio

Every Moonlabs Academy graduate leaves with the same twelve artefacts. This essay walks through what each one looks like and why we chose it over the obvious alternatives.

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Curriculum · 4 Nov 2025

Coding is not the bottleneck anymore. Commercials are.

We have spent six months teaching student cohorts and the pattern is now unmissable. Every twenty-year-old in the room can ship a working SaaS in a weekend. Almost none of them can sell it, price it, or raise on it.

James Freestone 6 min

Your next chapter starts here.

Tell us about the company you want to build. If we’re a fit, we’ll get back within a week.

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