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26 changes: 13 additions & 13 deletions content/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/_index.md
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## Module map

Read the modules in order. Each module's output is the next module's input, and each leaves you with at least one fill-in-the-blank artifact - the **"You leave with"** line on every card below. The {{< course-stat artifacts >}} artifacts bundle into a single Google Drive folder - your **Founder OS** - that doubles as your decision log. If you ever raise, the same folder is the evidence pack investors fund.
Read the modules in order. Each module's output is the next module's input, and each card's **"You leave with"** line names its output; together with the fill-in templates they total {{< course-stat artifacts >}} artifacts, which bundle into a single Google Drive folder - your **Founder OS** - that doubles as your decision log. If you ever raise, the same folder is the evidence pack investors fund.

<div class="module-card" id="module-1">
<span class="module-card__badge">Module 1</span>
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<li><span class="module-card__num">3.1</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/one-page-product-brief-vibe-prd/">The One-Page Product Brief (Vibe PRD)</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">3.2</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/stop-specifying-features-start-outcomes/">Quality-check Your Brief: Features to Outcomes</a></li>
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<p class="module-card__extras">Template in this module: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/vibe-prd-template/">Vibe PRD</a> · Course glossary (reference, not in the linear path): <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/five-tech-words-stop-nodding-at/">Five Tech Words to Stop Nodding At</a></p>
<p class="module-card__extras">Template in this module: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/vibe-prd-template/">Vibe PRD</a> · Course glossary (reference, not in the linear path): <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/five-tech-words-stop-nodding-at/">Five Tech Words to Stop Nodding At</a> · See it in action: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/module-3-walkthrough-mia/">Mia writes the one-page brief</a></p>
<p class="module-card__leave"><strong>You leave with:</strong> a one-page Product Brief where every feature traces back to something a customer actually said.</p>
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<ol class="module-card__chapters">
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.1</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/should-you-hire-2026-decision-tree/">Should You Hire? The 2026 Decision Tree</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.2</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/github-aws-database-ownership-checklist/">Who Owns Your GitHub, AWS, and Database?</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.3a</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/self-serve-mvp-stack-lovable-supabase-stripe-2026/">The Self-Serve MVP Stack: Tools &amp; Setup</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.3b</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/self-serve-mvp-stack-build-phases/">The Self-Serve MVP Stack: Build Phases</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.4</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/vibe-coding-ceiling-signals/">Vibe Coding Done Right: 5 Ceiling Signals</a> <span class="module-card__optional">optional</span><br><em>Skip on first pass. Come back when your no-code build hits a wall - a feature you can't add, a query you can't tune, an auth flow Lovable can't handle.</em></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.3</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/self-serve-mvp-stack-lovable-supabase-stripe-2026/">The Self-Serve MVP Stack: Tools &amp; Setup</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.4</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/self-serve-mvp-stack-build-phases/">The Self-Serve MVP Stack: Build Phases</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">4.5</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/vibe-coding-ceiling-signals/">Vibe Coding Done Right: 5 Ceiling Signals</a> <span class="module-card__optional">optional</span><br><em>Skip on first pass. Come back when your no-code build hits a wall - a feature you can't add, a query you can't tune, an auth flow Lovable can't handle.</em></li>
</ol>
<p class="module-card__extras">Templates in this module: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/build-path-decision-worksheet/">Build Path Decision Worksheet</a> · <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/ownership-checklist/">Ownership Checklist</a> · <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/self-serve-stack-walkthrough/">Self-Serve Stack Walkthrough</a></p>
<p class="module-card__extras">Templates in this module: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/build-path-decision-worksheet/">Build Path Decision Worksheet</a> · <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/ownership-checklist/">Ownership Checklist</a> · <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/self-serve-stack-walkthrough/">Self-Serve Stack Walkthrough</a> · See it in action: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/module-4-walkthrough-mia/">Mia ships TutorMatch</a></p>
<p class="module-card__leave"><strong>You leave with:</strong> a live MVP at a real URL that you built and you own - every account in your name from Day 1.</p>
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<em>Start here if your MVP is live but you don't have a paying customer with a signed pilot.</em></p>
<ol class="module-card__chapters">
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.1</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/must-have-segment-pmf-test/">Your First Customer Is Not a Marketing Problem</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.2</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/channel-selection-before-outbound/">Choose Your Channel Before You Send One Message</a> <span class="module-card__optional">optional</span><br><em>Skip if you already have a channel in mind (LinkedIn, cold email, or personal network). The core path is 5.3a→b→c (personal network) → 5.4 (paid pilot).</em></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.3a</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-ten-customers-network-list/">Build Your 50-Name Network List</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.3b</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-ten-customers-outreach-message/">Write the Outreach Message</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.3c</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-ten-customers-send-track/">Send, Track, and Read the Replies</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.4</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/paid-pilot-charge-before-ship/">Charge Before You Ship: The Paid Pilot Contract</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.5</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/outbound-without-sales-team/">Going Outbound Without a Sales Team</a> <span class="module-card__optional">optional</span><br><em>Skip if your personal network in 5.3a→c produced your first 10 customers. This is the systematic path for when warm intros run out.</em></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.2</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/channel-selection-before-outbound/">Choose Your Channel Before You Send One Message</a> <span class="module-card__optional">optional</span><br><em>Skip if you already have a channel in mind (LinkedIn, cold email, or personal network). The core path is 5.3-5.5 (personal network) → 5.6 (paid pilot).</em></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.3</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-ten-customers-network-list/">Build Your 50-Name Network List</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.4</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-ten-customers-outreach-message/">Write the Outreach Message</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.5</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-ten-customers-send-track/">Send, Track, and Read the Replies</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.6</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/paid-pilot-charge-before-ship/">Charge Before You Ship: The Paid Pilot Contract</a></li>
<li><span class="module-card__num">5.7</span> <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/outbound-without-sales-team/">Going Outbound Without a Sales Team</a> <span class="module-card__optional">optional</span><br><em>Skip if your personal network in 5.3-5.5 produced your first 10 customers. This is the systematic path for when warm intros run out.</em></li>
</ol>
<p class="module-card__extras">Template in this module: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-paying-customer-operating-kit/">First Paying Customer Operating Kit</a></p>
<p class="module-card__extras">Template in this module: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/first-paying-customer-operating-kit/">First Paying Customer Operating Kit</a> · See it in action: <a href="/course/tech-for-non-technical-founders-2026/module-5-walkthrough-mia/">Mia gets paid</a></p>
<p class="module-card__leave"><strong>You leave with:</strong> a signed paid pilot and your first dollar from a customer, not a favor.</p>
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## Why this exists

A wellness-coaching founder we picked up in Q1 2026 had spent four months building a Lovable MVP, then panicked and signed a $24K-per-month agency contract because three advisors told her "you need a real team now." Two of the advisors had never seen her validation data. The third had not asked.
A wellness-coaching founder who came to us in early 2026 had spent four months building a Lovable MVP, then panicked and signed a $24K-per-month agency contract because three advisors told her "you need a real team now." Two of the advisors had never seen her validation data. The third had not asked.

She showed us the contract on a Tuesday. By Friday we had walked her through the same 5 questions on this worksheet and the matrix said Path 3 (Fractional CTO at $2,400/mo, 8 hours/week), not Path 4 (the agency at $24K/mo). She paid the agency a kill fee and saved 14 months of runway. The decision was already in the data she had. The advisors had not run the worksheet. Cheaper to spend 30 minutes with this page than to spend a quarter undoing a contract somebody else's instinct signed for you.

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