Claude Code Apprenticeship

FREE — costs you nothing, pays you in skills, portfolio, resume, title, recommendation, and path to hire.
Duration: 6 months full-time
Entry: Graduate from Level 1, or pass Level 2 interview

We built a FREE Apprenticeship because the entry-level job market is broken.

Nobody wants to hire a junior with zero production experience. But nobody gives juniors production experience. We're breaking that loop.

You give us 6 months of relentless execution. We give you the exact leverage to skip the first 3 years of the corporate ladder.

What changed since we wrote the last version of this post

Two things happened:

1. We now have 17 detailed product specs. Every task is defined. Every API endpoint is contracted. Every database table is specified. You don't need a PM to tell you what to build — the specs are your PM. Claude Code is your pair programmer. You just execute.

2. Claude Code makes juniors dangerous. A Level 2 apprentice with Claude Code, our specs, and our CLAUDE.md files ships at the speed of a mid-level engineer. We've designed the entire codebase for this — pattern tasks with one example to follow, isolated repos for clean context, PR-based workflow with review before merge.

What you'll actually do

You are a full-time Claude Code engineer. You work 10-12 hours/day, 7 days/week, in our codebase.

Your work tracks (assigned based on skill and need):

1. Destination adapters — Connect Unstuck to 60+ tools (Instantly, HeyReach, Salesforce, etc.) | 2-4 hrs each
2. Signal source workflows — n8n workflows that collect signals from external providers | 2-4 hrs each
3. CLI commands — Every CLI command following a pattern from spec 04 | 1-2 hrs each
4. MCP tools — Every MCP tool following a pattern from spec 04 | 1-2 hrs each
5. App UI pages — Next.js pages generated with v0/Magic Patterns, connected to Supabase | 4-6 hrs each
6. Tests — Unit, integration, and E2E tests for every feature | 1-2 hrs each
7. Blog articles — SEO content via AirOps pipeline, review and publish | 1-2 hrs each
8. Comparison pages — "Unstuck vs Clay" style pages in Lovable/Sanity | 2-3 hrs each

9. Integration guides — "How to connect Unstuck to X" documentation | 1-2 hrs each

    

How the system works:

Senior engineer builds the first example (e.g., first destination adapter)

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You read the example + the spec + the CLAUDE.md

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You prompt Claude Code to build the next one following the pattern

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Claude Code writes 80% of the code

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You review, test, and create a PR

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Senior engineer reviews your PR (within 24 hours)

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Feedback → you fix → merge → next task

By month 2, you're shipping 3-5 PRs/day. By month 4, you're picking tasks from the execution plan independently.

What you get

1. Real, production-grade experience
Not simulated. Not a sandbox. Your code runs in production, serving real customers who pay real money.

2. Daily mentorship by proximity
You're in our Slack. You see how the CEO and CTO make decisions. You see real PRs, real architecture discussions, real customer feedback. Every PR review is a micro-lesson.

3. Resume + LinkedIn signal
You graduate with "Claude Code Engineer at Unstuck Engine" — not "Intern." Plus a recommendation letter from the founder with exact metrics: "Built 40 destination adapters, wrote 200 tests, shipped 15 UI pages."

4. The AI engineering stack
Claude Code (Max plan — we cover this), Supabase, Next.js, n8n, Stripe, CopilotKit, Cloudflare Workers, PostHog, Sanity, AirOps. Not a list on a resume — tools you've used every day for 6 months in production.

5. Path to paid hire
This is our talent pipeline. Apprentices who execute at our speed are first in line for paid roles when we raise our Seed round.

6. Startup operating system
Async Slack culture, radical transparency, extreme speed. After 6 months here, corporate jobs feel like slow motion.

The hard rules (non-negotiable)

1. Full-time commitment. 10-12 hours/day, 7 days/week. Not a side hustle. Not combinable with a job, school, or another program. This is your one thing for 6 months.

2. US / Canada / LATAM time zones. We need overlapping hours for Slack questions and PR reviews.

3. You already have coding basics. You can read JavaScript/TypeScript, you understand what an API is, you've used a database. We teach you Claude Code and production engineering — not programming 101.

4. Claude Max subscription. We cover the $200/mo Claude Max subscription for Level 2 apprentices.

5. Flawless execution standard. Speed matters. Accuracy is mandatory. If Claude Code generates code with a bug and you don't catch it before PR, that's on you. You are the quality gate, Claude Code is the speed.

Entry paths

Path A: Graduate from Level 1
Complete the 1-month paid Level 1 program. If you're shipping 3+ quality PRs/day by week 4, you're automatically eligible for Level 2.

Path B: Direct interview for Level 2
If you already have Claude Code experience and can demonstrate production-level output, you can skip Level 1.

Level 2 interview:

1. Show us 5+ PRs you've created using Claude Code (any project, any repo)
2. Live speed test: build a destination adapter from our spec in 30 minutes (screen shared)
3. 15-minute founder fit conversation

To apply

For Level 1 (paid, 1 month):
Loom video (2 min) showing you building with Claude Code + 3 sentences on why + confirm budget and time commitment.

For Level 2 (free, 6 months):
Link to 5+ Claude Code PRs + confirm full-time availability and timezone + tell us which track interests you most (from the table above).

https://app.dover.com/apply/Unstuck%20Engine/cb635154-3108-4d34-92f0-7e251421a045?rs=72237129