Before this program, I...
I was an entrepreneur with a fundamental problem: ideas were never my limitation—execution was. Throughout my career, I'd built successful ventures, but every single one required me to assemble a technical team, raise funding for technology development, and constantly depend on a CTO to bring my vision to life. I had zero coding experience. When I looked at a terminal or an IDE, I saw an impenetrable wall of complexity that wasn't meant for people like me.
The cost wasn't just financial—it was the friction of translation. Every feature, every pivot, every "what if" required explaining my vision to someone else, waiting for estimates, negotiating priorities, and hoping the final product matched what I'd imagined. I was stuck in a loop: great ideas, but always dependent on finding the right technical co-founder or raising enough capital to hire developers.
Thanks to this program, I...
Everything changed after the Vibe Coding class in December 2024. For the first time, I understood that I didn't need to become a software engineer—I needed to become fluent in the language of AI-assisted development. Claude Code became my technical co-founder, my entire development team, and my execution engine.
Over the next six weeks, I built Expand Health AI—a complete, production-ready healthcare practice management platform. Not a prototype. Not a landing page. A real SaaS platform with:
883 files of production code
91 REST API endpoints handling everything from authentication to AI-powered treatment protocols
23 database tables with complete multi-tenancy architecture
101 HTML pages for both practitioner and patient-facing interfaces
Enterprise-grade security: JWT refresh tokens, invite-only registration, account lockout, HIPAA-compliant PHI encryption, SQL injection protection, rate limiting, and Sentry error monitoring
AI features: Lab PDF analysis, treatment protocol generation, wellness score calculation, knowledge base with semantic search, and an AI chatbot
Full integration stack: Google Calendar, Resend email, N8N workflows, Railway deployment
Complete CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Actions with security scanning, branch protection, staging environment, automated deployments
This isn't vaporware. It's deployed to Railway, serving real clinics, with staging and production environments, proper database migrations, audit logging, and monitoring.
And now, my life is...
Fundamentally transformed. I no longer see technical complexity as a barrier—I see it as a conversation with Claude Code. Need tenant isolation across the database? We built it. Need to parse lab PDFs and extract biomarkers with AI? Shipped. Need HIPAA compliance documentation and vendor BAA tracking? Done.
The most profound shift isn't just that I can build now—it's that I can iterate at the speed of thought. No more waiting weeks for a developer to be available. No more fundraising rounds to afford a technical team. No more losing momentum because I couldn't execute fast enough.
I've gone from idea person to builder. From entrepreneur to founder-developer. The ventures I'll create from this point forward won't be limited by my ability to find or afford technical talent—they'll only be limited by my imagination and willingness to ship.
AI Mastery didn't just teach me to use AI tools. It gave me superpowers. And for the first time in my entrepreneurial journey, I feel truly unstoppable.