Ship In Residence
A selected intake of eight to twelve people, embedded in real client engagements for twelve weeks. They leave able to run a program, not holding a certificate that says they attended one.
The format
Where residents come from
People who shipped something in a five-hour room and want to know what comes after.
Participants who finished the modules and are ready to work on someone else's engagement, not just their own.
Selected on finished work, not CVs. Something they made and shipped is the whole application.
Twelve weeks, six blocks
What the format assumes
12 weeks
There is no curriculum to complete. Residents are handed real work with real deadlines and supervised through it, so what they learn is set by what the engagement actually needs that month. That is how everyone competent learned it.
Eight to twelve residents. Every one of them holds a deliverable with someone outside waiting on it, and that only works at a size where nobody can quietly sit out.
Open intake is right for the long-form program and wrong here. Residents are chosen on evidence they finish things, which is the only thing that reliably predicts how twelve weeks will go.
Previous residents supervise the next intake and are paid for it. That is why the format does not depend on me being in the room every week, and why a second cohort can run in the same city without flying anyone in.
The sprint is measured in live pages. The long-form program is measured in things participants can sell. This one is measured in where residents are three months after it ends, by name and by destination.
Six people who came through the free four-week version now do delivery work at Shipin. The twelve-week format is that same pipeline, extended and made available to institutions that need the same capability locally.
