Beyond grades, extracurriculars, and medals.
For future leaders, change makers, builders, thinkers, and of course founders.
Parents, you are already running the race. The right school. The right course. The right AP. The right chess camp. The right summer enrichment. You are doing all of it. And still, late at night, you wonder if any of it is actually going to give your kid the life you want for them.
You also know AI is here. You want your child to be fluent in it. You also worry about the wrong kind of fluency. The shortcut kind. The cheating kind. The kind that hollows out the brain you have been working so hard to grow. We get it. So we built this for that exact tension.
We built this for both of you. The restless minds, and the worried parents.
Here is the conversation almost no school is having. AI is here. It can write the essay, solve the math problem, and pass the test. Your child knows this. Their friends know this. The question is no longer should they use AI. It is which kind of AI user are they becoming.
Every adult who uses AI well runs the same loop. Do the 20 percent that is uniquely you first. Your context, your judgment, your taste, your real question, your honest first answer. Then let AI do the 80 percent that is mechanical. Drafting. Restructuring. Researching. Critiquing. Translating. Summarizing. Searching across documents.
Most kids and most adults run this loop in reverse. They start with AI, then bolt their own thinking on at the end. The result is shallow work that looks impressive and ages badly. We flip the order, on purpose, every session.
Students journal and reason in their own words before opening a single AI tool. The AI is invited into thinking that already started.
Personal notes, journals, decisions, and projects live in a structured system the student owns. AI is then given their data to mirror back, not just the public internet.
AI is used to build agents, tools, and shipped artifacts. Not to fake homework. The line is taught explicitly. So is what happens when you cross it.
Every AI project the cohort builds has to answer one question. Who is this actually helping. If the answer is "no one," we redesign it.
This is not AI literacy. This is AI wisdom. It is the part most programs skip.
Gifted, twice exceptional, and special-needs students are the kids most affected when AI is introduced badly. They are also the ones most quietly hurt by school systems that were not designed for them. We are building Raising Future Founders the opposite way.
Part of our fundraise is a full-time child psychiatrist who sets the guardrails on the journaling layer, the AI mirror, the cohort communication, and our 2e protocols. Not a marketing line. A real hire, named on the site when they start.
Our AI is allowed to read a student's own journal back to them. It is not allowed to play therapist, give medical advice, or push behavior change. Hard limits. Reviewed quarterly with our clinical advisor.
Gifted plus ADHD, dyslexia, autism, anxiety, or sensory processing is not an accommodation here. It is the default the program is built around. Same with profoundly gifted (99.9th percentile). They get the same care, not a different track.
Student journals, voice memos, and project work belong to the family. We do not train external models on them. We do not sell them. They leave with the student when the cohort ends.
Total live + async screen time is capped at roughly 4 to 6 hours per week. We are an antidote to screen overuse, not another contributor to it.
No one-on-one DMs between students and adults. All mentor interaction is logged, supervised, and visible to parents. Every adult who works with the cohort is background-checked.
Smart kids are starved for peers who think like them and adults who take them seriously. The whole program is engineered around interaction. Kid to kid. Kid to mentor. Parent to parent. The curriculum compounds because the people around it do.
Weekly small-group projects, async build channels, monthly virtual meet-ups, and themed competitions. They build with friends, not alone.
Founders, investors, AI builders, designers, and authors host short fireside-style sessions. Q&A is mandatory; the kids run it.
Skill-tree progression. Quarterly cohort competitions with cash and credit prizes. Real leaderboards. Real bragging rights.
Virtual parent meet-ups by region or interest. Share what is working at home. Network with other parents of gifted kids. Build a private peer group of your own.
Each quarter, parents are invited to a live demo where the kids present their builds to the cohort, mentors, and family. It is the proudest hour of the quarter.
One in-person gathering per year. Optional. Kids, parents, mentors, investors. A founder summer camp for the next generation.
Every action earns tokens. A question asked. A mentor reached. An agent shipped. A customer interview done. A habit kept for 30 days. Tokens unlock new levels, new tools, mentor sessions, competitions, and seats at exclusive events. Think Roblox. But the world they are building is their own future empire.
We teach both halves. The Mind that finds problems worth solving. And the Machine that ships the solution. Underneath both sits executive function. The layer most gifted kids never get formally taught.
11 named skills from the research literature: time management, task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, emotional control, flexibility, and more.
Multi-track thinking, lateral moves, second-order consequences.
Source quality, opposing views, primary data, b.s. detection.
Talk to adults, mentors, and customers like a peer.
Money, credit, contracts, online safety, persuasion, and how the world actually works.
Prompting, agents, tool stacks, and the ethics of building with AI.
No-code, code, design. Whatever the project needs. Always something shippable.
Business plan, pitch deck, unit economics, funding, runway, credit.
Talking to users, validating ideas, finding distribution.
Hiring, prompting, and managing the AI agents that are now their workforce.
Underneath everything sits executive function. We use the "Smart but Scattered" framework. Research grounded. Age appropriate. Adapted for highly gifted kids whose cognition outruns their behavioral habits.
By the end of the summer cohort, every student leaves with the same set of tools. Real artifacts they keep using for the school year, the next cohort, and beyond.
A printed and digital playbook of their own 11-skill executive function profile, with the weekly system they built and what to do when each skill stalls.
Four-format journaling system (daily, weekly, decision, recap), the prompt set they used, and the AI mirror workflow with safety rules baked in.
A concrete 90-day plan for the school year that starts the first Monday of September, written in their own hand. Reviewed with a mentor before they leave.
A single page in their own words: who I am, what I am curious about, what I want to build next, and what I need from the adults in my life to get there.
A small group of friends who actually think like them, plus the mentor relationships they built. Cohort chat stays open through the school year.
Every live session and founder fireside recorded. Their full Path Forward Showcase. Their journaling samples. Theirs to keep.
We do not waste a kid's time. Here is the cadence we run, mapped to the actual hours your child will spend in the program each week. Live time stays small on purpose. The compounding happens in between.
The week's main session. Camera on. Active participation. Small enough that every kid speaks.
Drop-in window with the founder or a mentor. Bring questions, blockers, or a draft. Optional.
Five to ten minutes a day in their own format. Daily, weekly, decision, or recap.
A short 30-minute block where the kid works on the week's micro-skill. Time-blocked, not assigned.
Cohort chat where the kids talk all week. Share wins. Ask questions. Not screen time. Friendship time.
Once per phase. Parents are invited. Kids share what they built. The proudest hour of the cohort.
Total: 4 to 6 hours per week. Designed to respect the school year and your child's energy.
Real operators. Real founders. Real builders. Each one was vetted personally by Amna through her investing and founder work. We are publishing names and faces as each mentor signs on. The 12 below have verbally committed for cohort 1.
Real names, photos, and bios go live the moment each mentor signs the cohort 1 letter. Placeholder roles shown to protect mentor identities until they confirm.
A free 60-minute session with Amna where I walk you through how Raising Future Founders works, the three pillars of the curriculum, who this is right for, and the most common parent questions I am asked. Bring your toughest one. I will answer it live.
Start with the summer cohort, or apply directly for the two year program. Prices below. No hidden fees.
5 weeks · Mid-June to Late July 2026
Scholarship seats available for qualifying families.
12 months a year · Runs alongside school · By application
Cohorts are small on purpose. Application does not guarantee a seat.
If the first live session of the summer cohort is not what we promised, email us within 48 hours and we refund every cent. No paperwork. No friction. We are that confident.
This program is selective. We accept families who take their child's preparation seriously, the way they take everything else seriously. Start with one of the three doors below.
For ages 9 to 14. Apply for Founders Liftoff this summer, or for the two year cohort starting in the fall.
Apply · Summer Liftoff Apply · Fall CohortMentors, builders, educators, AI engineers who want short, high-leverage time with extraordinary kids.
Become a collaboratorPre-seed. Back the platform, the cohorts, and the token system at the ground floor.
Investor inquiryNo. It runs alongside school. School handles the credential machine. Grades, transcripts, test scores, admissions. We handle the operator layer. Executive function, AI on purpose, entrepreneurship, network, and a portfolio of shipped work. The two stack.
Roughly 4 to 6 hours per week during a normal school week. 8 to 10 during summer. See the "Typical Week" section above for the actual block-by-block breakdown. The schedule is built to respect the school year. The first thing we teach is time blocking, so the program models the habit it teaches.
This program is built for it. Executive function support is the default, not an accommodation. The "Smart but Scattered" framework we use is research grounded for kids whose cognition outruns their behavioral habits. Our child psychiatrist hire post-fundraise sets the clinical protocols for 2e students specifically.
Closest to after-school. More accurate to call it a parallel school. It is the second curriculum your child runs on top of their first.
The 80 / 20 frame is taught every single session. Students do their own thinking first. Journaling, reasoning, drafting in their own words. Then AI is brought in to extend that thinking, not replace it. We name the difference between leverage and crutch out loud. And we teach when AI is the wrong tool to use at all.
Their data is theirs. We do not train external models on student journals, voice memos, or project work. We do not sell student data. We do not share it. When a student leaves the cohort, their data leaves with them. Our clinical advisor reviews this quarterly.
Total live and async screen time is capped at roughly 4 to 6 hours per week. We are deliberately an antidote to screen overuse. The journaling, the practice blocks, and the family demo nights pull students away from screens, not toward them.
A laptop or tablet with a working camera and microphone. Stable internet. A quiet place to be on camera for the live session. That is it. We provide the AI tools, the journaling templates, and any specialty software through the cohort itself.
Yes to both. We offer limited scholarship seats per cohort for families whose child clearly belongs but who cannot pay full tuition. Payment plans are available on the 2-year program at $450 per month. Ask during your prescreening or discovery call.
Money back if the first live session is not what we promised. Email us within 48 hours of session 1 and we refund every cent. No paperwork. For the 2-year program, you can cancel monthly with 30 days notice. We are confident enough to put this in writing.
Sibling discounts for the 2-year program are available. Both kids must pass prescreening independently. The cohort experience is age-specific so they will not be in the same group, but they will share the family demo nights and parent circles.
Not yet. We are deliberately positioned as a parallel program, not a credentialing body. Your child's school transcript stays exactly where it is. What our students gain instead is a portfolio of real, shipped work and recommendation letters from real founders for college applications.
Both. The frame is "smart but scattered." Kids whose intelligence is real, whose challenge in school is underwhelming, and whose habits and direction need a serious upgrade. 2e kids are explicitly welcome and the EF and journaling work usually moves their lives most.
Because the kids in this program are not training to be employees. They are training to be the kind of person companies, investors, and partners want to back. Leaders. Change makers. Builders. Thinkers. And of course founders. That does not start at 22. It starts now.