A live, coached programme for people who don't write code. Half of every class is taught. Half is building your own real product, with a mentor in the room. You leave with a live app and the only assessed Lovable credential that exists — because Lovable has not built one yet.
Free to apply. Pay only once confirmed. Seats limited to keep classes small.
Lovable has no official certification. Their Academy teaches you to follow tutorials. It does not assess whether you can ship. We do. A graded capstone, a live deployed app, assessed by a person.
Lovable has no official certification. Tutorials teach you to follow along. They do not teach you to ship something that holds up — or prove it to an employer. We built the four weeks, and the credential, that close that gap.
The only assessed Lovable credential. Because nobody else built it yet.
Unlike Anthropic's structured courses, Lovable Academy is four content types with no sequencing and no assessment. We mapped all of it, kept what solves a real problem, and sequenced it so each week builds on the last.
One app (Upvote), one hour, every learner builds the same thing. Auth, database, AI features in a fixed order. The only real instructional design Lovable has produced. We use it as mandatory pre-reading.
21 named techniques across five principles: know what you're building, one piece at a time, Location + Behavior + Guardrails, right tool for the job, iterate not one-shot. The richest single asset in the Academy.
Auth (Supabase OAuth), Stripe payments, custom domain, Knowledge files, Lovable Cloud, GitHub sync, Design tool, Add AI. We pull four into Week 3 and hold the rest for Level 2.
AI-generated prompt chains from your own idea. Remixable starter apps. 14 persona pages showing what each role builds. Used in Week 1 scoping — not as the curriculum spine.
Plan mode: think before you touch Agent mode. How to scope your idea (what it does, who for, what it feels like, what it does NOT do). How to use Blueprint as a prompt-chain scaffold. The full build loop: describe → plan → approve → build → check → iterate.
Each learner uses Blueprint with their own scoped brief. A working first version by end of class. Messy is allowed. Working is the requirement.
All 21 techniques from the 5-principles guide: Plan mode for thinking, the Location + Behavior + Guardrails formula, the one-component-one-prompt rule, the debug loop (Try to fix → Revert → Supabase logs → Plan mode). Real content, never placeholders.
Take Week 1's build. Apply the prompting guide systematically. Rewrite the three worst prompts using Location + Behavior + Guardrails. One change, then check — not five changes then check.
Knowledge files: always-on context for your entire project (brand voice, what not to touch, product rules). Supabase auth: user signup, login, protected routes. Stripe: working checkout, real integration. Custom domain: live URL, not a .lovable.app subdomain.
Auth connected. At least one production feature (Stripe or a meaningful data integration). Deployed to a real domain by end of class. This is the app submitted for assessment.
How to document your build for assessment: the prompt log (five or more key prompts with what they produced and what decision you made), the reflection (what broke, how you fixed it, what you'd do differently). The five dimensions of the NBL rubric explained.
Submit: live URL + prompt log + half-page reflection. Graded by a person against the five-dimension rubric. NBL Lovable Builder Level 1 awarded on pass.
Write a SKILL.md file once. It becomes a /slash command in Lovable — and the same file works in Claude. You build /launch-check, /brief and /knowledge in 25 minutes. Lovable Academy does not cover this. It is the most advanced technique in the stack.
Describe what you want in plain English. Claude writes a precise Location + Behavior + Guardrails prompt. You paste it into Lovable. Better output. Less effort. This is lazy prompting — and it is the most time-saving technique in the curriculum. One AI writes. One AI builds. You manage the direction.
Real URL. Your own idea. Built end to end. Auth, at least one production feature, custom domain.
The briefs and fixes that actually worked, saved as SKILL.md files that work in Lovable and Claude.
The first assessed Lovable credential. Graded on a real deployed app, by a person, not a checklist.
Pass at 14/20, no dimension below 2, Diligence minimum 3. Distinction at 18/20. One free resubmission.
Every level is assessed. Every level makes you more hireable than the one before. Coach and Champion programmes open Q4 2026.
Ship a real deployed app without coding. Four weeks live. NBL Level 1 assessed credential — the only Lovable credential that exists.
Train others on both Claude and Lovable. Build organisations' AI infrastructure. Run four-week cohorts. Listed on The Bench talent pool. Combine with Claude Lab L1 for the full path.
Lead AI adoption inside an organisation. Write the policy, run the rollout, build the internal community. For people put in charge of transformation with no roadmap.
Not a job board. A credentials-backed directory where every person has been assessed against a published rubric. The organisation knows exactly what they are getting.
Post a problem you are stuck on. Coaches, Champions and Practitioners answer. Best answers NBL-verified. Best problems become curriculum. Open to everyone.
Every time I ask it to fix mobile it changes the desktop too. Then I revert but I've lost the mobile fixes.
Build the MVP you've been describing for six months. Ship it. Show it. Get real feedback from real users. No developer required.
Build the internal tool your team actually needs — expense submission, approval workflows, booking systems — without waiting for IT.
Build landing pages, lead capture tools, referral systems. Ship the campaign tool instead of briefing for it.
Build the quiz app, the student portal, the resource library. Customised for your curriculum, not a generic tool.
Build client-facing tools that show your work rather than describe it. Proposals that move. Dashboards that update.
Build the donation tracker, the volunteer portal, the community hub. Without a development budget.
Four weeks. One live app. The first assessed Lovable credential. And a community that is figuring this out with you.