Documentation — the program, end to end

How DevLicense actually works.

Last updated — July 23, 2026

DevLicense is a program where you learn to direct AI on real work. There are no videos to complete and no lessons to sit through. You work on HouseFull — a production-grade codebase — pull tickets from its backlog, ship real GitHub pull requests with Claude in the loop, and get reviewed the way working engineers get reviewed. This page documents the whole journey, honestly.

1 · The Trail — the free entrance test

The Trail is free forever and needs no card. You fix three real bugs in your browser, and each fix gets the same four-pass review paid members get. It has one job: to show you — and us — whether you are ready for the License run. Clear the bar and the team invites you in. Don’t clear it, and you can retake it; the review notes tell you exactly what to work on.

2 · Your team

The program runs like a real engineering team, inside a Teams-style chat. Four teammates work with you — all of them AI, and always labeled as AI:

Meera, Team Manager — assigns your tickets, tracks your velocity, and checks in when you go quiet.
Sanjay, Team Lead — reviews every PR in four passes and sends the verdict.
Priya, QA Engineer — files the bugs you missed and runs your defense calls.
Ravi, CTO — pages you when production breaks, and celebrates when your first PR merges.

One human is in the loop: the Captain, a senior engineer who runs the weekly live clinic (Core) and 1:1 hours (Pro).

3 · The loop — pull, ship, defend

The License run is ~20–25 real tickets, each a little heavier than the last. Every ticket runs the same loop:

Pull — take a ticket from the HouseFull backlog: real bugs and features in production-grade code, not a toy repo.
Ship — work in your own private GitHub repo, on your own branch, with Claude in the loop. Using AI is expected — that is the skill being trained.
Defend — your PR gets a four-pass review: correctness, code quality, your Claude transcript, and ticket fit. Your conversation with AI is scored as seriously as your code.

Milestones end in a live defense: six questions on your own diff, answered live. Ship code you cannot explain and you fail the viva — that is the point. Along the way there are timed reviews, a surprise production incident, and a capstone. The run is self-paced.

4 · The License

Finish the run and you hold a DevLicense — a credential backed by the work behind it: your reviewed PRs, your scores, your defenses. A certificate asks to be trusted; a License shows its work. It is new — three engineers hold one today — and we make no recognition or placement claims. On your résumé it belongs under projects, backed by PRs anyone can read.

5 · KT sessions

Alongside the work, KT sessions — short, plain-language knowledge-transfer sessions on the concepts engineers own: what each thing is, how it breaks in production, and what you tell the AI when you build it. They support the work; they never replace it.

6 · Pricing, all of it

The Trail is free forever. The License run is a one-time purchase — Core ₹12,999 or Pro ₹24,999 (adds six 1:1 hours with the Captain) — GST-inclusive, payable by UPI, card, or EMI, with a 14-day no-questions refund. Full details on the pricing section and in the refund policy.

The honest summary: this is a program, not a shortcut. It is real work, reviewed hard, with AI at the center of both the doing and the judging. If that sounds right, the Trail is free — three bugs, no card, and you’ll know within an evening whether this is for you.