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NELL Builder

Student pricing

What it costs a student: nothing, to start

Your first Playbook is free - no card. After that they come in small one-time packs rather than a subscription, because a term ends and a subscription does not.

For students

Stop collecting certificates. Build one thing you can defend.

Everyone in your class has the same models you do. What is still scarce is a shipped thing that solves a real problem for real people - and someone who can explain how it works with the wifi off.

What a Playbook is

  • A problem sharpened down to one you can reach the people who have it
  • A build spec sized to the hours you actually have, chosen so you can explain it
  • A fundamentals defense pack - the questions a recruiter, an engineer, a professor and an investor will ask about what you built
  • A proof ladder that works at student scale, with what each rung does and does not prove
  • Your public profile written out - README, demo script, LinkedIn, resume bullets, first five posts
  • A week-by-week plan that de-loads around your exam weeks

IdeaBank briefs, Quick Validate, and refining a Playbook you already have stay free. You only pay to generate a new one - and never on a subscription.

Pricing

Your first PlaybookFree

No card. Comes with 2 IdeaBank briefs - pick a pain point from one and go.

One playbook

$19.99 each · +2 IdeaBank briefs

$19.99

5 playbooksSave 20%

$16.00 each · +10 IdeaBank briefs

$79.99

10 playbooksSave 25%

$15.00 each · +25 IdeaBank briefs

$149.99

One-time. Nothing to cancel, and credits never expire - use one this term and one next year if that is how it goes. Every pack carries IdeaBank briefs too, since that is where you find the problem in the first place.

Choose Student when you sign in and your first Playbook is free - no card, nothing to pick here.

Running this for a whole class?

The 12-Week Hands-On Program is the cohort version - we run the term with your students, live, and price it per cohort.

See the university program

Want to know what you get first?

The student page walks through what a Playbook contains, what finished looks like, and the questions students usually ask before starting.

How the Student Playbook worksAll NELL plans