Bonfire · for builders
Actual things, for actual clients. Every piece of it becomes your evidence.
Bonfire is paid client work inside an AI-native studio, with senior engineers reviewing everything you ship. Not a bootcamp, not a course: the job itself, with your name on the work.
The problem
The tasks juniors used to cut their teeth on are the first things AI absorbed. So nobody wants to hire you without experience, and the old way of getting experience is disappearing. You can be genuinely good and have no way to show it.
You've shipped serious systems, but the way software gets built has changed underneath you. Agents, orchestration, eval loops: the craft is being reshaped, and a strong CV from the old world doesn't prove fluency in the new one.
Either way, the market asks the same impossible question: prove you can do the new job, without ever having been given the new job. Bonfire exists to break that loop.
The team you join
You join a mission pod: two to five people who own a client outcome from start to finish. Small enough that your work is visible from the first week.
Reviews everything you ship. The reason your judgement compounds fast rather than slowly.
Working alongside you on the thing itself, not reporting on it from a distance.
Agents are on the org chart too.
Designers, product managers, data scientists and others join when the work needs them. You will learn to direct the agents, review them, and know when to throw their work away.
See how a pod is put together →Who it's for
Paid client work from your first week, with seniors reviewing everything you ship. You leave with the thing the market says you can't have: a track record.
Your judgement is the scarce asset. Bonfire pairs it with AI-native practice on real work until the new way of building is muscle memory.
At the end, some builders are placed with employers who've seen their verified work. Some stay and keep building with us. Both feed the same fire.
What happens next
Nobody is locked in. You leave with a Record: six dimensions, rated and signed, each linked to real work.
Take another engagement with another pod, on another problem. The Record keeps growing while you do.
Companies you built for get first refusal. They have watched you for months, so these hires often happen without anyone running a process at all.
We work with a talent partner who takes your Record to market. You are not starting a cold job hunt.
The Record is yours, wherever you go. See what it contains →
come sit by the fire
We're starting small and choosing carefully. Tell us what you've made, in whatever form you have it.
Your message is on its way. We read every one ourselves, and we'll be in touch shortly.