Why now

There has never been a better time to build.

Artificial intelligence has collapsed the distance between an idea and a working product. Tools that once required years of technical training and real capital are available to anyone with a laptop. What has not kept pace is the infrastructure to help people understand what these tools actually are, how to use them with intention, and how to build something real before the window narrows.

This is not a replacement for formal education. It is the applied layer on top of it — the part that turns a degree into the ability to build, launch, and lead. Those who learn to direct these tools now will shape what comes next. That is the same logic Armenia understood in 301 AD: adapt with intention, or be defined by forces outside your control.

Impact

Real products. Real skills. Real impact.

Across cohorts in Yerevan and Los Angeles, students have shipped real products to real users — and partners have stood with them to fund scholarships, mentorship, and demo days.

Students engaged
250+
App deployment rate
100%
Raised for the mission
$50K+
Our instructors

A new kind of education needs a new kind of educator.

Our instructors are not credentialed professors, and that is exactly why they work. They are entrepreneurs, developers, and product builders — all under 30 — who use these tools every day to ship real things. They do not teach Lovable or Claude Code from a textbook. They teach it because they live inside it.

The knowledge that matters most right now sits with practitioners, not academics. And because our instructors are close in age and experience to the people they teach, the transfer is direct. They can sit with someone who has never shipped anything and make the first step feel achievable.

What we have proven

Not a pilot. A track record.

Yerevan · FAST

12 students. 8 AI tools. 30 days.

Our first RenAIssance Readiness™ workshop took every Generation AI participant from concept to a deployed, publicly accessible web app — each with an investor-grade pitch and a live demo. It led to a formal MOU making 301 AD FAST's exclusive partner for the curriculum.

Yerevan · FEMINNO

200 students across 20 teams.

Students aged 12 to 17, from multiple regions of Armenia, each built and deployed a website or web app for their STEM idea — then presented on stage at the STEM Acceleration Awards at the American University of Armenia.

Los Angeles

A hackathon the public can walk into.

Our RenAIssance Hackathons pair a builder sprint with a public expo: on day two the room opens, community members meet the builders, and everyone votes on their favorite projects through an app we built for it.

Partners

Building the ecosystem together.

We work with organizations who already understand what it takes to ship — in Armenia, in the diaspora, and across the founders we serve.

301 AD · Core Team

The team in the room with you.

Alex Boghossian
Alex Boghossian
Co-Founder, 301 AD
Erica Der Mesropian
Erica Der Mesropian
Co-Founder, 301 AD
Sargis Manasyan
Sargis Manasyan
Lead Instructor, 301 AD
Niko Kalpakian
Niko Kalpakian
Instructor, 301 AD
301 AD · Advisory Board

Guided by leaders who support our mission.

Suzanna Shamakhyan
Suzanna Shamakhyan
Executive Director, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Seda Papoyan
Seda Papoyan
Founder & CEO, FEMINNO
Mariam Torosyan
Mariam Torosyan
Founder & CEO, Safe YOU
Zarik Boghossian
Zarik Boghossian
Founder & CEO, Zema Group