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Real businesses. Real results. Built at AI speed.

Six true stories from the SV Academy team — and its students. What used to take months, or a team you couldn't afford, now ships in days, sometimes overnight. The same playbook we teach.

sv-academy ~ cs/swing-it-aiNEW

computer vision · build, don't buy

No PhD. No $30/month subscription. A computer-vision golf coach, vibe-coded in one week.

Want to perfect your golf swing without paying $30 a month? Computer vision used to be a specialist's field — Swing It AI wasn't built by a PhD, it was vibe-coded. The app took a few days; training it on real swing footage until it was genuinely good took one week. That's the new world for business owners: when you have a unique problem for your niche, you build it — you don't buy it.

1 week · idea → trained app $0/mo · vs $30/mo subscriptions 0 · computer-vision PhDs required
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swing it ai · analysis
swing it ai · analysis
swing it ai · on your phone
swing it ai · coaching cues
cs/personal-color[ BAZAAR ]
Vision, the personal color app by Peach vision.sv-academy.org

batch 1 student · featured in harper's bazaar

Too expensive for a kid? She built it herself — and Harper's Bazaar noticed.

Peach, 12, wanted a personal color analysis — but studios charge thousands of baht, and her parents passed. The dream didn't stop there: she came to build with us in Batch 1 and shipped Vision, AI color analysis from one selfie — 12 color seasons, free, in Thai and English. Then Harper's Bazaar Thailand featured it.

12 years old · Batch 1 ฿1,000s → free Harper's Bazaar · featured
Read the story → vision.sv-academy.org ↗
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cs/90grams-pizza[ LIVE ]
90grams.pizza website 90grams.pizza

seo · aeo · restaurant

Ask ChatGPT for the best pizza in Bangkok. It answers 90grams.

90grams is a neo pizza bar on Silom. We rebuilt how machines read the business — structured data, a machine-readable menu, llms.txt — and the whole thing was built and pushed live from Bangkok traffic in Silom. Now, when people ask AI assistants where to eat pizza in Bangkok, the answer comes from the real menu and the real story. This is the groundwork every restaurant will need in the answer-engine era.

Best Pizza in Bangkok · ChatGPT's pick built & shipped in Silom traffic
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cs/loop[ LIVE ]
Loop, SV Academy's learning platform loop.sv-academy.org

education · built in-house

Three months of software, built overnight. Then improved with every piece of student feedback.

Loop is our learning platform, built in-house for the best learning experience we could give students. In traditional software development this was a three-month project. With AI we built it overnight — and we iterate as feedback arrives from students, shipping improvements sometimes the very same day.

3 months → 1 night iterates on real student feedback
Read the story → loop.sv-academy.org ↗
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cs/bookkeeper[ IN-HOUSE ]
The home-grown AI bookkeeper's analytics: revenue vs expenses, expense by category, top merchants home-grown · ai-powered

finance · automation · the saas apocalypse

A bookkeeping subscription for every business you own? We built our own AI bookkeeper — over coffee.

One co-founder, businesses in Thailand and the US — a solar farm, laundromats. Every bookkeeping platform wanted a subscription per business for a workflow that never fit. So AI now reads the receipts and bank statements and records the books itself. Built in a few days, mostly spent sipping coffee while the AI worked for us. You know your workflow better than any software company — stop buying, build your own.

subscription per business → ฿0 a few days · over coffee receipts → books, by AI
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> built in-house by the sv academy team

Six examples. Not the ceiling — the floor.

Every one started as one ordinary problem — a swing, a menu, a stack of receipts — and we built it ourselves, in-house, with the same AI playbook we teach in the room. The advantage now isn't working harder: it's picking your own problem and starting before the rest of your market does. Send your staff to learn with us, or come yourself.

a $30/mo app → built in a week a ฿1,000s studio visit → free, from one selfie a 3-month project → one night a subscription per business → ฿0
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> also from the cohorts

The cohort portfolio → The Loop arcade →

every case study on this page was shipped by the sv academy team with the same playbook we teach