Claude Camp

Claude Camp: 7-Day Claude Code Bootcamp & Retreat in Pai, Thailand

The Promise

A place to land. A week to ship.

01 — Where

Where you'll be.

  • 01Organic mountain farm
  • 02Solar-powered campus
  • 03200 Mbps fiber
  • 04Daily building sessions
  • 05Hot springs nearby

02 — Outcome

Leave with.

  • 01A working app
  • 02A live website
  • 03Deployed infrastructure
  • 04A repeatable AI workflow

Why this exists

"Nine days. First app. No coding background. I was staying at Ying's farm outside Pai with a project I'd been putting off for years. Nothing pulling me away — no city errands, no commute, just jungle sounds and the work. I shipped a working, deployed website by day nine. When I got back to the city I couldn't replicate it. So I stopped trying to, and built the camp instead."

— one of Claude Camp's founders  ·  Full story →

02 — The Rhythm

Seven days have a shape. This is it.

07:00
Yoga while the valley is still in cloud. You're loose and awake before a single screen turns on.
09:00
Three hours of Claude Code at peak focus. Guided, but building your actual product — not someone else's demo.
12:00
Lunch at the long table. The vegetables on your plate were in the ground this morning. Ying cooked everything.
13:00
Your project. Your pace. The afternoon belongs to your build. Help is close when you hit a wall.
16:00
Rice paddies to hot springs. The kind of reset that geography does better than any productivity system.
19:00
Dinner, then someone demos what they shipped today. Last week it was a live SaaS app. The week before, an AI workflow that replaced a $400/month tool. The table reacts like it matters — because it does.
21:00
Sleep in a bamboo bungalow in the jungle quiet. Tomorrow you go further than today.

03 — Tracks

Where are you starting from?

Track A
Beginner

"You have an idea that has been sitting still for months. By Friday it is deployed, it is yours, and you built it — no prior code required."

  • Ship your first real product with Claude Code, start to finish
  • Build the mental model: prompting, context, tools — in that order
  • No coding background needed. No exceptions required.
  • Four founders maximum — you will not fall through the cracks
Reserve your week
Track B
Builder

"You know what you're building. This week you stop doing it slowly. Agents handle the repetitive work. You make the decisions."

  • Deploy agents and multi-step workflows that run while you sleep
  • Wire the Claude API directly into your actual stack
  • Arrive with a real project — leave with it further than you thought possible
  • Three seats only — feedback is personal and direct
Reserve your week
Arrival at dusk — the farm at golden hour
Hot springs at dawn, mist rising from the water
Bamboo bungalow exterior on the farm

04 — Pai, Thailand

7km from town.
A world away.

Solar-powered bamboo bungalows on a working organic farm in Mae Hong Son — the remotest, quietest corner of Thailand. No city noise. No distractions. Two hundred megabits of fiber, because deep work needs a fast connection.

The farm sits above the valley haze. Mornings are cool enough to think clearly. Afternoons are cool enough to walk to the hot springs without breaking a sweat. The food on your plate came from the soil twenty meters away — no pesticides, no supply chain, just Ying and the earth. Meat from hill tribe villages up the road. Vegetarian fully catered. Eating well is part of the week.

Accommodation Bamboo bungalows
Beds 7 total
Internet Fibre · 200Mbps
Hot springs 15-min walk

05 — Excursions

Five moments you'll carry home.

A monk's hands tying a white Sai Sin blessing thread
01
Sai Sin Blessing

On your first morning a local monk ties a white Sai Sin thread around your wrist. An old blessing for a new beginning. The week starts with that weight on your arm.

Pai Canyon ridge at sunset
02
Pai Canyon at Sunset

Eight kilometers from the farm. You stand on a knife-edge ridge as the whole valley catches fire beneath you. Tuesday evening. No one is looking at a screen.

Tham Lod Cave entrance with bamboo raft
03
Tham Lod Cave

Paddle by bamboo raft through an underground river past teak coffins two thousand years old. At dusk, tens of thousands of bats spiral out — a living river above your head.

Hands using a mortar and pestle in a Thai village kitchen
04
Cooking Class

Friday afternoon in a village kitchen. Mortar and pestle, fresh galangal, kaffir lime leaves torn by hand. You leave knowing how to make one dish perfectly, and wanting to make it every week.

Krathong candles floating on water at the closing ceremony
05
Closing Dinner & Krathong

The last evening. Hand-printed certificates on Saa paper, names pressed in ink. Krathong on the water, candles drifting downstream. Seven strangers leave as the group who built this thing together.

Before you decide

It's already been done.

Claude Camp didn't start as a course — it started as a 9-day build. One of our founders came to the farm with no coding background and a project they'd put off for years. Using Claude Code and nothing else, they shipped a real, deployed product by day nine: Boromastery, a video-course business that's still live today. The week you're looking at is built to compress that same window for you.

9 days — first app ever, zero coding background
100% host rating · 40+ guest reviews on Workaway
Live boromastery.com — built in 9 days, still online

06 — Invest

Seven days. One decision.

Founding cohort pricing — the lowest this will ever be. 14 cohorts running weekly, Oct 2026 – Jan 2027. Seven beds per cohort.

Standard
$1,490
per week · room, board, curriculum
  • Seven days in your bungalow — accommodation fully included
  • All meals: organic farm produce and hill-tribe meat, cooked by Ying daily
  • Morning yoga (optional, but you'll go)
  • Hot springs every afternoon
  • All excursions included — canyon, cave, cooking, the full Pai circuit
  • Full Claude Code program — guided sessions throughout the week
  • Airport transfer +$140 round-trip — or take the $6 minivan, we'll send the link
Pick your week
Premium
$1,990
per week · door-to-door, fully handled
  • Everything in Standard
  • Private airport transfer both ways — door to bungalow, handled
  • Daily 1-on-1 session — your product, your blockers, your roadmap
  • Priority track placement — first pick on project focus and session pairings
  • Extended post-camp review — we look at your build after you leave and tell you exactly what to do next
Pick your week

Be honest about the number. Back home, $1,490 is roughly seven nights in a bare hotel room — or a single premium concert ticket for one night standing in a crowd. Here, that same number covers seven nights in your own open-air bungalow, three meals a day cooked fresh on the farm, hot springs every afternoon, every excursion in Pai, and a full week of guided, one-on-one building sessions. Thailand isn't as cheap as people assume — but this isn't a course you're buying. It's the week that makes the work possible. You fly home with a real, deployed app, not a hotel receipt.

There's a $6 shared minivan from Chiang Mai airport (Aya Service) — we'll send the booking link and tell the driver where to drop you. The $140 transfer is for when you'd rather not think about it.

07 — Your Hosts

Ying.

I have been building this farm for most of my adult life — twenty years in Mae Hong Son Province, the last two here in Pai. The garden, the kitchen, the rhythm of the place: that came first. Then guests started arriving with laptops and ideas, and I watched something I hadn’t expected. They built things in a week they had been planning for years. Claude Code closed the gap between an idea and a working product in a way I had not seen before. Claude Camp is what the farm became once we stopped pretending those two worlds — the quiet of northern Thailand and the urgency of shipping something real — could not exist together.”

Ying has lived in Mae Hong Son Province for over twenty years — the last two in Pai, where she built this farm from the ground up. The garden, the kitchen, the whole living texture of the place is her work. She’s the reason every review mentions the food and the warmth in the same sentence. You’ll understand why by the second morning.

100% host rating · 40+ reviews · Workaway

What guests actually say — verified Workaway reviews

This was the best way to start my trip in Thailand. My friend and I spent a week here, and we truly felt at home — not only was the work fun, but the conversations and cultural exchange were the highlight.
Anna · Nov 2025
Nestled in the outskirts of Pai, one feels truly immersed in nature — peace and quiet all around. The view is also exceptional.
Lawrence · Dec 2025
A beautiful little oasis just outside Pai. Relaxed and laid back — a few hours of work each day and plenty of time to explore Pai and its beautiful surroundings.
Maja · Jan 2025
Not only are you welcomed by one of Pai’s most fantastic views, but also by one of the most knowledgeable people I’ve met on my travels.
Davey · Dec 2025
Read all reviews on Workaway →

08 — Before You Arrive

Three things. That's it.

Two take ten minutes. One you already have. Everything else gets handled on Day 1.

01

A laptop.

Mac, Windows, or Linux. Any modern machine. Claude Code runs on all three, and you leave with a fully configured development environment on your own hardware — nothing borrowed, nothing shared, nothing that stops working when you get home.

02

A Claude Pro account.

Claude Code requires Anthropic's Pro plan at $20/month, billed directly to Anthropic. We don't provide access or share accounts. Subscribe at claude.ai before you arrive — or show up and we'll set it up together on Day 1. Either way, you're building by morning.

Anthropic's own data shows 90% of Claude Code users stay well within Pro limits — it's enough for a full week of intensive building. If you plan to keep going hard after camp, the Max plan ($100/month) gives you 5× the usage.

03

An idea.

Not code. An idea. Claude Code writes the code — you supply the problem worth solving. Bring the app you've been putting off, the workflow you keep doing manually, the tool your business needs that doesn't exist yet. By Friday it runs. You built it.

09 — Getting Here

Seven hundred curves,
then stillness.

Fly into Chiang Mai. Then three hours of mountain road to the farm. We'll either pick you up in a private car ($140 round-trip on Standard, included on Premium) or point you at the $6 Aya minivan if you'd rather DIY. Either works — we ran it both ways for years.

Nearest Airport Chiang Mai · CNX
Drive Time 3 – 3.5 hrs
Distance 135 km
Airport Transfer +$140 RT · or DIY minivan
01

Fly into Chiang Mai (CNX).

Direct connections from Bangkok (BKK/DMK), Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and most regional Asian hubs. From North America or Europe, route via Bangkok or Singapore. Share your flight details one week before arrival and we group pickups where the timing lines up. Odd hours? WhatsApp Ying at +66 64 736 1455 — we work around it.

02

We meet you at arrivals.

Private door-to-door transfer in an air-conditioned vehicle — $140 round-trip on Standard, included with Premium. Look for your name on a card; the driver knows where you're going. No taxi haggling, no Grab app at 1am. If you'd rather save the $140, the Aya shared minivan from CNX is $6 and we'll send you the link.

03

Highway 1095 — 700 curves through Mae Hong Son.

Three hours of mountain road, jungle either side, villages thinning out as you climb. We stop halfway for coffee at a viewpoint most guests photograph and nobody forgets. Treat the drive as the decompression lap — laptops stay closed.

Honest warning: the road is genuinely winding. If you're prone to motion sickness, bring Dramamine or ginger chews and sit in the front. Most people are fine after twenty minutes. We'd rather warn you than have you surprised.

04

Arrival at the farm.

Cold towel, a pot of butterfly pea tea, your bungalow key. Dinner is already on. You don't need to do anything for the rest of the evening. No car needed for the week — the farm is your base, excursions move as a group, and Pai town is a short hop if you want a night out.

Practical FAQ — flights, visa, extending, direct line
Flights

Book into CNX, not BKK. Aim to land before 6pm local time if you can.

DIY option

Aya Service runs shared minivans CNX → Pai for ~200 baht ($6). 3 hours, leaves hourly from in front of the terminal. We'll send the booking link and tell the driver where to drop you. Slower, tighter, totally fine — we did it ourselves for years.

Visa

Most passports (US, UK, EU, AU, CA, +60 others) get 60 days visa-exempt on arrival in Thailand. Check yours before booking flights.

Extending

Staying on in Pai or Chiang Mai after camp? Tell us when you book and we'll drop the return transfer.

Direct line

WhatsApp +66 64 736 1455. A real human, usually answering within an hour.

11 — Or join the waitlist

Not ready yet?

Leave your email and we'll let you know when new cohorts open. No spam — one email when there's something real to share.

One email when dates lock in. Nothing else.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Claude Camp?

Claude Camp is a 7-day intensive bootcamp and retreat in Pai, Thailand, where founders, indie hackers, and developers use Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding tool — to build and launch a working app. Cohorts are capped at 7 participants and hosted on an organic farm with solar power, 200 Mbps fiber, and daily guided building sessions.

Do I need to know how to code to attend?

No prior coding experience is required. Claude Code handles the code — participants supply the idea. Claude Camp runs separate tracks for non-technical founders and experienced developers, so both can work at the right depth. Guide for beginners →

What is Claude Code?

Claude Code is an AI coding tool made by Anthropic that lets you build software by describing what you want in plain language. It writes, debugs, and iterates on code in real time. A Claude Pro subscription ($20/month from Anthropic) is required to use it. Full explainer →

What will I build at Claude Camp?

You bring the idea; the camp provides the structure, instruction, and environment to ship it. Past participants have built SaaS tools, internal automation, client-facing apps, and personal projects they had been planning for years. By the end of the week, you have a working, deployed product.

Where exactly is Claude Camp located?

Claude Camp is hosted on an organic mountain farm 7km outside Pai, in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand — 3 to 3.5 hours by road from Chiang Mai International Airport (CNX). The farm is solar-powered, has 200 Mbps fiber internet, and operates as a working garden.

How much does Claude Camp cost?

Standard pricing starts at $1,490 for the full 7-day program, which is all-inclusive: accommodation, meals, instruction, and ground transport. A Premium tier includes private airport transfers and other upgrades. A deposit holds your seat; the remainder is due 30 days before arrival.

How is Claude Camp different from an online AI coding course?

Claude Camp is a residential retreat, not a digital course. You live and work alongside 6 other builders for 7 days in northern Thailand. The immersive, distraction-free environment is the product: no Slack, no commute, no context-switching. You ship something real because there is nothing else to do.

Do I need a visa to travel to Thailand?

Most nationalities — including US, UK, EU, Australian, and Canadian passport holders — receive a 60-day visa exemption on arrival in Thailand. Check your specific passport at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs website before booking.

Is Claude Code free to use?

Claude Code requires a paid Anthropic subscription. A Claude Pro plan ($20/month) gives access for light use; heavier development work typically uses the API with usage-based billing. At Claude Camp, participants budget roughly $50–150 in API costs for the week depending on how actively they build.

How does Claude Code compare to Cursor or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor and GitHub Copilot are IDE plugins that assist while you write code manually. Claude Code operates differently — it reads your entire project, plans the work, and writes complete features on its own. This makes it faster for building from scratch but requires less manual coding skill. At Claude Camp, participants use Claude Code rather than Cursor because the goal is to ship a product, not to learn to type code. Full comparison →

What can a non-coder realistically build with Claude Code in a week?

Non-coders at Claude Camp have shipped: a client-facing booking tool with Stripe payments, an internal inventory dashboard, a lead-capture landing page with email automation, and a personal portfolio site with a CMS. The constraint isn't coding ability — it's clarity of idea. Claude Code handles the implementation; the participant supplies the vision and makes product decisions. How to use Claude Code →

Claude Code Guides & Resources

What Is Claude Code? How to Use Claude Code Field Guide: 20 Hard-Won Lessons ↗ All Guides & Resources ↗ Claude Code for Beginners Claude Code for Developers Claude Code for Non-Technical Founders Claude Code Tutorial Claude Code Tips & Tricks Claude Code Pricing Claude Code Review (2026) What People Build with Claude Code Claude Code vs Cursor Claude Code vs ChatGPT Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot How to Build a SaaS with AI Build an App Without Coding How to Ship an MVP Fast AI Tools for Founders What Is an AI Coding Bootcamp? Pai Thailand Retreat Guide Pai Thailand for Digital Nomads The View from Claude Camp
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