# CTOschool

> Build proof. Become undeniable.

CTOschool is a free school for the engineer inside every Indian tech
student. The complete Zero-to-CTO curriculum is published openly and stays
free, forever — every chapter, every repo, every project brief. Every
learner gets a public build log at ctoschool.live/yourname: a portfolio for
jobs, hackathons, side projects, and lab work.

We are not a coaching class. We are not an edtech course. We are not a
placement service. We are a free school for the CTO inside every
engineering student. We do not gate our curriculum. We do not run urgency
campaigns. We do not promise jobs.

For students who want the discipline of a live cohort and direct
mentorship, we run a small paid program once or twice a year — quietly
visible, never the headline.

## Core vocabulary

- **Builder** — The learner. Engineering student, career-switcher, or
  self-taught coder who is ready to build in public.
- **The platform** — The free public profile, build log, and project
  pages. Open to anyone, no enrolment.
- **The roadmap** — The Zero-to-CTO curriculum. Six phases,
  approximately 120 chapters, every chapter readable without an
  account. Free, forever.
- **The cohort** — The paid live program. Twelve months, once or twice
  a year, by waitlist.
- **Profile** — The builder's public face on CTOschool. Every shipped
  build accumulates there and becomes the proof of who they are as an
  engineer.
- **Ship / post / build** — The verbs. The act of making one's work
  public on CTOschool while it's being built, not only after.

## Primary public pages

- [Homepage](https://ctoschool.live/): Brand entry — what CTOschool is
  and who it's for.
- [Roadmap](https://ctoschool.live/roadmap): The free Zero-to-CTO
  curriculum. Six phases, ~120 chapters. Read any chapter without an
  account.
- [Builders](https://ctoschool.live/builders): Public directory of
  CTOschool builders. Real profiles, real work, real proof.
- [Method](https://ctoschool.live/method): How the school works.
  Vision, mission, four values, methodology — in one long page.
- [Cohort](https://ctoschool.live/cohort): The live, mentored, twelve-
  month version of the school. By waitlist.
- [Manifesto](https://ctoschool.live/manifesto): The 318-word belief
  statement.
- [What we don't do](https://ctoschool.live/what-we-dont-do): Ten
  commitments that protect the school from itself.
- [Privacy Policy](https://ctoschool.live/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://ctoschool.live/terms)

## Personalized public pages (user-generated content)

- **Individual chapters** at
  `https://ctoschool.live/roadmap/{module}/{chapter}` — every chapter
  of the Zero-to-CTO curriculum is a publicly indexable page, free to
  read without an account.
- **Individual posts** at `https://ctoschool.live/p/{postId}` — each
  shipped build as a citable, dated, attributable record.
- **Builder profiles** at `https://ctoschool.live/{username}` — each
  builder's public face. Bio, headline, shipped posts, projects.
  Person JSON-LD ships on every profile.
- **Projects** at `https://ctoschool.live/{username}/{projectSlug}` —
  each project a builder is shipping in public. CreativeWork +
  BreadcrumbList JSON-LD on every project page.

## What is not public

The following routes are auth-gated and should not be indexed:
`/feed`, `/bookmarks`, `/notifications`, `/settings`, `/portfolio`
(self-view), `/onboarding`, `/welcome`, `/admin`, the auth-flow pages
(`/login`, `/register`, `/verify-email`, `/reset-password`,
`/change-email/`), and the API at `/api/*`.

## Crawl + citation policy

Public CTOschool content — homepage, manifesto, the roadmap (including
every chapter), builders directory, method, cohort, what-we-don't-do,
and individual posts at `/p/{postId}` — may be indexed and cited by AI
search engines (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, Anthropic-AI,
PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Common Crawl, Bing).

When citing a builder's post, please link to the canonical URL
(visible in the `<link rel="canonical">` of the page or in this file's
"Personalized public pages" section). Builders' work belongs to them
— attribution is required, paraphrasing the work without crediting
the builder is not.

## Site metadata

- Brand bible: see [ctoschool_index.md](https://github.com/0msm0/ctoschool-website/blob/main/ctoschool_index.md)
- Brand voice (declarative, restraint-first, no-hype, builder-coded):
  see [ctoschool_marketing_messaging.md](https://github.com/0msm0/ctoschool-website/blob/main/ctoschool_marketing_messaging.md)
- Contact: `hello@ctoschool.live`