Comparing coding classes in Croydon and Sutton? We aren’t one — this is vibe coding, in person, two hours a week. Where your child builds, who they build beside, what a Tuesday evening actually looks like — and exactly what it costs. Everything, plainly.
📞 Ring Khalid — 077 20 90 90 90
A room where building is normal makes building feel normal.
Picture a room of young people who all came here because they wanted to make something. They talk. They show each other what they’ve got working. They ask each other for help, and they give it. Someone gets stuck, says so out loud, and three people lean over.
And moving between them — not standing at the front — is a builder. Sitting down beside one, then another. Brainstorming an idea that isn’t working yet. Turning something that looks impossibly technical into three steps a thirteen-year-old can actually take. Knowing, from having done it himself, which route is the short one.
Because when the person next to you gets their thing working, you want yours to work too. That’s not something a curriculum can manufacture. It only happens when builders are put in a room together.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.Jim Rohn
This surprises almost every parent, and it’s the single most important thing to understand about how we work.
The typing is the easy part — AI does that in seconds. The hard part, and the valuable part, is deciding what to make and how it should work. So that is where most of the time goes.
Talking ideas through. Sketching. Arguing with a plan until it’s right. Working out what to do next, and why.
Directing AI, testing what comes back, fixing what broke.
Pen and paper. Sketching tools like Excalidraw. Notes that build up across the weeks into a proper record of how their thinking developed. Sometimes we stop and talk as a group about something everyone needs.
And sometimes they get up and play a game for ten minutes, because that is what actually happens in the places where things get built. There’s no formal structure, because a labour of love doesn’t need one.
Talent is common. Sitting beside someone who has actually done it is not.
Old Palace Road, Croydon town centre — easy for families in Croydon, South Croydon, Sutton, Purley, Coulsdon and Selsdon. A modern, bright room — the same studio where local children have been taught for over a decade.
Easy drop-off and pick-up. You can wait in the car. No tickets, no hunting for a space.
Two hours, once a week. Weekday late afternoon or evening, or a weekend slot — we set the times with the first families.
We run through half terms and holidays. Builds keep their momentum.
Deliberately small. Small enough that Khalid knows what every child is building. Beyond that an assistant joins, so nobody gets less attention.
A laptop, and an idea. It needs to be one they can work on comfortably and that can run AI tools — we’ll check the spec with you before you start.
You don’t pay for it. Their project simply waits for them — which is usually motivation enough on its own.
Khalid is never alone with a child. Sessions always run as a group.
I hear and I forget. I do and I understand.Confucius
We’ve deliberately made this as easy to say yes to as we can, because we’d rather you judged us on what your child builds than on what you’ve already paid.
How long does a build take? Honestly, it depends on what your child chooses. Most first builds take somewhere between ten and fifteen weeks. We’ll give you a straight estimate at the Discovery Meeting, once we know what they want to make — and because you pay weekly, nothing rests on that estimate being exact.
Discounts don’t stack — we’ll work out the best rate for your family at the Discovery Meeting.
Two hours a week beside a builder beats a year of reading about building.
No subscriptions to buy. No accounts to set up in your name. No hidden costs waiting three weeks in.
Your child brings a laptop and an idea. We bring everything else.
Belonging is not being liked. It is being somewhere your strangeness is ordinary.
When a build is finished it gets hosted properly — a real address your child can send to grandparents, to friends, to anyone. Not a file on a laptop. A thing that exists.
They keep it. They keep the notes, the sketches, the design file, and every version along the way. They built it, so it belongs to them — and it goes with them whenever they leave.
Along the way, your child can record a short video each month showing you what they’ve made and what broke. And at the end of the year, we’d like to get the families together so the builders can show you what they did.
I’ve never been a salesman and I’m not about to start. Come and see the place, ask me anything you like, and decide afterwards.
You and your child together. See the studio, hear exactly how it works, and bring their ideas — we’ll talk through what they could build and how it would actually happen. Ask every question you have, including the awkward ones.
We agree a session time that works for your family, and your child begins the following week. There’s nothing to sign up to and nothing to pay in advance.
A short parental consent form for your child’s supervised use of the AI tools. That’s the only paperwork there is.
They are the one in their year who makes things. At school that can be a lonely position — interesting to nobody, slightly odd to everybody. Then they walk into a room where it is the normal thing to be.
They see what somebody else is making. Somebody asks what they’re working on and actually wants the answer. An idea gets stolen, improved and handed back. For some children this turns out to matter more than the build did.
No. They describe what they want in plain English and direct the AI to build it. There is no syntax to learn and no experience assumed.
That is the normal starting point. The first session is about deciding what they want to build, not about technology.
No. This is not a class for children who are already good with computers. Plenty of the young people who take to it fastest are the ones who were never told they were the clever one. What it asks for is an idea and the patience to see it through.
Vibe coding means describing what you want in plain English and directing an AI to build it, instead of writing the code yourself. Your child says what the page should do; the AI writes it; your child reads it, tests it, and asks for changes until it works. It is how a great deal of real software is now made.
It is the fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on how it is taught. A child who accepts whatever appears on screen learns very little. A child who plans the thing first, reads what came back, works out why it broke and asks for the right change is learning to think clearly, break problems down and persist. That is what we teach, and it is why two thirds of a session is thinking rather than typing.
No. Coding classes teach a skill AI now does in seconds. We teach the skill underneath it: knowing what to build, describing it precisely, and pushing through until it works.
£35 per two-hour session, paid week by week. Nothing upfront. Discounts for siblings, for bringing a friend, and for introducing another family.
Leave whenever you like. The only thing you are ever committed to is next week.
You don’t pay for it. Your child’s project simply waits for them.
Most first builds take between ten and fifteen weeks. We’ll give you a straight estimate once we know what your child wants to make.
None. Most keep building at home anyway, because they want to — but nothing is ever set.
A laptop capable of running AI tools, and an idea. We’ll check the spec with you before you start.
No. The club covers those. Storage, hosting, food and drink are provided too.
Old Palace Road, Croydon town centre. Easy drop-off and pick-up — you can wait in the car, and there are no tickets to worry about.
Khalid, alongside a small group of other young builders. He is never alone with a child — sessions always run as a group. An enhanced DBS check has been applied for and we are waiting on the certificate; you are welcome to ask about it at the meeting.
It is theirs. It stays hosted online free of charge, so they can send the link to anyone they like.
Come to a free Discovery Meeting. Every question answered, nothing sold. If it feels right, you start.
Sit down with Khalid, see the studio, and find out exactly how the club works. Best of all — bring your child’s ideas. If they’ve already landed on one, mention it when you ring and I’ll have thought about how we’d build it before you arrive.
It’s relaxed, it’s free, and there’s no obligation at the end of it. Most families leave simply knowing a lot more than when they arrived.
Prefer to talk first? Ring Khalid — he’ll answer every question you have, honestly and in plain English. Ask him anything. Rather write? Email hello@aibuildersclub.co.uk.
Croydon studio · Ages 10–16 · Small groups, limited spaces
AI Builders Club · Croydon, London · 077 20 90 90 90 · hello@aibuildersclub.co.uk