Example
Founder, B2B software company
Built a software company that sells to businesses across Southeast Asia.
Teaches · Selling to businesses
AI can build anything now. Learn what's worth building.
Three weeks in the school holidays for 16 to 19 year olds. Learn AI skills by using them for real: build a product, find customers and sell it, with Singapore founders as mentors. The profit is yours.
- Voyage I
- 30 Nov – 18 Dec
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 9:30–5
- Ages
- 16–19
- Cohort
- 20 students
- Fee
- S$1,800
- Apply by
- Sun 22 Nov
Entry-level jobs used to teach young people the basics. AI does that work now.
74.4%
of Singapore's fresh graduates found full-time permanent jobs in 2025, down from 87.5% in 2022.
Graduate Employment Survey, via CNA79.6%
of job vacancies in 2025 did not treat qualifications as the main hiring criterion.
Ministry of Manpower, Aug 2026Day one
is when employers now expect results, because AI has taken over the routine work juniors used to learn on.
Ong Ye Kung, NUS forum, Sep 2026, via CNAAI takes the routine work. You learn the parts that need a person.
The syllabus will catch up eventually. You will start work before it does.
AI doesYou learn to
What you could build in three weeks. Your idea, your customers, your profit.
Examples of the size of thing you can build. Bring your own idea, or find one in the first week by talking to people. Once the S$300 float is repaid, the profit is yours.
A price checker and trade board for Pokémon cards
Collectors at your school list cards, see what each one sells for in Singapore this week, and trade with people they can trust.
Sellers pay S$2 a listing
An AI quiz bot for your school's notes
It turns this term's H2 Chemistry notes into ten questions a day, and tells J1s which topics they keep getting wrong.
S$5 a month, first week free
A class tee and CCA hoodie order page
Design with AI, collect sizes and payment through one link, and send one clean bulk order to the printer.
S$1.50 on every shirt
Illustrative imageThe route. Voyage I, fifteen days from a blank page to a room of builders.
Cast offCrews form. Everyone starts talking to customers.
Problem pickedTen interviews in. One problem worth solving.
Build in three daysOne user, one job, one screen, shipped with AI.
LaunchTen real users, brought in by hand.
Charge for itFirst dollar from a stranger within 72 hours.
Float testS$300 of real money on a growth test.
DecideKill, pivot or double down, from the numbers.
Demo dayDemo to parents, mentors and founders.- See the full voyage
Startup Semester was ten weeks of talking to real users, showing work before it was ready and defending our numbers every week. I did it at university. I wish I had started at sixteen.
Learn selling, pricing and growth from Singapore founders and business leaders.
Mentors run the skills clinics, hold office hours on your product, and question every demo on demo day. They have built companies, raised money and hired teams.
Example
Head of growth, consumer app
Runs growth and paid marketing for a consumer app.
Teaches · Growth and paid tests
Example
Product lead, regional tech company
Leads a product team shipping AI features.
Teaches · Building with AI
Example
Founder, food and drink brand
Runs a chain of cafés and a packaged-goods line.
Teaches · Pricing and margins
Example profiles. Voyage I mentors are announced here as they confirm.
School taught me to answer questions well. Building a company taught me to find the right question, build an answer and get someone to pay for it. I learned that in my thirties. Argo is for students who want to learn it at seventeen.
Before Argo
- Arrow
- Co-founder and CEO. Backed by Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and Meta. Acquired by Pomelo.
- Pomelo Group
- Chief Product Officer
- Swiss digital bank
- Chief Operating Officer
- Tencent, GrabPay, Alipay
- Launch and leadership roles, building payments across Southeast Asia.
The future won't wait for the syllabus.
Applications open20 seats
Voyage I
- Dates
- 30 Nov – 18 Dec 2026
- For
- After O-levels, in JC, or after A-levels or poly
- Fee
- S$1,800
- Where
- Central Singapore
- Apply by
- Sun 22 Nov 2026
WaitlistFor poly students
Voyage II
- Dates
- 15 Mar – 2 Apr 2027
- For
- Poly students, in the March vacation
- Fee
- To be announced
- Where
- Central Singapore
- Priority
- Waitlist hears first
Parents, two adults are on site at all times, every outreach list is approved first, and Argo covers any loss on the S$300 float.