BRAVE and Badass Courses
BRAVE and Badass Courses are two developer-education businesses collaborating on MEGA, a four-week online program intended to teach developers how to build reliable AI-agent systems and products. BRAVE emphasizes practical, project-based AI education for developers, managers, marketers and organizations; Badass Courses helps expert instructors research, produce and sell high-quality developer courses.
At a Glance
- Mid-level and senior software developers
- Developers and technical teams adopting AI agents
- Large companies and enterprise AI-transformation programs
- Managers, marketers, product, sales and HR professionals implementing AI
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AI Tools by BRAVE and Badass Courses
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MEGA.dev
AI Agent Engineering Course
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Latest News
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Products & Services
A four-week online cohort for mid-level and senior developers already building with AI. It includes 20 weekday lessons, written and video materials, real repositories, four live workshops, a Discord community, skill cards and a MEGA Developer certificate.
Project-based, five-to-six-week AI programs for developers, managers, marketers, product, sales, HR and organizations, including AI_devs, AI_Managers and the later AI 360 portfolio.
BRAVE's AI-transformation program for Poland's largest corporations.
A service and methodology for helping expert instructors research, design, produce, launch and sell developer courses; the site presents case studies including Total TypeScript, Testing Accessibility, Epic React and Technical Interviews.
Market Position
The collaboration positions itself as practitioner-led, project-based AI and developer education rather than a theory-heavy course marketplace: BRAVE brings a Poland-based AI-training and enterprise-program operation, while Badass brings course-production expertise and a technical course framework. It competes for learners and corporate training budgets with broad course marketplaces such as Coursera and Udemy, cohort platforms such as Maven, and specialist developer-education providers; its differentiators are multi-week applied projects, live expert access, real repositories and an explicit focus on building and operating agents.
Leadership
Founders
Bartek (Bart) Rycharski
CEO and co-founder of BRAVE. BRAVE's official profile says his focus has been modern education for 20 years; he became interested in learning through MIT OpenCourseWare and Coursera and is a hands-on operator.
Greg Rog
CTO and co-founder of BRAVE. He built Polish online technology education through eduweb.pl, authored hundreds of courses and educational materials, co-founded easy.tools, and built products including heyalice.app.
Joel Hooks
Founder/co-founder of Badass Courses and co-founder of egghead.io. MEGA describes him as having spent more than a decade helping expert teachers turn their expertise into developer programs that learners finish.
Executive Team
Bart Rycharski
CEO, BRAVE; co-founder
Modern-education operator; BRAVE says he has worked on modern education for 20 years and leads the company behind its AI programs.
Greg Rog
CTO, BRAVE; co-founder
Founder of eduweb.pl, author of hundreds of technology-education materials, co-founder of easy.tools and builder of AI products including heyalice.app.
Founding Story
BRAVE says it began in 2022 after its founders became frustrated with training budgets and courses that produced certificates but little workplace behavior change. Its model was practice first: multi-week programs led by practitioners and ending in a project. Badass Courses grew from Joel Hooks's work building developer education and course-production systems; the two businesses later combined their complementary strengths to build MEGA, described as their first joint project.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Paid cohort-course tuition and enterprise/team enrollments for BRAVE and MEGA; Badass Courses also monetizes course-production partnerships and its course-platform/service offering.
Pricing Tiers
One-time payment or two installments; EUR and PLN checkout options are available. Includes 12 months of access, and the site advertises a full refund if the learner resigns within two weeks after the program starts.
For teams enrolling at least five developers; volume discounts, VAT invoice/bank transfer, up to 30-day payment terms and a satisfaction or money-back guarantee.
Target Markets
- Mid-level and senior software developers
- Developers and technical teams adopting AI agents
- Large companies and enterprise AI-transformation programs
- Managers, marketers, product, sales and HR professionals implementing AI
- Technical educators and expert course creators
- Developers building with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, OMP or Pi
- Designing and operating specialized or multi-agent systems
- AI-native product development, verification and delivery
- Automating engineering workflows while controlling cost, reliability, security and permissions
- Organization-wide AI adoption and transformation
- Experts turning technical knowledge into commercially successful online courses
- ING
- Samsung
- Allegro
- PwC