Four things, one company
What Up Coast does
Product strategy, fixed price, fixed end date
New product, go-to-market, prototypes, and training for your team. Each one is scoped to a stage and a deliverable.
Answer a few questions and I'll point you at one →AppsThe apps I build with the same method
Dayletter, Neori, Actually Keto and Coast. Every one of them went through the strategy work I sell before a line of code was written. The tools I built to make them are there too.
See the apps →Up Coast BuildersA network for people who build apps
Engineers, founders, and people who've never worked in tech, in one Slack, with one shared framework. You get in by learning it: the free cohort, the workbook, the recordings, or training with your team. Monthly Q&As once you're in.
Find your way in ↗Tech Access InitiativeOpening tech to the people it filters out
The social venture. Free training for people who can't buy their way in, in-person cohorts in BC's coastal and mountain communities, and a path to tech work that doesn't mean leaving town.
Go open a gate →How the pieces fit
One company, four parts
Up Coast Digital Products is the company. It sells the services and builds the apps.
Up Coast Builders is the professional network. Everyone in it learned the same framework, Passion to Product, in one of its shapes: the free live cohort, the workbook, the recordings, or a private course for their team.
The Tech Access Initiative is the social venture. It runs the free cohort and the in-person cohorts, and it works on the bigger problem: getting people into tech work without the money or the move. The people it brings in join the same network as the people who paid their way in.
the workbook · the recordings · team training
the free live cohort · in-person cohorts up the coast
Both paths end with you as a member of Up Coast Builders, having learned the same framework.
Hi, I am Abbey Jackson
I bought my way into tech with a $5,000 bank loan for a bootcamp and no way to pay it back. It worked out: I was the tech lead on an anti-fraud mobile SDK at Mastercard and a staff engineer at Rivian, where I hold a patent on the app-to-vehicle system. Now I run Up Coast from the Comox Valley, and I keep it small on purpose.