Chapter 01

The age of building
belongs to
everyone now.

Our story - Charterhouse, 2026
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Chapter 02
The shift

Anyone can build now.

The tools that used to take a team of engineers now sit in a browser tab. The barrier to entry - capital, credentials, permission - has quietly collapsed.

Builder isn't a job title anymore. It's a verb. And the people doing it best are often the ones nobody asked.

Chapter 03
Why it matters

Theory isn't enough
anymore.

Practical experience has always mattered more than the textbook. With AI rewriting every industry in real time, it's no longer a nice-to-have - it's the difference between watching the future arrive and shaping it.

The earlier students get their hands on these tools, the better they understand the world they're walking into - and the more confidently they can build inside it.

Chapter 04 - Our mission

Give students the tools,
the time, and the room
to actually build.

Not a club. Not a single afterschool workshop. A real programme that treats building as a core part of how young people learn - inside the school day, with the tools professionals use.

Chapter 05
How it started

Two cousins, one obvious idea.

We're cousins who couldn't stop having the same conversation. One of us, Mati, has spent years building - a lifelong inventor, founder, and operator inside several successful startups. The other, Jan, an ambitious student who can't look away from what these new tools are about to make possible, and how much of it is suddenly within reach.

We kept landing in the same conversation: these tools are too powerful, and too easy to pick up, to leave at the edges. They belong in schools - taught practically, used daily, in the hands of the people who'll build with them longest.

Generation Build is what came out of that - an initiative to introduce young people to building, the way it actually works now.

Mati Remi and Jan Michalski-Leach, co-founders of Generation Build, at Charterhouse
Mati Remi & Jan Michalski-Leach - Charterhouse, 2026
Chapter 06
The first school

It started with a school that understood.

Generation Build began at Charterhouse - a school willing to put practical, hands-on building at the centre of how its students learn, not at the edge. The partnership is the proof point: this belongs inside the school, not bolted onto it.

Charterhouse
Chapter 07
Who's helping

And tools that bring the future
into the classroom.

Partners like Lovable are putting world-class building tools into the hands of millions - and into ours. The same instruments shipping real software around the world are the ones our students learn on.

Lovable
Chapter 08 - What's next

This is
generation build.

A growing programme, a growing network of schools, and a growing roster of partners who believe young people should be shipping - not waiting.

Guide for students