đź“… 4th cohort starts March 16th 2026 @ 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT
Get paid for your technical judgment, not hours
Design a repeatable offer you can build a solo business around—and finally get paid for the technical decisions and tradeoffs you guide teams through every day.
You’re experienced. You move faster than others. You see risks early.
But getting measured by the hours you work punishes speed—and employees are rewarded for output, not smart decisions.
There’s a better way to work in tech. This workshop shows you how.
In four evenings, you’ll build a solo offer you can deliver alongside your day job called a Technical Approach Assessment. It’s a short, fixed-scope project where a company pays you to review existing artifacts and you deliver a clear recommendation.
- This is not about quitting your job.
- It’s not building an agency.
- And it’s not committing to long-term consulting work.
It’s a short, fixed-scope offer you can test in real conversations while keeping your current situation intact.
And once you help a company make an informed decision, that’s when the real money flows.
Next Cohort: March 16–19, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT (Live on Zoom)
Investment: $600
Stop getting paid less for being faster.
Build a high-leverage solo offer along with other experienced tech professionals over Zoom.
Why this exists
Most experienced developers try to escape hourly work by selling big consulting projects.
That usually backfires:
- You’re still paid for output.
- You still get pulled into implementation.
- Landing a big client takes a lot of proof.
- You have to go “all in” with no backup income.
There’s a simpler, more optimized career move:
Sell the confidence to get started, not the project.
Most companies hesitate to hire consultants because it implies ongoing spend, implementation risk, and long-term commitment.
A Technical Approach Assessment is different: it helps them decide before they commit money and momentum.
That’s why it’s significantly easier to get a “yes” than a big consulting project—especially without a public track record.
That’s what a Technical Approach Assessment is for.
What is a Technical Approach Assessment?
It’s a short, fixed-scope project that helps a team commit (or not) to a technical approach with confidence.
You don’t “manage the project.”
You don’t “become the implementer.”
You don’t deliver a backlog.
You deliver a Recommendation Report based on what already exists at a company. It’s a simple document or presentation backed by what you found during your assessment. And it helps companies benefit from the hard-won lessons you’ve learned over your tech career.
Once you’ve earned a client’s trust by helping them make a decision—you can optionally offer them more support, to guide them on taking action.
This is how you shift from the hourly grind, to making much more income for the time you spend working.
The 4-day shift from skilled contributor to trusted advisor
đź“… Day 1: Choose your technical capability
We’ll identify one technical capability you’ve already helped deliver. Something you can truly stand on.
No “fantasy niche.”
Not “Something I’ve always wanted to learn.”
Only what you can responsibly guide.
Output: a clear decision about which capability you can confidently assess for companies.
đź“… Day 2: Design your assessment activities
The mistake most developers make is treating an assessment like a project plan.
You’re not doing the work.
You’re helping a company avoid landmines.
On day 2, you’ll identify 3-5 activities to analyze artifacts during your assessment.
You might assess things like:
- Documents
- Codebases
- Infrastructure
- Incident reports
- Logs
- Processes
Output: a streamlined set of activities that support the recommendation you provide at the end of your assessment.
đź“… Day 3: Package your offer
Stating what you can do to help a company isn’t enough to get hired.
On day 3, you’ll create the “wrapper” for your offer that makes it easy for companies to understand and buy.
Packaging includes:
- A unique name for your offer
- What you need from a client before starting
- A template for reporting your recommendation at the end of delivering your offer
- A realistic price range to charge clients tied to stakes of the decision (not hours)
Output: a Minimum Viable Offer you can present to potential clients that’s ready to repeatedly sell.
đź“… Day 4: Claim your position
Moving from employee to high-leverage technical guide isn’t just about having a good offer. It requires a change in who you allow yourself to be when you show up to serve people over your tech career.
On Day 4, you’ll learn a simple, repeatable way to explain your Technical Approach Assessment in a real conversation. What it is, who it’s for, what you deliver, and how to propose the next step.
By the end, you’ll have the confidence to approach people with your new offer—and you’ll know the next step to take if you want guided support executing it.
Output: personalized Technical Guide Positioning you can use to explain who you are and what you do in simple language with clients.
Want further support putting this into practice?
The workshop gives you a strong offer and positioning to start conversations with potential clients. After completing it, there’s an optional path for continued coaching and accountability. It helps you find the right people, message them well, and run pre-qualification and sales calls.
This workshop is not for everyone.
This is for people ready to be paid for their experience. Not hide behind the keyboard.
Who this IS for
- You’ve done real work that gave your team or company a technical capability.
- You want to be paid for judgment—not just execution.
- You’re willing to start conversations with potential clients (even imperfectly).
- You want a repeatable offer you can run alongside a day job.
Who this is NOT for
- You want your offer to be perfect before talking to anyone.
- You want clients handed to you without doing any work to find them.
- You just want to do “hands on” work.
- You want to help companies do something you don’t actually have experience with.
How this workshop uses AI
Drafting an offer requires learning new concepts, completing activities, and being coached through challenges that arise.
The Technical Guide Offer Workshop provides access to the DevReborn Offer Assistant Legion.
The Legion is a set of four custom GPTs that will assist you in completing activities. These purpose-built chatbots help you apply the unique experiences you’ve had over your tech career, to the structured processes in the workshop.
By using the Legion, you’ll get interactive help and avoid common mistakes.
What you do with these chatbots runs inside your own ChatGPT account.
Meet your guide
I’m Jayme Edwards, and I’ve spent 30 years in software industry. First as a developer and architect, then as a consultant, coach, and creator. Over the years I’ve worked with more than 25 companies across industries ranging from finance to healthcare to energy. That breadth taught me a critical lesson: no matter the stack or domain, developers face the same trap of being undervalued.
Through my YouTube channels “Developer Reborn”, “Healthy Developer”, and private coaching—I’ve worked with hundreds of developers worldwide. And I’ve seen firsthand how treating their career like a business can help them get more leverage.
đź“… How to attend
This is the fourth live cohort of the Technical Guide Offer Workshop—refined through feedback from past participants to create valuable offers, fast.
It runs over 4 evenings and is designed to give you a high-leverage path for owning your career through a focused mix of teaching, AI-assisted activities, and live group coaching.
Dates: Monday March 16th – Thursday March 19th 2026
Time: 90 minutes per day at 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT
Where: Live via Zoom (replays available)
Investment: $600
Prerequisites:
- An active ChatGPT Plus (or higher) subscription is required to participate in the workshop.
We use custom GPTs that guide you through the exercises and work directly with documents you upload to design your offer.
The free version of ChatGPT has strict file-upload limits that will block key workshop activities. - If you don’t already have ChatGPT Plus, you can subscribe for $20/month before the workshop and cancel afterward if you choose.
*Developer Reborn is an independent brand not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI. ChatGPT is a third-party tool used as part of the workshop experience.
Reserve your spot now
If you’re unsure whether you’re “ready” to fully work for yourself, that’s fine.
This workshop is designed to give you a defined offer you can choose to use—without forcing a career overhaul.
This is where leverage begins.
You don’t need a perfect plan. You don’t need a public track record of guiding companies online.
You just need 4 evenings, $600, and the courage to find out what you’re worth—when you stop selling yourself like a commodity.
What you get
- A structured, interactive workshop that reshapes how you see and communicate your value
- Real-time feedback from Jayme to sharpen your offer as you build it (and learn from peers doing the same)
- A private discord community to share wins, ask questions, and build momentum
- Recordings of every session so you can rewatch or catch up anytime
The Technical Guide Offer Workshop is currently only available to US residents.
If you’re outside the United States and want access in your country, join the regional waitlist.
Your interest helps shape where I expand next.
Seats capped to maintain quality guidance—enrollment for the 4th cohort closing March 15th, 2026.
IMPORTANT: March 2026 Update
I’m currently refining the structure of the Technical Guide Offer Workshop and not accepting new registrations at the moment.
If you’d like to be notified when enrollment reopens, join the priority list below.
In the meantime, I’m working with a small number of experienced engineers 1:1 to help them define and position their Technical Approach Assessment offers. If you’d like to be considered, contact support@devreborn.com.