BYSTEP CAMPUS · BUILDER & PROBLEM SOLVER
A program for student teams who want to build a business or solve a real problem — from idea to PRD, tasks with pass/fail criteria, built with any AI coding agent, and approved by the lecturer phase by phase.
Student? Become the Campus Lead at your university →STAGES
Compared with Bangkit, 1000 Startup Digital or Indigo, campuses need a cheap way to start and a clear next step. These four stages wrap the 14-week calendar.
A student club, a class or the Campus Lead invites anyone: idea → first PRD → one task verified live → three teams demo.
Teams of 3–5 run the full loop with a lecturer or problem owner as the client who approves phases.
Pitch on campus, then enter the national Build Challenge: judged on process, product and impact.
Builders: P2MW, PKM-K, incubators, 1000 Startup, Indigo. Solvers: PKM-KC, Gemastik, KMIPN, thesis. The documents are already done.
TWO TRACKS, ONE LOOP
Builder and Problem Solver share one flow: PRD → task → build → verify → evidence → approve. Only the starting point and the finale differ.
Build a business
Solve a real problem
CALENDAR
4–6 hours per week per person. Fits a 2–3 credit project course or an independent-study module.
Create the workspace, pick a track, invite the lecturer as client.
Interview 5 users, write the PRD in the wizard, revise with Bystep Agent.
Skeleton, then core value. Every task passes verification before done; the lecturer approves each phase.
5-minute demo to the lecturer + an outside mentor; measure the readiness score.
Builder: 10 real users. Solver: test on site with the problem owner.
Fix exceptions, deploy, auto wiki, proposal PDF / report appendix.
7-minute pitch, public benchmark, a winner per track.
WHO IT IS FOR
Stop writing proposals without a product. Write the PRD, split it into tasks with pass/fail criteria, build with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or by hand — and have evidence for the pitch, the report, and your portfolio.
Join as a client viewer without opening a repo: see each team's progress and evidence, approve phases as process assessment. The approval log is an objective record of who did what, when.
A ready program with a calendar, rubric, and end-of-semester report. Anchor it to the grant season, national competitions, or your society's internal selection.
Student leads get a free seat and a build-night kit; alumni and practitioners join as mentors and judges. Both free, both with a real role in the loop.
Lecturers, problem owners and mentors are always free as client viewers — no seat limit.
WHY LECTURERS CAN TRUST IT
Programming-education research from 2024–2026 is consistent: AI raises assignment scores but not necessarily understanding. Bystep is built on the side the literature recommends — verification, process assessment, critiquing the AI.
Students write pass/fail criteria for every task before an agent may start. A task is done only when verification passes and evidence is uploaded. Overrides need a reason and are logged.
3-arm RCT, n=275 (Bassner et al., 2025): unrestricted AI = a "comfort trap"; scaffolded AI preserved motivation.
Phase approvals, evidence ratio, and exceptions are recorded all semester — not a report written on the last night.
412 students over 3 semesters (Zhu et al., 2026): LLM-assisted score gains vanished in closed-book exams → process-oriented assessment.
Lecturers and problem owners have a real role: approving phases. Client commitment is the number-one success factor in capstone projects.
SLR of 127 capstone studies (Tenhunen et al., 2023) & Bastarrica et al. (2026): client involvement decides outcomes.
CAMPUS LEAD
The pattern used by Claude Campus, the OpenAI Student Collective, GDG on Campus and Cursor Campus Leads — no cash stipend, but a free seat, club credits and tiers you can put on a CV.
Accepted and first build night done. Free seat, kit, lead group.
≥ 2 build nights, ≥ 1 active class/community (≥ 10 teams), ≥ 1 team in the Build Challenge. Club credits ×2, certificate, recommendation, judge invitation.
≥ 1 Campus Partner MoU or ≥ 40 active teams from your campus. Name on this page, founder session, partner-internship priority.
Requirements: active student with ≥ 1 year left, 1 PRD + 3 verified tasks completed in Bystep.
Apply as Campus LeadBYSTEP BUILD CHALLENGE
Like the Solution Challenge or Imagine Cup, without requiring a specific model. Judged on the recorded process, the verified product and real impact.
Evidence ratio, phases approved on time, justified overrides — read from logs, not slides.
Readiness score, verified tasks, a running deployment.
Builders: real users and transactions. Solvers: handover and the problem owner's success metric.
A workspace with ≥ 1 client-approved phase, a public benchmark entry, a ≤ 3-minute demo video, repo link for judges.
Track winners: 6 months of Bystep credits for the team, a feature on this page, a 1:1 mentor session with a practitioner. Top 10: finalist certificate.
Entries open in week 12, close at demo day (week 14), results at the start of the next semester — right before P2MW/PKM proposal season. Edition #1: January 2027.
Every team that completes receives a certificate with verified metrics (PRDs, evidence ratio, approved phases, readiness score) and a public benchmark link recruiters can check. Badge research: what motivates is the skill description, not the badge.
A Bystep class does not end with a slide deck. Students pass when their app is actually live and anyone can open it.
USE TOGETHER, NOT INSTEAD
Bystep does not select, fund or run a full-time curriculum. It gives a proof loop lecturers can grade — and documents ready to take to those programs.
| Program | Their focus | What Bystep adds |
|---|---|---|
| P2MW · PKM · Wirausaha Merdeka | Rp 6–20M grants, national proposal selection, monitoring, KMI Expo. | PRD, evidence log, proposal PDF and readiness score as attachments; monitoring read from phase approvals. |
| Bangkit · MSIB · Apple Developer Academy | 6–10-month full-time curriculum, global certification, strict selection, 20-credit conversion. | For every team without selection, 4–6 h/week, your own lecturer as client; MBKM support documents for Campus Partners. |
| GDG on Campus · Claude Builder Club · OpenAI Student Collective | Community, vendor credits, hackathons, guest speakers. | A verification loop for club teams; Campus Leads may hold both roles; vendor credits still go to the agent of your choice. |
| 1000 Startup Digital · Indigo · campus incubators | Staged incubation, networking, follow-on funding. | The pre-incubation stage: a verified MVP plus a document pack ready for Hacksprint/Bootcamp. |
| Gemastik · KMIPN · club hackathons | One deadline; a demo that has to look like it works. | Free 45-day sponsorship; the Build Challenge judges process and impact, not only the demo. |
PRICING
IDR 299k per team per semester is about IDR 12.5k per student per month. Class and campus prices are derived from the real AI cost per team, so volume discounts are small but kickoff, rubric, and lecturer training are included.
IDR 299k/team/semester
1–9 teams, self-serve via QRIS/bank transfer. 2 PRDs & 30 agent messages per month, Pro features, Claude Opus 5, campus templates, lecturer as client.
IDR 279k/team/semester
10–39 teams, one invoice for the lecturer/department. Includes a 90-minute online kickoff, grading rubric, lecturer dashboard, email support.
IDR 239k/team/semester
+ program fee IDR 2.5M/semester
≥ 40 teams, one-academic-year MoU. Everything in Class + lecturer training, 4 office hours per semester, end-of-semester report for leadership, co-branding, independent-study paperwork support.
IDR 69k/month
Starter at −30 % with a campus email (.ac.id): 5 PRDs, 60 messages, 10 Sol credits per month. Voucher sent after verification through the form.
Free for 45 days
Sponsorship for student societies, GDG on Campus, internal competition selections: free team accounts for 45 days for up to 100 teams, a build-night kit, one judge/mentor session, credits for winners.
Free
1–2 student leads per campus: free Campus seat for an academic year, club credits, build-night kit, tiers Perintis → Penggerak → Pelopor.
All prices include VAT. Semester = 6 months. Team = 3–5 students. Unit economics are in docs/campus/PRICING_CAMPUS.md.
PARTNERSHIP
Start with one pilot class before an MoU. We reply within 2 working days.
Keep it short. We reply by email with a suggested model, calendar, and price.
QUESTIONS
Bystep does not write the students' application code. It forces students to write pass/fail criteria, run verification, and upload evidence before a task can be done — exactly the design research recommends so AI is a scaffold, not a substitute for thinking. Strict mode disables overrides for theses.
Every task has an assignee, evidence, and a timestamp. The phase-approval log records who did what. An audit export is available for an individual-contribution rubric.
No. The task next → start → verify → complete loop runs through the open-source CLI/MCP and works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or by hand.
Yes, as a monitoring instrument and process evidence. Credit policy stays with the campus; for Campus Partners we help with the supporting paperwork.
Data is used only to run the program, stored on servers in Indonesia, and deleted on request. Student work stays with the students/campus under campus rules.
They don't compete — many leads hold both. Vendor clubs bring credits and community; Bystep brings a proof loop lecturers can grade and a path to P2MW/PKM. Our ask: one build night and one class/community per semester.
A certificate with verified metrics, a public benchmark entry, a document pack (PRD, wiki, evidence log, proposal PDF) ready as P2MW/PKM/thesis attachments, and entry to the national Build Challenge.
Send an application today; a kickoff can be scheduled within two weeks.
