Build something real. For someone who'll actually use it.
One day, one small business, one working prototype with your name on it. Bring your AI tooling and your appetite; we'll bring the problem.
What you get
Six reasons to give us a Saturday.
Free to attend, sponsor-funded. You bring skills; everything else is covered.
A shipped prototype
Not a demo for imaginary users. A working tool handed to a business that needed it that morning.
A published case study
Every sprint is written up (the problem, the build, the result) with your name on the work.
A bench of peers
Team up with people who ship. The ones worth knowing are the ones you've hit a deadline with.
Sponsor tooling credits
Build on sponsor stacks with credits covered: try the tools you've been meaning to, on a problem that counts.
Customer discovery, live
An hour with a business owner teaches you more about product than a month of reading. Frame is a masterclass.
Competition, the good kind
Teams demo side by side at 5pm. Nobody loses, but everybody wants to ship the one the room remembers.
What's expected
The bar, plainly.
No job titles required.
You've shipped something with AI tools
A side project counts. A weekend build counts. A job title doesn't. Show us a thing that runs.
You can commit the full day
8am doors to 5pm demos. Teams are small; an empty chair is felt.
You'll work to the method
Prime → Frame → Build → Demo → Ship, in order. The structure is what makes one day enough.
The business owner is the user
Their workflow wins arguments. You're building for the person in the room, not a hypothetical market.
You hand it over properly
Code, accounts, and a plain-language note leave with the business. Shipping includes the handover.
First sprint?
Teams are mixed on purpose; every team has someone who's done this before. If you're not sure you clear the bar, apply anyway and say so in the form. The honest applications are the ones we read twice.
Apply
Throw your hat in.
Five minutes, six questions. We read every application and reply to all of them: yes or no, you'll hear back.
You're in the queue.
Application received. We'll be in touch within the week. Talk soon.