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Why we exist
Welcome to Agent Build Club, and thank you for visiting.
We all know AI is changing the future of work, and the future of business and entrepreneurship. University communities and businesses are asking many of the same questions about it, yet they are mostly working out the answers apart.
I'm Michael Kohn. I have spent my career helping universities and industry collaborate and innovate together, working as an architect, an academic, a technology founder and, most recently, an innovation adviser inside universities.
For the last two years I have also been a student again, taking online courses from the many fantastic AI educators who are helping businesses and professionals transform their work with AI. I know what it is like to learn this subject from the beginning. I also know how hard it can be to find the right course for where you are in your own journey, and how often courses assume knowledge you may not have yet.
I wanted to start something that captured the velocity of professional, applied AI learning and the inclusive spirit of university communities, with a clear role for business to play. In my experience, universities and businesses learn about new technology separately and compare notes late; much of the learning happens alone, when the judgement to use AI well is built with other people; and the people most affected by change are rarely the ones who get to shape it. To truly innovate, we need more kinds of people involved, building confidence in the solutions together.
Agent Build Club is my answer to what I believe is a missing piece of the jigsaw in AI education: a co-learning community designed to bridge academia and business, and to add to the learning and innovation ecosystems already found across the UK and around the world. We work with universities, businesses and applied AI educators to run programmes and events where researchers, lecturers, students and graduates work alongside businesses and practitioners, learning, practising, critiquing and solving problems with AI together. For educators, that means a route to bring their teaching into university communities.
My aim is that businesses gain new ideas and early access to talent, universities strengthen their existing and future partnerships around a shared interest in AI, and, most importantly, the next generation of AI builders gains the experience and connections that lead to good work and new ventures.
We are early in our journey, with a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline. I hope you will benefit from what Agent Build Club is building, enjoy it and be part of it. If you think you can help, or would simply like to find out more, do get in touch with me on LinkedIn or by email.
Thank you,
Michael Kohn
Founder
What we are for
Vision
A co-learning community where education, research, innovation and business meet as work, learning and enterprise change. You do not need to be technical to belong: builders, designers, ethicists and practitioners all have a part to play.
Read moreMission
Programme by programme, we are proving that this way of working pays off for everyone in it. Businesses gain new capability and an early view of talent. Institutions gain partnerships and impact. Learners gain employability and the confidence to start something of their own.
Read moreValues
Everyone at Agent Build Club:
How we work
Agent Build Club helps people learn to build with AI, so we're doing it ourselves. A small team of people works alongside a growing flock of AI agents, each with a name, a species and one job. We write up what works, what doesn't and what we change in our Field Notes.
Checks what the other agents may use, where it came from and whether we have the right to it. Herds the whole flock without ever biting.
Draws the continuous line work across the site and the decks. Works to Maitri's brief, and knows when a composition is fighting the page.
Drafts Foresight pieces and Field Notes from research conversations and build logs. Maitri edits. Small voice, carries.
Watches for people worth hearing from, across sectors nobody thought to look in. Hovers a long time before committing.
Holds the events calendar, the logistics and the follow-ups. Returns to the same dates every year without being asked.
Tracks what is moving and what has quietly stopped. Still for a long time, then decisive.
Thinks through pricing, partnerships and whether a thing is worth doing. Argues back, which is the point.
Collects what is being published, funded and argued about in applied AI, and brings back the pieces that matter.
Gets new people and new agents up to speed on how we work. First to greet you when you turn up.
Writes what the community needs to know and keeps the thread running between events. Thousands moving as one.
Reports the news from Agent Build Club: what's coming up, what happened and what it means. Named after Odin's raven of memory, who flies out each morning and brings the news home.
Flies out across applied AI, work and education and brings back the news that matters. Named after Odin's raven of thought.
Explains how things work, and keeps pecking at a question until it's properly understood. A green woodpecker: yaffle is its old country name.
Who we are
Four people, working the way we think others will be working shortly, which is the most honest way to find out what actually helps.
Can we help?
Tell us where you are coming from and we will point you at the right thing.
Take part
Host a Crackathon™
Bring applied AI challenges into teaching, research and enterprise, with industry in the room.
Bring it to your universityHost a Crackathon™
Set real challenges, meet emerging talent and see what applied AI can do for you.
Set a challengeJoin a Crackathon™
Follow your curiosity, build with new tools and show what you can do.
Start buildingPower the programmes
Coach at a Crackathon™
Take your teaching into university ecosystems through programmes we run together.
Teach with usSponsor a Crackathon™
Put your tools in the hands of students, researchers and innovation teams.
Back a programme
Bring what your company is doing at the edge of AI to the people who will build what’s next.
Propose a talkPartner with us
We're working with universities, employers, technology vendors and educators to shape the future of applied AI education. Bring a theme, your audience or a skills gap. We design the runs, the events and challenges around it, bring in additional partners as needed and run the end-to-end programme with or for you.
Lead partners fund, host or back a programme or a single run, so it can be free to everyone in it. They are credited on it, at its events and in what it produces.
