Agent Build Club helps you connect with universities and student communities working with AI, creating opportunities to explore new approaches and build relationships with the people developing tomorrow's capabilities.
AI is changing what organisations need from their people, and where they find them.
Identifying what skills will matter, where they are emerging, and who is developing them is becoming harder. Traditional talent pathways were not built for capabilities that are still taking shape.
Exploring what AI could do for a product, process or service takes time, people and a safe place to experiment. Few teams can resource that alongside day-to-day work without committing to a full build too early.
Universities are a key source of emerging knowledge, talent and experimentation, but the connection between academia and business is limited, and it is often unclear where to start.
Agent Build Club is a co-learning community that bridges academia and business, with applied AI educators, technology vendors and guest speakers bringing the teaching, the tools and the practice. We bring companies into the same room as students, researchers and practitioners, working on real problems rather than case studies. You get early sight of emerging practice and of the people developing it. They get a problem that matters and someone who knows the industry.
Ready-made formats you can book, sized to the question you want answered.
Bring a real problem your team has not cracked, and leave with approaches nobody in the room had considered.
Set a challenge, see several credible answers in days.
Hear what peers are building, and what they abandoned.
Put your challenge in front of people who owe you no received wisdom, and watch what they ask about first.
Meet candidates who can show you, not just tell you.
Stay close to how practice is changing, without a training budget.
Three ways to engage, shaped around your challenges, your teams and your AI maturity.
A single hackathon, workshop or panel built around a question your organisation wants to explore.
A structured project with a university cohort, such as the AI Innovation Accelerator, with a defined brief and outcome.
An ongoing relationship with university communities, from co-designed projects to early access to emerging talent.
This season
An AI hackathon built around a real problem in your business, for a team celebration, an away day or a project wrap, from a two-hour session to a weekend sprint.
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Different organisations arrive with different questions. Find the one that sounds like yours.
Harness AI to supercharge your growth
Explore how emerging AI could support your product, operations, or growth.
Identify practical opportunities to apply AI without building everything prematurely.
Explore emerging AI across complex processes, systems and organisational constraints.
Investigate how AI could change the way expertise is delivered and the capabilities your teams need.
What we have been writing that bears on your work.
Speak to the team about working with students and researchers on the AI questions that matter to your organisation.