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Put your tools in the hands of the university ecosystem.

Agent Build Club runs applied AI programmes with universities and the research, innovation and business communities around them. Back a programme and your tools reach students, researchers and innovation teams working on real challenges, with access opened up so who gets to try them does not depend on who can afford them.

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Why ABC
One route into a whole ecosystem

Your tools, chosen on merit

Students meet AI tools by price rather than merit, and credits handed out without a programme rarely get used. We work across education, research, innovation and enterprise, so one programme puts your tools in front of students, researchers, spinouts and the businesses around them. Because we’re technology neutral, learners choose tools on merit, which makes what they tell you worth hearing.

What you get

Your tools, used for real

Sponsorship funds access to a programme. Here’s what that gives you back.

Hands-on use in real projects

Students, researchers and innovation teams build with your tools on real challenges, not demos.

Insight from the next generation

See how emerging professionals choose and use AI tools, and why.

Recognition across the programme

Credit at the programme’s events and in its community as a supporter of wider access.

Who you’ll reach

Builders across the university ecosystem

Students and graduates

The next generation of professionals, learning to build with agents before they start work.

Researchers and spinouts

Teams turning research into products, who need tools that work at commercial speed.

Innovation teams

Teams in the university’s business network exploring AI for real problems.

Ways to support

Three ways to back a programme

Programme sponsor

Back a whole programme or cohort, such as our Crackathons, with credits, access or prizes.

Ongoing partnership

Support access across a season of programmes and events, year after year.

Challenge or prize

Set a challenge or fund a prize inside a programme that’s already running.

This season

Sponsor a Crackathon™

Put your tools in the hands of students and teams at our Crackathons, all year round, with credits you choose and credit for your support.

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Who we partner with

Find a way to support that fits your organisation.

AI model providers

Open up access to models and APIs so students can build with them directly.

Developer tools and platforms

Give learners hands-on experience of the tools they will meet at work.

Infrastructure and cloud providers

Provide the compute and credits that make ambitious student projects possible.

Startups and scaleups

Put early-stage tools in front of curious builders ready to test them properly.

How we stay neutral

Vendor agnostic by design

Our programmes teach the practice of building with AI, not one product. That is what makes them worth supporting, and these four commitments keep it that way.

Sponsorship funds access, not content

Sponsors do not set the curriculum.

No exclusivity

Other vendors may support the same programme.

Credit, not endorsement

We acknowledge support; we do not recommend products because of it.

Learners choose

Students pick the tools that suit the task and learn to explain the choice.

Put your tools in front of the people shaping applied AI

Tell us about your tools and what you’d like to make possible, and we’ll show you which programmes fit.