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Working with Universities

Bring industry and applied AI into your university's learning, research and innovation.

Agent Build Club helps create structured co-learning opportunities for your students, researchers and staff teams to explore emerging applied AI practice, connect academic learning with industry, and be ready to thrive in the future of work and entrepreneurship.

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What we hear

The AI challenge for universities

AI is changing what a university is expected to do for its community of learners and researchers, as well as how it operates.

Your students are graduating into work you cannot yet describe to them.

The tools reshaping graduate work arrive faster than curricula can absorb them, and students have few ways to prove capability rather than claim it. For those heading towards founding something rather than joining something, the gap is wider still.

Researchers and spinouts are being asked to move at commercial speed.

Applied AI is changing what a credible research translation looks like and how quickly a spinout is expected to demonstrate it. Teams need practical building capability alongside their domain expertise, and routes to industry partners who are already working this way.

The teams that make universities work are absorbing the change too.

Professional services colleagues in technology transfer, enterprise, careers and research support are expected to advise on AI while the practice is still forming. So are the regional businesses that depend on the university for access to current thinking, tools and talent.
Why ABC

A community your people can build in, not just learn about

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 students, researchers, professional services teams and industry into the same room, working on the same problems, so each learns what the others actually know. For teaching staff, that means teaching connected to live practice. For researchers, it means routes into collaboration with industry. And for professional services staff, it means building capability alongside the people they advise.

What we do

Ready-made applied AI infrastructure for universities.

ABC has developed formats you can book, shaped around your cohorts and your calendar.

Workshops

Hands-on build sessions shaped around your curriculum, your cohort and the outcomes you are assessed against.

Hackathons

An intensive your students will still be talking about in June.

Innovation Talks

Current industry practice, in the room, for staff and students.

Business Challenge Workshops

Put your cohort on a live business problem, with the people who own it in the room to answer questions.

Employability Clinics

Evidence of capability, not just a transcript.

ABC Community

A live network your people can join, beyond any one programme.

How we work

How we work with universities

Three ways to engage, shaped around your teaching, your researchers and your partners.

Impact workshops

A single hands-on design and build session for a cohort, a department, or a mixed group of students and industry partners.

Cohort-based programmes

Structured programmes integrated with your existing teaching, so capability builds alongside the curriculum rather than beside it.

Collaborative partnerships

We design fundable projects with you and help compete for the money, turning a shared ambition into a resourced programme.

This season

Host a Crackathon™ for your staff and students

Bring staff and students together on a real challenge at welcome week, the end of term or any celebration, on campus or online.

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Who we help

Who we work with across campus

Enable everyone's journey from AI curiosity to capability and confidence.

Technology Transfer and Venture Creation

Turn promising research into applications, partnerships, and new ventures.

Learning and Teaching

Connect teaching to live practice, with hands-on applied AI shaped around your curriculum and cohorts.

Student Enterprise

Give aspiring founders space to develop ideas, test demand and build entrepreneurial skills.

Careers and Employability

Give students opportunities to demonstrate their strengths and build professional networks.

Research and Innovation

Investigate emerging AI applications, foster cross-sector collaboration and translate research into impact.

Latest reading for university teams

What we have been writing that bears on your work.

Looking for new ways to build AI capability across your university?

Speak to the team about bringing Agent Build Club to your students, researchers and spinouts.