The second cohort, opening to businesses in autumn 2027 across five Surrey engineering courses.


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The second AIIA cohort opens to businesses in autumn 2027. Five engineering courses, more students, and the same pattern: you bring the challenge, the University runs the academic work, and we shape one into the other.
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How it works
Agent Build Club is your guide through the programme. We help you understand how to get the most from it and how to prepare a strong business challenge without wasting your time, then introduce you to the University of Surrey, which runs the research itself. Taking part is free, and each step is clear, so you always know what happens next.
Tell us a little about your business and the AI question on your mind. It only takes a few minutes.
Someone from the Agent Build Club team will be in touch with a toolkit and guidance, and will help you shape your question so it meets the University’s requirements.
We introduce you to the University. Its academics help finalise your challenge so it fits the course, and its AIIA team matches you with a student and a supervisor.
If everyone’s happy, you sign a dissertation sponsor contract with the University, and the student begins their dissertation with you as their business sponsor.
Give your student the context and data they need, within what your contract sets out on data sharing and confidentiality, plus a little mentoring along the way. Anything personal or sensitive needs approval from the University’s ethics committee first.
See how the work is going and help steer it while there’s still time to change course.
You’re encouraged to come and see your student present and defend their findings. It’s optional, and well worth it.
See what the work has shown you: whether the idea is feasible, what it would need, the constraints and the potential. Then decide what to do next, perhaps with the student who did the work.
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Tell us the problem you would bring. We will come back to you when the window opens in October 2027.
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