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Become AI curious to AI native in two weeks. come learn, build and ship something people will pay for.

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The AI & Women edition in Bengaluru
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Meet Our Partners

Your AI stack

You just bring the ideas which are best,
and we figure the rest

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Wondering who this is for?

  • Product Designer
  • Indie Builder
  • Project Manager
  • Creators
  • Community Leads
  • Marketers
  • Visual Designers
  • Founders
  • Anyone with Taste

You just need a problem you care about, the willingness to look a little silly at first, and the discipline to come back tomorrow.

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AI & Weekends

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About

AI & Weekends

We are India’s biggest community of builders, designers, founders, and ai curious who would rather build than just talk. Our weekend co-builds happen across India including Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, and Gujarat and more.

This initiative is a part of ai & weekends, where we go on a two weeks sprint and become ai native.

Some numbers

newsletter subscribers
4000+
followers on X
2700+
co-builds hosted
70+

Brands we have worked with

  • Conscious Engines
  • ElevenLabs
  • Devfolio
  • EigenLayer

Schedule

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Week 01

Direction

Find your problem, talk to real users, lock your direction.

What you’ll do

  1. 1.Pick a problem you actually understand
  2. 2.Talk to potential users, not just yourself
  3. 3.Lock a rough direction
  4. 4.Set up Codex as your build partner
  5. 5.Research with AI, not around it
  6. 6.Scope something that fits 15 days
  7. 7.Commit to shipping, not just starting

Key themes

  • Problem
  • Users
  • Direction

Week 02

Build & Launch

Build daily. Test with real users. Launch it publicly.

What you’ll do

  1. 1.Build the core flow first
  2. 2.Get it live, not just running locally
  3. 3.Watch real users try it, fix what breaks
  4. 4.Peer review, then fix again
  5. 5.Wire up payments with Dodo
  6. 6.Polish it into a launch candidate
  7. 7.Launch publicly, then get ready to demo

Key themes

  • Building
  • Shipping
  • Launch
An empty theatre with a single glowing seat marked Demo Day6 Sep 2026RSVP

1:00–5:00 PM IST, Bengaluru Tech Week

Show what you built. Explain how you built it, live in front of builders, founders and partners.

Watch this video for why we do what we do

An ai & weekends co-build in full swingWatch on X ↗

What our friends have to say about us

AI & Weekends helped me move beyond AI theory to building real workflows, automation pipelines and scalable AI systems.

Krishna

I’ve been working in fintech for a while and in our organisation we were planning to implement AI workflows. At ai&w I met people who were already building in the Agentic AI space, which helped me a lot in ideation.

Shivank

Before AI Weekends, I mostly learned by watching videos. Now I learn by building. Build something, demo it, get feedback, walk away with new ideas and better workflows. That’s what AI-native looks like to me.

Ritav Das
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Included in the programme

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  • Building Partner

    Codex is your daily building partner for all 15 days. Plan, code, debug and ship with it.

  • Infra & Deployment

    Compute and infra credits on AWS, plus deployment support so going live is a checklist, not a blocker.

  • Payments & Monetisation

    Payment credits on Dodo, checkout guidance, and a monetisation session in build week. Pricing live before demo day.

  • Office Hours

    Time with experienced builders when you’re stuck on something you can’t Google. Your outside brain.

  • Workshops

    Hands-on sessions run by people who’ve actually shipped. The stack you’re building with, not theory.

  • Peer Reviews

    25 serious builders in the same cohort, keeping each other honest for all 15 days.

  • Launch Support

    A structured push in the final days. From localhost to a real first user.

  • Final Showcase

    Present your live product at Bengaluru Tech Week, first week of September. Standout builds get customer intros and hiring conversations.

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What’s included

Talent Support

Standout builders get connected to real opportunities.

Fundraise Support

Best ideas gets to be in a room full of best investors.

  • Customer Intros

    The strongest projects get direct customer introductions.

  • Localhost to Launch

    We help you be GTM ready, with launch and post launch support

  • 30-Day Follow-up

    We track your progress after the programme so momentum sticks.

Let’s clear a few things up

  • People who want to make AI part of how they work by building something real. We care more about how you show up than your job title.

  • There are 50 spots. We keep the group small so every builder can get direct feedback and office-hour support.

  • No. Codex will help you build. You should be ready to ask for help, work through problems, and learn in public.

  • Bring a problem or area you care about. It does not need to be polished; we will help you narrow it into something you can test and build in 15 days.

  • A live product, public proof of work, real user feedback, and a repeatable way to use AI from research through launch.

  • It is a build programme with workshops and office hours. Most of your time goes into building, testing, changing direction, and shipping.

  • Plan for the listed live session plus 2–3 focused build hours on most days.

  • The 15-day online sprint runs from 21 August to 4 September 2026. Demo Day is on 6 September from 1:00–5:00 PM IST in Bengaluru; the venue will be announced soon.

  • Back to School is community-organised and run by AI & Weekends, with Codex as the primary product used throughout the sprint.

Meet the Team

People behind the 😸 Initiative

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