# AI BEAVERS

> Global AI builder community with 6000+ members worldwide. Home of Germany's biggest AI hackathon. Expanding through local lodges worldwide.

## Quick Facts

- **Name**: AI BEAVERS
- **HQ Location**: Hamburg, Germany
- **Global Presence**: Hamburg, Istanbul, Cambridge, Tashkent, Madrid, and other lodges (expanding)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Community Size**: 6000+ members worldwide
- **Type**: Community for AI builders, founders, and enthusiasts
- **Language**: English (all events)
- **Cost**: Free (all events)
- **Website**: https://ai-beavers.com
- **Community Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/beavership
- **Newsletter (archive & subscribe)**: https://ai-beavers.com/newsletter
- **Blog**: https://ai-beavers.com/blog
- **Portfolio (community projects)**: https://ai-beavers.com/portfolio - 30+ live/building/idea-stage projects shipped by members, each with its own page (e.g. https://ai-beavers.com/portfolio/calmi); filterable by stage and tech stack
- **Events Hub**: https://ai-beavers.com/events

## Social Links

- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-beavers
- **X/Twitter**: https://x.com/AI_BEAVERS
- **YouTube**: https://www.youtube.com/@ai-beavers
- **Instagram**: https://www.instagram.com/ai.beavers
- **TikTok**: https://www.tiktok.com/@aibeavers

## Event Platforms

- **Events Hub**: https://ai-beavers.com/events
- **Global Luma**: https://luma.com/ai_beavers

## AI BEAVERS Hackathons

- **Hackathon hub**: https://ai-beavers.com/hackathon
- **Founder Hackathon archive**: Founder Hackathon Hamburg 2026 at https://ai-beavers.com/events/founder-hackathon
- **Founder Hackathon recap**: https://ai-beavers.com/events/founder-hackathon/winners
- **Legacy alias**: https://ai-beavers.com/hackathon/founders-2026 permanently redirects to https://ai-beavers.com/events/founder-hackathon
- **Status**: Completed. Event recap is live with photos, winners, track awards, and pitching replay; teams submitted a Git repository URL and slide deck URL, with live URL and project logo optional.
- **Sponsors/perks**: OpenAI Codex credits redemption, Cursor, Qwen, Bilt, and ElevenLabs.
- **Founder Hackathon Best Dam Project winners**: Rush Hour (1st), Founta (2nd), Fabrica (3rd)
- **Founder Hackathon track winners**: Rush Hour for Best use of Qwen, DynoPrico for Best use of Bilt, Pairlin for Best GTM wedge

### AI Hackathon Hamburg 2026 Archive

**Germany's biggest AI hackathon and one of the largest in-person AI hackathons worldwide - now completed.**

- **Archive page**: https://ai-beavers.com/hackathon/hamburg-2026-jan
- **Dates**: January 31 - February 1, 2026 (completed)
- **Location**: Hamburg, Germany
- **Participants**: 400+ builders attended
- **Format**: 2-day in-person hackathon
- **Status**: Completed
- **Sponsors**: Cursor, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, ElevenLabs, n8n, Manus, Superhuman, Hume AI, LangChain, Runway, Miro, v0, Plancraft, Minimax

### Winners (Best Dam Project)
- **1st Place**: Guardian Labs - $5,000 cash + $68,500 in credits/subscriptions
- **2nd Place**: ParkinPal - $11,000 in credits/subscriptions
- **3rd Place**: anything2rpg - $2,500 in credits/subscriptions

**Winners Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/hackathon/hamburg-2026-jan/winners

## Regular Events

### Monthly Hangout
- **When**: Sundays, monthly
- **For**: Advanced AI builders already using Cursor, Claude Code, etc.
- **Format**: Informal co-working, demos, networking

### build fridays
- **When**: Bi-weekly, Fridays 4-11pm
- **For**: Startup founders and builders
- **Format**: Co-work from 4pm, 30-second intros at 7pm, build until 11pm. Free, bring your laptop.
- **Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/events/build-fridays

### founder hackathon
- **When**: Saturday June 6, 2026, 09:00-21:00 (Hamburg)
- **For**: Founders and serious builders (150 selected)
- **Format**: One-day build sprint, pitch to VCs and angels at House of AI. Hosted by AI BEAVERS and Mollie.
- **Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/events/founder-hackathon
- **Recap**: https://ai-beavers.com/events/founder-hackathon/winners

### Cursor Meetups
- **When**: Quarterly
- **For**: Cursor power users
- **Format**: Talks, demos, Q&A with Cursor team

## Community Values

1. **Builder-first**: We ship, not pitch
2. **Knowledge sharing**: Tips, tools, tricks - no gatekeeping
3. **Show up**: If you RSVP, be there
4. **Free**: Always. Community over commerce.

## Founders (Hamburg HQ)

- **Alex** - AI consultant and builder (vibencode.xyz), Cursor Ambassador
- **Vlady** - Founder of calmi.so

## Global Network (The Beavership)

The Beavership is a network of local lodges that open rooms where builders ship with AI - and leave believing more is possible. Free to join. Run by builders, for builders.

- **Headquarters**: Hamburg, Germany
- **Active Lodges**: Istanbul, Cambridge, Tashkent, Cluj-Napoca, San Salvador, Madrid (Spain), plus Hamburg HQ and Berlin
- **Recruiting Cities**: London, Munich, Dubai, San Francisco, Singapore, New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Paris, and others
- **Community Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/beavership

### Ambassadors (Dam Keepers)

Dam Keepers are mission-driven ambassadors who lead local lodges: open the first room fast (~30 days), keep the lodge alive (~monthly), and protect the vibe. Dam Builders are all community members.

| City | Ambassador | Role |
|------|-----------|------|
| Hamburg (HQ) | Alex & Vlady | Co-Founders |
| Istanbul | Resat | Dam Keeper (Ambassador) |
| Cambridge | Alexey | Dam Keeper (Ambassador) |
| Tashkent | Nick | Dam Keeper (Ambassador) |
| Cluj-Napoca | Vasile | Dam Keeper (Ambassador) |
| San Salvador | Walter | Dam Keeper (Ambassador), first Latin America chapter |
| Madrid | Enrique | Dam Keeper (Ambassador), Spain |

### Become a Dam Keeper

We're looking for builders who already show up for people - not for a title. This is a trust handoff to open a real room in your city, not an open-enrollment badge. Apply at https://ai-beavers.com/beavership/apply

## AIB Advisory

**AIB Advisory** is AI BEAVERS' hands-on **AI adoption consulting** for companies that have invested in AI tools but are not seeing results.

- **Service Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/advisory
- **Who it's for**: Teams and companies where AI adoption has stalled
- **Delivered by**: Alexander Zakharov and Vladyslav Nyzhashchyy (founders)
- **How to book**: https://ai-beavers.com/advisory (Book a call button)

### The 6 AI Adoption Problems We Address

1. **Shallow Adoption** - Licenses bought, workflows unchanged → https://ai-beavers.com/problems/shallow-adoption
2. **No Measurement** - Cannot show AI ROI to the board → https://ai-beavers.com/problems/no-measurement
3. **Champion Gap** - 3 people use AI deeply, everyone else does not → https://ai-beavers.com/problems/champion-gap
4. **Compliance Blocker** - Legal kills every AI rollout → https://ai-beavers.com/problems/compliance-blocker
5. **Hiring Blind** - Cannot verify who actually has AI skills → https://ai-beavers.com/problems/hiring-blind
6. **Champion Alone** - You know what to change, leadership is not listening → https://ai-beavers.com/problems/champion-alone

### AIB Advisory team credentials

- **Alexander Zakharov**: Former Group Product Manager at Taxdoo. Led AI rollouts across product, engineering, data, and compliance teams. AI workshop delivery with IU Group. Cursor Ambassador in Germany.
- **Vladyslav Nyzhashchyy**: Technical founder of calmi (six-figure users). Built AI systems for EA SPORTS, Borussia Dortmund, and FIFA. Technical mentor and AI systems practitioner.

Backed by a practitioner network with direct ties to OpenAI, Cursor, Google DeepMind, ElevenLabs, LangChain, and n8n.

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## Mission

Make Hamburg the best AI builder hub in Germany and expand the global network of AI builders.

## Contact

- **Email**: hi@ai-beavers.com
- **Website**: https://ai-beavers.com
- **AIB Advisory**: https://ai-beavers.com/advisory

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