# AI BEAVERS

> Global AI builder community with 10,000+ members worldwide. Home of Germany's biggest AI hackathon. Expanding through local lodges worldwide.

## Quick Facts

- **Name**: AI BEAVERS
- **Started in**: Hamburg, Germany
- **Global Presence**: Hamburg, Istanbul, Cambridge, Tashkent, Madrid, and other lodges (expanding)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Community Size**: 10,000+ members worldwide
- **Type**: Community for AI builders, founders, and enthusiasts
- **Language**: English (all events)
- **Cost**: Core community events are free; some lodges may offer optional paid events
- **Website**: https://ai-beavers.com
- **Keystone**: https://ai-beavers.com/keystone
- **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**: Core community events always. Optional paid events never replace them.

## Founders

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

## Global Network (The Beavership)

The Beavership is a federated network of locally owned lodges that open rooms where builders ship with AI - and leave believing more is possible. Each lodge operates its own local brand (AI BEAVERS {City}) and may partner and monetize locally within shared global brand guidelines; the global AI BEAVERS brand represents the whole network, and network-wide deals are decided by a democratic vote of the Dam Keepers present. Free to join. Run by builders, for builders.

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

### Dam Keepers

A Dam Keeper builds and protects a local AI BEAVERS lodge: the room, the local team, the formats, the vibe, and the local reputation. They open the first room fast (~30 days), keep the lodge alive (~monthly), and protect the vibe. Dam Builders are all community members.

| City | Dam Keeper | Role |
|------|-----------|------|
| Hamburg | Alex & Vlady | Co-Founders |
| Istanbul | Resat | Dam Keeper |
| Cambridge | Alexey | Dam Keeper |
| Tashkent | Nick | Dam Keeper |
| Cluj-Napoca | Vasile | Dam Keeper |
| San Salvador | Walter | Dam Keeper, first Latin America chapter |
| Madrid | Enrique | Dam Keeper, 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 own a real room in your city, not an open-enrollment badge. Apply at https://ai-beavers.com/beavership/apply

## Keystone

**Keystone** is a live one-month AI cohort for business professionals. How the systems work, how to brief them, how to judge the output, how to apply it to real work.

- **Page**: https://ai-beavers.com/keystone
- **Next cohort**: 5-30 November 2026. Early-bird pricing runs through 18 October 2026.
- **Who it's for**: Recruiters, sales, customer success, marketers, finance/admin, ops, team leads
- **Level**: For beginners and intermediates, including people who use AI every day but cannot yet get the same result twice. The month takes you to pro. No technical background and no prior training needed.
- **Format**: Four live online sessions over one month, weekly office hours, a community channel, and a one-session +30-day clinic
- **Capstone and certificate**: A capstone project built on a problem from the participant's own work, reviewed by the instructors against a rubric; passing it earns the Keystone certificate of completion
- **Language**: English
- **Operated by**: AIB Labs UG. Built by the team behind AI BEAVERS.

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## 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**: Cursor Ambassador in Germany. Former Head of Product and regulatory lead in e-commerce tax and VAT compliance. Lectures on applied AI at companies, universities, and government institutions.
- **Vladyslav Nyzhashchyy**: Cursor Ambassador in Germany and ElevenLabs Ambassador. Technical founder of calmi (six-figure users). Built AI systems for EA SPORTS, Borussia Dortmund, and FIFA.

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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