About this Event
Year-End AI Automation Sprint & Founder Lounge is an in-person event for a focused end-of-year sprint and a relaxed founder lounge.
Close out 2026 by building something useful.
Aura Tech Collective brings founders, solopreneurs, and small-business operators together for a practical AI workflow sprint followed by an easygoing year-end social.
The first half of the evening is laptop-open and instructor-led.
Participants map one repetitive business process, build a simple AI-assisted workflow using organizer-prepared sample data, test where it succeeds or fails, and leave with a controlled next-step implementation plan.
The second half shifts into a relaxed founder lounge with seasonal food, non-alcoholic beverages, and open conversation.
There are no pitch competitions, fundraising sessions, forced introductions, or promises of business results.
The emphasis is:
Build. Test. Reflect. Connect.
What Participants Will Build
The workshop focuses on one manageable workflow pattern:
Trigger → Input → AI Step → Human Review → Output
Possible sample use cases may include:
incoming inquiry to first-draft response;
meeting notes to structured action list;
approved source material to content drafts;
intake form to structured internal summary.
The final build scenario should be published only after instructor testing is complete.
Participants use synthetic or organizer-prepared information during the live lab.
Event venue & nearby stays
Alloy Collective, 431 Tehama Street, San Francisco, United States
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