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COHORT 01 · DECEMBER 2026 · APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON

Builder Residency Ahmedabad

Where India’s serious AI builders come to build, ship and scale. Thirty days, one house, in Gujarat’s startup capital — next door to GIFT City.

30 Days16 Builders1 House📅 December 2026📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat
01 Why a residency

Hackathons create momentum.
Residency creates continuity.

Not a hackathon. Not a conference. Not a workshop. A closed room where builders live, work and build together.

MOST PROGRAMS · 48 hours → build → demo → go home
Build
Validate
Iterate
Ship
DAY 0DAY 15DAY 30
02 An ecosystem already in motion
750+Registrations
250+Teams
79AI products shipped
8Ecosystem partners

Edition I and the Delhi Edition found the builders. The residency is where the best ones keep building.

03 Why Ahmedabad & GIFT City

A city that
rewards focus.

Gujarat is India’s trading and entrepreneurial heartland. Ahmedabad brings the calm and the connections to build.

🏙 GIFT City, next door

  • GIFT City, India’s international financial services hub, is next door in Gandhinagar.
  • A fast-growing startup ecosystem, backed by IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Gandhinagar and NID.
  • Industry on the doorstep: textiles, chemicals, pharma and fintech pilots.
  • A deep entrepreneurial and trading culture.
  • Calm, affordable and well connected to Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.
04 The program

Four weeks.
One outcome.

A working product, with real users behind it.

WEEK 1 · DISCOVER

Problem → Users → Insight

Scope, talk to users, sharpen the problem. Target: clear.

WEEK 2 · BUILD

Product → Technology → Iteration

Ship v1, iterate in public. Target: working v1.

WEEK 3 · VALIDATE

Users → Feedback → Pilots

Fix what users hit, run pilots. Target: real user signal.

WEEK 4 · LAUNCH

Traction → Story → Demo Day

Launch push and growth loops. Target: launched, with traction.

05 The house

One house.
Zero distractions.

SLEEP

Live-in housing

Shared rooms with your cohort.

BUILD

Workspaces

A permanent desk, all thirty days.

EAT

Meals

Eaten together.

CONNECT

Community

15 other solo founders under one roof.

ONLINE

Fast internet

Built for shipping.

TOOLS

AI tools & credits

From our ecosystem partners.

06 16 builders, selected not assembled

The room is
small by design.

01

What you’ve built

Your track record of shipping.

02

What you’re building next

The product you want to take to users.

03

How fast you execute

Speed from idea to working product.

04

Why the problem matters

Real problems for real Indians.

AI agentsVoice AIIndic AIAI applicationsDeveloper toolsAI × Industry
07 The network

Builders need more
than build time.

Mentor names announced soon. Formats: Workshop · Hot seat · Office hours · Demo Day.

FOUNDERS

Real startup experience

AI ENGINEERS

Architecture & technical feedback

PRODUCT LEADERS

Product thinking

GROWTH OPERATORS

GTM & distribution

INVESTORS

Fundraising perspective

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

Pilots & real users

08 The outcome

The product is
the output.

01

A working product

Something people can actually use.

02

Real user signal

Feedback from users, not assumptions.

03

Pilot conversations

Early customers and partners.

04

A founder network

15 other serious builders.

05

A documented story

The journey, on camera and in writing.

06

Demo Day

A public moment to show what shipped.

09 For partners

Don’t just sponsor the event.
Power the build.

Builders use your product daily for 30 days while you watch real usage.

ADOPTION

Daily usage for 30 days

Builders use your product every day.

FEEDBACK

Real usage, live

Watch products being built.

ACCESS

First look

At emerging AI founders.

CONTENT

Founder stories

Documentation and stories.

REACH

Community & media

Reach and stories.

BUILDERS

16 builders, 30 days

One cohort, one room.

Looking for: AI & tech (APIs, models, dev tools) · Infrastructure (cloud, GPU) · Capital (investors, angels, grants) · Industry (pilots, customers) · Community & media
Coming December 2026 · Ahmedabad

16 builders. 30 days. One room. Then they ship.

Demo Day in the final week — investors, founders, AI companies, customers and media in one room.

BUILD. SHIP. IMPACT.