LAB FOR AI BUILDERS //

A closed lab for AI builders, 3 months,
zero theory and no wasted opportunities.

Entry point 29.11 24h Hack
Program 8.01.26 - 8.03.26

Shipyard is a 3-month, in-person program in Riga for people building products with AI. You join a small group of top business builders, work full-speed on your own idea or team project, and get access to workspace, partners, credits, and support to turn it into something real. It’s free to join and no fees, no equity taken. We only accept the best projects from the 24h entry point hack.

At the end, you’ll have a working product, early traction, and the network to continue growing it.
The 24h Hack or how we call it - AI Sprint. It’s the selection round. You get 24 hours to build a working prototype alone or in a team. If it runs, you qualify for consideration. If it doesn’t, you still walk away with a real build, not just an idea. From all participants, 15 teams are selected to join the 3-month Shipyard program.

There are:

No entry fees & Food for free.

No prior startup experience required.

Just a simple rule: something must work.

Free AI credits to build without worries.

A working lab for AI builders functional obsession.

A space for high standards, work, no buzzword theater. Here to build tools, companies, and ideas that might actually pay rent for the next decade. The rest? Deleted logs.

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THE ENTRY POINT

24 hour rapid building sprint on 29.november @StartupHouse Riga. No hashtags. No panels. You build something that works. Not a pitch deck, not a “vision,” not a promise. If it runs, you have a one-in-fifteen chance to stay and be welcomed in. If it doesn’t, you’ve learned something useful about yourself. Deadline for applications: 24.11.

THE PROGRAM

Three months of constructive obsession.
No mentors. No panels. No “business canvas”
Just frameworks, fast code, and sharper people than you. With the aim to have a brutal form of clarity. You’ll move fast enough to question causality.

THE SYSTEM

We provide the unsexy parts.
Cloud credits, API access, legal sanity, investor intros, and the kind of silence that money can’t buy. No slogans. No “AI for good” statements. Just working things, doing work.

THE WAY

Not an accelerator. A closed loop of making, breaking, and rebuilding until something useful crawls out. Fifteen projects. One outcome: output. This is the part where most people drop out. That’s fine. Mediocrity needs somewhere to go.

SEE YOU THERE

APPLY FOR ENTRY

POINT - 24h HACKATHON

29.11 @ STARTUPHOUSE

RIGA. DEADLINE FOR

APPLICATIONS 24.11.

THE CALL

No promises. No grand “journeys.”
Just a screen, a keyboard, and the goal of making something real.
15 teams go in for three months, build with AI, and come out with working products - reality compiled and shipped.

If you need

motivation,

stay home.
Otherwise,

welcome.

LOCATION

Riga Shipyard PopUp. Cold enough to keep you focused. With aim to ship daily and by design it’s temporary, because permanence is a trap. Nothing here is decorative, including you.