What Build Club does

Build Club is a community-driven AI learning platform founded by Annie Liao, operating a global network of 50+ city chapters alongside two productized offerings: Build Club Campus, a freemium virtual AI school for individuals, and Solaris AI, an enterprise AI adoption platform. The company is legally domiciled in Queensland, Australia as Build Club PTY LTD (ACN 670 639 219), with operational headquarters in San Francisco where a five-person team lives and works out of a hacker house. Founded in 2023-2024 and pre-seed funded by Airtree Ventures and Blackbird Ventures in October 2024, Build Club serves young professionals, AI evangelists, freelancers, solopreneurs, and enterprise organizations seeking practical AI skills and workforce transformation.

The core technology comprises an AI-driven learning platform with personalized course recommendations, an AI conversational agent for course discovery, gamified prompt-learning experiences, and structured curricula covering text, code, structured data, image, and multimodal AI workflows across tools such as Manus, OpenAI, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, n8n, Gumloop, Relevance AI, and Lovable. Campus offers role-based learning pathways, certifications, and project-based learning, while Solaris delivers enterprise capability diagnostics, internal champion programs, and 4-week transformation accelerators deployed in partnership with AWS and Manus AI. The platform supports a Women in AI Accelerator and a co-developed Manus Academy with 30+ hours of build-along content.

Revenue mechanics combine a freemium consumer learning model with premium certifications, enterprise subscription revenue via Solaris, professional services through 4-week AI accelerator engagements, and partner revenue sharing via the Manus Academy. Go-to-market is hybrid: community-led grassroots growth across 50+ cities, event-driven acquisition through hackathons and workshops, product-led growth via Campus self-serve onboarding, and direct enterprise field sales for Solaris. Disclosed traction includes 13,000+ Manus Academy users, 100 weekly waitlist additions, 90 builders at a single SXSW Sydney hackathon, 1,500 submissions in the Manus Early Bird Challenge, and an enterprise pilot with Lendi Group that saved over 10,000 hours of work in financial services.

Name

Build Club

Legal name

Build Club PTY LTD

Website

https://buildclub.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Build Club operates an AI learning community spanning 50+ global city chapters, offering Build Club Campus (freemium virtual AI school) and Solaris AI (enterprise AI adoption platform) to professionals, freelancers, and organizations seeking practical AI skills and workforce transformation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Education and Training Platform

NAICS

Computer Training (61142), Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI-Powered Tutoring & Study Assistant Platforms (EDANAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Tutoring Systems (Conversational Tutors, Homework Helpers) (EDAFAFAC), AI & Machine Learning (Foundations & Applied) (EDAMACAG), End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• AI learning platform
• AI skills training
• Enterprise AI adoption
• AI certification programs
• AI community events

Headquarters

HQ city

Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Enterprise AI Training (Solaris): Enterprise customers pay for AI strategy diagnostics, team upskilling programs, and AI adoption solutions. Reduces enterprise AI transformation time significantly.
2. Learning Platform Freemium: Free AI learning ecosystem for all with Campus platform. Premium features and certifications available. First 1000 people get early access and perks.
3. AI Accelerator Programs: Solaris AI accelerator program for enterprises, running 4-week AI transformation programs
4. Partner Academy Revenue Share: Manus Academy partnership - creators and experts host courses and get paid, with Build Club taking a platform fee

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Build Club operates an AI learning community platform with two core offerings: Campus, a virtual AI school providing practical courses, certifications, role-specific pathways, gamified Prompt Games, and project-based learning across AI tools including Manus, OpenAI ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, n8n, and Lovable; and Solaris AI, an enterprise AI adoption platform that diagnoses AI capabilities, runs internal champion programs, and runs 4-week accelerator programs to compress enterprise AI transformation timelines from a year to one month. The company also operates a global network of 50+ local city chapters hosting workshops, hackathons, and meetups.

Product overview

Build Club is an AI learning community platform with two main products: Campus (virtual AI school for individuals and teams) and Solaris (enterprise AI adoption platform). Campus offers practical courses, certifications, and project-based learning across AI tools including Manus, OpenAI ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, n8n, and Relevance AI. Solaris provides enterprise AI diagnostics, upskilling programs, and adoption acceleration. The platform also hosts community events across 50+ cities globally and runs accelerator programs including a Women in AI Accelerator.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Solaris: AI adoption platform for enterprise - helps organisations understand what's possible with AI and turn it into real adoption and action across teams. Includes capability diagnostics, internal champion programs, and visibility into AI usage.
• Build Club Campus

Products and services

• Build Club Campus Virtual AI school for individuals, teams, and organizations offering practical courses, certifications, project-based learning, role-specific pathways, gamified challenges, and an AI conversational agent for course discovery across AI tools including Manus, OpenAI, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, n8n, and Relevance AI.
• Solaris AI Enterprise AI adoption platform that helps organizations diagnose AI capabilities, upskill teams through internal champion programs, and accelerate AI transformation from typical 12-month timelines to 4 weeks, with partners including AWS and Manus AI.
• Manus Academy Practical learning platform developed in partnership with Manus AI offering 30+ hours of build-along content covering 20+ real professional workflows with certifications, focused on repeatable patterns for moving work from draft to done.
• Solaris AI Accelerator 4-week intensive program designed to reduce enterprise AI transformation from a year to one month by combining workflow diagnosis, project-based AI integration teaching, and solution deployment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Enterprise AI transformation time reduced from 1 year to 1 month
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AWScoreTechnology or Integration · 17 December 2025AWS serves as a partner for Solaris AI accelerator, providing cloud infrastructure for AI solution deployment. The platform deploys AI solutions with AWS support.
• Manus AIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 December 2025Manus AI is a key partner for deploying AI solutions. Recently named the fastest growing startup in the world. Joint Manus Academy launched with 30+ hours of build-along content.
• StartmatecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 October 2025Startmate accelerator features mentors from Build Club including Annie Liao. Program features experienced mentors from Google, Microsoft, Canva, and Build Club providing specialized guidance.
• LovablecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 October 2025Build Club partnered with Lovable to spearhead the viral 'shipped' program. Joint hackathons and workshops conducted.
• AirwallexminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAirwallex co-hosted Singapore Build Club launch event, connecting directly with builders shaping the next wave of AI-powered products.
• HubSpot for StartupsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerHubSpot for Startups supported Singapore Build Club launch event.
• SWITCH by Enterprise SingaporeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSWITCH by Enterprise Singapore partnered with Singapore Build Club launch event.
• e27minorGTM or Marketing Partnere27 partnered with Singapore Build Club launch event as a tech ecosystem partner.
• SpeechifyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNew partnership announced with Speechify for Build Club Campus perks.
• MosaicminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNew partnership announced with Mosaic for Build Club Campus perks.
• Relevance AIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRelevance AI powers AI agents in workshops including GTM agents workshop. Key technology partner for AI upskilling programs.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Maven: Maven operates a cohort-based, community-driven learning platform with live courses and a network of expert instructors — the same playbook Build Club Campus is pursuing for AI-specific upskilling, including enterprise B2B offerings.
• DeepLearning.AI: Founded by Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI is the leading AI-specialized education platform offering courses, specializations, and Short Courses — directly comparable to Build Club Campus's AI curriculum and certification focus.
• 100xDevs: 100xDevs is a community-led AI/dev education platform built by Harkirat Singh with massive engagement in India — directly comparable to Build Club's community-chapter model, hackathon-driven learning, and AI tool training.
• Scrimba: Scrimba combines interactive coding courses with a community/mentor model and AI-assisted learning paths — comparable to Build Club Campus's project-based, community-augmented AI learning approach.
• Workera: Workera is an enterprise AI skills assessment and upskilling platform — directly comparable to Solaris AI's enterprise capability diagnostics, internal champion programs, and team AI transformation promise.

Broad incumbents

• Coursera: Coursera is a broad online learning platform with deep AI/ML catalog (DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, Google) and enterprise Coursera for Business — overlapping with Build Club's individual and enterprise AI training offerings at much larger scale.
• DataCamp: DataCamp provides data and AI skill courses with enterprise DataCamp for Business — comparable to Build Club's positioning in practical AI/data training for individuals and corporate upskilling.

Emerging players

• Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases offers AI/ML developer tools with a strong education arm (Fully Connected, courses) and community — adjacent to Build Club's AI builder community but more focused on MLOps practitioners.

Others

• Hugging Face: Hugging Face is the central AI builder community with open-source models, Spaces, and free courses — comparable as an AI community ecosystem that Build Club competes with for AI builder mindshare.
• Kaggle: Kaggle (Google) hosts the largest data science/ML practitioner community with courses, competitions, and certifications — comparable community-and-learning structure for AI practitioners.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/the_builderclub
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-builders-club-ai
• Instagraminstagram.com/buildclub_

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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