AI Valley

On October 3, AI Valley × ZooWork are bringing builders, designers, engineers, and founders together at the The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco for the AI Commerce Gallery Hackathon. Bring the idea you’ve been sitting on. Build alongside great people. Make something visitors can walk up to and try. Sponsor credits + gallery access included. Huge thank you to Tavily, TinyFish, Entire, Moss (YC F25), Novita AI, and BAND for making this possible. Comment GALLERY for the registration link. #AICommerce #Hackathon #SanFrancisco #AI #Builders #Founders

Definitely worth waking up at 6 AM for this one ☀️ Biggest thing I took away from Courtney Ko's talk: talent can come from anywhere, but access isn’t equal. That’s what AI Valley is really about. Courtney creates these experiences that give builders a shot at the people, resources, and opportunities they might never run into otherwise. Sometimes one conversation or intro at an event completely changes someone’s path. That part stuck with me. I also loved hearing how they think about events like the Dumb Hackathon, Women in Tech Hackathon, and Dogathon. They sound fun and a bit random on the surface, but every detail is deliberate, who it’s for, how to lower the barriers, what shared purpose looks like, and making sure people leave wanting to tell their friends about it. Thank you, Courtney Ko, for sharing so openly. Learned a lot and walked away feeling inspired to be more intentional about the communities and experiences we build. And thanks to everyone who showed up from different countries and time zones 💛 See you at the next The Digital Nomad CMX Community event! Open to collabs, speakers, hosts, sponsors etc.

I'm speaking Tuesday, Sept 29, at "Fix My Agent: An AI Agent Clinic" at Hogpatch in SF 📍 with AI Valley, PostHog, and GMI Cloud! At MCPJam we build testing and debugging tools for MCP servers, so we see a lot of agents that fail to deliver value when connected to MCP servers in production. The cause is usually one of the same few things: - Tool discovery issues: descriptions the model misreads, so it calls the wrong tool or passes bad arguments - Connection & OAuth issues: connection & OAuth flows that pass locally and break with real AI clients - MCP servers that work well enough for users with one client+model configuration, and fails with another - No continuous evals practice, so every prompt or schema change is a guess In my talk I'll go through how we find these problems. That means inspecting an MCP server directly, tracing tool calls, debugging OAuth step by step, and running evals across models before your users find the bugs. If you have an MCP server or agent workflow that's misbehaving, bring it. I'll be there all evening and happy to open it up in MCPJam with you! Also look forward to hearing from Thierry Damiba at Arcade.dev, Hendrik Krack at CodeRabbit, and Mingjun Sun at GMI Cloud! Oh, and free food, drinks, and swag 👀. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/g2uZH89h

🏛️ Walt Disney spent his life turning sketches into things people could walk through. On October 3 we're running a hackathon inside his museum. Here's what that actually means for your build. You ship in the morning. You hang it in the afternoon. Then people walk up, use it, and ask you how it works. Gets you applause and gets you users. That's why the build ends in a gallery. builder teams, one room at the The Walt Disney Family Museum, every project standing on its own with someone next to it who can answer for it. Bring a team or find one there. Bring a commerce problem you've been circling for months. Co-hosted with ZooWork, and supported by Tavily, TinyFish, Entire, and Moss (YC F25). 👇 Tag the person you'd want standing next to you at that table. 📅 October 3, San Francisco. Link in the comments.

What if your next build ended up in a gallery at the Walt Disney Family Museum? 👀 On October 3, ZooWork × AI Valley are taking over the The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco for the AI Commerce Gallery, a one-day hackathon + interactive showcase exploring the next generation of AI-powered commerce. 🛠 Build during the day 🖼️ Turn your project into an exhibit for the AI Commerce Gallery Walk 🏆 Compete for Gallery Awards 🎤 Top projects demo on the main stage 🏛️ Explore the Walt Disney Family Museum’s Main Galleries 🤝 Meet builders, founders, investors, and industry leaders Build across: → E-commerce & storefront experiences → Merchant operations, inventory, fulfillment & payments → Restaurants, retail, POS & physical commerce → AI agents, MCP integrations & workflow automation Huge thank you to our co-host ZooWork and Tavily, TinyFish, Entire, and Moss (YC F25) for helping us bring this experience to life. 📅 October 3, 2026 📍 Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco Come build, exhibit, and show us what the future of commerce looks like. Link in the comments 👇

What happens when you give AI agents access to better data? Last week, we brought builders together with Glasser.ai and Arcade.dev for Find Your Next Customer, Deal, or Big Idea with AI — a hands-on night exploring how verified business intelligence can help agents solve real problems. Builders used Glasser data with their own agents to explore customer discovery, buying signals, competitive research, market opportunities, and more. 🏆 Winner: Potential Clients Mapapp by Kevin Kevin’s project used Glasser to find the physical locations of potential customers and map those leads into a visual heatmap — making it easier to see where high-potential customers are concentrated. We also saw builders experiment with company signals, market intelligence, and new ways to turn business data into actionable insights. Huge thank you to Glasser.ai, Arcade.dev, Entrepreneurs First, our judges, and everyone who came out and built with us. One takeaway from the night: better agents aren’t just about better models — they need better context and better data, too. 🫡

My parents always wanted me to be a doctor. Now I’m hosting a different kind of clinic 🤪🩺 I’m excited for Fix My Agent: An AI Agent Clinic. 🥺 It’s for the builders who have had that moment: your agent looked amazing in the demo, and then real users, messy context, flaky tools, or one bad integration made everything unravel. On September 29, AI Valley, PostHog, and GMI Cloud are bringing together builders in SF for practical demos and a hands-on clinic. Bring an agent, MCP workflow, or production issue you’re working through. You’ll meet other people dealing with the same things and leave with concrete ideas for what to fix next. Featuring: • Prathmesh Patel - CEO at MCPJam • Thierry Damiba - Member of GTM Staff at Arcade.dev • Hendrik Krack - Developer Advocate at CodeRabbit • Mingjun Sun - AgentBox PM at GMI Cloud • A GMI MCP demo from me Free food, drinks, and swag included. 🥳 If you’re building agents or MCP workflows, come through. I have a feeling this one is going to be really special.

SF builders, what’s one business question you wish AI could actually answer? This Wednesday, AI Valley is teaming up with Glasser.ai + Arcade.dev for a hands-on build night using AI + premium market data to turn real business questions into answers. Find your next customers. Identify buying signals. Research a deal. Map competitors. Uncover a market opportunity. 💰 $100 in Glasser credits 🍕 Free food + drinks 🛠️ Build with your favorite AI tools 📍 San Francisco 📅 This Wednesday Bring one real business question. Leave with an answer you can use. RSVP link in the comments ↓ Tag someone you’d build with 👇

🚨 SF AI builders — we’re opening up spots for our next hands-on build night. Bring an AI agent. Leave with something useful. AI Valley is teaming up with Glasser.ai and Arcade.dev to give every attendee $100 in credits to build agents powered by real business intelligence. Use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, or whatever you’re already building with to find: → Your next 20 high-fit customers → Companies ready to buy → Investment opportunities → Creators & KOLs → Overlooked markets and business opportunities No sitting through hours of talks. Come build. 💰 $100 in Glasser credits for every attendee 🍕 Pizza + drinks 📍 San Francisco 🎟️ Free to attend We’re keeping this one focused, so grab a spot if you want to build with us! Tag someone you’d build with 👇