The Founder
Your competitors are shipping faster, spending less, and doing it with smaller teams. AI is why. You do not need to hire more. You need to build smarter.
Learn AI by Building with AI.
An invite-only residency for founders, marketers, and operators who want to stop watching AI happen and start building with it.
NO CODING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
JOIN 600+ BUILDERS FROM
Google
McKinsey & Co
Amazon
Netflix
Meta
Microsoft
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Zomato
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IIM Ahmedabad
NIFT
Ashoka University
Christ University
Symbiosis
Loyola College
Govt. of India
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is
A 9-day fully residential program where handpicked founders, marketers, and operators learn to build with AI by creating products, automating their business, and creating AI-powered content while living and working alongside a community of like-minded builders and AI experts as their mentors.
20
BUILDERS
9
DAYS
1
BOOTCAMP
WHY AI. WHY NOW.
AI is not the future.
It is the Present.
The businesses that ignored the internet in 2005 did not survive 2015. The ones ignoring AI today will not survive 2030.
You think AI is crowded because you're in an echo chamber, but the real world hasn't even started.
Each dot is ~3.2 million people
1,000 dots = 8.1 billion humans
Never used AI · ~6.8B
Free chatbot user · ~1.3B
Pays for AI · ~15-25M
Builders · ~2-5M
That tiny dot of builders?
That's where Forge puts you.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Built for people who move the needle.
The Marketer
Your briefs take hours. Your content calendar is always behind. Your reports are still manual. There is a version of your job where none of that is true. AI gets you there.
The Operator
You can see exactly where the hours are being wasted. You have just not had the tools to fix it. Automations will feel like someone finally listened to you.
The Professional
You are good at what you do. But the person who knows how to use AI in your field will move faster, charge more, and get chosen first.
THE CORE
Three Pillars.
Nine days.
Each pillar gives you real skills, real tools, and real output you take home.
PILLAR 01
CONTENT
Create content, visuals, and video that used to need a full production team.
What you'll build
→ AI generated scripts, UGC ads and social media creatives
→ A content system you can repeat after you leave
PILLAR 02
OPERATIONS
Map the manual work in your business and build AI that handles it for you.
What you'll build
→ 2 live AI automations and an AI agent of your choice
→ A workflow saving at least 5 hours a week, running without you
PILLAR 03
PRODUCT
Build a working product without writing a single line of code. Spec it, prompt it, ship it.
What you'll build
→ A functional product or internal tool you can demo live on Day 9
→ The foundation to keep building back home
YOUR OUTCOMES
Not just learning. Real building.
A Working Product
Built on a vibe coding platform. A landing page, a website, or a mini funnel setup you can show someone today.
A Live Automation
A workflow running without you, supported by AI agents. Saves you and your team hours every single week.
An AI Content System
A repeatable process for content, visuals, and video. A pack created by you with just your words and creativity.
A Network
A community of like-minded founders, operators, and builders you can depend on even after the program.
The Muscle Memory
You have built with AI under pressure. Now you have the skillset to build anything back home.
A Head Start
The mindset and confidence to build with AI for the future.
OUR ETHOS
What makes the Forge different
Three forces, one intersection. Every part of the residency is designed around this philosophy.
Learning
AI moves fast. We give you the frameworks, tools, and mental models to not just keep up, but lead.
Networking
You're only as good as the room you're in. We curate a cohort of builders who push each other forward.
Building
Theory without execution is noise. You ship real products, automations, and content, every single day.
THE SCHEDULE
The Gameplan
Your Itinerary through the online and offline residency and how you will learn, build and grow.
Before you touch a single tool on-site, you complete five focused sessions. You start by understanding how AI actually thinks, then learn to talk to it and get useful output every time. From there you map your own business and find the stuck lever, see real outputs built by real people like you, and finish with a full day-by-day brief so you land ready to build from Day 1.
You'll have: You arrive sharp, aligned, and ready to build from Day 1.
Check in. Meet your group. Meet your mentors. Set your personal build goal.
You'll have: Your roadmap for the next 8 days.
Full immersion in AI creative tools. Prompting, image generation, video creation, content workflows.
You'll have: Your first AI creative output: an ad, reel, or short film.
Build your first automation. Connect your tools. Create a pipeline that saves you real time.
You'll have: One live automation running by the end of Day 5.
Build your MVP. Create a landing page. Set up a basic funnel. Daily mentor feedback sessions. Iterate fast.
You'll have: A working product and a funnel ready to test.
Present everything you built. Celebrate. Reflect. Leave with proof of work.
You'll have: Three real builds. One unforgettable experience.
YOUR MENTORS
Learn from builders who use AI for a Living
Every mentor at the Forge is a practitioner of their craft. A working builder, a published creator, a full-time operator. Not a professor.
Vaibhav Kejriwal
n8n Bangalore Ambassador | IIM A | IIT D
- Official n8n Ambassador, builds AI-powered automation workflows
- IIM Ahmedabad & IIT Delhi alumnus
- Runs YouTube channel (AI with VK) teaching AI agents & automation
- Leads "Human AI Collab" community of 280+ AI practitioners
Kevin Adams
Artist | Founder | Creator
- Founder of creative agency Millennial Labs (500+ brands served)
- LinkedIn Design Top Voice, AI-powered creative workflows
- Uses Midjourney, AI + Photoshop for commercial visual campaigns
- Redefining brand storytelling through AI-augmented design
Sabilashan Ganeshan
Ambassador @ Lovable | Country Lead @ Perplexity
- Country Lead at Perplexity AI, frontier of AI search products
- Ambassador at Lovable, ships AI-built products rapidly
- Head of Product at STEM Link; AI strategy at Amor
- BASIS AI Fellow & Harvard-nominated innovator in AI education
Rahul Reddy
Founder | Storyteller
- Founder of LevelUp Learning, India's largest creative education ecosystem
- Built & scaled residential programs across filmmaking, AI & creative tech
- Runs India's largest filmmaking community with 300,000+ members
- Producer of India's biggest short film Chapter Zero LCU
THE COMMUNITY
Come for the learning.
Stay for the community.
The people in this room will go on to build companies, launch products, and do interesting things.
Work with
our Mentors
Online
Guest Lectures
Offline Learning
Experiences
A Community that
Celebrates You
Offline Community
Meet-ups
Work with
our Mentors
Online
Guest Lectures
Offline Learning
Experiences
A Community that
Celebrates You
Offline Community
Meet-ups
Work with
our Mentors
Online
Guest Lectures
Offline Learning
Experiences
A Community that
Celebrates You
Offline Community
Meet-ups
FROM PAST FORGE PARTICIPANTS
What happens when you build with the right people.
Dreamers became builders not just because of the right guidance but the people they surrounded themselves with.
THE INVESTMENT
Your Investment
EARLY BIRD OPEN
Dharamshala
Online
6 Days
June 9 to 17, 2026
Offline
9 Days
June 19 to 27, 2026
✓ Residential stay on double occupancy
✓ All meals throughout the program
✓ All three tracks: Generative AI, Automations, Product Building
✓ Expert faculty throughout the residency
✓ Curated experiences during the program
✓ Community access after the program
✓ Perks from partner brands
✓ The Forge AI Goodie Bag
✓ Demo Day on Day 9
✗ Travel to and from the venue
✗ Personal expenses
✗ Single occupancy room upgrade (available at additional cost)
FAQS
Questions we get asked a lot.
Founders, marketers, operators, and working professionals who want to build with AI. No coding background needed.
No. None of the three tracks require coding. If you can write a brief, you can build with these tools.
Residential stay, all meals, all three tracks, expert faculty, curated experiences, community access, partner perks, and the Forge AI Goodie Bag. Everything except your travel to the venue.
20. Hard limit. This is what allows faculty to actually work with you and not just present to you.
It books your interview slot and signals intent to our selection team. It is separate from the program fee.
A working product, a live automation, an AI content system, and a network of 20 serious builders.
Yes. Most participants are working professionals. You take a fixed block of time off and come back with something done.
The pre-program sessions bring you up to speed before Day 1. You arrive ready to build, not to catch up.
You have probably already found the free content. The question is whether it has actually moved anything forward for you. Forge is for people who are done watching and ready to build.
Think YCombinator
meets an AI hackathon.
20 builders. 9 days. One focus.
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