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Two Build Days in the Melbourne CBD

Come solo or bring your most tech-forward team member. Walk out with a live marketing site, CRM, nurture sequence, and an AI program plan.

Melbourne · Sep 3 to 4, 2026 2 full days From A$3,600 15 of 15 seats available Reserve a seat →
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90 seconds with Dave Hajdu on what two full days from vibe coding to production looks like.
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The Promise
Two full days, idea to production. Walk in with a hypothesis. Walk out with a live marketing site, a lead magnet, a CRM with admin and customer logins, a 3-part nurture sequence sending on your real data, and an AI program plan for the next quarter.
Walk out with

Four Outcomes, All Shipped

This is not a workshop. It is a 2-day build sprint, 15 founders, 3 pods of 5, with one dedicated AI Engineer per pod for the full sprint.

01 · Marketing stack
Site, lead magnet, CRM, nurture
You leave with a working website, a lead magnet, a CRM with customer and admin logins, and a 3-part nurture campaign sending on your own data.
02 · 18 protocols
Vibe coding to production
Hands-on with the 18 protocols Edge 8 runs on every client build, so you know what a real stack looks like and how to move work through it.
03 · Program plan
Define, discover, design, decide, deploy
Walk through the full exercise: define the problem, discover the data, design the workflow, decide the ROI, deploy. Leave with a plan you can run on next quarter.
04 · Engineers in the room
Build alongside engineers for both days
One dedicated AI engineer per pod of 5, in the room with you for the full sprint, so vibe coding never stalls at the production line.
Structure

15 Founders, 3 Pods, 2 Faculty

Two faculty instructors run the program content across all pods, teaching, facilitating, and driving each session. Every pod has one dedicated AI Engineer embedded across both full days, building alongside each founder so no one gets stuck.

Cohort Size
15
founders · come solo or with your team
Pods
3 × 5
small groups, full focus
Engineers
1 per pod
embedded for both days
Your Faculty Lead

Who You'll Be Building With

Dave Hajdu, founder of AI Officer Institute
Faculty · Founder
Dave Hajdu
Dave founded the AI Officer Institute to help non-technical operators build AI-first businesses without first becoming engineers. He coaches founders across three countries, runs the Infinite Leverage cohorts, and writes about AI for business owners. Every Founder Seat includes a 1:1 pre-event call with him to scope your build.
More about Dave →
Program

Two Full Days, Idea to Production

A day and a half builds your core system: live site, lead magnet, CRM, nurture, payments. The final half day turns to your business, a program plan for something real plus a one-shot prototype.

Day 01 · Thursday
Build the core system
Thu Sep 3 · 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Welcome and the 18 protocols at altitude, your pod of five with an engineer in it
Stand up your stack: Claude, GitHub, Vercel wired, Hello World live on your own domain by lunch
Drop in a design system, build the first real pages, wire Supabase data, contact form, and email
By end of day: Hello World live, design system applied, data and contact form working
Day 02 · Friday
Finish the build, plan the business
Fri Sep 4 · 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Ship the lead magnet funnel, the /admin CRM, and Stripe payments, the core system done by lunch
Walk the AI program plan exercise: define, discover, design, decide, deploy
One-shot a working prototype of the next thing, where time allows
Pricing

Reserve Your Seat

One Founder Seat is the base. Add a Mac mini, White Glove, or extra team members at checkout, only what you want.

Founder Seat
A$3,600
AUD · per seat
Full event access and lunch on both build days, plus embedded AI engineer support. A live lead magnet site, CRM, nurture sequence, and an AI program plan built across two full days. Accommodation not included.
Full access across both build days
Lunch on both build days
An engineer embedded in your pod of five
Templates and prompt libraries
Full build support across website, agents, CRM, payments
1:1 pre-event call with Dave Hajdu
3-month AIO membership
Hands-on with the 18 protocols across both days
AI program plan template and exercise
Reserve a seat →
Optional add-on
Mac mini with 8 AI agents
A$2,150 AUD
A Mac mini pre-configured with your 8 AI agents, ready to run on arrival. Agent dashboard, automations, API keys, and cloud sync set up before you walk in.
Optional add-on
White Glove, 40 human tokens
A$2,150 AUD
40 human tokens, about 40 hours of senior engineering across the 30 days after the event, plus post-event 1:1 sessions and priority access to the alumni network.
Optional add-on
Additional team member
A$1,800 AUD each
Bring another person from your business, up to 5. Full event access, working alongside you in your pod.
Added as a line item on the same Stripe checkout. Every seat counts against the cohort cap of 15.
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Full refund up to 30 days before the event. All seats counted against the cohort cap of 15. Pay by card in AUD.
What's in the Price

Included and Not Included

Included
  • ✓Full access across both build days
  • ✓Lunch on both build days
  • ✓An engineer embedded in your pod of five
  • ✓Templates and prompt libraries
  • ✓Build support across website, agents, CRM, payments
  • ✓1:1 pre-event call with Dave Hajdu
  • ✓3-month AIO membership
  • ✓AI program plan template and exercise
Not Included
  • ×Accommodation and travel
  • ×A Mac mini with your 8 agents (optional add-on)
  • ×40 human tokens of post-event polish (the White Glove add-on)
  • ×Domain registration and paid software subscriptions
  • ×Advertising spend and ongoing API costs
  • ×Legal or accounting advice
FAQ

Common Questions

Do I have to bring a team member?
No. Seats are per person, so come solo or bring your most tech-forward team member, whichever fits. You build in a pod of 5 either way, so you are never on your own. Extra team members are A$1,800 each on the reservation form, up to 5.
Where is it held?
Level 6, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, in the CBD. The sprint is non-residential, so accommodation and travel are not included. You build in the room across both full days, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
What's the Mac mini add-on?
Optional. For A$2,150 you can add a Mac mini pre-configured with your 8 AI agents, ready to run on arrival, with the agent dashboard, automations, API keys, and cloud sync set up before you walk in. On the base seat you stand the same stack up on your own laptop.
What if my idea isn't fully formed?
That's expected. Day 01 grounds you in the stack and the 18 protocols, and Day 02 walks you through the AI program plan exercise to sharpen the angle. You only need a working hypothesis and a willingness to ship.
What if I can't make both days?
Full attendance across both days is required. The cohort moves as a unit and the AI engineers are scheduled in pods. Partial attendance breaks the structure for the rest of your pod, so we ask you to block out both full days, 9 to 6.
How is this different from an accelerator or course?
It is not a workshop and not a course. It is a two-day build sprint. You are not learning frameworks; you are shipping a live lead magnet website with a CRM, customer and admin logins, a 3-part nurture, and an AI program plan, with engineers building alongside you.
What's the refund policy?
Full refund up to 30 days before the event. After that, your seat becomes non-refundable but is transferable to another founder you nominate.
What's included after the event?
Every seat includes a 3-month AIO membership and the templates and prompt libraries. White Glove adds 40 human tokens, about 40 hours of senior engineering across the 30 days after the event, plus post-event 1:1 working sessions and priority access to the alumni network.
I'm in Sydney, should I go to the Melbourne cohort?
Either works. The Melbourne cohort runs Sep 3 to 4 and the Sydney cohort runs Aug 31 to Sep 1. We stagger them so an Australian operator can pick whichever city fits the calendar. The content is identical.
Who This Is For

Established Operators with Money, Ideas, and No Time

Not the early-stage startup founder looking to raise. The person who has been saying "I need to build this" for two years, ready to ship it across two full days.

EO members
Business owners doing A$1m to A$20m revenue
Consultants and coaches
Allied health clinic owners
Accountants and mortgage brokers
Real estate professionals
Family business next-gen leaders
Trades business owners
Niche e-commerce founders
Not Ready Yet?
Get the 2-day build playbook
A free PDF walking through the deliverables you'd ship at the sprint, including the lead magnet site, CRM, nurture, and AI program plan template. Use it to design your own 2-day sprint, or come back when you're ready to do it with us.
Thanks. Check your inbox shortly for the playbook and Melbourne cohort updates.
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