AI builders house
SOTI creates temporary houses for builders working near the edge of AI, software and internet culture. The format is simple: bring your own work, live with sharp peers for a week, and let demos, dinners, debugging sessions and side conversations do the rest. It is less about AI hype and more about being close to people turning new tools into useful products, companies and creative systems.
Engineers, founders, product people, researchers and operators who are shipping, experimenting, studying model behavior, building agents, creating AI-native workflows or turning AI into useful products. The signal is active work, not a polished title.
No badge-collecting, no endless panels and no pretending a keynote equals community. SOTI is designed for deeper conversations, small-room trust and repeated exposure to talented peers who can actually understand what you are building.
A good AI builders house should make it easy to show unfinished things: agents, prototypes, internal tools, workflows, research notes, failed experiments and weird product ideas. The room gets better when people can see the work directly.
The best moments often happen between scheduled things: someone debugging a prototype, sharing a model workflow, opening a door to a collaborator, or explaining why a product direction is weaker than it looks. The house gives those collisions memory.
People do not need to disappear from their companies to join. The week should protect work blocks and use dinners, demos, city rooms and late conversations to create intensity around the existing work, not replace it with busy programming.
Some editions can include AI labs, founder rooms, investor conversations or operator visits. Those moments matter when the group can debrief together afterwards. The outside room creates signal; the house turns it into shared context.
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FAQ
No. AI is an important part of the current builder ecosystem, but SOTI also includes operators, creators, investors and community builders when they raise the quality of the house.
Not necessarily. The stronger signal is that you are actively building, exploring or operating with seriousness and taste. A sharp prototype, research thread or operational obsession can be as interesting as a company deck.
Work blocks, dinners, informal demos, small sessions, local visits and a lot of unscheduled conversation. The exact agenda changes by edition, but the house is always built around proximity and real work.
Yes, if you add real signal to the room. Strong product, design, growth, operations, research, investing or community experience can be valuable when it connects to what people are building.
No. SOTI is not an introductory course. It is better for people already close to the work who want sharper peers, better context and more useful rooms around them.