AI for Chiang Mai
Ship at the speed of AI, with the full Claude toolkit.
Get ready for the AI-native builder wave
AI is collapsing the distance between an idea and a shipped product. One builder with the right tools can now do what used to take a whole team, and the tools are moving fast.
AI for Chiang Mai is a four-week coliving experience built around the Claude ecosystem. Three flagship workshops with Nick and Ian, one per week from Sept 1 to 21, take you from a first working agent to a demo-ready product, graduating at the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon during Main Week. Between workshops you get weekly office hours, Monday async check-ins, Claude Skilljar courses as pre-work, and a cohort of builders working alongside you.
Builders ready to ship faster
Built for people with some coding or vibe-coding experience who want to move from tinkering to shipping. You don't need to be a senior engineer, you need something you want to build and the willingness to learn the tools that get you there fast.
About 70% of the material centres on the Claude ecosystem, every tool in it, but you'll also work with other LLMs and agentic tools where they're the right fit.
At a glance
Three weeks of building into the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon
One flagship workshop each week with Nick and Ian, from setup to shipped, plus weekly office hours and Monday async check-ins. Claude Skilljar courses are the pre-work; you build your own project across the month and graduate at the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon during Main Week.
Claude-First Foundations
Flagship workshop with Nick and Ian: get set up in the Claude ecosystem, stand up your first working agent, and declare the goal you'll ship by month's end.
Building the Loop
Flagship workshop with Nick and Ian: point your agent at real data and real tools, and get a working core in place by the end of the week.
Ship It
Flagship workshop with Nick and Ian: launch what you've built, rehearse a 3-minute demo, and go into the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon ready.
Claude Impact Labs Hackathon
The Claude Impact Labs Hackathon at the Mövenpick is your graduation. Build, demo, and compete for prizes and credits alongside the wider CosmoLocal community.
Five things you take home
- 01An AI-native workflow
A repeatable way of working with Claude and agentic tools that keeps compounding long after the month ends.
- 02Something shipped
A working product, feature, or project built during the program.
- 03A hackathon finish
The experience, and maybe the prizes, of building under pressure at Main Week.
- 04A cohort
Builders who work the way you do, met over four weeks side by side and staying in touch after.
- 05Local grounding
A real feel for the Chiang Mai and Thailand market, and the people building in it.
Your daily basecamp at Alt_PingRiver
A short walk from CHU Hotel, the Alt_PingRiver hub is where the cohort works and gathers. Open 24/7 to residents, with everything you need to build from Chiang Mai.
Stay at CHU Hotel
A contemporary boutique hotel in the old riverside community of Wat Ket, a short walk from the Alt_PingRiver coliving hub, with daily breakfast included.
- 32 sqm
- King bed
- Private ensuite bathroom
- Single or double occupancy
- Air-con, desk & fast Wi-Fi
- 40 sqm
- King bed (twin on request)
- Private ensuite bathroom
- Single or double occupancy
- Lounge nook, desk & fast Wi-Fi
What's included
One all-in price per room type covers your stay, the full program, and Main Week, so you can focus on building.
- Superior room for 28 nights (Sept 1–28)
- Daily breakfast at CHU Hotel
- Full AI for Chiang Mai program fees
- Main Week ticket, Gold Pass
- One curated excursion
- 24/7 access to the Alt_PingRiver coworking hub
- Community manager throughout the month
- Welcome dinner on Sept 1
- Deluxe room for 28 nights (Sept 1–28)
- Daily breakfast at CHU Hotel
- Full AI for Chiang Mai program fees
- Main Week ticket, Gold Pass
- One curated excursion
- 24/7 access to the Alt_PingRiver coworking hub
- Community manager throughout the month
- Welcome dinner on Sept 1
Who you'll learn from
Part of something bigger
This is one of four coliving experiences running side by side in September under CosmoLocal CNX. You're part of your own AI for Chiang Mai cohort, but you share the neighbourhood, the coliving hub, and a stream of cross-track events with everyone else.
The finale is the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon at the Mövenpick Hotel (Sept 26–27), where the cohort ships, demos, and competes, with Claude's support behind the event.
Fill out the application form via the Apply button. Spots are limited to 10–12 and reviewed on a rolling basis.
Some coding or vibe-coding experience, and a project, or the clear intent to build one.
Your own product or project, working through hands-on workshops and culminating in the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon.
Three flagship workshops with Nick and Ian, one per week from Sept 1 to 21, plus weekly office hours, Monday async check-ins, and Claude Skilljar courses as pre-work. You work on your own project across the month, with extra sessions from Cosmo layered in between.
The workshops are Claude-first, but you'll also use other LLMs and agentic tools where they're the right fit for what you're building.
Yes. The three workshops build on each other and the month ends at the Claude Impact Labs Hackathon during Main Week, which is the graduation.
It's a supportive, build-together finish, challenging, but designed to be fun, not intimidating.