AI Hacks for Early-Stage Founders (virtual)
Are you an early-stage founder trying to do more with less? Join us for a tactical virtual workshop on how to use AI tools to save time, increase output, and build smarter across every part of your startup. 🚀
In this session, Sergey Nikulin, CTO of Grishin Robotics and a founder himself, will share practical AI workflows, tools, and real-world hacks for early-stage teams.
This is not a high-level conversation about “the future of AI.” It is a hands-on workshop focused on how founders can use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI products more effectively in their day-to-day work — from research and fundraising to content, hiring, and operations.
We will also cover how to think about AI tool spend: where paid tools are worth it, where they are not, and how founders can avoid overspending while still getting real leverage from AI.
As part of this session, we will also give you a taste of the kind of practical, high-value support we provide inside the Grishin Robotics Accelerator.
In this workshop, we will cover:
How founders can use AI as a real operating advantage
How to save time on repetitive work and increase output without increasing headcount.
Practical use cases for ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools
How founders can use AI more effectively for research, writing, decision-making, brainstorming, and day-to-day execution.
How to optimize spending on AI tools
Which tools are worth paying for, where free versions are enough, and how to avoid unnecessary AI costs at the early stage.
Tactical AI workflows for startup teams
Concrete examples of how to use AI across fundraising prep, customer discovery, sales, hiring, content, and internal operations.
Common mistakes founders make with AI
Where AI creates noise, low-quality output, or wasted spend — and how to avoid those traps.
Tips and tricks to get better results from AI
Simple hacks for prompting, structuring tasks, and using AI tools more efficiently in everyday founder work.
A glimpse into the Accelerator mindset
How we think about speed, leverage, and execution inside the Grishin Robotics Accelerator.
Target audience: Pre-Seed and Seed founders who want practical ways to use AI to move faster, work smarter, and operate more efficiently.
Note: We have extremely limited spots left for the Cohort 4.
🚀 Apply to the accelerator HERE.
About Grishin Robotics Accelerator
The Grishin Robotics Accelerator is London's highly selective, one-month intensive program dedicated to pre-seed and seed tech startups.
Applications for Grishin Robotics Accelerator Cohort 4 started!
Apply now 👉https://www.grishinrobotics.com/accelerator
Grishin Robotics is an early-stage Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We back founders of consumer and consumerised enterprise startups that disrupt large and growing markets.
The fund has backed category-defining companies such as Ring (acquired by Amazon for $1B), Spin (acquired by Ford), Zipline (autonomous drone delivery), Starship (last-mile delivery robots), Sphero (robotic toys), and Eero (acquired by Amazon). We invest in Seed and Series A startups targeting large consumer markets such as online entertainment, gaming, food, education, team productivity and collaboration