​Building for the Real World

​Hosted by Operators & Friends, Build and Pebblebed.

​Manifesto

​We’ve optimized the digital world to death.

​Now it’s time to turn that same energy outward - into cities, factories, grids, and machines.

​AI can finally move atoms, not just pixels.

​This is the greatest moment in decades to build for the real world - and the builders who do will define the new world.

​Hack

​6-hour sprint to prototype AI and tech solutions for the physical world - geospatial, robotics, construction, hardware, infrastructure, logistics, and beyond.

• ​100 handpicked engineers, founders, and builders

• ​We provide the space, the credits, and the fuel.

• ​You bring the unreasonable ideas.

​Format

​4PM-10PM @ Pebblebed Warehouse, SF

• ​4:00 - Arrivals

• ​4:30 - Kick-off

• ​4:30-9:00 - Build

• ​9:00-10:00 - Demos, judging & celebration

​Judges from our friends at OpenAI, Pebblebed and more!

​Powered by

​Daytona, fal, Lovable, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Vidoc Security Lab & Datalab.

​All participants will receive free credits from our partners.

​The Space

​Everything happens inside Pebblebed, a warehouse-turned-playground for builders - with projection walls, open concrete floors, and enough power, snacks, and caffeine to keep ideas alive.

​Prizes - >$30,000 in credit pool 🥇

​ElevenLabs

• ​Overall winners - 3 months Pro tier

• ​Best Build with ElevenLabs - 6 months Scale tier ($1980)

​Daytona

• ​Overall winners - $5000, $3000, and $1000 in Daytona credits

• ​Best Use of Daytona - $5000 in credits for the

​fal

• ​Overall winners - $5000 credit prize

​Lovable

• ​Overall winners - 6 & 3 months free Pro tier

​OpenAI

• ​Overall winners - $3000, $2000, and $1000 in OpenAI credits

​​About Build

​At Build, our mission is to accelerate and amplify the world's most important built projects - we have invented a better way to build through a collaboration between human experts and agentic AI.

We believe in a future where the world's buildings are driven from concept to completion, autonomously. Without delays, cost, and complexity. Enabling people to deliver a magnitude more deals. To make decisions, build relationships and create.

To start, we're partnering with the world's biggest built world institutions to push the frontier of what's possible through automating mission-critical workflows.

​​About Operators & Friends

​​​​Operators & Friends accelerates the next generation of builders emerging with access to talent, distribution, and funding.

​​​​We've gathered +6,000 company builders and backed 18 teams alongside a16z, Index, Google Ventures and Lightspeed and many more - our portfolio.

​About Pebblebed

​Pebblebed is an early stage technical VC for builders, by builders. The founding partners are Pam Vagata, founding engineer at OpenAI; Keith Adams, founder of FAIR; and Tammie Siew, former Sequoia & GGV-backed founder.