Build to Keep: Build Fast with AI, Keep Everything You Make

​Build fast with AI, keep everything you make.

​Build to Keep is a free, live workshop about building with AI without getting locked into a platform you can't leave. We'll build something live, show exactly how to move a project off a tool that tries to trap you, and kick off a build challenge you can win.

​The challenge: build something and prove you own it by moving it across at least two tools. Start in one platform and continue in another (for example Lovable then Cursor, or Google Antigravity then Netlify Agent Runners). Use whatever tools you like, as long as you can do it on their free tiers, so it costs nothing to enter. Scored on portability first, then polish.

​How it works:

• ​On the day (Jul 28): we build live, run giveaways the whole way through (Netlify credits, OpenRouter credits, and a few surprises), and you start your own build.

• ​The week after (Aug 4): finish it and submit your completed project by 10am PT / 1pm ET. A panel of guest judges from the builder community picks the grand-prize winner.

​Prizes: over 20,000 in Netlify and OpenRouter credits given away live throughout. The grand-prize winner also gets a free ERA Audit from lilAgents: a timestamped, honest assessment of what you built, plus a concrete action plan and an ERA badge linking to the report.

​Ownership first, portability as the backup, so what you make actually lasts.

​Sponsored by Netlify and OpenRouter, with more to come.

​Runs about 90 minutes. Free. Bring an idea you want to build.

​July 28, 10am PT / 1pm ET.