Build with AI
Build With AI
A Core Lab of the RW Institute Makerspace
Every Thursday | 2:00 PM EST | 90 minutes | Starting July 9
You've watched the demos. You've seen people build entire applications in an afternoon, generate professional slide decks in minutes, spin up landing pages from a single conversation. You've thought: I want to do that.
This is where you do it.
Build With AI is a weekly open lab where you bring a real project and leave with a working tool. Not a concept. Not a plan. Something that works.
Every session is live, facilitated, and hands-on. You show up with a problem. You build the solution. The people around you are doing the same thing with their own projects, and the cross-pollination is half the value.
What You'll Actually Build
The range is the point. In any given session, someone might be:
Standing up a client-facing web application using Lovable
Automating a reporting workflow that currently eats four hours a week
Building a research tool that pulls, synthesizes, and formats data from multiple sources
Creating a branded slide deck that looks like a design team produced it
Generating video content with MiniMax
Prototyping an internal dashboard for their team
You bring the problem. We help you pick the right tool and build the thing.
The Tools We Use
AI is way past the chat window. We work across the full landscape of what's available right now:
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini for reasoning, writing, analysis, and code generation.
Manus for autonomous multi-step tasks that would take you hours to do manually.
Lovable for building web applications without writing code from scratch.
MiniMax for video and multimodal content.
DeepSeek and Kimi for specialized tasks where these models outperform the big three.
You'll learn when to reach for which tool. That instinct is worth more than mastery of any single platform.
If Your Company Has You Stuck on Copilot
A lot of organizations have rolled out Copilot or another enterprise AI tool and called it done. If that's your situation, you're not locked out of what the serious models can do. You just need to know how to pair them.
We'll show you how to use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the specialized tools alongside whatever your company provides. The combination produces results that Copilot alone cannot touch. You keep your company's tool for what it does well. You add the models that do what it can't.
Who This Is For
You already use AI. You have a paid subscription to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. You're past the "what is a prompt" stage and ready to build things that matter to your work.
Your role doesn't matter. We have CSR practitioners, nonprofit leaders, HR professionals, communications directors, operations managers, and people from a dozen other functions. What unites the room is the drive to build, not the job title.
This is not a course. There are no slides about the future of AI. There is no homework. There is no "module 3." You show up, you build, you leave with something that works.
Who This Is Not For
If you've never used an AI tool, start there first. Get a paid subscription, use it for a few weeks, and come back when you've got a project in mind.
If you're looking for a lecture on AI ethics or strategy, that's a different conversation. We respect that work. It's just not what happens here.
Your Facilitator
Chris Jarvis is co-founder of Realized Worth and the RW Institute. He builds tools with AI every day, across the full stack of models listed above. The lab is grounded in real builds, real problems, and real results from his own work and from the practitioners who show up each week.
The Details
When: Every Thursday, 2:00 PM EST, 90 minutes
Starting: July 9, 2025
Cost: Free. Build With AI is an open lab within the RW Institute Makerspace. Paid sprint programs (Build With AI Plus) will launch later for teams that want structured 6-week build cycles.
What to bring: A paid subscription to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. A project you want to build. That's it.
Format: Live, facilitated, bring-your-own-project. You'll get direct guidance on tool selection, build strategy, and troubleshooting in real time.
Join us on Thursdays. Bring something you want to build. Leave with something that works.