[ OK ] mounting /dev/builders/{bos,nyc,sf,remote} ........ done [ OK ] starting leaderboard daemon ......................... pid 4096 [ OK ] loading kernel.shipseason v26.07 ..................... 86,400s/wk [ LOG ] cohort online (50+ builders / 4 hubs) [ OK ] season status: LIVE. rolling admissions open.

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season_26

A six-week build-in-public competition for AI agents. 50+ builders across four hubs, shipping weekly and competing for the top-5 spotlight. Miss two weeks, you're out.

./status.sh --season=26

season is live

build period jul 6 to aug 16 · rolling admissions open across all hubs

OPEN

admissions

cat schedule.md

key dates

Build Period Starts

Jul 6

Build Period Ends

Aug 17

Finale Week: Demo Day Prep

Aug 17

Closing Ceremony · SF, NYC, BOS, Remote

Aug 20

echo $MISSION

> build the next
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man ship-season

how it works

01

Join

Apply and join 50+ builders across SF, NYC, Boston, and remote. Rolling admissions while the season runs. Find your crew.

02

Build

Ship every week to climb the live leaderboard. Get feedback from peers, mentors, and the community. Build in public.

03

Launch

Top builders demo at the closing ceremony across San Francisco, New York, and Boston. The whole cohort celebrates at watch parties. Launch what you built.

crontab -l

the weekly schedule

MONKickoff Stream30 min

TUETech Talkbiweekly

WEDOffice Hoursbiweekly

FRIShip-It DeadlineEOD

SUNShip of the WeekNewsletter

Discord Channels

Help channels by topic. Mentors paged by role.

Co-Working Room

Always-open virtual room. Builders working together.

Boston Dinners

City dinners for the top builders of the cohort

tail -f ship-log.md

weekly report

Every report is scored. The weekly top 5 earns the public spotlight.

ship-log.md

##Ship Log

##Tech Metrics

##Distribution

##User Metrics

##Revenue

##One Ask

ls -la perks/

ship more, unlock more

Co-Founder Matching

Sponsor Perks

Investor 1:1s

Founder Dinners

cat hubs.txt

closing ceremony

Demo day: showcase what you built. Ship consistently to earn your spot. Simultaneous ceremonies across our hubs. 08.20.2026.

New York

New York

San Francisco

San Francisco

Boston

Boston

cat sponsors.txt

ls ./cohort/ships/

what the cohort is shipping

Startups and agentic projects from S26 builders.

Aventuria

A travel agent powered by AI.

BizYager

BizYager

The OS for the AI era, where agents and humans collaborate to achieve business goals.

Clarifie

An academic manager that helps students organize their daily and long-term academic goals.

Finide

Predicts cloud and AI infrastructure costs directly from a product spec, before a single feature is built.

HonkRadar

A new method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication for autonomous fleets.

Janna AI

A cybersecurity and agentic AI model for network and application defense.

Moodlog

An intuitive platform for mood tracking and emotional journaling.

Discovers real-time local events and nearby attractions, then turns them into a map-based travel itinerary.

Orion AI

A coding agent for data analysis.

Scrapitch

Accepts any public URL, from company sites to founder portfolios. Paste it once, pick a use case.

Sesame

Sesame

Secure credential brokering that prevents unintended actions in agentic workflows, with policy enforcement and audit logs.

Situent

Makes sense of your time and offers insights to optimize it.

SKAAP

Building the AI-powered consumer food intelligence platform.

A three-agent SOC copilot that triages, verifies, and plans response, with the human in the loop.

Founders On Tap

Founder-led workshops in the coolest spots around SF.

Tinkerism

A platform where humans and AI agents collaborate on community-oriented projects.

Truly

Revolutionizing talent acquisition in search of the next agentic engineer.

Yupland Metaverse

Yupland Metaverse

Spirituality + AI in the web3 space.