The Buildathon
A high-energy build sprint where multidisciplinary teams turn priority Ugandan challenges into working AI products, and put them in front of partners who can help them scale.
Build.Test.Adopt AI.
Build With AI carries Ugandan builders and businesses from first contact with AI tools through to working products and real adoption.
AI is only useful when people can build with it.
Uganda has talent, urgent problems and a growing appetite for AI. What's missing is the layer that consistently connects tools, builders, organisations and opportunities to deploy.
Build With AI is that layer: a national platform for practical learning, collaborative building, solution development and organisational adoption. It is designed to produce visible outcomes: skilled people, useful products, tested pilots and confident adopters.
Skills→Products→Pilots→Adoption
How it works
One initiative.
Four connected engines.
Each part solves a different gap. Together, they create a continuous, self-reinforcing engine from first exposure to sustained organizational adoption.
Builder Community
A standing community for developers, researchers, designers and founders to learn together, access tools, meet collaborators and keep shipping beyond a single event.
Solutions Lab
A practical environment where organisations bring real problems and work with local AI talent to explore, prototype and validate solutions before committing to a full deployment.
Enterprise Adoption
A guided pathway that helps businesses understand AI, identify valuable use cases, prepare their teams and move promising pilots into everyday operations.
Built for the whole ecosystem
Three groups.
One shared economy.
Builders
Developers, researchers, designers and founders ready to turn AI capability into products.
Businesses
Enterprises and SMEs looking for practical routes from use-case discovery to adoption.
Enablers
Technology companies, telcos, universities, government and funders growing the ecosystem.
The journey
Meet people where they are.
Move them forward.
A structured five-phase pipeline that carries builders and businesses from initial exploration through to validated, sustainable organizational adoption.
01
Discover
See what AI can do in a Ugandan context and identify high-value opportunities.
02
Learn
Gain the practical tools, frameworks, and confidence to begin building immediately.
03
Build
Turn real local challenges into functional prototypes and working products.
04
Validate
Test usefulness, accuracy, and impact directly with target users and organizations.
05
Adopt
Move proven solutions into everyday organizational operations and scale across markets.
Founding partner call
Bring a platform, a problem, a network or the power to make it possible.
We're inviting organisations to help shape the initiative through tools and credits, infrastructure, expertise, real-world use cases, community access or programme funding.