# Source: AI Builder Day official website

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** Medium
**Source Type:** official-page
**URL:** https://aibuilderday.com/
**Publisher:** AI Builder Day
**Retrieved:** 2026-08-12
**Raw:** raw/ai-builder-day-official-website/2026-08-11-8650bcfded40.txt
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Relates:** cites [AI Builder Day](ai-builder-day.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/ai-builder-day.md · https://aibuilderday.com/

## Summary

The AI Builder Day site as it stood on 2026-08-11, three days before the event it advertises. It is
the promotional page for **Part 2** of a two-part hackathon series in Lehi, Utah, and it is the only
located source for the series' format, prize pool, and the attendance figure it claims for Part 1.

Because the page was captured before the event, it preserves the promotional claims that can later
be compared with evidence about whether the event ran and what it produced.

## Useful Claims

- **Part 2 was scheduled for August 14–15, 2026, in Lehi, Utah.** The site is dated to that event and
  describes it as "Utah's Biggest AI Event".
- The format splits by day: **Friday to learn** — hands-on tutorials and workshops for all skill
  levels, with sponsors presenting bounty challenges — and **Saturday to build**, a full day of
  building with mentors, ending in demos before judges and investors.
- The site states **"$35K+ in prizes & hiring opportunities"**.
- **Part 1 drew "350+ builders"**, per this page.
- No experience is required; the site names six intended audiences — engineers and builders, designers
  and product thinkers, founders and operators, students (high school and university), business
  owners, and "anyone curious", with Friday explicitly designed for complete beginners.
- Participation is structured around **sponsor bounty tracks**: named companies post real problems and
  teams build against them.
- Team formation happens on site — the page invites people to arrive solo and form a team on Saturday
  morning.
- At capture time, speakers, sponsors, and bounty tracks were listed as "announced soon", and the site
  directed prospective attendees to a Slack workspace to be notified.

## Verbatim

> "AI Builder Day is back. 350+ builders joined us for Part 1. Part 2 lands August 14–15. Two days to
> learn, build, and launch with AI. Friday is for learning. Saturday is for building."
> — Home page, opening

> "$35K+ in prizes & hiring opportunities"
> — Home page, "The weekend"

> "Speakers, sponsors, and bounty tracks announced soon. Join the Slack to be first to know."
> — Home page, opening

> "Real companies with real problems. Build something they'll actually use."
> — Home page, "Bounty Tracks"

> "Show up solo. Form a team Saturday morning and build with mentors on hand."
> — Home page, "Team Formation & Mentorship"

## Reliability Notes

Self-reported tier, and **promotional copy for an event that had not yet happened at capture time**.
Everything here is a plan or a claim by the organizer, not an outcome. Two specific cautions:

- **"350+ builders" for Part 1 is the organizer's own unaudited count**, with no date, venue, or
  method attached. It is the only attendance figure located anywhere for this series.
- **"$35K+ in prizes"** is an advertised pool, not a disbursement. A related organizer message in the
  Forge Utah Slack (2026-08-03) stated that "All sponsor money for AI Builder Day goes towards prizes
  of $35k+", which is consistent but is the same person making the same claim.

Because the page advertises a specific weekend, it is a **snapshot with a short shelf life**: the live
URL will almost certainly be rewritten for a later edition or taken down. The capture is what fixes
the pre-event claims in place so a later reader can compare them against whatever actually happened.
Nothing on this page establishes that the August 2026 event took place.

## Related Pages

- [AI Builder Day](ai-builder-day.md)

## Maintainer Notes

- Revisit this source after Part 2 and add a separate outcome source rather than overwriting the pre-event record.
- [JustBuild](justbuild.md)