A community of practitioners, engineers, and operators turning AI from hype into working systems. We host gatherings, share what's actually shipping, and help teams move from experiments to production.
The Austin AI Exchange brings together the people doing the actual work — building, deploying, governing, and rethinking workflows with AI. No vendor pitches. No vague futurism. Just practitioners sharing what they've learned, what's broken, and what's working in the open.
We were founded in 2024 by a small group of finance, engineering, and operations leaders who kept ending up at the same coffee shop, comparing notes on what their teams were really shipping. The conversations got too good to keep private.
Today the Exchange operates as a community-first nonprofit, hosting monthly gatherings and offering consulting engagements that fund the community's work.
Practitioner-led sessions on building, deploying, and operating with AI. Small rooms, real questions, no slide-deck salespeople.
We work with finance, operations, and product teams who are past the demo stage and need to ship real systems. Engagements typically run 4 to 12 weeks.
A two-week diagnostic for teams who know they should be doing more with AI but don't know where to start. Outputs a prioritized roadmap, governance baseline, and quick-win identification.
Hands-on engagements building practical AI workflows for finance and strategy teams: forecasting, scenario modeling, board-ready analysis, and reporting automation that actually holds up under scrutiny.
Custom training and hands-on workshops that move teams from "we tried ChatGPT once" to confident daily users with shared standards, prompt libraries, and governance everyone actually follows.
A look back at recent gatherings, the topics that drew the biggest crowds, and what the community has been building together.
Whether you want to attend a gathering, speak at one, or talk about a consulting engagement, we read every message.