Aibuben's First Event: 75 Builders, One Afternoon, an Agent Each

· By Aram Adamyan

Tags: Events, Community, AI Agents

On Saturday, March 21, 2026, Aibuben hosted its first ever event in Yerevan. The format was simple and the ambition was big: get builders, students, founders, and the merely curious into one room and walk out, two and a half hours later, with a working AI agent each. Seventy-five people showed up at AI9 Startup Campus to do exactly that.

This was the launch event for Aibuben as a public-facing community, and the prompt was deliberate. We did not want a panel. We did not want a keynote. We wanted a workshop where the room left with something tangible, a build they could keep iterating on after the lights went off.

!Builders working together at the Aibuben launch event

The setup

The afternoon ran from 2:30 to 6:30 PM at AI9 Startup Campus on Isahakyan, hosted jointly by AI9 and Aibuben.xyz, and powered by MuleRun, who flew in to run the hands-on session.

MuleRun is a super-agentic platform for designing AI products. The pitch is that you do not have to fight raw configuration files or stitch together a brittle pipeline. You build agents the way you would design a product, by interacting with them, testing them, and giving them the right skills for the job. That last word is the one that did the work all afternoon. Skills. AI agents are everywhere now. What separates a useful agent from a glorified chatbot is the set of skills you give it.

How the workshop ran

The session moved through four beats.

First, an intro to how modern AI agents actually work, why skills matter, and how the abstractions inside MuleRun map to the building blocks of agentic systems. Short, opinionated, no slideware filler.

!Aram Adamyan opening the session

Second, the build. Laptops open, accounts spun up, real use cases on the table. Participants picked a problem they wanted an agent to solve and started composing skills around it. The room got loud, in the good way. Pizza showed up halfway through, because no one ships on an empty stomach.

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Third, live pitches. Each builder presented their agent to the room. Two minutes, demo first, story second. The variety was the best part. Personal productivity agents, research helpers, customer-facing flows, niche workflow tools. People who had never built an agent before were demoing working software by the end of the afternoon.

Fourth, the competition. The top three projects took prizes, voted on the merits of the build and the clarity of the use case.

What we noticed

A few things stood out, and they are worth flagging because they tell us something about what to do next.

The bar to build is dropping fast. Two and a half hours is not a lot of time. The fact that almost everyone in the room walked out with a functional agent says more about where the tooling is than about anything we did on stage. Platforms like MuleRun compress weeks of plumbing into an afternoon. That is the new normal.

Skills are the unit of value. Every winning project got there because the builder had a clear answer to what their agent could actually do. Not what it could talk about. What it could do. The teams that drifted were the ones still treating the agent as a clever chatbot.

The Yerevan AI community is bigger and hungrier than the surface suggests. Seventy-five RSVPs filled fast. The room was a mix of professional engineers, students, founders between projects, and people coming in fresh. That mix is exactly what we want Aibuben to be a home for.

Thank you

A real thank you to AI9 for hosting us at the Startup Campus, to MuleRun for bringing the workshop and the prizes, and to every builder who showed up with a laptop and a willingness to ship something rough in public. That is the spirit we want every Aibuben event to carry.

A particular thanks to the co-hosts who made it run: Roza Khachatryan, Jacob Si, and the MuleRun team.

What is next

This was event one. The plan is to keep the cadence steady, mix workshop formats with talks and community nights, and bring in the kind of speakers and tooling partners that move builders forward. If you missed this one, the next one is coming.

A few ways to stay in the loop:

If you are working on something in AI in Armenia, or you want to be, this is the room. See you at the next one.

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