ESEY: Automate It Yourself
Hosted by OPUS Events + OPUS + Claudia Maggi
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What to look forward to
As part of the Investec ESEY Awards 2026, OPUS and Make will host a hands-on, no-code hackathon where founders build AI-powered automations that create and email personalized business documents. OPUS support and a multi-exited founder turned applied AI engineer will help participants ship working builds, with prizes for standout projects.
Inside the event
The Future of AI & Enterprise
Part of the Investec ESEY Awards 2026 | Co-hosted by OPUS and Make
When you applied to The ESEYs, a personalised PDF landed in your inbox. Nobody typed it. Nobody designed it. Nobody hit send.
An automation did all of it. Now it's your turn.
As part of the Investec ESEY Awards 2026, OPUS and Make are hosting a hands-on hackathon at Corgi Cafe for founders - three hours to build your own version of that system.
📅 Wednesday 28 October | 9:00AM - 12:00PM
📍Corgi Cafe
Expect a room of builders shipping something genuinely useful before the coffee goes cold.
Here's the build: someone fills in a form on your website, and within moments they get a polished document made just for them - their name, their company, their answers - emailed straight to their inbox.
Raising? Every investor who asks for your deck gets one tailored to them.
Selling? Every enquiry gets a brochure written for that buyer.
Build it once, then point it at almost any document you send.
Follow the core track step by step, or go off-script with your own automation or AI agent. Finish by showing the room what you made, with prizes for the standout builds...👀🏆
No coding needed. If you can write a prompt in ChatGPT or Claude, you can do this. The OPUS team will be on the floor throughout, with our online technical team (a multi-exited founder turned applied AI engineer) on call to unblock any issues that might creep up with your build.
You'll get: a free Make account loaded with credits, a working automation you'll use the very next morning, and coffee and drinks throughout.
Bring: a charged laptop, and a document you send all the time - a deck, brochure or proposal. Also make sure you have a google account (gmail works).
It's fast, it's hands-on, and it's a chance to build alongside other early-stage founders who'd rather show you something working than tell you about it.
Only 30 places. Once they're gone, they're gone.
Part of the Investec ESEY Awards 2026 - where the next generation of AI and enterprise founders build in public
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