
A network of people building with AI.
Free membership, New Zealand-wide. Learn together, build together, and get matched with AI roles through Colab Talent.
- 1,000+ community members
- 2,000+ registrations at Claude Community events we help with
- 24 WhatsApp groups
Everything you need to keep up.
Practitioners across the country, sharing what works and what doesn't.
Zoom and events
A members' Zoom catch-up every week. In person, the free Claude Community events we help with, open to everyone.
Community chat
24 WhatsApp groups where questions get answered by people doing the work.
Roles
Apply for AI roles through Colab Talent, with your match score and what would lift it.
Courses and skills
Free AI courses and community-contributed skills.
People
Meet other practitioners, mentors and industry leaders, in the room and online.
News, tools and insights
The latest AI news and tools, and what is actually working, shared by practitioners.
Get matched with AI roles.
Your community profile is also your Colab Talent profile. It is free, and you stay anonymous until you choose otherwise.
Create your account
Upload your LinkedIn profile and set your role requirements.
Confirm it
Check the structured profile we extracted from LinkedIn, and fill in any gaps.
Choose who sees you
Opt in and you can appear as an anonymised card in the candidate search. Your name and employer stay hidden.
Meet on your terms
Employers request an introduction, and you decide whether to accept.

Where the community meets.
Our Zoom runs every week. In person, we help run Claude Community events (free, open to everyone, register on Luma) and speak at events around NZ. The latest:
- Weekly
Community Zoom catch-up
What people shipped, what broke, what to try next.
- Next
Next event announced soon
Join Colab Community to hear about it first.
NZ Tech Expo, demo stage session
Adam and Si ran the session, including a short Q&A with Chris O'Neill of Creative HQ.
Claude Community Wellington Impact Lab
A one-day civic AI hackathon at Wellington City Council.
Connect Waikato: Human Connection in an AI World
Adam and Si spoke at the first Connect Waikato evening at the Waikato Innovation Park, Hamilton.
Claude Code meetup, Auckland
150 people. The first Claude Code meetup in Auckland, where Adam's ambassador work began, before the programme had a name.


