▪ Claude Impact Lab · Atlanta

Building for Atlanta, in a single day.

Sat · Date TBA / Atlanta, GA / One-day civic build
~50 builders 8 teams 3 civic-data tracks
By the numbers

Demand outran capacity by .

350+Registrations
50Confirmed seats
Oversubscribed
8Teams formed
Who was there

An incredible room.

Founders, engineers, designers, students and civic technologists — the people actually building Atlanta's next decade.

The mix

12
Founders & CTOs
7
Senior eng leads
5
AI/ML specialists
11
Engineers & devs
6
Designers
9
Students & others

Mentors & judges

Tyler Sztuka
Host · Claude Ambassador, Atlanta
Mentor Name
Founder · Company
Mentor Name
Eng Lead · Company
Mentor Name
AI/ML · Company
Judge Name
City of Atlanta
Judge Name
Investor / Operator

Real local data

City of Atlanta Open Data

Permits, 311 service requests, and neighborhood-level civic datasets.

Georgia Open Data Portal

Statewide datasets spanning health, environment, and the economy.

MARTA / ARC

Transit and regional mobility data for the metro Atlanta area.

The day

Six sprints, heads down.

A short morning to set the table, then the room got to work on real Atlanta problems.

  1. Morning · Welcome

    A few words from the host

    SZD Labs and The AI Collective Atlanta open the day — why this room, why this city, why now.

  2. Morning · The model

    How an Impact Lab works

    The format in five minutes: pick a track, form a team, ship a working prototype on live data by the end of the day.

  3. Morning · The tools

    A custom admin dashboard

    A purpose-built portal with Claude access, the civic datasets, and starter scaffolding so teams skip setup and start building.

  4. Morning · The brief

    Pick a problem worth solving

    Three civic-data tracks grounded in real Atlanta datasets:

    Mobility & transit Economic opportunity Community & resilience
  5. Midday · Build

    Teams locked · clock started

    Eight teams chose their problem and put their heads down — six hours of building, mentoring, and live data.

The room

What it looked like.

★ Demo day

Every team demoed a working prototype, built on live data.

Project One

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

6 buildersDemo ↗
Project Two

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

7 buildersGitHub ↗
Project Three

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

5 buildersDemo ↗
Project Four★ Winner

One-line description of the winning build and the impact it could have.

5 buildersDemo ↗
Project Five

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

7 buildersGitHub ↗
Project Six

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

7 buildersDemo ↗
Project Seven

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

8 buildersDemo ↗
Project Eight

One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.

9 buildersGitHub ↗
★ And the winner is

Project Four

The judges — including a representative from the City of Atlanta — picked this build for its real-world impact: a clear problem, live civic data, and a prototype you could put in front of users the next morning.

The inaugural edition

The first Claude Impact Lab in Atlanta.

8 teams · ~50 builders · 3 civic-data tracks · one Saturday.

▪ Get involved

Want to be at the next Impact Lab?

Organizer
SZD Labs & The AI Collective Atlanta
Sponsor
Anthropic
Venue
Atlanta, GA · venue TBA
Host
Tyler Sztuka, Claude Ambassador

▪ Template — modeled on the Claude Community Australia Melbourne recap. Swap in real numbers, names, projects & photos after the event.