San Diego CountyApplication onlyFree, always
The Bench
AI builders in San Diego.One seat per specialty.
San Diego business owners with real problems are starting to come in the front door of the Guild. When one needs a specialty we don't do, we introduce them to a builder we've vetted, by name. You never pay to be here.
Five fields. No call to book. A person reads every one.
$0What it costs to belong. Not now, not later.
1Seat per specialty. No bidding wars with the person next to you.
5Specialties on the Bench, plus one for what we didn't think of.
0Vendors we're married to. Your stack is your business.
Who runs this
Eddie Flores
Founder, San Diego AI GuildI'm a San Diego wedding photographer who builds AI systems for small businesses. I do most of the build work myself. The Bench is for everything I don't do, and for the weeks there's more work than one person can take.
I'd rather send a job to someone great than do it badly. That's the whole deal.
How it works
Show us your stack, get everyone's
The application is the survey. Every stack we receive goes into an anonymized picture of what San Diego builders actually run and roughly what it costs them. When it publishes, you get it first.
1 · ApplyName, specialty, and your stack in one line. That's the whole form.
2 · We lookA person reads it, and may ask to see one thing running. A repo, a demo, a client who'll vouch.
3 · Your seatIf the seat is open, it's yours. If it's filled, you're next in line, and you still get the data.
4 · IntroductionsWhen an owner's problem fits your specialty, we introduce you by name. No lead lists, no blasts.
Anonymized means tools and spend. Never your name, never your clients.
The deal, both directions
What we ask
- Show us something real that you built and that runs
- Scope and price your own work, honestly
- Tell us when an introduction was a bad fit, so the next one is better
- Keep what owners share with you private
What we never do
- Charge you to belong
- Sell, rent, or share your email or your stack
- Send a daily newsletter, a drip sequence, or a course upsell
- Put two builders in the same seat
If an introduction turns into paid work, any referral fee is agreed with both sides before anyone signs.
Apply for a seat
Free. Takes less time than reading this page did.
Got it. 🙌
A person will read this, usually within a week. Either way, you get the stack data when it drops.
Two kinds of email, ever: an introduction, or the data.
Two doors, one guild