AI isn’t a moment to capitalise on. It’s a field that rewards people who stay curious and keep building. We exist for them.
A HatchWorks company
HatchWorks runs Hatch, Sri Lanka’s innovation district in Colombo 01, home to startups, founders and tech teams. BuildrLabs is its AI academy: every cohort is taught inside Hatch, with that whole community around you.
Visit hatch.lkBuildrLabs was founded under Hatch Works because we watched talented people enter the industry and stall — not from lack of ability, but from lack of exposure to what real AI engineering actually looks like in practice.
The gap wasn’t intelligence. It was experience. Real projects, real systems, real decisions under pressure. So we built a programme around exactly that: designed by practitioners, structured around outcomes, grounded in real work from day one.
Every module maps to what teams are building and hiring for now, updated each cohort with input from our partner companies.
Every instructor is an active professional who has shipped AI in production and brings the problems textbooks skip into the room.
The Agentic AI Pathway ends with two deployed systems, a GitHub portfolio and a live Demo Day for industry hiring leads.
Every BuildrLabs cohort learns at Hatch Works, Sri Lanka’s leading tech and startup hub, where the startups, engineers and founders in the building are part of the programme. Real BuildrLabs sessions, September 2026.
Real people. Real projects. Real careers you can learn from.
Because cohort accountability, real-time feedback, and the Hatch ecosystem are all central to how this works. You can watch AI tutorials online. You can't replicate being inside a building full of startups, engineers, and founders — and having your instructors available when something doesn't work.
Hatch Works is Sri Lanka's leading tech and startup hub. It's where BuildrLabs runs, and it's part of what makes the programme valuable: the community, the startup access, and the connections you build just by being in the building.
