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3rd Space AI Circle · Bucharest · in person + online

Stop learning AI alone.

A small group. You leave with three to five AI workflows you actually use. Both in-person and online meetups.

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Eric Melchor and Ana Toniuc, hosts of the 3rd Space AI Circle

But this isn't an AI course.

Thank God. There are already approximately seventeen billion AI courses on the internet. Nobody needs another one.

This is a social learning experience for marketers, founders, creators, salespeople, consultants — anyone with something to sell. During the program you learn by building things with Claude. You bring your own work, your own business, your own marketing problem, the brilliant idea you've been sitting on for six months. We work on that.

And you won't be doing it alone.

This is the part we're a little obsessed with. Learning something new is more fun when you're surrounded by interesting people. You'll see what other people are building. You'll steal their ideas. They'll steal yours. You'll show what's working and what's broken, and you'll ask the questions you assumed were stupid. They won't be.

So no, the program isn't hours of staring at Zoom rectangles. There are cocktails, a padel evening, hands-on building, and a final demo night — because apparently we're still allowed to have fun while learning new technology.

The 3rd Space AI Circle group together on the padel court in Bucharest after their week 3 game
Padel night with the AI Circle — no laptops, no Claude, just a court in Bucharest and a group that met at the start of the program.
The first 3rd Space AI Circle cohort together at Gateway VR Studio in Bucharest on their final night
The first cohort on their final night. See what they built — an email-to-calendar workflow, automated invoicing, a website, auto-scheduled reels. None of them developers.

What it actually looks like

In a room in Bucharest. And online when that's easier.

Laptops open, a glass of something, and everyone building on their own work. The in-person nights happen in central Bucharest; the online weeks happen on Google Meet, so nobody misses a session for a late meeting.

Ana Toniuc walking the group through a Claude skill on the big screen at an AI Circle night in Bucharest
In person · Bucharest
AI Circle members on a Google Meet call during the Week 2 workflow breakdown
Online · Week 2 workflow breakdowns
Members working through Claude settings together at the table
A long table of members building with Claude on their laptops

From the first cohort.

“The first meeting really stayed with me. It pushed me to start building instead of just learning. Since then I've set up two small workflows with Claude: one reads my booking and event emails from Gmail and adds them to my Google Calendar automatically, and another builds me a visual page of my week every day.”

Oana Popescu
Oana Popescu
Came to the kickoff night

“Despite being sceptical (‘another AI course?’), what I found was practical experience, honest perspectives, new ways of thinking and, most importantly, the space to test things rather than just talk about them. Highly recommend!”

Anastasia Lucinschi
Anastasia Lucinschi
Marketing & Strategic Partnerships, Supertree
Read her full post on LinkedIn →

“Guys, what a journey! 5 weeks later, actually 5 skills and 1 automatization later, I feel so much confident in my AI skills and knowledge. My curiosity went to the roof (yes, it is possible!!). … Totally worth it!”

Octavia Niekoop
Octavia Niekoop
Head of Operations & Transformation Strategy
See the workflow she built →

What you'll walk away with

3–5

Working workflows, built by you, running on your own work.

1

Personal AI template library you keep adding to afterwards.

A certified 3rd Space AI Circle certificate, with a credential ID you can display on LinkedIn.

∞

An ongoing group that keeps going after the program ends.

Included with every seat

You don’t have to build it from scratch. Someone already did.

Every cohort produces automations that run on real businesses. We write each one up as a card: what it replaced, how it runs stage by stage, where it breaks, and the actual skill file — ready to copy into your own setup and change the names to yours.

Members get the whole library. And the workflow you build during the program goes in it, with your name on it.

Browse the whole library →

How it runs

Hybrid — come in person or join online. Venue in Bucharest shared on registration.

ScheduleOne evening a week during the program · in-person nights ~2.5 hrs, online sessions ~2 hrs
IncludedA padel + prosecco social, and a final demo night with pizza
BringA laptop and a Claude Pro subscription ($20/month)

The program, week by week

Week 1 · in person

Kickoff at A46

Meet the group over a glass of sparkling. See how everyone uses AI now and where it can actually save you time.

Week 2 · online

Workflow breakdowns

Three or four members show what they've built and what's still broken. Then the group improves it together.

Week 3 · in person

Padel + Prosecco

No AI. Just people, a drink and a court in Herăstrău. Rackets provided.

Week 4 · online

Build and iterate

Bring your workflow back. Show what worked, show what failed, get feedback, make it better.

Week 5 · in person

Demo night

Show what you built at SuperTree, with pizza and one final glass of Prosecco.

Sessions run in English and Romanian.

Your hosts

Eric Melchor

Eric Melchor

Texan, former marketing director, founder of 3rd Space Bucharest. He uses Claude to run pre- and post-production for the podcast, to design this website, and for a long list of other life hacks. The program is the shortcut he wishes he'd had.

Ana Toniuc

Ana Toniuc

Fifteen years in marketing and advertising, now working in AI and digital transformation. She's built AI products, agents and automations across several industries, is building an education platform for kids, and teaches people and companies how to use AI in their work. Her philosophy: less theory, more building things you'll actually use.

The guarantee

Don't just learn AI. Use it. Attend three or more sessions and if you don't leave with at least two workflows you actually use, you get a full refund.

This is for you if

You use AI casually — a draft, a summary, the occasional chat — and you want it doing real work inside your job. You're a professional with a laptop and a couple of hours a week, not a developer.

It isn't for you if

You're already shipping AI in production. You'd be teaching the room, and you'd be bored by session two. Come to a Founders & Builders Night instead.

Here are some of the reasons people are joining.

“I'd like an AI agent to search the web for relevant initiatives, events, projects, and then automatically collect the information and add it directly to a database.”

— Manon, community manager

“Can Claude tell me what my competitors are charging… in real time?”

— Irina, B2B marketer

“Can Claude help me build my website and craft a digital marketing strategy?”

— Lema, HR

“Can Claude deal with my invoicing and mandatory activity reports?”

— Octavia, head of operations

Get on the waitlist for the next cohort.

Dates aren't set yet. People on the waitlist hear first and get first pick of seats — it's a small group on purpose.

Join the waitlist →

A few quick questions. About two minutes.

Bring the laptop. We'll bring the people.