Hub Toolkit

Run a chapter without rebuilding the wheel.

A dashboard, a hub site template, five operational playbooks, and a shared sponsor pipeline — everything a founding eboard needs, in one place. Free, open-source, and battle-tested at MAIC.

No club yet?

Start from scratch

Sign up for the dashboard, fork the hub-site template, run the “Getting Started” playbook. Your first event is on the calendar this week.

Sign up — create a chapter
Already running a club?

Connect existing chapter

Keep your identity. Plug into the dashboard, swap your website to the hub template (or just hit the JSON content API), and join the shared sponsor pipeline.

Sign up — claim your chapter
01 Day 1

Stand up your chapter.

One afternoon: sign up for the dashboard, fork the hub-site template, push to deploy. Your chapter has a live operations backend AND a public website on the same day — that’s the headline difference between joining the network and starting from scratch.

A The chapter dashboard

dashboard.all-ai-network.org is the operational core. Events, members, projects, sponsors, leaderboards — one login, everything connected.

Plus five more dashboard surfaces officers use every week:

Events & QR check-in

Create events with a single form. Each one gets a printable QR code; members scan to check in and earn points. Check-in history feeds the chapter leaderboard automatically.

Sponsor inbox & proposals

Every sponsor inquiry — from your hub site form or the sponsor portal — lands in your dashboard inbox. Accept or decline proposals; emails go out automatically.

Reports + exports

Attendance heatmaps, semester reports, sponsor ROI summaries. One-click export for advisor reports, year-end officer handoffs, and grant applications.

Hub-site sync

One API key from the dashboard wires your hub site to your real data: events, members, leaderboard, projects. Zero duplicated data entry.

Badges + points

Custom badges per chapter (“ROSIE Award winner”, “Hackathon champion”) plus a points system you can wire to whatever rewards make sense at your school.

1 ALL Applied AI Network Spring 2025 graduate outcomes among active members (≥2 chapter events in a semester or ≥1 project event), across all majors. Compared against the same universities’ non-member graduate cohort.

B Your chapter website

Fork aain-hub-template, edit one config file, push to deploy. Auto-pulls curriculum, playbooks, and workshops from the shared content library; the “What you get” list reads live from the template repo’s README.

1

Use the template

One click on GitHub — you get a full repo with dark theme, event pages, leaderboards, and sponsor showcase.

2

Edit hub.config.json

Set chapter name, university, colors, officers, social links. One file. Everything on the site updates from it.

3

Push to deploy

GitHub Actions deploys to GitHub Pages on push. Optional: we’ll wire your-hub.all-ai-network.org as a custom subdomain.

What you get

Live list from aain-hub-template’s README, re-fetched on every site build.

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Live demo + repo

See the deployed template before you fork.

Already have a website? You can also fetch the curriculum and playbooks directly: fetch("https://all-ai-network.org/manifest.json"). No SDK, no auth.

By the end of day one your chapter has a live operations backend AND a public website — no spreadsheets, no DIY Stripe wiring, no static-site config. Every improvement we ship next quarter rolls out to your chapter automatically.

02 First event

Run events that matter.

Five operational playbooks battle-tested at MAIC — speaker series, hackathons, innovation labs, research groups, and the “getting started” arc. Each one is a complete blueprint, not a checklist: real numbers, candid retrospectives, what we’d do differently. Pick the format that fits this week and ship it.

Need session-level material to actually run? The Learning Tree ships with workshops (Build a Chatbot, Intro to RAG, Git for Students, more) you can run at your next meeting — full facilitator guides included.

03 First semester

Get sponsored.

Companies are already on the network looking for chapters to back — this isn’t a year-one project. The sponsor portal does the front of the funnel: companies sign up, browse chapters, find you automatically. Your eboard owns the relationship.

A

Sponsors find you

Companies sign up at sponsors.all-ai-network.org and browse chapters. They see your real data: members, recent events, tech focus, opt-in talent. No outreach required from you.

B

You review proposals

Tier + amount + message land in dashboard.all-ai-network.org/sponsorsProposals. Accept, decline, or counter with a note — the sponsor gets emailed automatically.

C

Money goes to the chapter

100% of any sponsorship dollars go to the chapter directly. The network takes zero cut — we charge sponsors a small access subscription instead. No transaction fees, no escrow.

New to this? The Sponsors playbook walks through how MAIC landed its first sponsor (Direct Supply, $5K) and grew from there — read it before you cold-email anyone. Already have sponsors? Send them sponsors.all-ai-network.org to onboard onto the platform.

Ready to start your chapter?

Sign up for the dashboard and you’ll have events, members, and a leaderboard before your first meeting. We’ll get your hub-site subdomain wired the same week.