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What’s happening in the collective.

Partnerships, announcements, and updates from the Creative AI Mastermind.

The AI Graph in 3D: a creator's skills, tools and models orbiting a sun, each labelled and connected by lines.
AI Graph7 September 2026

The AI Graph maps skills in the order the work actually happens

Fifteen professions, sixty-nine stages, and one map for what you can actually do.

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The AI Kompass table: the first three funding programmes readable in full, with the rest blurred below them.
AI Kompass22 August 2026

The AI Kompass turns 75 funding programmes into the fields that decide if one fits

75 funding programmes, each with the fields that decide if it is worth your afternoon.

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MediaTech SPRINT 2026 co-creator announcement with Javier Amaya — 30 September to 1 October, Potsdam-Babelsberg
Community5 August 2026

Javier Amaya selected as one of 20 co-creators for the MediaTech SPRINT 2026

Four European audiovisual companies bring their business challenges to Babelsberg. The initiator of Creative AI Mastermind is at the table.

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A row of night workstation desks, one screen gone dark mid-frame while a hand hovers above its keyboard, a red rim light behind.
Agents1 August 2026

One of my 19 agents blocked me out, following my own rules

What I learned while working with agents.

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Hands over a keyboard at night, a monitor beside them showing a long column of text scrolling and fading to black.
Instructions31 July 2026

I deleted 4,000 lines of my own instructions, and the work got better

Seven files gone, and the rules that survived.

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Extreme close-up of a hand adjusting a hardware colour-grading control surface, one red rim light in the dark.
Design27 July 2026

The site was plain and embarrassing for six weeks, deliberately

Glass, true black, and fifteen red things cut down to five.

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STARTPLATZ
Partnership19 July 2026

STARTPLATZ joins the Creative AI Mastermind

We’ve teamed up with STARTPLATZ — one of the biggest startup homes in the Rhineland. For nine years they’ve helped founders turn ideas into real companies. Now that door is open to our community too.

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A creative professional studying thin sweeping light traces on a wall-mounted screen in an underground corridor at night.
The Radar27 June 2026

Events, courses, funding and jobs were all there, just not on one screen

One set of tabs, and the filters I got wrong more than once.

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Hands typing at a keyboard at night beside two monitors showing mirrored page layouts, a German back street through the window.
Bilingual19 June 2026

Every page here is written twice, never translated

German URLs, German sentences, and the map that keeps your place.

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A creative professional alone at a multi-monitor workstation late at night, empty desks in the shadow behind them.
Why this exists14 June 2026

Everyone left my sessions able to do it, and went back to working alone

The same pattern, twenty times in a row.

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