How Ivo Built a Thriving AI-Powered Community Platform - AI Academy students' stories

About this episode

Ivo shares his journey of building an AI-powered community platform in Costa Rica after graduating from AI Academy.

Meet Ivo, an AI Academy graduate who traded city life for sunsets in a Costa Rican beach town—and built an entire community platform while he was at it. With zero coding experience, Ivo used the skills from our AI Agent Bootcamp to create Nosara is Calling, a platform connecting tourists with local businesses and services in his adopted hometown. In this episode of "I'm NOT a Robot", Ivo shares how AI automation allows him to run multiple businesses, maintain his career as a marketer and DJ, ...

People in this episode

Guest: Ivo

Topics covered

• AI community
• entrepreneurship
• automation
• local business
• personal stories

Keywords

• AI Academy
• community platform
• Nosara
• automation
• entrepreneurship
• local services
• Ivo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI Academy

Places: Costa Rican, Nosara, Costa Rican beach town

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