The Engine Room Application

The Engine Room is a one-week program where we invest £5,000 into aspiring founders and provide mentorship to help them rapidly test and launch new ideas.

We’re bringing together the talented engineers in Europe to build the next generation of companies - in an environment that’s fast, focused, and founder-friendly.

The program is run by Chapter One and AI Engine, with support from AWS, ElevenLabs, and others.

🗓 Program Details

Dates: November 10–14, 2025
Demo Day: Monday, November 24
Location: London (Dawn Capital office, Soho)
Schedule: 5–10 p.m. daily (so you can join even if you’re working or studying)
Investment: £5,000 grant from Chapter One

https://www.engineroom.run/

Team vs. Individual Applications

You’re welcome to apply either as a team or as an individual.

If you're applying as a team, submit one application with everyone's details included.

If each team member prefers to apply separately, that’s fine too - just answer the questions as if you're applying solo but add a team name.

👉 Please note: we won’t accept teams larger than 3 people. Ideal team size is 2.

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First Name

Last Name
LinkedIn URL
Twitter (if you have one)
Company or project name (if applicable)
Birthday
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Phone number
Where are you based?
Are you in university or working? Or both?
What’s your background?

Example: “CS student at Imperial”, “ML engineer at DeepMind”, “Designer learning Python”
 What are you working on, or what idea are you most excited to explore?

(Max 500 characters — about 100 words)

Example: I’m building a workflow tool for ML engineers to branch and replay experiments instantly - kind of like “Git for compute.”

Why are you the right person (or team) to work on this?

(Max 500 characters)

Example: I’ve spent 3 years at DeepMind working on reinforcement learning infrastructure. I care deeply about how small model improvements translate into real-world gains.

What’s the most impressive thing you’ve built, hacked, or shipped — technical or not?

(Max 400 characters)

Example: I built a real-time object tracker for a homemade robot dog using a webcam and a Raspberry Pi.

What’s something clever, weird, or just plain fun you’ve built or obsessed over?

(Max 250 characters)

Example: I made a script that tweets every time I commit code past midnight.

(Optional) Drop any links that tell us more about you.

GitHub, website, demo video, anything you’re proud of.

(Optional) Is there anything else you’d love us to know?
How did you hear about The Engine Room?

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