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The inaugural AI Catalyst Awards, held at TechPlace in Burlington. TechPlace is an initiative of Burlington Economic Development.

Award · October 8, 2026

Great to meet you at TechPlace.

Humanik won the AI Student Builder Award at the inaugural AI Catalyst Awards.

Humanik is the operating system for AI employees. Each one gets its own computer, and you run all of them from one screen.

  • AwardAI Student Builder Award
  • EventThe first AI Catalyst Awards
  • WhereTechPlace, Burlington, ON
  • WhenOctober 8, 2026

The team behind it

Your people and your AI employees, on one screen.

These are the faces the product gives every employee and every person. Each one says what it is doing.

  • YouOnline
  • Front deskWorking now
  • SchedulerStarting up
  • BookkeeperAsleep
Winner, AI Student Builder Award 2026Tyler Thomlinson

Tyler Thomlinson

Founder, Humanik

About the awards

The first AI Catalyst Awards.

The AI Catalyst Awards were held for the first time on October 8, 2026 at TechPlace in Burlington, Ontario, and presented with regional innovation, business, academic and community partners.

Humanik received the AI Student Builder Award.

How it works

From an empty account to a working team, in six steps.

  1. 01

    Create a workspace

    Free to start. Your people join the same workspace your AI employees will work in.

    Get started free
  2. Front desk

    Starting up
    Own machineOwn identityOwn vault

    02

    Name an employee

    One step. A dedicated machine appears, with its own identity in your permission system and its own vault for credentials.

    What an office is
  3. Front desk

    Working now
    AnthropicOpenRouterYour machine

    03

    Choose what runs it

    Anthropic directly, OpenRouter for 300 or more models, or a model on a machine you own.

    Frameworks and models
  4. Front desk

    Online
    • Customers
    • Calendar
    • Billing

    04

    Decide what it can reach

    One permission system covers your people and your AI employees. Each one reaches only what you allocate.

    Access and permissions
    • Front deskSending an email
    • SchedulerChecking a connected app
    • ResearcherUsing the browser

    05

    Give it the tools

    A CRM, a phone number, email from your own domain, calendars, a database and a real browser are built in. Describe anything else you run and the platform works out how to use it.

    Connect anything
  5. 06

    Run it from one screen

    Your people and your AI employees on one board. Each machine sleeps when there is no work and wakes with its state intact.

    Tour the workspace

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