A strong builder community is crucial for successful Dust adoption. Here's how to identify, empower, and support your builders.

Who should be a builder?

Ideal candidates

• Employees with a deep understanding of their team workflow and know-how AND willing to learn new AI skills
• Department leads with efficiency objectives
• Anyone passionate about improving team efficiency

Key qualities

• Problem-solving and/or tinkerer mindset
• Understanding of department workflows
• Willingness to share knowledge and help other team members

Building your builders community

1. Identify builders

• Reach out directly to people you know could be interested or run a survey to identify who uses LLMs regularly
• Look across all departments or identify key teams depending on your chosen strategy
• Focus on enthusiasm and potential
• Welcome builders at all levels

2. Create builder hub

• Dedicated Slack channel
• Regular builder meetups
• Create a knowledge sharing and template library hub

3. Empower builders

• Provide comprehensive training - train the trainer
• Share best practices
• Offer technical support
• Recognize achievements
• Ask the Dust team for support on this

Builder responsibilities

• Create team-specific assistants
• Document use cases and templates
• Train team members
• Share success stories
• Gather feedback
• Share feedback with the Dust team

Tips for great builders