Eigen went to Vibecon. Here's what we found.

EigenCloud was a hero partner for Vibecon by Emergent. Two days. 300 builders. Bangalore.

This is what happened and why it matters.

Why we showed up

Here's the thesis.

AI will be a massive accelerant for fast-growing economies. GDP growth that might have otherwise taken 50 years can now happen in 10. We are talking trillions of dollars in value being unlocked.

India, till now, has been a net exporter of people and a net importer of agents. Best talent leaves. Best models arrive from elsewhere.

That era ends now.

AI is making tools of acceleration widely available. The best models, agents, and agentic companies can be built from India. Not consumed. Built.

Emergent gets this. They built Vibecon with a filter most events don't bother with. Two rounds of applications. Builders from across India applied. Top 300 made it through for a two-day hackathon in Bangalore. This was not a conference with a hackathon slapped on. This was a room where every person had already cleared a bar.

For Eigen, supporting this was obvious. We are betting on the agentic era. Our thesis is simple: agents will become companies. AI makes them intelligent. Crypto makes them sovereign. And the bottleneck is not capability but trust infrastructure. That is what Eigen is building. And if you want to understand where all of this is headed, you go where the builders are.

Day 1

Day one was about checking the vibe. It delivered.

Sreeram, Eigen's founder, opened with a keynote on the agentic future. The core idea: agents will become companies. Not tools that help companies. Companies themselves. Autonomous, revenue-generating, software-native entities that own assets, coordinate work, and run on verifiable infrastructure.That framed the rest of the event.

We had a dedicated booth. Expected the usual conference rhythm. People drift by, grab some swag, maybe ask a question.

Not what happened.

Builders came to talk. Not browse. They wanted to understand what Eigen is building, how EigenCloud and EigenCompute work, where agentic companies are headed. What surprised me was how open people were. Not guarded. Not performing a pitch. Just sharing what they are working on, what problems they have hit, and what they need.

That kind of openness from builders who are this good tells you something about what Emergent built in that room.

We also ran a kulfi drop at the booth. Builders grabbed kulfi and stuck around. Some of the best conversations happened right there, between bites and whiteboard scribbles about agent trust.

We also pulled a few builders aside for a quick interview. One question: if vibe coding makes everything easy to build, what is that one thing that, if you had it, would make you unstoppable?

The answers went everywhere. Credits and compute. The right mentor in your corner. Distribution before you even launch. Access to the right people at the right time. No single answer dominated, but the pattern was clear. These builders are not stuck on capability. They have figured out how to build. What they want now is the infrastructure around building. The resources, the networks, the scale layer that turns a working product into something that actually reaches the world.

Day 2

Day two was when it counted. Builders submitted what they had built. This is where Vibecon showed its teeth.

The pod

Eigen got a pod of 20 builders who pitched directly to us.

I will say this plainly. These were not half-finished demos. Most of the 20 were close to market-ready. Clear problem statements. Users already validated. UI that looked like it had months behind it. And the way they told the story of their product, you could see they had lived with the problem, not just identified it.

Across several pitches, we saw a natural fit for EigenCompute. Builders were already thinking about trust, verifiability, what happens when an agent handles real decisions on behalf of a user. That conversation came from them, not from us.

And here is one thing I did not expect. A builder had deployed on EigenCloud even though Eigen was not part of the official integration track at Vibecon. Nobody asked them to. They found the stack, saw the fit, and built on it. That is not something you can force.

What the builders told us

We ran a builder survey during Vibecon. We wanted to understand how Indian builders are thinking about the agentic future. Would they deploy agents to run parts of a company? How do they think about ownership? What matters to them when they think about scaling?

Three things came through clearly.

First, these builders are not building side projects. They are building real products with real market intent. Most have thought about pricing, users, and distribution. They are thinking like founders, not hackathon participants.

Second, when we asked about selling their products, price was almost never the deciding factor. Trust was. Builders consistently said things like "if the platform can scale it properly" and "preserve the long-term vision." Some went further. After talking to us at the booth, a few submitted responses saying they do not want to sell at all. They want to build with the right infrastructure. "Build with, not sell to" became the recurring phrase.

Third, the breadth of what people are building is the real signal. Dev tools were a small minority. Everyone else was building across healthcare, legal, edtech, creator economy, fintech, commerce, and more. Agents for growth, monetization, operations. Not more code generation. The market for agents beyond code is wide open and these builders are already in it.

That shift matters. They are not looking for an acquirer. They are looking for infrastructure that makes their product better while they keep ownership. That is the agentic company model. They are describing it in their own words without knowing the label.

And the line that stuck with us more than anything else, from a builder who wrote: "We are not building an app to sell. We are building a sovereign agent company."

The finals

Top 10 projects selected across all pods. Two from ours made it through. Every finalist was strong.

Ajit from Eigen sat on the final judging panel. High-signal panel that picked the top three. Second and third place prizes were sponsored by Eigen.

What we took back

These two days were some of the best we have spent talking to builders.

Vibecon gave us more than a glimpse into what Indian builders are thinking and building. It showed us how far ahead they already are.

The ambition is here. The will to win in the agentic space is here. And the thinking around ownership, trust, and long-term value is more mature than most industry conversations I have seen.

We went in to support the ecosystem. We came back with sharper conviction on three things.

Indian builders are already thinking in terms of ownership and trust. Not just shipping features.

The market for agents beyond code is massively undersupplied. Builders across every vertical are building for it.

Eigen's approach to verifiable infrastructure for agents resonates with the people who are actually building them. The pull is real. Four builders from Vibecon are already in or actively asking for the Eigen ecosystem. These are not cold leads.

India is not sitting this one out. The builders are here. The energy is here. And the infrastructure is being built.

We will keep doing more of these. Keep showing up where the builders are. Because the agentic era does not get built in boardrooms.

See you at the next one.