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Monthly AI Wrapped 🌯 | 18 March

Mar 18, 2026

Shuwei Guo

Welcome to Build Club’s recap and AI news wrap!This week: GPT-5.4 drops with computer-use powers, Claude gets inside your spreadsheets and Notion can now do image generation. Let’s get into it.<hr><h3>🚀 Exciting updates from the Industry</h3><ul><li>OpenAI GPT-5.4 Is Here With Eyes and Hands - OpenAI’s newest model can now see your screen, move your cursor, and click through apps automatically. <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Anthropic Claude Now Lives Inside Excel and PowerPoint - Claude can now read your spreadsheets and build slides simultaneously, saving frequently used workflows with one click. <a href="https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/anthropic-gives-claude-shared-context-across-microsoft-excel-and-powerpoint">Read more</a>.</li><li>Google Maps: Ask Questions and Get Immersive Navigation with Gemini - You can now chat with Google Maps to find places and get lifelike visual turn-by-turn guidance. <a href="https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/ask-maps-immersive-navigation/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Notion AI: Generate Images Directly Inside Your Pages - You can now create custom images inside any Notion page just by asking the AI no other tool needed. <a href="https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-03-09">Read more</a>.</li><li>Microsoft Copilot Cowork: AI That Handles Multi-Step Work Tasks for You - Microsoft’s new AI feature handles multi-step tasks across Word, Outlook, and Teams on your behalf automatically. <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/09/copilot-cowork-a-new-way-of-getting-work-done/">Read more</a>.</li></ul><ul><li>Hyperspell - Your OpenClaw Now Remembers Everything Across All Your Tools - Connect your Slack, Notion, Gmail, and Drive so your AI assistant always has instant context. Free to connect. <a href="https://github.com/hyperspell/hyperspell-openclaw">Read more</a>.</li><li>Mosaic - Now an API You Can Plug Into Any App or AI Agent - Mosaic’s video editing platform is now fully open via API - build, edit, and publish videos automatically from any tool. <a href="https://mosaic.so">Read more</a>. </li></ul><hr><h3>Top Build Club Community Tips 💡</h3>🗂️ Turn any messy inbox into a clean daily briefing in under 5 minutes using ChatGPT and Zapier<ol><li>In Zapier, create a trigger for new emails arriving in Gmail that match a label or sender you care about.</li></ol><ol><li>Add a Zapier step that sends the email subject and body to ChatGPT, with the prompt:<blockquote>“Summarise this email in one sentence and flag if it needs a reply today.”</blockquote></li><li>Route ChatGPT’s output into a single daily Slack message or Google Doc digest so everything lands in one place.</li></ol> Stop drowning in tabs - your inbox works for you now. 🚀<hr><h2>Community spotlight</h2>Last week, Blackbird ran Just Build It - a women in AI night with Build Club - and it was inspiring.7 builders demo’d live to 30 peers, covering everything from audio tooling and design agents to AI-enabled R&D and ideation systems. We were 3x oversubscribed. The pipeline of great female entrepreneurs is real.⚡ Huge kudos to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rach-huang/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Rachel Huang</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-cao-27303716b/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Nancy Cao</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-s-950047b1/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Holly Sanders</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelledebacker/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Isabelle De Backer</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-gelman/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Kayla Gelman</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefka-peykova/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Stefi Peykova Krishnan</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretchen-fletcher/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Gretchen Fletcher</a> for getting up there.A huge thank you to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trinidadcc/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Trinidad Canales Calleja</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BQQcWHBUeTRShrE4wr51dbA%3D%3D">Georgie Healy</a> for making it happen!<figure><img height="1067" width="800" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3o7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e360fc1-efca-485d-b659-a1644f1e6b50_800x1067.jpeg"></figure><figure><img height="600" width="800" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M55F!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F14466a2b-66ed-4162-8a10-e3ca19f0531c_800x600.jpeg"></figure>Want to run something like this in your city? Reply to this email 📩<hr><h3>Build Club Team Updates 💡</h3>Hear from our team on what we are up to and are shipping!<ul><li>We launched the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/annieliaoo_womeninai-iwd2026-buildclub-activity-7437594052436410369-nUXt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACg6vHUB54Oj1eVrHujrgfVbK81PjoW2lTg%20%20https://womensday.buildclub.ai/">Women in AI campaign</a>, a joint collaboration between 26 AI company partners in the AI ecosystem to empower women with more tools and credits to build with.<ul><li>Signups are still open, you can use this link here: <a href="https://womensday.buildclub.ai/">https://womensday.buildclub.ai/</a></li></ul></li><li>Solaris: Our enterprise AI capability tool for ChatGPT and Copilot adoption are now in private beta with enterprise customers. If you would like to get early access email: annie@buildclub.com.au</li><li>Announcing new collaboration partnerships with: Anything AI, Smallest AI!</li><li>Our team had a blast hosting the Agent Glow up <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7439790881576198144">hackathon</a> (thank you to our 250+ participants for joining!)</li></ul><blockquote></blockquote><hr><h3>Open Jobs</h3>Looking to hire the best talent? Join our free worldwide Slack community and post it in <a href="https://thebuildersfellow.slack.com/archives/C0778B8LT8T">#06-employment-opps-jobs</a><ul><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bland/96cadc65-138f-490a-8709-9eb331bf7d54">Forward Deployed Engineer at Bland AI</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/relevanceai/5f172cdd-068c-4355-b9ab-6d0db9470346?embed=js">Senior AI Engineer at Relevance AI</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/composio/519aef4c-7a15-4a62-8adf-e8150087aeca">Member of Technical Staff (Agents) at Composio</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa/22804c28-3daa-48b5-afc9-d048132482bf">Software Engineer (Developer Relations) at Exa</a></li><li><a href="https://vercel.com/careers/product-manager-agent-platform-5808590004">Product Manager (Agent Platform) at Vercel</a></li><li><a href="https://www.trychroma.com/careers/distributed-systems">Distributed Systems Engineer at Chroma</a><hr></li></ul><h2>Community events</h2>Over the past few months, Build Club has launched in several new cities around the world, including: Singapore, New York, San Francisco, Wollongong, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.Explore our global events calendar: <a href="https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz">https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz</a><ul><li>🚀 Launch/Sprint | Pitch Circuit: Core - Build Club x Arrayah, March 21, Drummoyne NSW | <a href="https://luma.com/cmuecf5s">Sign up</a></li><li>🔬Workshop | March Build Club Perth: Workflow Automations, March 23, Bentley WA | <a href="https://luma.com/mf206hm0">Sign up</a></li><li>🔬 Workshop | OpenClaw for Work - Intro + Setup Part 1, March 24, Online | <a href="https://luma.com/hz6ytiif">Sign up</a></li><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | AI Founder & Investor Poker Night, April 2, Drummoyne NSW | <a href="https://luma.com/5fif77ev">Sign up</a></li><li>💻 Hackathon | Folklore Ventures x Build Club: Future of Applied AI, April 11, Redfern NSW | <a href="https://luma.com/g64lbipn">Sign up</a></li><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | TiDB x Build Club: Mastering Best Practices in Data & AI, April 9, Jakarta | <a href="https://luma.com/zfd0ghpd">Sign up</a></li></ul>Partner Events<ul><li>💻 Hackathon | OpenClaw Hackathon: Eragon x Hyperspell, March 21-22, San Francisco CA |<a href="https://luma.com/w68ph5fe">Sign up</a></li></ul><hr><h3>💡 Share Your Tip for the Week!</h3>Have a clever AI hack, tool, or prompt you discovered? Comment below!We have begun to take 100 people off our waitlist every week. You can bypass this by subscribing to the newsletter if you are not on the waitlist ;)Interested in Reading More?Hear about what our <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/from-energy-to-legacy-irvan-putra">Jakarta</a> and <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/building-brisbanes-ai-community-ella">Brisbane</a> City Leads are doing to spread energy in their cities.Learn about what Build Club got up to this year in our 2025 recap. <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/a-year-end-note-from-build-club-2026">Read more.</a>See you next time!Build Club Team