The front door · No. 1 MAiN

Welcome to SUNNYVAiLE.

Pick a building on the wall, or choose one by name below.

The wall map

Choose a building above.

Hover for its name. Click to see what lives there.

Step inside

The lobby directory

Choose a building by name.

Where do you want to go?

New here?

Let the host talk you through it.

Play the welcome trailer for the town in one sitting, or let the guided tour walk you through every stop in order.

Start the tour

Your first fifteen minutes

Arrive once. Know what to do next.

Watch Episode 01Meet the show before trying to understand every street.
Take the HandbookThe plain-language guide to the town, your card, and what lives where.
Make your Resident CardClaim your handle, choose your look, and unlock the member route.
Rent your PO boxGet the Wednesday release delivered and keep the next drop from getting lost.

The tourist postcard desk

Send someone the view.

You found the town. Send a friend the part she would love. Choose a card, write the back, and send it by share, text, email, or copied link without leaving the Visitor's Centre.

What is SUNNYVAiLE, and why a fictional town?

What is this place?

The show is LAiDIES. The town is SUNNYVAiLE.

Every Wednesday a new episode arrives from this fictional small town. Each building has one clear job, so the lessons, tools, games, music, community, and collectables feel like places you can return to—not a maze of unrelated website tabs.

Why a fictional town?

The references are how the ideas click.

LAiDIES teaches AI through the stories, objects, and pop-culture logic people already understand. The town is not decoration. It turns abstract technology into a familiar route: follow the plot, find the analogy, practise it, keep the reference, and come back next Wednesday.

From the Founder · Ali's note

Built by one woman, pushed forward by the right group chat.

Six months ago, I could not get a Women-in-Tax newsletter to send properly via email. I work in tax, not tech. The ideas were there, but they kept getting stuck behind someone else's time, budget, or availability.

Then I started using AI. Since then, I have built a personal command centre, designed AI agents for research and operations, entered a Women-in-Tax hackathon with a team that built Echo, made amazing LAiDIES friends, and created the newsletter, website, images, and brand you are looking at now.

LAiDIES is not asking you to become the IT department in better shoes. It is here to remind you that you are allowed to understand this stuff, and you absolutely can.

Ali Eakin · Writer / TRAiLBLAZER Created the newsletter, website, visuals, and public room.

Sara Baxter · Reviewer / Spark Early reviewer, Echo teammate, and the person who made the idea feel worth building out loud.

Eugina Lim · Echo / AI Brain One of Amazon Tax's AI experts and the original spark for Echo.

DJ SunnyV · House DJ / AI Music Turns each Wednesday episode into something you can play.