Ship 26 NYC brought more than 1,000 builders together to explore the infrastructure behind a new generation of software. For Monogram, some of the most important work happened before the main stage opened.
Before the main stage
As a sponsor of Ship 26, Monogram came to New York to support the Vercel ecosystem, meet the teams building within it, and spend time working directly with Vercel engineers.
The day before Ship, our team participated in Vercel’s in-person Agent Certification Bootcamp, a hands-on technical session focused on implementing agents in real applications. Rather than moving through a fixed presentation, we built alongside Vercel engineers, asked questions as architectural decisions emerged, and worked directly with tools such as eve, Vercel’s open agent framework.
The format was casual, but information-dense. Vercel’s engineers walked us through the requirements for each project while leaving room to explore how the platform could support different products and workflows.
The certification didn’t ask us to watch from the sidelines; it required us to build. By the end of the bootcamp, the entire Monogram team had completed and passed the certification.
A partnership expressed through work
Monogram’s relationship with Vercel extends well beyond Ship. We have worked directly with Vercel’s engineering and marketing teams, moving through multiple prototypes and technical iterations to create a digital experience that demonstrated the platform’s workflow.
In 2025, Vercel also named Monogram among the inaugural cohort of Certified Vercel Solution Partners. Today, Monogram is listed as a Platinum Solution Partner with certifications across AI Cloud, Next.js, and Vercel.
These credentials matter because they reflect how we work with the platform, through delivery, experimentation, and direct technical collaboration. Certification validates the foundation; building together keeps that knowledge current.
What do we carry forward?
Ship offered a first hand look at the direction of agentic development, from the Agent Stack to eve and the infrastructure required to move agents into production. Our team began experimenting with those products during the conference, turning the sessions into working prototypes while the ideas were still fresh.
That proximity changes what we can bring into client work. We understand the platform through documentation and shipped projects, but also through direct access to the engineers shaping it and the decisions behind each capability.
Being present at Ship 26 reinforced Monogram’s role in the Vercel ecosystem: a partner prepared to evaluate new infrastructure, build with it, and translate it into production systems for the organizations we work alongside.