Exciting hackathon with over 10k cash and credit prizes and unique theme

Please join discord for internal updates: https://discord.gg/sdEBnvwHhG

Build an Zero Human startup powered by a team of AI agents. Phase 1 is the foundation; Phase 2 is where you turn it into a functioning company.

Phase one is in Person from 10 AM to 6 PM and phase to is continuation of Phase 1 till October 11 with Demos in different location in SF having prizes for both Phases

Refer to the Discord documentation for detailed instructions on sponsor tools and how they should be used.

Phase 1 — Build Day

In Person | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Build 3 to 5 specialized AI agents across areas such as:

  • Product

  • Research

  • GTM

  • Sales

  • Marketing

  • Strategy

Your agents should work together through real workflows, not operate as standalone chatbots.

10:00 – 11:00 | Kickoff & Sponsor Demos

  • Challenge briefing

  • Sponsor tool demos

  • Team setup and Q&A

11:00 – 5:00 | Build SprintBuild the foundation of your startup:

  • Identify and validate a problem

  • Build a simple working MVP

  • Create your initial AI agents

  • Define your business model and GTM

  • Prepare your demo and pitch

5:00 – 5:30 | JudgingDemo your startup and pitch to judges.

Phase 1 prizes are awarded after judging.

Completion of Phase 1 is required to continue to Phase 2.

Phase 2 — Build the Zero Human Company

October 7–11 | Online + In Person

Take your Phase 1 MVP and turn it into a functioning AI-native startup. You can build more then 5 agents now.

During Phase 2:

  • Build and connect your AI organization

  • Improve the product

  • Launch and test with users

  • Execute your GTM strategy

  • Collect feedback and iterate

  • Prepare an investor-ready pitch

October 11 — Final Demos & Review

Teams may present in person at participating locations for final demos and judging.

Final judging will consider the product, AI organization, execution, validation, GTM, traction, and final pitch.

Phase 2 has its own prizes and awards.

The Progression

Phase 1: Idea → Validation → Simple MVP → Initial AI Team

Phase 2: MVP → 5+ AI Agents → Working AI Organization → Users → Investor Pitch

Sponsors & Tools

Kylon

Kylon helps you create AI agents that can run business processes. You can turn workflows into agents that understand tasks, use tools, and take actions. Check out https://kylon.io

AdaL

AdaL is an automation-first agent harness designed to get more done with less of your time. She combines personality, skills, and memory to become a personalized agent that can work alongside you. Check out https://adalagent.ai

Tenki

Tenki provides sandbox environments, cloud compute, and runners for executing code and workloads. It gives builders a place to experiment, run, and scale their work. Check out https://tenki.cloud

Rocket Ride

Rocket Ride helps developers build AI and data pipelines directly in their IDE. It makes it easier to connect data, AI models, processing steps, and outputs into repeatable workflows. Check out https://cloud.rocketride.ai

Prelint

Prelint is your product whisperer, checking every pull request against product specs, business rules, and compliance requirements. It catches spec drift before code ships, turning product decisions into automated checks within your existing GitHub workflow so teams and AI agents can move fast without losing sight of what the product is supposed to do. Check out https://prelint.com

InsForge

InsForge is building agent-native cloud infrastructure for modern AI development. It brings together model gateway, compute, deployment, database, authentication, and more so AI coding agents can operate across the full development workflow. Check out the new product https://www.instacloud.com

Voisekey

Voiskey is an innovative AI voice research team dedicated to Expression Intelligence technology, focusing on the development of next-generation voice interfaces that comprehend a speaker's true intent. Check out https://www.voiskey.ai

Querit

Querit is a real-time search and retrieval API for LLMs and AI products, powered by a trillion-scale multilingual index. It delivers fast, high-precision results with fresh data, configurable recency, and multi-source citations. Check out https://www.querit.ai

Paritok

Paritok drops in and non-destructively compresses tools, files, and history on the fly for longer sessions and smaller bills. Check out https://www.paritok.com

Finch

Finch provides agent skills that give AI agents reusable capabilities for performing specific tasks. Skills can help make agents more useful, structured, and consistent. Check out https://www.finchtech.ai

Thenvoi AI Inc

Thenvoi AI Inc helps AI agents and people work together in a shared environment. Its platform lets agents built with different tools communicate, delegate tasks, and keep context in sync, while giving teams visibility and control over how that work gets done. Check out https://www.band.ai

Ask the W

Ask the W helps you figure out what is worth building with AI. It helps identify good ideas, tasks that can be handled by agents, places where human judgment is needed, and the next steps to take.

Apify

Apify is a platform for building, running, and sharing web automation and data extraction tools. It helps developers collect structured data from websites and automate repetitive online tasks.

Prizes

Best Use of RocketRide - $1000 worth Airpods

Best Use of BAND - $500 Cash

Best Use of Prelint - $5000 credits

Best Use of Paritok- TBD

Best Use of ADAL - 1st Place - 6 Months AdaL Pro, 2nd Place 3 Months AdaL Pro

Best Use of Tenki - $1000 credits

Best use of Voisekey - $50 Gift card

Best use of Querit - $50 Gift card

Best use of Instacloud - $500 credits + Swags

Best use of Ask the W - $25 gift card for Best Ideas, $25 Gift card for finding bugs. More details on https://askthew.com/hackathon

More prizes TBD

Judges & Mentors

Merve Isler: Fouder @ Marvelous & AI Insiders

Anya Ozmen: Founder @ Gameer

Vince Kohli: Strategic Advisor @ GoogleDeepmind

Sumit Jagdale: Founder @ Sartorial

Saurabh Khire: Software Engineer @ Govia

Mia Yang: AI Product Manager @ Baidu USA

Clarie Kwon: Chief Technology Officer @ San Francisco General Labs

Hannan Kwon: Software Engineer @ AWS

Aria Shi: GTM Lead @ AdaL

Jax Koh: GTM Engineer @ AdaL

Li Yin: Chief Executive Officer @ AdaL

Jiayu Shi: Founder @ Paritok

Luzhou Shen: Co-Founder @ Paritok

Hosts & Partners

AdaL

AdaL is the automation-first agent harness. AdaL stands out with Browser Use combined with multi model plans, comes with 10 major LLM providers and goes to audio, image and video generation. You can code, operate and GTM all at once. Check out https://adalagent.ai

Finch

Finch provides agent skills that give AI agents reusable capabilities for performing specific tasks. Skills can help make agents more useful, structured, and consistent. Check out https://www.finchtech.ai

Sartorial

Sartorial helps make products more intelligently discoverable and recommendable. It adds context such as social proof, material, fit, color, promotions, image meaning, and brand-specific ranking judgment to product discovery. Check out https://www.sartori.al

Articuler AI

Articuler.ai helps people find the right professionals for their goals — whether that's raising a round, finding a co-founder, or entering a new market. Check out https://www.articuler.ai

BridgeUs

BridgeUs helps you meet the right people at events. Whether its customers, partners, engineers, investors, LPs or others. Check out https://bridgeus.co

Devnovate

Hosts hackathons and events all over the world. Check out https://devnovate.co

Medallilon XLN

Host founder and investor related events in San Francisco. Check out https://medallionxln.com

Venture Bridge Hub

Connecting people, capital, and innovation across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Check out https://venturebridgehub.com

Bond AI

The largest in-person AI events community connecting 150k AI operators & founders for hackathons, conferences, & meetups. Check out https://app.bondcommunity.ai

NERDCONF

NERDCONF brings highly motivating and educational technology talks to audiences across Argentina, featuring speakers and experts from the technology world. Their goal is to connect the community with people, ideas, and opportunities from the tech ecosystem. Check out https://www.nerdconf.com

​Organized by Crewbase Collective

Crewbase Collective is organization running hackathons and events across the San Francisco. Check out https://crewbasecollective.comThis event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com