Universal Hackathon - Create Your Own AI Workforce | AWS Builder Loft

Space is limited and is mandatory to register on https://events.builder.aws.com/EARgN9 (required to enter the AWS building) and join the discord: https://discord.gg/QF2AkaAfTr

All guests must be 18+ and present a valid government-issued physical photo ID at check-in (digital IDs will not be accepted). Scooters and bikes are not permitted in any Amazon building with no on-site parking available.

Exciting prizes of 10K+ in credits and cashThe Universal Celebration Hackathon is a celebration of creativity, entrepreneurship, and the next generation of AI-powered companies. Bring your ideas, experiment with new possibilities, and turn your vision into something real.

This hackathon is about more than building a prototype. It’s about imagining what a company looks like when AI agents can work together as a team.

The Challenge

Build a company run by a team of AI agents.

Your challenge is to create an AI-native business or startup where multiple specialized agents work together to build, operate, and grow the company.

Think of your agents as your founding team. You might have a CEO agent defining strategy, a product agent building the product, engineering agents writing code, marketing agents finding customers, sales agents closing deals, finance agents managing the business, and operations or customer-support agents keeping everything running.

The key question is:

What happens when you give an AI team a business to run?

What to Build

Build a working prototype of a company powered by a team of collaborating AI agents.

Your project should:

Identify a real problem or opportunity.Define a clear product, service, or business.Create multiple AI agents with distinct roles and responsibilities.Show how your agents communicate, collaborate, and make decisions.Demonstrate how the agents can actually execute business tasks.Show how your company could acquire customers, deliver value, and grow.

You can build for consumers, businesses, creators, communities, or any other audience.

Don’t just build an AI feature. Build the beginnings of an AI-native company.

Tracks

Choose one or multiple tracks and build your company within them.

Climate, Sustainability & Impact

Build AI solutions for a healthier planet and stronger communities.

Examples: climate, sustainability, agriculture, disaster response, smart cities, social impact.

Health, Wellness & Care

Build AI solutions that improve health, wellbeing, and quality of life.

Examples: healthcare, fitness, nutrition, mental wellness, elder care.

Education, Learning & Research

Build AI solutions that make learning, education, and research better.

Examples: tutoring, personalized learning, professional training, research, career development.

Business, Growth & Productivity

Build AI solutions that help businesses work smarter, grow faster, and operate better.

Examples: sales, marketing, CRM, analytics, productivity, automation, business operations.

Media, Entertainment & Creators

Build AI solutions for creativity, entertainment, and digital experiences.

Examples: film, music, gaming, content creation, creator tools, social media.

Commerce, Retail & Consumer

Build AI solutions that transform how people shop and how businesses sell.

Examples: e-commerce, marketplaces, retail, logistics, inventory, personalized shopping.

Build the Future

Whether you're creating a climate startup, an AI health company, an education platform, a new media studio, or an autonomous business operating system, the goal is the same:

Build a company where a team of AI agents can turn an idea into reality.

Sponsors & Tools

Masky.AI

Masky.ai gives agents a face, voice, and brain. At the hackathon we'll give credits to clone yourself or bring your own characters to life. Then bring your agents into Maskord.com - discord for humans and agents. Connect agents built with your favorite coding harnesses and let your friends, teammates, and their agents all talk and work together in the same channels.Aly will talk briefly about mental wellness and Living Book where she turned herself and her book into an interactive voice/avatar agent that creates audio and talks with fans online identifying social media posts and giving her notifications when people post content related to her focus. $800 in prizes awarded to teams that keep human communities safe as we bring this new intelligence online at scale. Agents should participate in human communities, not replace them. Masky is the place where the agent workforce becomes social.

Cognee

Cognee is an open-source AI memory and knowledge engine that helps applications organize, connect, and retrieve information from different data sources. Check out https://www.cognee.ai

N8N

N8n is a workflow automation platform that lets users connect apps, APIs, and AI tools to automate complex workflows with little or no code. Check out https://n8n.io

Synk

Snyk is a developer-first cybersecurity platform that helps teams build fast without compromising on security. As developers rely heavily on AI to write code at unprecedented speeds, Snyk continuously scans and secures application code, open-source dependencies, containers, and cloud environments right within the developer’s workflow. For an AI hackathon, it matters because shipping code quickly with AI generators or autonomous agents also means shipping security risks at machine speed. Snyk acts as an intelligent security layer, catching vulnerabilities and automatically applying verified fixes in real time—allowing builders to ship ambitious AI projects safely and with complete confidence.At this event you will learn:1) Sign-up for free (no credit card required), how to import your code, and configure your AI coding tool2) Free AI Security Engineer Foundations Certificate

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

Flatkey

Flatkey is a unified access layer for AI, connecting teams to 328+ official AI models through one API. It supports models from providers such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and more, with transparent pricing and automatic failover. Check out https://flatkey.app

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

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

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

BAND

BAND 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

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

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.

Prizes

Best Use of N8N - One Year of n8n Cloud Pro

Best Use of RocketRide - $1000 worth Airpods

Best Use of Masky - $800 in prizes

Best Use of BAND - $500 Cash

Best Use of Cognee- $100 credits

Best Use of Prelint - $5000 credits

Best Use of Paritok- $100M token credit

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 Flatkey- $25 Gift card

Best use of Kylon- $200 credits

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: Founder @ Marvelous & AI Insiders
• Anya Ozmen: Founder @ Gameer
• Vince Kohli: Strategic Advisor @ Google DeepMind
• Sumit Jagdale: Founder @ Sartorial
• Saurabh Khire: Software Engineer @ Govia
• Claire Kwon: Chief Technology Officer @ San Francisco General Labs
• Aria Shi: GTM Lead @ AdaL
• Jax Koh: GTM Engineer @ AdaL
• Li Yin: Chief Executive Officer @ AdaL
• Jiayu Shi: Founder @ Paritok
• Luzhou Chen: Co-Founder @ Paritok
• Amitabh Das: Founder @ Agent OS
• Ali Amjad: Research Fellow @ R42 Group
• Sarah Hatcher: Founder @ Kripke and Human Technology Alliance Institute
• Chetan Jannu: Software Enginner @ Superhuman
• Irka Palwoski: Founder @ Prelint
• Seth Cadwell: Founder @ Masky.AI

Hosts & Partners

AI CollectiveThe AI Collective is a global community of builders, founders, and researchers dedicated to advancing responsible and human-centric artificial intelligence. The organization bridges the gap between technology and public interest by hosting widespread hackathons, community events, and governance initiatives. Check out https://www.aicollective.com/

GenAI Assembling

GenAI Assembling started in July 2024 as a gathering point for people building in AI, and has since grown into a high-signal community spanning the Bay Area ecosystem: founders, engineers, researchers, investors, and product leaders alike. With 25 events hosted, 18K+ total registrations, and a 10K+ subscriber base on Luma, the community also reaches a global audience of 4M+ through its newsletter, event calendar, and LinkedIn channels. Check out https://genaiassembling.substack.com

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

Build Club

Most collaborative AI community in the world. Check out https://buildclub.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.substack.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

Marvellous

Find relevant events and buyers, plan the right meeting or gathering, and prepare follow-up for your team to review. Check out https://www.themarvelo.us/

​Organized by Crewbase Collective

Crewbase Collective is organization running hackathons and events across the San Francisco. Check out https://crewbasecollective.com

Come celebrate, build, experiment, and show us what the future of business looks like.