FinOps Hackathon
What if the finance work just did itself?
At this hackathon, you'll build the finance function you wish you had: agents that do the work a founder, a fractional CFO or an ops lead currently does by hand.
The idea is simple. Financial operations is the most repetitive, boring and quietly time-consuming work in a startup — and most of it can be automated now. Give an agent structured access to the money records and most of it week becomes a workflow.
That's what the Seapoint MCP does, and we're launching it here. Accounts and balances, reporting, transactions and spend, cards, bills and invoices, vendors, treasury, burn and runway — queryable by your agent.
Pick a piece of financial operations — the month-end close, the board pack, the payment run — and build something that does it. You'll work in a Seapoint sandbox with seeded transaction data, so no real bank accounts and no real money. At code freeze you submit a short demo
Work solo or in teams of up to 3. If you're building in a team, we'll suggest mixing it: someone commercial, someone who knows finance properly, someone who can ship. Come with a team or find one on the night.
👥 Who this is for
Founders, CFOs, fractional CFOs, finance and ops leads, chiefs of staff — anyone who owns or touches the finances of an early-stage (Pre-Seed to Series A) company. Technical, semi-technical, or the person who knows exactly what should be built and needs someone to build it.
📅 Schedule
17:50 — Doors open
18:15 — Welcome, briefing & judging overview
18:20 — Hacking begins
18:30 — Food
20:20 — Code freeze, submissions & initial scoring
21:25 — Live demos of Top 5 (2–3 mins each)
21:45 — Final judging & awards
22:00 — Close
🤝 Partners & Sponsors
Co-hosts
Seapoint
13books Capital
Supported by
Claude — providing credits for everyone building on the night
Judges
Neil Streete — Head of Product, Seapoint
Michael McFadgen — Partner, 13books Capital
Hannah Salmons — Accountant, Green and Purple
Corinne Thompson — Founder & CEO, Ecap Financial
🏆 Demo Format
Every team submits a live demo at code freeze.
Top 5 scored will do a LIVE DEMO.
Then of the top 5, 3 shall place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
Projects will be judged on:
Technical execution
Product thinking
Agent autonomy
UX clarity
Real-world applicability
Safety & oversight design
🎁 Prizes
Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Plus credits for everyone building on the night.
What to bring
A laptop, your usual AI coding setup, and one finance problem that annoys you. Food, drinks, wifi, power and sandbox access are on us.