Agent Forge AI Hackathon
The era of simple chatbots is over. Real AI applications need to access live data, write their own code, autonomously manage their own state, and run reliably in the cloud.
The Agent Forge AI Hackathon gives you the ultimate stack to ship production-ready AI agents in one day. Assemble a team of one to six people — or go solo — and build, test, and deploy a working AI Agent solution together. We are moving beyond local prototypes. If it doesn't deploy and manage real data, it doesn't count.
The Challenge
Build an AI agent or a swarm of agents that solves a real-world problem.
Your Agent Forge agent should be able to gather intelligence, autonomously process information, build with professional-grade tooling and live on the web. You're free to come up with your own idea. The only requirement: your project must be built on the partner stacks below and deployed live by demo time.
The Stack (Your Arsenal)
You will have access to premium credits and tools from our innovation partners to build your Agent Forge solution:
AgentField: The open-source AI backend. Define an agent, add one decorator, and you have production-ready micro services with async execution, shared memory, and live observability - fully deployed. Multi-agent coordination is one line of code. No extra infrastructure, no glue code. Your agents reason. Your infrastructure governs
Actionbook: The browser action engine for AI agents. Equip your agents with up-to-date action manuals and verified DOM selectors to operate any website instantly. Eliminate guesswork and brittle scraping, empowering your agents to seamlessly handle modern web apps, SPAs, and complex workflows with unbreakable resilience and speed.
Bright Data: Give your assistant the ability to browse the web. Build custom web-scraping "skills" into your agents to fetch real-time data, monitor trends, or aggregate research automatically using reliable, large-scale infrastructure.
- Claim Bright Data Credits using this link: https://get.brightdata.com/aibuilders10
Evermind: Creator of EverOS, a revolutionary memory operating system designed for AI agents, providing long-term retention, deep personalization, and continuous learning to transform stateless models into intelligent partners
Nosana: Supercharge your compute with Nosana's decentralized GPUs to run specialized AI models. Use them to run tasks, process heavy data workloads, or host custom local models for your assistant affordably.
- Claim Nosana Credits using this link: https://www.theaibuilders.dev/nosanacredits
Qwen Cloud: The official platform for the Qwen model family. Access state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary models optimized for deep reasoning and agentic coding. Empower your agents to process multimodal information and seamlessly execute complex real-world workflows.
- Claim Qwen Cloud Credits using this link:
https://tinyurl.com/qwencloudcredits
Qoder: The agentic coding platform built for real-world software development. Move from simple assistance to true autonomy using features like Expert Panel Mode to assemble a specialized AI engineering team, and Repo Wiki to instantly surface implicit codebase knowledge.
- Claim Qoder Credits using this link:
https://tinyurl.com/qodercredits
TokenRouter: a unified routing platform offering seamless access to the top AI models worldwide. It delivers faster, better, and cheaper performance via smart caching.
- Claim your TokenRouter Credits here
Zeabur: Spin up a dedicated server on Zeabur to deploy your app, debug DevOps questions with Zeabur agent and use the web interfaces with a single click, ensuring your project is live, accessible, and scalable.
- Claim Zeabur Credits using this link: (Only available during hackathon day)
https://zeabur.com/events?code=BUILDER0516
Z.ai: Creators of the frontier GLM model family. GLM‑5.1 is its latest frontier large language model, built as a SOTA open‑source model for long‑horizon tasks with Opus‑level reasoning depth. Build websites, create slides, analyze data, and get instant answers.
Bonus Credits:
Butterbase: The product backend for your coding agent. Once your coding agent is reasoning and acting, Butterbase handles everything the user-facing app around it needs — database, auth, file storage, API endpoints, and deployment. We also provide AI model integrations with 500+ models including LLMs, image, video and embedding models and partner and built-in integrations connect external accounts (Gmail, Slack, GitHub, etc.) Tell your AI coding assistant to use Butterbase and it wires it all up. Ship a real product, not just a demo.
- Claim $20 @Butterbase Credits using this code: [FUN0516] Signup at https://butterbase.ai/ and click "grab a slice". Enter promo code by selecting the launch plan under https://dashboard.butterbase.ai/billing
Team Format
Form a team of 1–6 people. Teams can blend different skill sets — developers, designers, business minds — to tackle bigger, more ambitious projects.
Judging Criteria
Completeness: Whether the team finished at least a minimum viable product.
Innovation: Is the product idea innovative?
Real-Life Problem Solving: Is the project solving a real-life problem, or is there a real pain in the market?
Sponsored Product Usage: Did the team use sponsored products?
Prizes
All winning teams will earn a share of exclusive hackathon prizes, including partner credits and 1000 USD cash prizes to keep building and scaling their projects.
Agenda
10:00 AM — Check-in & Networking
10:30 AM — Hackathon Introduction
10:45 AM — Tech Stack Workshops
Christine Dai, TokenRouter
Jingjing Liu, Qoder
Joey, Qwen Cloud
Yuanlin Lin, Zeabur
Asen Lei, Actionbook
Daniel, Beta Fund
11:30 AM — Team Formation & Project Setup
12:30 PM — Lunch
4:30 PM — Submission Deadline / Live Demos
5:30 PM — Winners Announced + Networking
6:00 PM — Close
Who Should Come?
You want to build AI agents that access the real internet, not just static datasets. You want to deploy something live, not just run it on localhost. You want to connect with the Silicon Valley AI community and the AI Builders network.
Whether you're a developer, a designer, or a business builder — if you want to ship a real AI project in a day with a team, this is your event.
Important Info
Wifi: ihealth guest
Password: welcome2iHealth
Online Chat group: tinyurl.com/agentforgechat
Project Submission: tinyurl.com/agentforgesubmit (deadline 4:30PM)
Voting link
tinyurl.com/agentforgevote
Organized By
AI Builders: A premier community of AI builders, developers, and innovators in Singapore, Tokyo, and San Francisco Bay Area. Prototype real products with fellow builders, ship features weekly, and trade production-tested playbooks.
Beta Fund: Beta Fund is an early-stage venture fund based in Palo Alto, backing the builders shaping the AI era. We partner with exceptional technical founders at the inception stage. Our focus spans agentic AI, AI-native systems, and AI-powered vertical SaaS—the foundational layers of the next software epoch.
Llama Ventures: Llama Ventures is an early-stage venture firm backing ambitious founders building AI-native companies by providing deep technical expertise and strategic capital across the intelligence stack to transform innovation into market reality.
Limited spots available. Register now.