Community AI Hackathon: Building Agents for Real-World Impact - Open Registration
🧙 The Original Wizard: Community AI Hackathon
Building AI Agents That Create Real-World Impact
📅 Saturday, July 26, 2026
🕘 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
📍 Frontier Tower | 995 Market Street | San Francisco
AI agents are moving beyond one-off demos.
The next generation of builders won't simply prompt models—they'll build intelligent systems capable of planning, acting, observing, recovering from failure, collaborating with humans, integrating with APIs, and creating measurable value for real organizations.
Join Lynkable, Frontier Tower, FinChip, and our sponsor partners for a builder-first hackathon focused on transforming AI agent prototypes into production-ready, market-ready AI solutions.
Unlike traditional hackathons centered around hypothetical ideas, The Original Wizard connects builders with startups, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, educators, artists, small businesses, and community leaders who have real operational challenges waiting to be solved.
This isn't about building another chatbot.
It's about building AI that people can actually deploy.
About the Hackathon
Most AI hackathons stop at the demo.
The Original Wizard starts where most hackathons end.
As AI rapidly transforms every industry, the real challenge is no longer whether an agent can complete one task once.
The challenge is whether it can repeatedly execute a workflow, interact with tools, recover from errors, work safely, respect permissions, evaluate its own performance, and generate meaningful outcomes for businesses and communities.
Throughout the day, participants will work alongside founders, sponsors, mentors, nonprofit leaders, and community organizations to build AI systems capable of solving practical problems.
Builders will create AI agents that are:
✅ Runnable — Complete real workflows from beginning to end.
✅ Reliable — Include evaluations, memory, logging, permissions, human approval, or guardrails.
✅ Composable — Connect with APIs, MCP servers, databases, external tools, and other AI agents.
✅ Deployable — Ready to become real products, internal workflows, or reusable AI skills.
✅ Market Ready — Built with real users, business models, and long-term adoption in mind.
FinChip will help teams explore how AI agents evolve into reusable AI skills that can be discovered, launched, licensed, composed, and monetized.
Loop engineering makes agents work.
Harness engineering makes agents reliable.
Community partnerships make AI meaningful.
The Original Wizard brings all three together.
The Challenge
🧠 Build an AI agent that solves a real workflow and has the potential to become a production-ready AI product or skill.
Your project should demonstrate four things.
1. A Real User Workflow
Not another chatbot.
Your AI should complete meaningful work for founders, nonprofits, healthcare providers, educators, artists, creators, marketers, recruiters, investors, operators, researchers, community organizations, or small businesses.
Examples include:
Sales Research Agent
Recruiting Assistant
Founder Copilot
Investor Research Agent
Finance Operations
Marketing Campaign Generator
Customer Support Agent
Grant Writing Assistant
Workflow Automation
Community Resource Navigator
Healthcare Intake Assistant
Volunteer Management Agent
Event Operations Agent
Museum Education Assistant
Food Security Planning Agent
AI Case Management Tools
2. A Workflow Loop
Your AI shouldn't simply respond once.
It should repeatedly execute a workflow:
Plan → Act → Observe → Verify → Improve / Retry
The strongest projects will function like workflow engines rather than prompt demonstrations.
3. Reliability
Projects should demonstrate production-quality thinking.
Possible components include:
Tool permissions
Evaluation harnesses
Memory
Logging
Human approval
Rollback systems
Guardrails
Cost monitoring
Prompt injection protection
Security checks
Error recovery
Monitoring
Observability
4. Real-World Adoption
Every team should explain:
Who is the user?
What problem does this solve?
Why would someone use it?
Why would someone pay for it?
Can this become a reusable AI product?
How could it be deployed after the hackathon?
What would Version 2 look like?
Tracks
🔁 Track 1 — Loop Engineering
Design intelligent workflows capable of repeatedly planning, acting, observing, verifying, and improving.
Examples:
Coding Agents
Research Agents
Recruiting
Sales
Finance
Customer Success
Marketing
Internal Operations
Judging focuses on:
Workflow quality
Agent reasoning
Tool integration
Reliability
Repeatability
🛡️ Track 2 — Harness Engineering
Build the infrastructure that makes AI dependable.
Examples:
Evaluations
Monitoring
Agent Permissions
Security
Audit Logs
Rollbacks
Human Approval
Cost Controls
Safety Layers
💎 Track 3 — FinChip Skill Marketplace
Package AI into reusable, discoverable skills.
Examples:
AI Skill Marketplace
Licensing Models
Usage Pricing
Agent Commerce
Skill Ownership
Revenue Sharing
Marketplace Discovery
📈 Track 4 — Revenue & Go-To-Market
Great technology means little without adoption.
Projects should demonstrate:
Customer Discovery
Pilot Opportunities
Pricing Strategy
Distribution
Growth
Early Demand
Business Model Validation
🌎 Track 5 — Community AI (Presented by Lynkable)
Build AI that improves communities.
Challenge areas include:
Healthcare
Food Security
Education
Youth Development
Museums
Arts & Culture
Community Organizations
Local Government
Environmental Projects
Public Services
Nonprofits
Startup Ecosystems
Small Businesses
The best Community AI projects will create solutions capable of being deployed immediately following the hackathon.
Who Should Attend?
We welcome:
👩💻 AI Engineers
🧑💻 Full-Stack Developers
🤖 AI Agent Builders
🚀 Startup Founders
🎨 Designers
📈 Product Managers
🏢 Operators
🏥 Healthcare Professionals
🎓 Educators
🌱 Nonprofit Leaders
🎭 Artists
💡 Students
🌎 Community Builders
Teams of 1–4 builders are welcome.
Solo participants are encouraged.
Team formation will happen during the opening session.
Event Schedule
9:00 AM — Check-In & Breakfast
9:30 AM — Opening Keynote
10:00 AM — Sponsor Lightning Talks
10:30 AM — Team Formation
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM — Build Sprint
1:00 PM — Mentor Office Hours
4:30 PM — Project Submission
5:30 PM — Live Demos
6:30 PM — Judging
7:00 PM — Awards
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM — Networking
Judging
Projects will be evaluated on:
Real Workflow Value
Technical Execution
AI Agent Design
Reliability
Product Experience
Community Impact
Market Potential
Demo Quality
Prizes
🏆 Grand Prize
🔁 Best Loop Engineering
🛡️ Best Harness Engineering
💎 Best FinChip Skill
📈 Best GTM Strategy
🌎 Best Community AI Project
⚡ Best Sponsor Integration
👥 People's Choice
🤝 Investor Pick
Sponsor Opportunities
Sponsors may provide:
API Credits
Cloud Credits
AI Models
Developer Tools
Technical Workshops
Mentors
Judges
Prize Sponsorships
Pilot Opportunities
Customer Introductions
Investment Connections
What to Bring
💻 Laptop
🔌 Charger
🪪 Government ID
🛠️ GitHub or Portfolio
🚀 A mindset focused on building AI that creates lasting value.
Community Guidelines
We're creating a collaborative builder environment.
Please:
Respect fellow participants.
Build with integrity.
Give credit to teammates.
Be transparent about what was built.
Respect intellectual property.
Support others.
Focus on solving meaningful problems.
Apply to Build
Space is limited.
Applications may be reviewed based on your experience, portfolio, GitHub, previous projects, and alignment with the event's mission.
Whether you're an engineer, founder, designer, researcher, operator, student, nonprofit leader, or community builder, The Original Wizard: Community AI Hackathon is for people who believe the next generation of AI won't simply answer questions—it will automate workflows, strengthen organizations, empower communities, and create measurable impact.
Build useful AI. Solve real problems. Create lasting impact.