Zero Human Startup Hackathon | #SFTechWeek
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Please submit the projects at 5 PM on https://hackathons.crewbasecollective.com/
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 | 11:00 AM – 8:00 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.
12:00 – 1:00 | Kickoff & Sponsor Demos
Challenge briefing
Sponsor tool demos
Team setup and Q&A
1:00 – 5:00 | Build Sprint
Build 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 – 7:00 | Judging
Demo your startup and pitch to judges.
6:00 – 8:00 | Final Demos & Winners
Demo 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
Selected 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 Web Search API built for AI. Powered by its proprietary global web index covering hundreds of billions of pages, Querit provides fresh, structured, and source-grounded web information for LLMs, AI agents, and applications. Learn more at 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
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
Glasser
Glasser provides a data buffet for AI agents, giving your agents access to premium data through one API key and a prepaid balance. Instead of subscribing to multiple data tools, you pay per call to power workflows such as finding leads, researching creators, running SEO audits, analyzing competitors, conducting due diligence, and discovering many more use cases. Check out https://glasser.ai/
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. Check out https://apify.com/
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. Check out https://askthew.com/
Prizes
Best Use of RocketRide - $1000 worth Airpods
Best Use of BAND - $500 Cash
Best Use of Prelint - $5000 credits
Best Use of Paritok- $100M token credits
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 Glasser - $100 Glasser credits
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
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
Mia Yang: AI Product Manager @ Baidu USA
Claire 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 Chen: Co-Founder @ Paritok
Amitabh Das: Founder @ Agent OS
Ali Amjad: Research Fellow @ R42 Group
Sarah Hatcher: Founder @ Kripke and Human Technology Alliance Institute
Christina Bowllan: Founding GTM @ Kylon
Tony Chang: Co-Founder @ Insforge
Irka Palwoski: Founder @ Prelint
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
Build Club
Most collaborative AI community in the world. Check out https://buildclub.ai
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
Bond AI
The largest in-person AI events community connecting 150k AI operators & founders for hackathons, conferences, & meetups. Check out https://app.bondcommunity.ai
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. Check out https://apify.com/
Box
Box combines intelligent content management and secure collaboration with AI-powered capabilities.
Enable agentic workflows that help teams discover insights, automate tasks, and turn content into action. Check out https://www.box.com/
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
RocketRide:
RocketRide is an open-source, developer-native AI meta-harness. Build, debug, and deploy production AI workflows right inside your IDE. And with RocketRide Cloud, teams can offload the complexity of AI infrastructure and focus on building solutions, with cost-efficient execution through our proprietary model server, shared pipelines for collaboration, higher performance, and seamless scalability.
🎁 Free credits: We're giving away free credits for RocketRide Cloud, 100% off your first purchase with a promo code. Join the Discord to grab yours.
📖 Step-by-step guide: Setup, demos, and how to build on RocketRide (Cloud + open-source): Doc | Video
🚀 Submit your project: Post it in the #showcase channel on Discord. Make sure to include your project’s GitHub link and all your .pipe files (import them from RocketRide Cloud).
Need help? Just ask our bot in #support (Discord) whether it’s about your project or the tools.
Let's build something awesome together. 💻✨
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Organized by Crewbase Collective
Crewbase Collective is organization running hackathons and events across the San Francisco. Check out https://crewbasecollective.com
This 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