Grok Bot Community Engineering London Hackathon
Build community infrastructure, 20x better.
An evening hackathon for community engineers, DevRels, organisers and builders. Grok Bot and Cursor are the architects.
Grok Bot holds the context: Slack, Discord, inbox, calendar, Luma, CRM and the web. Cursor turns it into code. Together they design, build and ship community tooling 20x better than anything stitched together by hand.
Architect a growth engine. Build the event stack. Wire up community collabs. Build something we haven't seen before.
Live demos. Ship fast. Real communities.
📅 Schedule
6:00 PM — Doors open & setup
6:05 PM — Kickoff & tracks
6:10 PM — Hacking begins
9:15 PM — Code freeze, submissions & initial judging
9:45 PM — Live demos of Top 5, 3 minutes each
10:10 PM — Final judging & awards
10:30 PM — Close
📍 Venue: TBA
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 October 2026
🚀 What You'll Build
Point Grok Bot and Cursor at a real community problem. You bring the context, and they architect, build and ship. Some ideas...
Channel Acquisition
Community Collabs
Event Tooling
Community Activation
Idea → Proposal → Event Creation → Event Execution
OR the Weird Stuff: infrastructure only possible when bots that know your whole community write the code.
Work solo or in teams of up to 3.
🤝 Partners & Sponsors
Co-hosts
Francisco Terpolilli, EU Ambassador @ Cursor
Technology Partners
Cursor
Grok Bot
TBA
Community Partners
TBA
Judges
TBD
🧠 Why This Hackathon?
Bots have become builders.
Grok Bot sees your whole community at once: every channel, inbox, calendar, event page and conversation. With Cursor, it turns that context into working infrastructure in hours, not quarters.
That raises some interesting questions:
What does acquisition tooling look like when the builder knows every channel you're in?
Can a bot architect a collab engine by reading two communities?
Can a bot take an event from idea to proposal to live page to the night itself, building every tool along the way?
What does activation look like when tooling is built from what members actually say and do?
What can a community engineer ship in one evening when Grok Bot and Cursor do the architecture?
How do organisers stay in control of what their bots build and ship?
What does 20x better community tooling look like?
This hackathon is about actioning those answers.
💡 Why Participate?
Ship something real, built by Grok Bot and Cursor.
Use your community's existing context, like Slack, Discord, Luma, email and calendars, as the blueprint instead of starting from scratch.
Build alongside London's community engineers, DevRels, organisers and founders.
Show what bots can build. Win prizes, swag and recognition, and demo live to an expert judging panel.
🏆 Tracks
Projects can compete across:
Channel Acquisition
Community Collabs
Event Tooling
Community Activation
Idea to Event
More tracks and sponsor prize buckets to be announced.
🏆 Demo Format
Every team submits a working demo at code freeze.
The Top 5 present live, with 3 minutes each.
Judges will award:
🥇 1st Place 🥈 2nd Place 🥉 3rd Place
Plus sponsor prizes and special awards.
Judging Criteria:
Technical execution
How much Grok Bot and Cursor architected it
Use of community context
10x to 20x improvement over today's tooling
Real-world usefulness
Demo quality