NYC Voice Agent Hackathon with Take2AI & Reach Capital

​Most voice AI tools fall apart the moment someone interrupts, goes quiet, or asks something off-script. This afternoon, you’ll build one that doesn’t.

​Take2’s engineers run AI phone interviews in production every day, and they’ll show you what they’ve learned: how to wire up speech-to-text, an LLM, and text-to-speech into a pipeline fast enough to feel like a conversation. Then you and your team get three hours to build your own, with Take2 mentors on the floor.

​The challenge: Build an agent that does one job on a real phone call, like booking an appointment or screening a candidate. At demo time, your agent takes a live call from our judges. One of them will be a difficult caller.

​What you get

• ​A starter kit and API credits for LiveKit, Deepgram, Gemini, and Cartesia

• ​Hands-on mentoring from engineers who ship voice AI at scale

• ​A working voice agent you can keep building on

• ​Dinner, drinks, and a room full of NYC builders

​Prizes include a fast-track, in-person interview with Take2, an opportunity to pitch to investors at Reach Capital, and others to be announced.

​How you’ll be judged

• ​Did the agent do its job on the call?

• ​How did it handle interruptions, silence, and curveballs?

• ​Did the conversation feel natural, with good response time and turn-taking?

• ​Were the design choices deliberate?

​Schedule

​3 PM: Welcome & Voice Agent Seminar
4 PM: Build
7 PM: Live Demos
8 PM: Awards & Networking

​Who should come: Engineers who want hands-on time with real-time voice AI. Come solo or bring a team of up to 4. You don’t need voice AI experience, just comfort writing code and a laptop. Spots are limited to 50.