Claude@Stanford Buildathon
🥇 Claude@Stanford Buildathon
📅 When? Saturday, April 11, 2026
🧩 Where? TBA (after registration confirmation)
Prizes
The best builds will win:
🥇 1st Place: $750 cash + $1,000 in Claude API credits + 1:1 with Slow Ventures partner + Spotlight on Claude@Stanford site
🥈 2nd Place: $250 cash + $500 in Claude API credits + Spotlight on Claude@Stanford site
🥉 3rd Place: Spotlight on Claude@Stanford site + Claude merch
The Tracks
You’ll have 3 hours to build something that improves at least one layer of the productive stack:
1️⃣ Better: How can we materially improve the quality of human output without compromising human agency?
2️⃣ Faster: How can we compress time, automate workflows, and strip undesirable friction out of getting meaningful work done?
3️⃣ Smarter: How can we leverage agent-native systems to coordinate tasks, manage context, and unlock new modes of human–AI collaboration?
How It Works
Stage 1 — Apply: Tell us who you are, what you’ve built, and your thoughts on Claude. We’ll select up to 70 builders to join us for the buildathon.
Stage 2 — Team & Tracks: Join solo or with up to 3 teammates. You’ll pick one of the three tracks (Better, Faster, Smarter) and refine your idea up to 24 hours before the buildathon.
Stage 3 — The Buildathon: 3-hour build session in person on April 11. You’ll build, iterate with mentors from Anthropic, AI@GSB, and Slow Ventures, then demo to a panel of judges including faculty, investors, and operators.
Partners
The AI Tinkery, Stanford Accelerator for Learning