Universal Hackathon - Create Your Own AI Workforce | AWS Builder Loft
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Exciting prizes of 10K+ in credits and cash
The Universal Celebration Hackathon is a celebration of creativity, entrepreneurship, and the next generation of AI-powered companies. Bring your ideas, experiment with new possibilities, and turn your vision into something real.
This hackathon is about more than building prototypes, chatbots, or collections of AI agents. It’s about imagining what happens when AI agents become a team of digital people who can collaborate, communicate, make decisions, and perform real-world work together.
The Challenge
Build an AI-powered company, business, or organization run by a team of AI agents.
Your challenge is to create an AI-native business that demonstrates how multiple specialized agents can work together in a practical, real-world use case.
Think beyond a conventional startup team. Your agents could run a restaurant, manage a retail shop, operate a travel agency, coordinate social services, produce a film, or build an entirely new kind of business.
Each agent should have a distinct role, responsibility, personality, and character. Give them avatars and voices, and demonstrate how they interact with one another, exchange information, delegate tasks, make decisions, and work toward a shared goal.
The agents should do more than talk. They should use tools, conduct research, automate workflows, execute tasks, manage business operations, and deliver tangible outcomes.
The key question is:
What happens when you give a team of AI agents a real-world mission, distinct identities, and the tools to get the job done?
What to Build
Build a working prototype of a real-world operation powered by a team of collaborating AI agents.
Your project should:
Solve a real problem: Identify a practical need, business opportunity, or community challenge.
Create at least five AI agents: Give each agent a distinct role, responsibility, character, avatar, and voice.
Demonstrate real interactions: Show agents communicating, sharing context, coordinating responsibilities, and making decisions together.
Operate in a real-world use case: Demonstrate your agents performing actual business or organizational tasks, rather than simply discussing what they could do.
Use tools and automation: Enable agents to conduct browser-based and deep research, execute code in a sandbox, and automate workflows.
Build with reliability and security: Include code review, code-quality checks, and security vulnerability detection and remediation as part of your development workflow.
Show business value: Explain how your AI-powered company delivers value, serves customers or communities, and could grow over time.
Your agents might include a CEO, product manager, engineer, marketer, salesperson, finance specialist, or customer-support representative. Alternatively, they could be a chef, restaurant manager, inventory coordinator, and customer-service team working together to run a restaurant.
The roles should make sense for the real-world operation you choose.
Choose one or multiple tracks and build your company within them.
Tracks
Climate, Sustainability & Impact
Build AI solutions for a healthier planet and stronger communities.
Examples: climate, sustainability, agriculture, disaster response, smart cities, social impact.
Health, Wellness & Care
Build AI solutions that improve health, wellbeing, and quality of life.
Examples: healthcare, fitness, nutrition, mental wellness, elder care.
Education, Learning & Research
Build AI solutions that make learning, education, and research better.
Examples: tutoring, personalized learning, professional training, research, career development.
Business, Growth & Productivity
Build AI solutions that help businesses work smarter, grow faster, and operate better.
Examples: sales, marketing, CRM, analytics, productivity, automation, business operations.
Media, Entertainment & Creators
Build AI solutions for creativity, entertainment, and digital experiences.
Examples: film, music, gaming, content creation, creator tools, social media.
Commerce, Retail & Consumer
Build AI solutions that transform how people shop and how businesses sell.
Examples: e-commerce, marketplaces, retail, logistics, inventory, personalized shopping.
Build the Future
Don't just build multiple AI agents. Give them characters, a mission, a workplace, and the tools to work together. Show us what they can accomplish as a team.
Sponsors & Tools
Masky.AI
Masky.ai gives agents a face, voice, and brain. At the hackathon we'll give credits to clone yourself or bring your own characters to life.
Then bring your agents into Maskord.com - discord for humans and agents. Connect agents built with your favorite coding harnesses and let your friends, teammates, and their agents all talk and work together in the same channels.
Aly will talk briefly about mental wellness and Living Book where she turned herself and her book into an interactive voice/avatar agent that creates audio and talks with fans online identifying social media posts and giving her notifications when people post content related to her focus.
$800 in prizes awarded to teams that keep human communities safe as we bring this new intelligence online at scale. Agents should participate in human communities, not replace them. Masky is the place where the agent workforce becomes social.
Cognee
Cognee is an open-source AI memory and knowledge engine that helps applications organize, connect, and retrieve information from different data sources. Check out https://www.cognee.ai
N8N
N8n is a workflow automation platform that lets users connect apps, APIs, and AI tools to automate complex workflows with little or no code. Check out https://n8n.io
Synk
Snyk is a developer-first cybersecurity platform that helps teams build fast without compromising on security. As developers rely heavily on AI to write code at unprecedented speeds, Snyk continuously scans and secures application code, open-source dependencies, containers, and cloud environments right within the developer’s workflow. For an AI hackathon, it matters because shipping code quickly with AI generators or autonomous agents also means shipping security risks at machine speed. Snyk acts as an intelligent security layer, catching vulnerabilities and automatically applying verified fixes in real time—allowing builders to ship ambitious AI projects safely and with complete confidence.
At this event you will learn:
1) Sign-up for free (no credit card required), how to import your code, and configure your AI coding tool
2) Free AI Security Engineer Foundations Certificate
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
Flatkey
Flatkey is a unified access layer for AI, connecting teams to 328+ official AI models through one API. It supports models from providers such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and more, with transparent pricing and automatic failover. Check out https://flatkey.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
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
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
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
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
Celesto AI
Celesto AI runs AI agents in secure sandboxes, observes how they behave, and helps them improve from every run. Check out https://celesto.ai/
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.
Schedule
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Welcome & Networking
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Sponsor Demos & Talks
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM: Hacking
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Hacking
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Demos & Judging
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Final Demos & Winners Announcement
Prizes
Best Use of N8N - One Year of n8n Cloud Pro
Best Use of RocketRide - $1000 worth Airpods
Best Use of Masky - $800 in prizes
Best Use of BAND - $500 Cash
Best Use of Cognee- $100 credits
Best Use of Prelint - $5000 credits
Best Use of Paritok- $100M token credit
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 Flatkey- $25 Gift card
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
More prizes TBD
Judges & Mentors
Merve Isler: Founder @ Marvelous & AI Insiders
Bhavya Gupta: Information Security Officer @ Stanford
Ravi Kiran: Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
Hannah Kwon: Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
Anya Ozmen: Founder @ Gameer
Vince Kohli: Strategic Advisor @ Google DeepMind
Sumit Jagdale: Founder @ Sartorial
Saurabh Khire: Software Engineer @ Govia
Claire Kwon: Chief Technology Officer @ San Francisco General Labs
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
Chetan Jannu: Software Enginner @ Superhuman
Irka Palwoski: Founder @ Prelint
Seth Cadwell: Founder @ Masky.AI
Zhi Ling: Fintech Advisor @ Various Banks
Hosts & Partners
AI Collective
The AI Collective is a global non-profit building the human layer for the AI era. We unite 300,000+ leaders, builders, and stakeholders across 200+ forums worldwide to democratize the frontier, build trust, and coordinate how society navigates the rapid acceleration of technological progress. Check out https://www.aicollective.com
GenAI Assembling
GenAI Assembling is a vibrant, fast-growing global community dedicated to advancing AI innovation and collaboration. Launched in July 2024 in Silicon Valley, we bring together researchers, developers, and industry leaders in a dynamic environment where breakthrough ideas thrive. Check out https://genaiassembling.substack.com
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
Build Club
Most collaborative AI community in the world. Check out https://buildclub.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
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.substack.com
Bond AI
The largest in-person AI events community connecting 150k AI operators & founders for hackathons, conferences, & meetups. Check out https://bondcommunity.ai
Marvellous
Find relevant events and buyers, plan the right meeting or gathering, and prepare follow-up for your team to review. Check out https://www.themarvelo.us/
Organized by Crewbase Collective
Crewbase Collective is organization running hackathons and events across the San Francisco. Check out https://crewbasecollective.com
Come celebrate, build, experiment, and show us what the future of business looks like.