c0mpiled-13: Startup School Hackathon II
📅 Saturday, July 25, 2026 | 6:00PM – 11:00PM
📍 Transpose Platform | 27 South Park Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107
🍕 Dinner, drinks, and snacks provided
c0mpiled, (by Transpose Platform) is excited to host c0mpiled-13: Startup School hackathon II featuring CrustData (YC F24), Cactus (YC S25), Channel3 (YC 25), Allus AI (YC F25), Random Labs(YC S24), & Hexclave (YC S24) 🚀
Builders will compete for cash prizes, collaborate with ambitious builders & fellow YC Startup School participants, and connect with the YC Alumni Judges & Transpose partners.
Join us for an evening of building, meeting ambitious founders, and turning ideas into real products!
Challenge: RFS Summer 2026
AI has moved past being a feature; it's now the foundation.
We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding software, services, and silicon, while pushing AI further into the physical world.
Participants will choose their own track from Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Requests for Startups. Not sure where to start? Here are a few tracks to consider:
1. Company Brain — Tom Blomfield
Build a system that pulls scattered company knowledge (from people's heads, old emails, Slack threads, support tickets, and databases) into one structured, living map of how the company actually works, then turns that into an executable skills file so AI agents can do the work safely and consistently.
2. The AI Operating System for Companies — Diana Hu
Build a connective intelligence layer that stitches together Slack, Linear, GitHub, Notion, call recordings, and other tools into a single system that makes a company fully queryable, turning it from an open loop (decisions checked weeks later) into a closed loop (the system monitors, compares, and adjusts in real time).
3. AI for Low-Pesticide Agriculture — Garry Tan
Build tools, using AI vision, cheap sensors and cameras, precision robotics, and biological alternatives like microbes, peptides, and RNA-based solutions, that help farmers cut pesticide use dramatically while growing more food, not less.
4. SaaS Challengers — Jared Friedman
Build AI-native replacements for legacy SaaS products. That could mean cloning an existing product at a tenth of the price, rethinking a workflow from scratch instead of bolting a chatbot onto an old UI, bundling many point solutions into one suite, or open-sourcing a replacement for software that costs $50K per seat, targeting even entrenched categories like ERPs, chip design software, and industrial control systems.
5. AI-Native Service Companies — Gustaf Alströmer
Build companies that don't sell software tools but actually perform the service itself, replacing outsourced work rather than just improving it, particularly in insurance brokerage, accounting/tax/audit, compliance, and healthcare administration.
Prizes:
🥇 1st Place: $3000 | 🥈 2nd Place: $1500 | 🥉 3rd Place: $500
Aside from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, we’ll also be awarding the Most Fundable and the Most Beautiful projects!
Additional Prizes:
Hexclave (YC S24): Offering a $1000 prize for the best project utilizing Hexclave!
Crustdata (YC F24): Offering $5k in credits using the code: ULUVCRUSTDATA - checkout their docs here
Channel 3 (YC S25): 50k free credits for folks using their API. Use HACKATHON on the billing page
Superset (YC P26): Offering a 1 month discount for those using the code: TRANSPOSE-20 at checkout!
VOYGR (YC W26): Offering up early access to Callwright - an API for making real phone calls to place reservations, schedule appointments, request quotes and more!
Judges
Crustdata (YC F24) – Abhilash Chowdhary & Chris Pisarski
Channel 3 (YC S25) - George Lawrence
Random Labs (YC S24) - Kiran
Allus AI (YC F25) - Kai Cui & Shijie Wang
Cactus (YC S25) - Roman Shemet
Hexclave (YC S24) - Konstantin Wohlwend
Sorcerer (YC S24) - Austin Tindle
Agenda:
5:30 PM: Doors Open
5:30 PM - 6:00PM: Registration | Networking
6:00PM - 6:20PM: Opening Remarks | Challenge Overview
6:20PM - 9:45PM: Building
9:45PM: Judging Begins
9:45PM - 10:30PM: Demos (Optional)
10:30PM - 11:00PM: Closing | Awards