​Think James Bond... but in a hackathon

​The creator economy has a problem.

​Creators have built enormous audiences, incredible personal brands and businesses around their taste, knowledge and influence.

​But much of that value is still trapped inside the creator.

​Their audience asks the same questions over and over.

​Their best recommendations live in their DMs.

​Their taste lives in their head.

​Their product knowledge lives across Notes, Instagram, TikTok, spreadsheets and a thousand browser tabs.

​And the creator becomes the bottleneck.

​Tano wants to change that.

​So we're bringing together a small group of exceptional builders for a 12-hour experiment:

​Find something stealing a creator's time, attention or commercial potential. Then steal it back.

​This is not a traditional hackathon.

​There is no generic prompt.

​There is no requirement to build an AI agent.

​There is no prize for using the most tokens.

​And there is definitely no prize for making the most complicated architecture.

​Instead, we're giving builders access to realistic creator businesses, real-world evidence and a genuinely messy problem.

​Your job is to investigate, decide what matters and build something people would actually use.

​THE HEIST

​The entire day is framed around one simple mission:

​STEAL BACK THE CREATOR'S TIME.

​Each team receives a Tano Creator Case File containing evidence from a fictional but highly realistic D2C creator business.

​You are not told exactly what to build.

​Instead, you receive clues... plus a special surprise part way through

​THE PEOPLE

​We're interested in people with approximately 3+ years of meaningful experience, but age and traditional pedigree aren't the point.

​We're especially interested in:

• ​Engineers

• ​Product-minded builders

• ​Ex-founders

• ​Failed founders

• ​Self-taught developers

• ​Creative technologists

• ​Designers who code

• ​People from unconventional academic backgrounds

• ​People who have built things from scratch

​Computer Science degrees are not required.

​In fact, we're deliberately looking beyond the traditional engineering pipeline.

​We care about:

​Taste.

​Curiosity.

​Technical ability.

​Speed.

​Product instinct.

​And obsession with solving problems.

​PRIZES

​ALL WINNERS / WINNING TEAMS WILL BE ASKED TO INTERVIEW AT TANO

​🥇 THE WINNING TEAM: The Perfect Heist (best overall solution)

​A dinner with an expert in tech + AI

​🥈 SECOND TEAM: The Big Score (best commercial potential)

​Mac Mini

​🥉THIRD TEAM: The Clever Job (most elegant or inventive)

​A private dinner or lunch with the Tano engineering team where you'll get to go much deeper into your project.

​JUDGES

​TBA