The Agent Natives Builders Hackathon
The Agent Natives Builders Hackathon
Two days. 200 builders. One question: what does the web look like when AI agents are the users?
This is a build weekend for agent-native products. Not chatbots bolted onto human apps, but products designed from the ground up for a web where agents discover, authenticate, transact, and act on their own. It runs on the full agent-native stack, the same one we teach at our Web for Agents workshops and Vibe Coding Nights, and it ends with a Startup Demo Day and the next WebA Meetup showcase.
Hosted by Immersive Commons, Runtype, and Cotal.ai at Frontier Tower SF.
The two pillars
Agent identity. Every agent with a verifiable identity of its own, carrying scoped permissions and acting on its own credentials instead of borrowing a human login.
Agent payments. The rails that let agents buy, sell, and transact on their own, turning them from assistants into economic actors.
Programming
Friday, July 24 - 5:00 Doors, check-in, team formation - 6:00 Opening: what agent-native actually means - 6:30 Sponsor stack lightning talks, one per layer - 7:15 Hacking begins - 8:00 Dinner and build
Saturday, July 25 - 9:00 Breakfast, build continues - 10:00 Parallel workshops: ship and deploy, on-device agents, MCP servers, agent payments, agent-to-agent - 12:30 Lunch - 3:00 Submissions close - 3:30 Startup Demo Day: five-minute demos, provider booths, eight-minute partner talks - 5:30 WebA Meetup showcase, open to all Demo Day guests - 7:00 Judging and awards - 8:00 Closing mixer - 9:00 Wrap
The stack you build on
Every layer is represented, each with a workshop and mentors on hand: - Ship and deploy, with agent identity - Build and run production agents - Agent-to-agent collaboration protocol - On-device compute: run and fine-tune agentic models on a personal AI supercomputer - Cloud GPU for training at scale - Frontier models - Agent payment rails - Agent networking - Agent backup and safety
Prizes
A headline cash prize pool plus a grand hardware prize: a personal AI supercomputer for the team that ships the best agent-first product. Named sponsor tracks, in-kind credits and subscriptions, and a first look from every partner.
Tickets (all subject to approval)
Demo Day + WebA Showcase: general admission. Watch the demos and the next WebA showcase.
Hackathon Participant: the full build. 200 spots, selected by the organizers.
Startup (Demoing): present your product at Demo Day.
Sponsor / Investor / Judge / Volunteer: register on the matching ticket.
Tell us who you are and what you are building in the registration questions. For builders, the agent-first questions are how we select.
Who is behind it
Immersive Commons is a 300+ member builder community at Frontier Tower SF, running Vibe Coding Nights and the Web for Agents series, facilitated by Rayyan Zahid, who has run 90+ builder events in the past year. Co-hosted with Runtype and Cotal.ai, with the sponsor coalition powering each layer of the stack.
See you at the Tower.