Personal Agent Hackathon
Personal Agent Hackathon — hosted by Cognee & ClawMax at NYU:Tandon
This isn’t a typical hackathon, it’s a collabathon for builders, developers, adopters, and anyone interested in rapidly building and iterating on AI Agents using prompts.
Prizes
$300, $200 and $100 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prize for best use of Cognee for Personal Brain
All onsite participants also get $35 credits for use of Cognee Cloud
Personal Agent needs a Personal Brain
In this hands-on hackathon, participants will build a Personal Brain using Cognee, an AI-powered memory system that can organize and connect information from your notes, documents, conversations, projects, links, and other personal knowledge.
Instead of starting every conversation with an AI assistant from scratch, your Personal Brain gives agents access to persistent context: what you're working on, what you've learned, the people and projects that matter to you, and the connections between them.
During the hackathon, you'll also build an agent using ClawMax, for which you will choose a personal use case, add your own data, build a searchable and connected memory, and then create an AI agent that can use that memory to answer questions and help you get things done.
Possible projects include:
A networking brain that remembers people, companies, meetings, and relationships
A personal knowledge assistant that writes blog posts
A career brain that understands your experience, projects, and accomplishments
A research assistant that uses articles you give it to perform deep research
A project brain that remembers decisions, tasks, and conversations and helps you manage a project
A life assistant that can recall important information across months or years
The challenge: In just 3 hours, build a personal agent that doesn't just have intelligence—it has your memory and context.
To win a prize you will need to use ClawMax & Cognee.
Anyone who wants feedback during the hackathon will get a chance.
By the end of the hackathon, every participant should have their own Personal Brain and an agent that can put that memory to work.
How to find us: The Hackathon will start at the Event Space at 6 MetroTech.
Agenda:
10:00 am Registration & Networking
10:30 am Welcome & Opening
10:35 am 5 min Lightning Talks
#1: "Creating Agents from Prompts" by Yuxin Ren of NYU
#2: "Company Brain" by Dave Nielsen of Cognee
#3: "ClawMax" by Michael "Max" Maximilien of ClawMax.ai
11:00 am Let the hacking begin!
12:30 pm Lunch arrives
1:30 pm Feedback on Demos
4:30 pm Deadline to submit projects to DevPost
4:30 pm Create 5 minute video demo. Due by 5 pm.
5:00 pm Event ends.
10:00 pm Updated 5 minute video demo - final submission.
Judging will begin and end on Monday.