The Challenge:

  • Build an AI agent that plans, decides, and acts by using MCP to chain sponsor tools and autonomously complete an end-to-end workflow

  • You’re encouraged to build 1 or more agents that interact and collaborate 

     

  • Utilize at least 3 sponsor tools to build your agent 

     

  • You will have 3 minutes to demo your project.  Impress us with your agent!

You must bring government-issued photo ID and register on Luma with your full real name. No last minute additions/on site signups are allowed. Security has the right to turn people away. You will have to sign an online NDA before entry. If we are at capacity, you may need to wait outside. 

Requirements

What to Submit

  • 3-minute demo recording along with all details required from Devpost

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$23,500+ in prizes
+ other prizes
First Place Overall
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

$2000 cash for the first place overall team, sponsored by Fundmore.ai

Best use of Senso.ai
1 winner

$1000 in credits for the winning team

Best Use of Temporal with AI Agents & MCP
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

Vizcom: Visual Intelligence Award: Honoring the team that brought clarity and creativity to agent interaction design
$3,000 in cash
2 winners

Best use of Factory
1 winner

First Place Team: each member of the team will get one year of the Factory Team plan for free.

Best Use of Trae
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

- $1000 cash for 1st place team + unlimited premium access for a month
- 2nd and 3rd place: unlimited premium access for a month.

Block: Best use of codename Goose
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

Best Evaluation with Arize AI
$500 in cash
1 winner

Best use of Inferless
1 winner

$500 Inferless credits, Inferless Swags and one apple airpods

Gumloop: Best Use of guMCP Servers
$500 in cash
1 winner

Hologram Labs: Best use of Studio MCP
1 winner

$1000 in API credits, hologram t-shirts, hats and stickers

Best use of Apify
$1,000 in cash
3 winners

$1000 cash + $1000 credits 1st prize
$1000 credits 2nd prize
$500 credits 3rd prize

Tariff Schmariff Masters - Best Use of Keboola
3 winners

$500 credits in the platform for first 3 teams
Tariff Schmariff: A Satire Without Borders for all 3 teams
A dinner with the 1st place team

Best Use of Rime
$2,000 in cash
2 winners

- Best use of Rime: $1k credits and $500 cash for each team member
- Most advanced use of Rime: $1k credits for each team member
- Most fun/creative use of Rime: $1k credits for each team member

Best use of DeepL
$1,000 in cash
2 winners

We're offering a $1000 prize for best use of DeepL - but if someone creates something particularly amazing with our API, we'll make that $1500!

& API key that has 10 million characters of free translation.

Best use of Arcade.dev tools
$500 in cash
1 winner

Best use of Vapi
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

$1000 in cash, and entry into our startups program: https://vapi.ai/startups

OxenAI - Idea That Could Start a Stampede
1 winner

AI Workbench Credits:
- $500 for 1st, $250 for 2nd, $100 for 3rd

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Saroop Bharwani

Saroop Bharwani
Senso

Simon Tiu

Simon Tiu
Vertex Ventures

Raghu Ramesha

Raghu Ramesha
NVIDIA

Adam

Adam
Newgen AI

Jon Turdiev

Jon Turdiev
AWS

Saptarshi Banerjee

Saptarshi Banerjee
AWS

Pushkar Nandkar

Pushkar Nandkar
Sambanova

William Pritchard

William Pritchard
11x

Zubin Pahuja

Zubin Pahuja
Uber

Ted Nyman

Ted Nyman
Cased

​Karthikeyan Sabhanatarajan

​Karthikeyan Sabhanatarajan
Splunk

Chris Grimes

Chris Grimes
Fundmore

Thomas Nelson

Thomas Nelson
Senso

Nikitha Suryadevara

Nikitha Suryadevara
Temporal

Drew Hoskins

Drew Hoskins
Temporal

Mason Egger

Mason Egger
Temporal

Jordan Taylor

Jordan Taylor
Vizcom

Kaelan Richards

Kaelan Richards
Vizcom

Amber Shen

Amber Shen
Trae

Shashank Sharma

Shashank Sharma
Factory

Bradley Axen

Bradley Axen
Block Open Source

Priyan Jindal

Priyan Jindal
Arize AI

Aishwarya Goel

Aishwarya Goel
Inferless

Elizabeth Trykin

Elizabeth Trykin
Vapi

Jyoti Swain

Jyoti Swain
Gumloop

Ben Morss

Ben Morss
DeepL

Simone Zamparini

Simone Zamparini
Hologram Labs

Lily Clifford

Lily Clifford
Rime

Ondra Urban

Ondra Urban
Apify

Pavel Chocholouš

Pavel Chocholouš
Keboola

Sam Partee

Sam Partee
Arcade

Richard

Richard
Vapi

Judging Criteria

  • Idea - 25%
    Idea - Unique value proposition delivered by a vertical-specific agent using advanced reasoning, action, and tool use.
  • Technical implementation - 25%
    Technical implementation - Surprise and inspires judges and participants through the novel use of tools in a unique way.
  • Tool Use - 25%
    Tool Use - Integration of at least 3 sponsor tools to enable sophisticated agentic behavior
  • Presentation - 25%
    Presentation - Present a live demo in 3-minutes that clearly demonstrates the agent’s impact. Keep it to 1 overview slide.

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