400+ Applications → 200+ Competitors → 49 Projects Submitted → $12,000 in cash prizes
33% Founders & C-Suite
33% Engineers (Big Tech & Startups)
12.5% Interns & Students (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, UCLA, Georgia Tech, UBC, UCSD, SJSU)
4.6% Researchers
1.9% Product
1.9% Growth/GTM/Marketing
1.1% Investor/VC
12% Other (Penetration Tester, Cybersecurity Analysts, etc)
Most Common Employers:
Amazon, Google, Meta, Morgan Stanley, Many YC Companies, and smaller startups
We pushed the boundaries of AI agents and challenged competitors to build an autonomous business that can run itself. Everything from building product, selling to customers, getting feedback, iterating, and everything in between. 49 autonomous companies were built in less than 9 hours of buildtime at our hackathon.
A quarter of the autonomous companies built their entire interface in iMessage/SMS (with Linq, one of our sponsors!). A large portion of the teams built autonomous judgement-as-a-service companies, where agents handled the grunt work, with a human in the loop, grading whether the work was done correctly.
