5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
ai hackathon private equity
AI Workshop for Private Equity and Portfolio Companies, One Day Onsite
A central training program rarely reaches every portfolio company equally well, since processes, systems and teams differ from holding to holding. An AI workshop instead runs directly inside the portfolio company, one day onsite with its own data and team, and delivers a result that shows up in the value creation plan. Need more across several holdings afterward, the multi-day Corporathon hackathon follows, repeatable per portfolio company.
- Real prototypes instead of slides
- Facilitated by AI practitioners
- Ready to run within a week
- Documented handoff included
Built for
A central training program rarely reaches every portfolio company equally well, since processes, systems and teams differ from holding to holding. An AI workshop instead runs directly inside the portfolio company, one da
Customer voices
What participants publicly say about the hackathon
Summarised takeaways from approved LinkedIn posts by teams that built with us.
From “I should really learn AI” to a shipped product, with zero coding experience.
No months of prep needed: a team, a bit of chaos, and it turned into a working product.
5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
From “I should really learn AI” to a shipped product, with zero coding experience.
After day one, people who had never opened a terminal were building in Claude Code.
OW
Oke Wilhelm
NavVis
The biggest effect wasn’t the tooling, it was the mindset shift: “I can build this myself.”
NT
NavVis Team
Marketing & ops
After day one, people who had never opened a terminal were building in Claude Code.
OW
Oke Wilhelm
NavVis
The biggest effect wasn’t the tooling, it was the mindset shift: “I can build this myself.”
NT
NavVis Team
Marketing & ops
The format
Knowledge turns into a working prototype.
An AI workshop per portfolio company, one day onsite with a result the board can see. Need more, the Corporathon hackathon follows. Book a discovery call.
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Where private equity firms get stuck with AI
A central training program rarely reaches every portfolio company equally well, since processes, systems and teams differ from holding to holding. An AI workshop instead runs directly inside the portfolio company, one day onsite with its own data and team, and delivers a result that shows up in the value creation plan. Need more across several holdings afterward, the multi-day Corporathon hackathon follows, repeatable per portfolio company.
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What portfolio teams build
Challenges tied directly to the value creation plan. A reporting autopilot with Gamma that prepares metrics automatically for the next board deck. A due diligence research assistant with NotebookLM for market and competitor analysis on add-on acquisitions. A cross-portfolio knowledge transfer bot with n8n that makes successful automations from one portfolio company accessible to others, plus function-specific prototypes in sales, finance or operations depending on the holding.
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One week to your Corporathon
1. Intro call, clarify portfolio company, goal and value creation plan. 2. Tools and challenges call, pick the automation with the biggest lever for this company. 3. Finalize data and access at the specific portfolio company. 4. Prepare the environment. 5. Hackathon days on site, tool workshop, sprint, result pitches.
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Classic training vs. Corporathon
A central program shows portfolio teams AI in a standard deck. The AI workshop delivers a company-specific prototype in one day that goes straight into the next quarterly report. The hackathon afterward carries the format across more holdings.
Output, not slides
A Corporathon is not a seminar. It is a facilitated sprint where teams rebuild real work with AI.
0 week
from scope to ready-to-run sprint
0 formats
Spark, Ignite and Blaze
0 steps
from call to documented handoff
How it works
Clear steps from scope to handoff.
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Intro call
Corporathon + sponsor · goal, scope and date
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Challenge design
Corporathon + team leads · real use cases and tool stack
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Data & access
Client · approved data, roles and boundaries
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Tool workshop
Corporathon · teams can use the stack
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Hackathon sprint
Teams · working prototypes
Next step
Ready for your Corporathon?
Book a discovery call directly, we clarify goal, format and date in the call.
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FAQ
Questions that should be clear before the first call.
An AI workshop per portfolio company, one day onsite with a result the board can see. Need more, the Corporathon hackathon follows. Book a discovery call.
A central training program rarely reaches every portfolio company equally well, since processes, systems and teams differ from holding to holding. An AI workshop instead runs directly inside the portfolio company, one day onsite with its own data and team, and delivers a result that shows up in the value creation plan. Need more across several holdings afterward, the multi-day Corporathon …
Challenges tied directly to the value creation plan. A reporting autopilot with Gamma that prepares metrics automatically for the next board deck. A due diligence research assistant with NotebookLM for market and competitor analysis on add-on acquisitions. A cross-portfolio knowledge transfer bot with n8n that makes successful automations from one portfolio company accessible to others, plus …
1. Intro call, clarify portfolio company, goal and value creation plan. 2. Tools and challenges call, pick the automation with the biggest lever for this company. 3. Finalize data and access at the specific portfolio company. 4. Prepare the environment. 5. Hackathon days on site, tool workshop, sprint, result pitches.
A central program shows portfolio teams AI in a standard deck. The AI workshop delivers a company-specific prototype in one day that goes straight into the next quarterly report. The hackathon afterward carries the format across more holdings.
Can we use this across several portfolio companies at once? Yes. The format repeats cleanly, ideal as a Recurring Hackathon Series on a quarterly cadence across multiple holdings. Each company gets its own challenges, the base format stays the same. Does this count toward our value creation plan? The hackathon delivers tangible prototypes and an impact report per engagement, usable as AI adoption …
We work with the stack that fits you — LLM APIs, automation and data platforms, and your existing systems.
Teams of four to six work best. Overall we run everything from a single team up to several dozen participants.
All three work. On site creates the strongest momentum, remote is leaner logistically, hybrid is the usual compromise for distributed sites.
You get a documented handoff: prototypes, setup, open items and a recommendation on which results deserve to go to production.
We define target metrics before the sprint — hours saved, cycle time, quality or revenue contribution — and review them in the closing session.