5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
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What Is an AI Hackathon?
At Corporathon the entry point into AI is always the AI workshop, one day onsite, on one real problem from your team. If that day shows there is more to build, you move into the AI hackathon, the multi-day scale-up of the same principle with several teams and several prototypes at once. This article explains what sits behind the hackathon format and how it differs from the single workshop day.
- Real prototypes instead of slides
- Facilitated by AI practitioners
- Ready to run within a week
- Documented handoff included
Built for
At Corporathon the entry point into AI is always the AI workshop, one day onsite, on one real problem from your team. If that day shows there is more to build, you move into the AI hackathon, the multi-day scale-up of th
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 hackathon is the multi-day scale-up of the AI workshop day. Definition, the difference from the workshop, and the one-week process explained.
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Distinction from a classic hackathon
The classic hackathon comes from software development and often runs a weekend as a competition among developers. The Corporathon takes that energy and points it at the business day-to-day. Participants need no coding skills. They work with Lovable, Cursor, n8n, Gamma, Claude Code and Custom GPTs on their own data and processes.
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From AI workshop to AI hackathon
Spark, the AI workshop, is the starting point. One day, one team, one focused problem, a running prototype by evening. Ignite and Blaze scale that same process up to several days and several teams at once. Anyone who already knows the workshop day finds the same way of working in the hackathon, just with more reach across the company.
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Process in 1 week
A Corporathon runs one to five days depending on format, with prep in the same week. The lead-up is four steps (intro call, tools and challenges call, finalizing, prep), then tool workshop, hackathon sprint and result pitches. The full process is at /en/how-we-work/.
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What comes out at the end
Each team presents what it built, and the best solutions go straight into production. A training becomes a workpiece that stays: a prototype, an automation, a dashboard. Plus an internal AI literacy measures record for participants.
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
02
Challenge design
Corporathon + team leads · real use cases and tool stack
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Data & access
Client · approved data, roles and boundaries
04
Tool workshop
Corporathon · teams can use the stack
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Hackathon sprint
Teams · working prototypes
Next step
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FAQ
Questions that should be clear before the first call.
An AI hackathon is the multi-day scale-up of the AI workshop day. Definition, the difference from the workshop, and the one-week process explained.
No. The Corporathon is built for business teams. You work with tools like Lovable, n8n, Gamma and Custom GPTs that need no classic coding. The opening tool workshop gets everyone to the same level.
One to five days depending on format. Spark runs as the AI workshop for one day, Ignite two, Blaze three to five. From first contact to the result pitches takes one week, including prep.
Training delivers knowledge passively and ends with a certificate. An AI hackathon has you build actively and ends with a working result. Retention is much higher, and so is AI adoption.
A working prototype that you own and put into production. Instead of an attendance record you have something that runs, plus a documented competence record.
The classic hackathon comes from software development and often runs a weekend as a competition among developers. The Corporathon takes that energy and points it at the business day-to-day. Participants need no coding skills. They work with Lovable, Cursor, n8n, Gamma, Claude Code and Custom GPTs on their own data and processes.
Spark, the AI workshop, is the starting point. One day, one team, one focused problem, a running prototype by evening. Ignite and Blaze scale that same process up to several days and several teams at once. Anyone who already knows the workshop day finds the same way of working in the hackathon, just with more reach across the company.
A Corporathon runs one to five days depending on format, with prep in the same week. The lead-up is four steps (intro call, tools and challenges call, finalizing, prep), then tool workshop, hackathon sprint and result pitches. The full process is at /en/how-we-work/.
Each team presents what it built, and the best solutions go straight into production. A training becomes a workpiece that stays: a prototype, an automation, a dashboard. Plus an internal AI literacy measures record for participants.
For agencies, tech scaleups, digital natives, mid-market and enterprise. Twelve industries from marketing to mechanical engineering to pharma, teams from five to over fifty people.
Teams of four to six work best. Overall we run everything from a single team up to several dozen participants.