Agent Foundry Hackathon

A 1-day founder-focused sprint designed to uncover exceptional entrepreneurial talent by challenging participants to build venture-scale products powered by AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Requirements

📤 What to Submit

Here’s what you’ll need to turn in:

  • README or project documentation clearly outlining:

    • The challenge you’re solving

    • Architecture and agent logic

  • presentation or video walkthrough that demonstrates (2-3 minutes):

    • Your user experience

    • Key features and innovation

  • Source code repository link (GitHub, etc.)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$8,000+ in prizes
+ other prizes
First place
$2,500 in cash
1 winner

10k openai
100k AWS

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

Best use of Qdrant
3 winners

1st: $540
2nd: $100
3rd: $50

Best use of Composio
1 winner

$6k in credits

2nd place
$1,500 in cash
1 winner

5k openAI
25K aws

3rd place
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

2k OpenAI
5k AWS

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Victor Su-Ortiz
AI Valley Founder

Sujata Sridharan

Sujata Sridharan
Senior Software Engineer at Bolt

Sumana Malkapuram

Sumana Malkapuram
Lead Security Software Engineer at Netflix

Bhavin Modi

Bhavin Modi
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Abhi CVK

Abhi CVK
2x YC Founder / Founder at Basic

Dhyey Mavani

Dhyey Mavani
Software Engineer, Generative AI LinkedIn

Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal
Eudia

Srini Rajagopal

Srini Rajagopal
VP Engineering at Mercor

Chidambaram Bhat

Chidambaram Bhat
Co-Founder & CTO at Integral Technologies

Sandeep Kaipu

Sandeep Kaipu
Engineering Manager at Broadcom

Ashutosh Datar

Ashutosh Datar
Tech Lead & Member of Technical Staff at Pure Storage

Alisa Wu

Alisa Wu
Founder at Lucent

Riya Dashoriya

Riya Dashoriya
Engineering Manager at Meta

Junyu Huang

Junyu Huang
Chief Operating Officer at Novita AI

Kerry Weinberg

Kerry Weinberg
Founder and Chief Executive Office at PhenoML

Thierry Damiba

Thierry Damiba
Developer Advocate at Qdrant

Sujay Choubey

Sujay Choubey
Composio

Anamitra Banerji

Anamitra Banerji
Afore Capital

Judging Criteria

  • Approach & Idea
    Is the solution viable, creative, and relevant to a real-world problem?
  • Technical Execution
    How well is the product implemented? Does it demonstrate depth in engineering? Does it showcase automation workflows using AI agents in a meaningful and technically impressive way?
  • Presentation
    Is the pitch/demo clear, compelling, and well-structured?
  • Design
    Is the product user-friendly and thoughtfully designed?
  • X Factor
    Does the project surprise or delight? Does it stand out from others?

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