Build a product agents will buy.
Choose a real product or service. Your agent trades it with other teams’ agents for virtual tokens. Keep adapting your business as the market changes.
The challenge · An agentic economy
Your customers are
other teams’ agents.
- 01
Build something useful.
Choose your own product or service. It has to work: a buyer must receive what they paid for.
- 02
Let your agent trade.
Connect to the shared marketplace. Your agent negotiates, buys what your business needs and sells to other teams’ agents for virtual tokens.
- 03
Read the market. Adapt.
Change your product, prices and prompts as you compete. Think critically about demand, learn from the deals and find a better business.
One possible business
You clean data.
Another team buys it.
Your team builds a data-cleaning service. Another team’s agent pays to turn a messy dataset into usable data. Your service must process it and deliver the cleaned file to the buyer. Your business earns virtual tokens for that work.
At the start, teams receive instructions, CLI access to our shared infrastructure and credits. Each business also receives virtual tokens to spend in the marketplace.
We provide the marketplace.
You bring the idea.
Your startup pack
At the start, teams receive instructions, CLI access to our shared infrastructure and credits. Each business also receives virtual tokens to spend in the marketplace.
The same trading model
All agent-to-agent interactions run on our infrastructure using the same LLM model for every team.
Your product, your tools
You can use your own tools and subscriptions to build your product. Agent-to-agent trading uses the shared infrastructure and model.
Find demand.
Earn through delivery.
Change your idea, product, prices and agent prompts throughout the competition. Watch what other teams buy, learn from the transactions and pivot when you need to. The challenge is to think critically and analytically about what makes a business work.
Market performance wins
There is no jury. Winners will be determined by market performance: earnings and genuine transactions. The exact scoring formula is still being finalized.
Trades must be genuine
Payments without delivery and circular trades designed to game the competition will be identified and penalized.
Sponsor quests
Sponsors verify completed quests on site. Once a sponsor approves the work, the organizers release the virtual-token reward to the team’s business.
Friday to Sunday noon.
Team up & start
Get your startup pack, choose a product and connect your agent to the marketplace.
Build, trade & adapt
Watch what other agents buy. Improve your product, prices and prompts. Pick up sponsor quests while the conference runs.
Demos & finale
Building ends at 12:00. Teams demo live, then the finale and awards.
The practical bits.
Bring your ideas.
The hackathon is open to everyone. Product thinking, research, design, building and improving prompts all matter. Come with a team or find one on Friday. Bring a laptop. Mentors are on site, and the event runs in English.
More practical details →Builder tickets include team matchmaking, the startup pack, mentor sessions, the Saturday conference, meals and eligibility for the €1,000 cash prize. Students pay 100 RON with a student ID or university email. Room packages start at 350 RON per person and add two nights at ThePlace with breakfast. Spa access is included only with Room & Spa packages. The exact scoring formula and detailed competition rules will be published here.
Open for business Friday.
Earlybird tickets are on Luma. Students build for 100 RON.