AI Hackathon: 48 hours that change more than 12 months of consulting.
No slide deck. No project plan. We come to you, bring our team, and together we build something that works in 48 hours. Your knowledge. Our execution power. One result.
It makes no sense to plan an AI strategy in January for December.
The technology evolves in weeks, not years. What counts as the best solution today is outdated in three months. The only way to truly understand AI is to test it immediately on a real problem.
And let's be honest: the best AI ideas do not come from management. They come from the people who feel the pain. Who struggle with your data chaos every day. Who know where time is lost, where errors happen, where the process breaks.
That is why we do this in-house. We do not need the CEO in the room. We need the three people from product management, sales or service who live with the problem every day. The CEO can join for the last 30 minutes.
Three signs your company is ready for an AI hackathon.
We see these situations in almost every company that comes to us.
Everyone talks about AI, nobody builds anything
AI is in the strategy document. There is a working group. Maybe even a budget. But after six months nothing is live, nothing tested, nothing learned. The hackathon is the antidote to strategic paralysis.
The result: After 48 hours your team has learned more than in a year of workshops.
There is a problem nobody has dared to touch for months
Where everyone said: that cannot be done. Where nobody has dared to touch it. Where it seemed too complex, too risky, too much effort. That is exactly our favourite starting material.
The result: Two days of focused work with the right people often solves what others considered unsolvable.
IT has no capacity, the business units are waiting
Every AI idea lands as a ticket and disappears into the queue. The AI hackathon bypasses that: we work directly with the business units, bring the technical skills, and do not burden IT.
The result: Solutions are built without waiting for approvals.
AI hackathon? Sounds like RedBull, pizza and uncontrolled chaos.
There is some truth to that. Many hackathons end with great presentations, warm applause, and a pile of ideas that nobody cares about the following Monday.
That happens when there is no clear goal. When the wrong people are in the room. When nobody makes sure the team does not get lost in details. And when there is no commitment to actually use the result at the end.
With us: focus, structure and genuine fun in solving things. Like a team on the pitch that gives everything because it has a concrete goal in sight. We moderate, keep the focus, prevent the rabbit holes, and make sure something genuinely useful comes out at the end.
Two days in-house. Our team plus yours. A problem that is solved afterwards.
We come to you. With our tech skills, our experience with AI use cases, and the outside perspective that sometimes changes everything.
Day 1: Finding the right use case together. Ten minutes at the coffee machine and a few conversations is usually all it takes. We start in people's heads, at whiteboards, with sticky notes. Problem, solution, systems, open questions. Everything on the table. Then go. We figure out the rest on the way. End of day 1: hopefully a first win.
Day 2: Quick recap. Where are we, what is missing, what is the goal for today? Then keep building. Details go to the end, focus stays on the day's goal. We moderate, keep the focus when it is tempting to dive into details, and make sure something that actually works is standing at the end of the day.
End of day 2: dinner as a reward for the last 48 hours. You decide who should come.
After the 48 hours you have a prototype. Then you decide: scrapped? Scaled up big? Or used from Monday exactly as it is? That is your call. Not ours.
14 hours of work per week saved. Built in one afternoon.
An operations team. Every Monday customer requests are manually categorised and forwarded. Two employees, four hours, every week. For two years. Everyone knows how annoying it is. Nobody has touched it because of no IT capacity.
We spend the first morning really understanding the problem. Not the symptoms, the cause. On the second day afternoon the prototype is live.
- Use case identified in the first hour
- Prototype live on the afternoon of day 2
- 14 hours of manual work per week eliminated
- Team built the solution themselves and understands it
- Three further use cases prioritised
- In use from Monday, no further support needed
“After two days we had more than after a year of AI strategy discussions. Because we stopped talking and started building.”
What you usually ask us about the AI hackathon.
TWO DAYS. OUR TEAM PLUS YOURS. A PROBLEM THAT IS SOLVED AFTERWARDS.
Do you have a problem nobody dares to touch? Tell us briefly, we will let you know whether it is a good fit for an AI hackathon.