Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon

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You bring the idea. Build the AI that makes it happen.

The Challenge

Build Your AI Co-Founder is a hackathon where you build and ship a company with a founding team of 2–4 co-founders, combining humans and AI.

Every team must have at least one human and one AI co-founder. You decide the rest—including who takes which role, what you build, and how your founding team works together.

AI co-founders can take any role: CEO, CTO, Product, Marketing, Sales, Research, or anything your company needs.

The goal is to experience what it means to build a real company with AI as part of the founding team—from idea to execution to a shipped product.

Build the Product challenge using Emergent

Using Emergent, build and ship a functional app or MVP for a real-world problem. Your product should be something real people can use and should demonstrate how your human–AI founding team turns an idea into a working company.

The focus is on execution: build a useful product, validate it with real users, and show what your AI co-founder contributed to the journey from idea to launch.

Optional Tracks

Build It: Launch the Business

Turn your idea into a launch-ready business. Your AI co-founder helps with research, permits, costs, suppliers, branding, operations, and the launch plan.

Fund It: Raise Capital

Prepare your company to raise funding. Your AI co-founder researches investors, finds the right fit, builds fundraising materials, and helps manage outreach.

Sell It: Get Customers

Get your first customers. Your AI co-founder identifies prospects, researches them, creates personalized outreach, and supports the sales process.

Grow It: Acquire Users

Build a repeatable growth engine. Your AI co-founder helps define your audience, develop positioning, test channels, run experiments, and measure results.

Make It: Build the Product

Turn an idea or problem into a working product. Your AI co-founder helps validate the problem, define the MVP, design the experience, build, test, and iterate.

Run It: Operate the Business

Make your business run better. Your AI co-founder helps improve processes across scheduling, customers, team coordination, reporting, inventory, and automation.

Choose your own

How It Comes Together

The company is up to you. The co-founders are up to you. The roles are up to you. The track defines what you want to accomplish. For example:

Company is AI bookkeeping platform. Co-founders are Human CEO + Human CTO + AI Product + AI Sales
Track is Sell It. Build the product, find potential customers, run outreach, and aim to secure the first paying customers.

Company is AI travel startup. Co-founders are Human Product Lead + AI CEO + AI Growth. Track is Grow It. Build the product, define the target audience, launch growth experiments, and acquire the first users.

Company is Developer productivity tool. Co-founders are Human CTO + AI Product + AI Marketing. Track is Make It. Validate the problem, build the MVP, test it with developers, and ship a working product.

Choose your company. Build your founding team. Pick your mission. Then go build.

We are currently looking for sponsors and partners to support our initiative. Please email events@crewbasecollective or saurabhskhire@gmail.com for details