A team building together on the Luminous hackathon day

AI Hackathon · The AI Accelerator

Learn in the morning. Solve real problems with AI by 5pm.

A competitive, fully facilitated one-day event for your whole team. The morning is training: prompts, tools, exercises and data safety. The afternoon is a competition to build the best AI solution to business challenges we create with you, with a prize at the end.

One day, and the whole company has done it, rather than talked about it. Most teams leave with several real problems already solved and a queue of people wanting to learn, and try more.

From £6,750

One day, in person, for your whole team. Excludes VAT.

How one AI Hackathon empowered a whole business

What does a hackathon actually feel like?

See the team at Luminous during their day below.

An example AI Hackathon timeline - how the day goes

Learn in the morning. Build in the afternoon.

09:30

09:30

Arrive and coffee

Arrive and coffee

Laptops open, tools logged in. No slides.

Laptops open, tools logged in. No slides.

10:00

10:00

AI Overview

AI Overview

What even is AI? Data safety, guardrails, tool demo's, hands on exercises.

What even is AI? Data safety, guardrails, tool demo's, hands on exercises.

11:30

11:30

Prompting

Prompting

3 prompt frameworks that apply to any business problem.

3 prompt frameworks that apply to any business problem.

12:30

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Big AI challenges need big human energy to solve them.

Big AI challenges need big human energy to solve them.

13:15

13:15

Build

Build

Building solutions, in teams, with Artificia1 trainers helping.

Building solutions, in teams, with Artificia1 trainers helping.

15:45

15:45

Show & Tell

Show & Tell

Each team shows what works. A prize for the best.

Each team shows what works. A prize for the best.

16:00

16:00

Handed back

Handed back

Prompts, workflows, agents - all handed back with our input; ready to go the following day.

Prompts, workflows, agents - all handed back with our input; ready to go the following day.

Example timeline. We build the day to each clients individual needs.

What do we include in an AI Hackathon?

Everything in the price. Nothing bolted on later.

We provide everything on a fixed price basis; no hidden nasties, no unexpected surprises.

A morning of learning: prompts, tools, tips, usage and data safety

An afternoon of using AI to solve your chosen business challenges

A competition among your teams, with a prize for the best solution

Fully facilitated, in person, with our team coaching each group live

Your challenges and preferred tools agreed with you before the day

Every solution and idea captured and handed back afterwards

A day in pictures

What the room looks like by five o’clock

Problems actually solved

Not hypothetical use cases. Real challenges from your business, worked on by the people who own them.

A team at one level

Everyone learns the same frameworks on the same day. No pockets of experimentation, no laggards.

Momentum

In the words of one client, inspiration for people to try more. That is the point.

Stephen Butler of Luminous, filmed on the day

“Over the course of two hours we were able to automate our daily news round-up, benchmarking and gap analysis work.”

Luminous, strategic advisory and creative agency

0 day

From first slide to solutions on the wall

Questions we get asked

Before you book

How many people can take part?

The format works from around fifteen people up to a whole company of sixty or more. We scale facilitators to the room.

Which tool do we use on the day?

What kind of challenges work best?

Is it training or a team day?

What happens afterwards?

What if the teams do not finish anything?

Thirty minutes to find your quickest win

Bring your team size and the tools you already pay for. You leave with your three fastest wins written down and a straight answer on whether this is the right starting point, whether or not you hire us. No hard sell.