Tech companies
Put your product in builders’ hands, win adopters, meet future hires and gather feedback that actually bites.
Challenge Programmes
Buildathonin-a-Box
Hand your real challenges to the region’s builders and see what comes back. One playbook for running world-class buildathons anywhere in the Caribbean — and beyond.
Why run a buildathon
Don’t just talk about innovation. Put it to work.
Bring real challenges to the table, give talented builders the tools to tackle them, and see what becomes possible in days — not months.
Discover What’s Possible
Connect with emerging talent, fresh perspectives, and people who can turn your business challenges into practical solutions.
- Discover builders with skills your organisation needs
- Explore new ideas and approaches to real problems
- Identify promising solutions worth developing further
Activate Your People
Give your teams the structure, support, and space to experiment with AI and solve problems together.
- Turn AI knowledge into hands-on experience
- Move ideas from discussion to working prototypes
- Bring teams across departments together
- Identify internal talent and opportunities for innovation
Create What Comes Next
Use the buildathon as a starting point for solutions that can be tested, refined, and taken further.
- Test concepts against real-world needs
- Evaluate working prototypes, not just presentations
- Identify solutions with potential for deployment
- Build a pathway from experimentation to implementation
Who it’s for
Made for every kind of organiser.
Governments & public bodies
Channel local talent at national priorities and public-service challenges.
Non-profits & NGOs
Run mission-driven builds and civic buildathons powered by volunteers.
Universities & communities
Hand students and members a real challenge, real teams and real judging — in a single weekend.
Investors & accelerators
Spot founders by what they ship, then follow them all the way to demo day.
Enterprises
Level up teams and run internal sprints that end in working systems, not slide decks.
What’s in the box
Everything the box holds.
Pick the parts you need — we run them beside you, or take them off your hands entirely.
Advisory & Experts
Mentors, domain specialists and technical reviewers on call while your teams build.
Compute & Hardware Add-ons
GPU time, cloud credits and hardware access for builds that need real processing power.
Event Operations
Scheduling, check-ins, participant communications and live-day running, handled end to end.
Templates & Resources
Challenge briefs, run-of-show, judging rubrics and participant guides, ready to edit.
Developer Tools
Repositories, sandboxes and starter kits so builders are building from the first hour.
Marketing & Outreach
Campaigns and partner promotion that fill your event with the right builders and guests.
AI Tools & Models
Curated models and inference access, configured and ready for challenge work.
APIs & Integrations
Ways to plug your own systems, data and services into what gets built — safely.
Community & Support
A staffed channel where questions get answered while the clock is still running.
Judging & Evaluation
Rubrics, judge recruitment and scoring that produces results you can defend.
Analytics & Reporting
Participation, output and impact data captured through the event and after it.
OS (Operating System)
The playbook and platform that ties every other part of the programme together.
How it works
Sign-up to impact report, all under one roof.
01
Set it up
Challenge brief, application screening, team formation and partner onboarding — all done before day one.
02
Run it
Live check-ins and updates, mentoring, and judging with clear rubrics and fast results.
03
Capture the value
An impact report, a record of every builder and project, and a route to take winning work further.
Packages
One clear package per event.
Pick the size that fits. Free for students and registered non-profits on request.
For small groups
Community
Pricing on request
- Up to 60 builders
- 3 days · 1 challenge track
- Challenge brief template
- Judging & prize tools
Most popular
Standard
Pricing on request
- Unlimited builders
- 5 days · up to 3 tracks
- Everything in Community
- Co-organising support
- Results data export
Multi-day events
Scale
Pricing on request
- Unlimited builders
- 1 week · unlimited tracks
- Everything in Standard
- Planning call & priority support
- Impact report
Tailored partnership
Enterprise
Pricing on request
- 3 weeks · custom size
- Multi-event packages
- Everything in Scale
- Dedicated programme team
- Commercialisation pathway
Add-on: Marketing boost
We help pack your event with the right builders and bring partners to the table.
Add-on: Co-managed event
Our team runs it beside you — or takes the lead and manages the whole thing.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
So what exactly is in the box?
Everything you need to host a buildathon around your own challenges — the brief, the builders, the judging and the follow-through, handled together with you.
How hands-on do we need to be?
As much or as little as you want. Follow our playbook and tools yourself, or hand the reins to our team to co-manage or fully lead the event.
Can it be online, hybrid or in person?
All three work. Host it on one campus, run it across several islands at the same time, or go fully remote.
Who owns what gets built?
Ownership is written into the challenge terms before anyone starts building, so there are no surprises later.
Can we make this a series instead of a one-off?
Absolutely. Each event grows your pool of builders, partners and ideas — a series compounds everything.
Start with one event. Build something that compounds.
Every buildathon leaves you with talent, relationships and proof you can build on.