Nace AI Hackathon: Lead the Cambrian Explosion of AI Agents

540 million years ago, life went from blobs to everything, all at once. Agents are having that moment right now. The question is which ones will survive.

On November 14, we're spending a day in San Francisco evolving agents that don't just chat, they decide.

Your evolutionary advantages

Drex, the brain. #1 decision model on performance & latency. Any decisions in miliseconds.

NDI, the eyes. Data intelligence that parses, classifies, extracts, splits, & grounds. It turns the primordial soup of PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, & emails into data your agent can actually use.

The mission

Form a team of 1-2 builders. Feed your agent messy real-world files. Watch it evolve into something that makes grounded, explainable decisions. Natural selection happens on the main stage, judged live.

Focus Tracks:

1) Apex Predator: Drex vs. the Giants

Take a task normally handled by a frontier LLM, hand the decisions to Drex, & prove it can be faster, cheaper, or more accurate. Teams are judged on measured results & the size of the improvement.

2) Swarm Intelligence: multi-agent systems

Build systems where multiple agents coordinate, compete, or negotiate, with Drex making every agent's calls. Think traders in a simulated market, NPCs that think for themselves, or a team of agents dividing up a research task.

3) Wildcard: weirdest use of Drex

The most creative, surprising, or delightful use of Drex wins. Art, music, games, or something gloriously absurd are all fair game.

All tracks: teams that also use NDI to bring real-world documents into their build earn bonus points!

Schedule

9:30 AM Check-in & Breakfast

10:00 AM Welcome & Kickoff

10:15 - 11:15 AM Product demos from Nace AI & co-hosts

11:15 AM Rules, judges & team formation

11:30 AM Build begins

12:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM Afternoon snacks

4:30 PM Hard submission deadline

4:45 - 5:30 PM Finalist demos (5 min limit)

5:45 PM Award ceremony

6:00 - 8:00 PM Networking

Prizes

1st Mac Mini M6 | 2nd Credits | 3rd Credits

What's included

Breakfast, lunch, snacks, soft drinks all day, API credits to build with, & prizes for the teams that come out on top of the food chain.

Who should come

Developers, AI engineers, founders, & builders of every stage of evolution.

Bring: laptop, charger, & your most ambitious mutations.

Spots are limited. Don't go extinct, register now.