Hackathon Challenge Finder

Finds the challenge that can genuinely be built in one or two days.

Not every problem suits a hackathon. The finder filters ideas by data availability, scope and impact and surfaces the three strongest candidates.

Start Company Hackathon

How to use it

Step 01

Collect ideas

Write down everything that costs time.

Step 02

Check the data

No available data, no prototype.

Step 03

Cut the scope

Reduce to one flow with a clear ending.

Step 04

Pick candidates

Three challenges, one backup per team.

How it works

Every idea is checked for data availability, scope, impact and ownership. Ideas without an owner drop out — they do not survive the hackathon.

What you end up with

  • Scored idea list
  • Three challenge briefs
  • Data requirements per challenge

How it compares

FeatureThis free toolConsultantDoing it yourself
PriceFree€5,000–20,000Weeks of internal work
Time to resultUnder 20 minutes2–6 weeksUnclear
Tailored to your contextYes, against your backlogYesPartly
Usable in the team right awayYesAfter handoverRarely

Who it is for

Organisers

Must know before the date what will be built.

Business units

Bring real problems instead of demo ideas.

IT

Sees early which access is needed.

Popular use cases

01 · Use case

Prepare Spark

One strong challenge for a single day.

02 · Use case

Plan Ignite

Cut parallel teams cleanly.

03 · Use case

Clean the backlog

Separate what is automatable from the rest.

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We run this tool live with your team and turn the result into working prototypes.

Client voices

What teams say after the week

Short feedback from hackathons with engineering, marketing, operations and leadership teams.

Our engineers built a code-review assistant in two days that the whole team still uses. No training ever did that.
Engineering leadNavVis
The whole agency was building. Marketers with zero coding background shipped content pipelines that saved real hours.
Managing directorYOYABA
Procurement workflows that used to sit on a roadmap were prototyped and demoed inside the same week.
Head of operationsOnventis
Our leadership cohort left with five working agents and a completely different sense of what AI can do for us.
Programme ownerAdobe cohort

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