I don’t care what you think about AI, every company needs to run an internal AI hackathon
@beehiiv held one last week, and it was the most productive 28 hours in company history
how it worked:
> teams of 3
> 28 hours to build an internal tool or feature
> we judged it on “cool factor” and usefulness
> winning team gets $1000 each to pimp out their workspace
> 42 teams presented a 3 minute demo
the demos were genuinely the most inspiring two hours I’ve had as CEO since starting the company
every single project was ridiculously impressive. without giving away all of the secret sauce, here are some of the projects that were built:
> outbound SDR agent for enterprise sales
> deploy tracker that flags related errors, support tickets, and response time spikes
> AI-powered pricing page that explains our plans to visitors
> tool that finds our top advertisers and auto-generates case studies
rather than simply pitching ideas, we had 42 new ideas come to life with working prototypes (and some are already in production)
this is exactly why this moment in time with AI is so remarkable
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