#BosTechWeek at Wayfair HQ

Beat The ClockAgent Hack

Build an agent that runs end-to-end. It should be more than a chatbot: know the trigger, the loop, the model, the tools, and the job it gets done.

Format

Teams of 1-3 hackers. Build for 2 hours, submit a 60-second recorded demo, and be ready for a 90-second live demo if selected.

Advice

Spend 10-15 minutes aligning on one sharp idea, then pick a starter repo and get moving. With 20 minutes left, start shaping the demo.

Pick a track Event page

Mission clock

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Syncing the event clock...

Date: Tuesday, May 26
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Location: Wayfair Office in Boston
Address: 4 Copley Place, Boston, MA

Run of show

Sprint schedule.

We are excited for everyone to be here. The kickoff is short: welcome the room, introduce the sponsors, explain what counts as an agent, and get everyone building fast.

5:30 PM

Intro to the hack

A 15-minute kickoff to welcome everyone, introduce the sponsors, and show the companies represented in the room.

5:45 PM

HACK!

The 2-hour hack starts now. Form teams, pick a track, and get moving.

6:15-6:30 PM

Food arrives

Grab food and keep building.

7:30 PM

Last call

Start recording and submitting your project.

7:45 PM

Submission deadline

Submit a 60-second recorded demo. Judges pick the top 10-15 teams.

8:00 PM

Top teams present

Selected teams give a live 90-second demo for everyone.

8:11 PM

Sunset in Boston

Great view from up top.

8:20 PM

Judges circle up

Judges pick track winners and the grand champion.

8:30 PM

Winners crowned

Track winners and grand champion announced.

Hack briefing

More than a chatbot.

An agent is a system with a goal, a set of tools, and enough loop logic to get the job done. It is more than a chatbot.

Trigger

How the agent starts: on a schedule, on a button click, or from an event.

Agent loop

The logic for what happens next, including decisions, retries, and stopping conditions.

Model

The intelligence that powers the reasoning and generation.

Tools

The APIs, browsers, code execution, data, or workflows the agent can access.

Companies

Every corner of AI is covered.

Infrastructure, open model agents, edge tooling, and real-world enterprise problems are all in the room tonight.

Company 01

Baseten

AI infrastructure

Serving AI models for thousands of AI companies including Cursor, Clay, Lovable, and Notion. Baseten is the software on top of hundreds of thousands of GPUs that allows those products to exist.

Company 02

Subconscious

Open model agents

An AI lab making open models extraordinary and helping developers build reliable agents with open models. Subconscious improves models with additional training and runs them on a novel inference runtime that caches tokens and compresses information efficiently, with a focus on small language models.

Company 03

Cloudflare

Tooling for agents

Execute code fast with dynamic Workers, run inference at the edge, drive a browser, and generate images, audio, and video with Replicate. All in one place.

Company 04

Wayfair

Putting it together

Wayfair manages millions of customers, billions in revenue, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of furniture shipped around the world every week. They are aggressively adopting AI across shopping, supply chain, customer service, and financial operations.

Speaker slots

Keynotes and overviews.

Placeholder sections for the sponsor slides before hacking begins.

Hongyin

Subconscious keynote

Placeholder for slides explaining the new metrics.

Dana

Subconscious model sizing

Placeholder for slides explaining model sizing.

Harrison

Baseten overview

Placeholder for the Baseten intro.

Laura

Wayfair overview

Placeholder for the Wayfair intro.

Next steps

Form a team of 1-3 hackers. No larger teams; we want more interesting entries.
Pick one of the three challenge tracks.
Learn more at hack.subconscious.dev.
Use the 2-hour sprint to create a 60-second recorded demo.
The top 10-15 teams will be asked to do a live 90-second demo.

Advice for hackers

Spend 10-15 minutes ideating and getting aligned on what you want to build.
Pick a starter repo as your starting point.
Experiment and build with a coding agent: Claude Code, Codex, OpenHands, Lovable, Base44, LangSmith, or whatever helps you move fast.
With 20 minutes left, start thinking about how to present the project in a way that matters.

Resources

Use the unfair advantages in the room.

Credits, infrastructure, models, and domain experts are available during the sprint. Pick the shortest path to a working demo.

Resource 01

Starter repos and recommended agent harnesses.

Resource 02

Subconscious API credits and mobile model access.

Resource 03

Cloudflare infrastructure for hosting and multimodal tools.

Resource 04

Wayfair SMEs on site to pressure-test what would actually be useful.

Challenges

Three tracks grounded in reality.

These are Wayfair-shaped problems. Pick a track, make the agent work end-to-end, and keep the story crisp enough for a 60-second recorded demo.

Agents for Customers

Tens of millions of customers buy furniture every day, and millions visit the Wayfair website. How can agents improve discovery and the buyer experience?

Challenge

Build an agent that improves the consumer discovery and shopping experience for furniture.

Hack ideas

Ad generators and recommendation agents for email or visual campaigns.
Browser agents that traverse the Wayfair website.
Room mockup generators with automatic improvement loops.
Personalized websites with agents executing transactions behind the scenes.

Tooling angle: Browser control, recommendation loops, multimodal generation.

Agents for Supply Chain

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of furniture are shipped around the world by Wayfair and its vast network of suppliers. How can agents manage this complex supply chain?

Challenge

Build an agent that improves Wayfair's ability to manage its supply chain.

Hack ideas

Disruption replanning from a port closure event and 50 inbound shipments.
Returns disposition: warehouse, liquidation, donation, or another outcome.
Multi-turn negotiation with a customer to gather missing information before deciding.

Tooling angle: Exception handling, dashboards, workflow automation.

Agents for Customer Service and FinOps

Wayfair manages roughly $12B of revenue and interacts with 22M customers every year. How can agentic systems better manage financial operations and customer service?

Challenge

Build an agent system that improves financial operations or customer service.

Hack ideas

Spend anomaly detector for a month of SaaS receipts, with reasoning.
Customer service background agent working alongside a simple chatbot.
Meeting-to-action-items agent with owners, deadlines, and draft Slack messages.
Contract red-flag scanner that ranks clauses to push back on.

Tooling angle: Document reasoning, background agents, policy and finance workflows.

Repos

Open a starter, then start sprinting.

Starter repos will be linked here for each track. Clone your track, wire up the tools, and keep your demo path short.

Customers

Consumer shopping starter repo

Soon

Placeholder link for now. Drop in the final repo URL in lib/event.ts.

Supply Chain

Supply chain starter repo

Soon

Placeholder link for now. Drop in the final repo URL in lib/event.ts.

FinOps + CS

FinOps and customer service starter repo

Soon

Placeholder link for now. Drop in the final repo URL in lib/event.ts.

Submit by 7:45 PM

Ship it in front of everyone.

Teams need a 60-second recorded demo by 7:45 PM. The top 10-15 teams will give a live 90-second demo for everyone.

Google Form coming soon

How you win

Speed to submission: the earlier before 7:45 PM, the more points you bank.
Completeness: does it actually work?
Usefulness: does it solve a real problem?
Creativity: how far out of the box did you think?

Demo requirements

Runs end-to-end.
Submits a 60-second recorded demo by 7:45 PM.
Selected top teams give a live 90-second demo.
Clearly explains trigger, tooling, data access, and outcome.

Come if you are

Software engineers experimenting with agent infrastructure.
Early-career developers who build on nights and weekends.
Non-technical operators who know how to wield Claude Code.