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Beat The ClockAgent Hack

Build an agent that runs end-to-end. Form a team, pick a track, and ship a 60-second recorded demo in two hours.

This page preserves the original hackathon homebase: schedule, tracks, starter repos, resources, and submission details from the May 26 sprint at Wayfair HQ.

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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.

5:00 PM

Doors open

Meet other Boston engineers at Wayfair.

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

Some shortlisted teams presented live; with time running short, judges also leaned on recorded demos.

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 — $3,000 in credits for the grand prize winner.

Hack briefing

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 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.

Next steps

Form a team of 1-3 hackers. No larger teams; we want more interesting entries.
Pick one of the three challenge tracks.
Use the 2-hour sprint to create a 60-second recorded demo.
The judges' top 10-15 teams were shortlisted from recorded submissions.

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 fast with a coding agent: Claude Code, Codex, OpenHands, Lovable, Base44, LangSmith, or whatever helps you move quicky.
With 20 minutes left, start to prepare how you'll demo the project to hit the deadline.

Challenges

Three tracks grounded in real problems.

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

Review summarizer that turns thousands of product reviews into concise buyer guidance.
Gift finder agent for housewarming, nursery, or office setups with ranked recommendations.
Style quiz agent that builds a room profile from photos, budget, and layout constraints.
Browser agent that compares sofas, delivery windows, and return policies across categories.
Checkout recovery agent that resolves the exact question blocking purchase completion.
Accessibility-aware shopping helper filtering by dimensions, clearance, and assembly needs.

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

Damage claim agent that reads photos, manifests, and carrier notes.
Delivery exception agent that reschedules shipments and communicates customer options.
Negotiation agent gathering missing information before a routing decision.
Returns disposition agent choosing warehouse, liquidation, donation, or refurb paths.
An agent to support buyer returns workflow
Exception handling agent reconciling partial shipments against open PO lines.

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

Customer service background agent enriching tickets with order and shipment context.
Contract clause scanner ranking risky terms for finance or legal review.
Refund eligibility agent combining return policy, delivery status, and payment records.
SaaS spend anomaly detector with reasoning across a month of receipts.
Warranty claim assistant gathering photos, serial numbers, and resolution options.
Policy Q&A agent answering finance and service questions with cited internal docs.

Suggestion: Spend time building a scenario so your demo feels real. Sample documents to parse, a webapp to traverse, or a database with dummy data. One teammate can build the scenario while the others build the agent.

Repos

Open a starter, then start sprinting.

Pick a starter repo, wire up the tools, and keep your demo path short.

iPhone

Build an iPhone app using a model downloaded on your phone

Signup on subconscious.dev and go to "Local Devices" to download the binary.

Get started

Webapp

Build a webapp that kicks off and manages agents

Open repo

Cloudflare Workers Agent

Deploy an agent on Cloudflare Workers

Open repo

CLI

Build a CLI agent to quickly prototype what's possible

Open repo

More resources

Useful links for the sprint.

Additional resources we think could be useful while you build.

Subconscious skill

Use Subconscious with any existing agent

Already building with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or another coding agent? Add the Subconscious skill and wire our API into your existing workflow.

What is a skill? A skill is a small package of instructions, tools, and context you install into a coding agent. It teaches the agent how to work with a specific platform so you do not have to copy docs into every prompt or explain the basics from scratch.

Run this in your project to add the Subconscious skill:

npx skills add https://github.com/subconscious-systems/skills --skill subconscious-dev

View the skills repo on GitHub

Submit by 7:45 PM

Ship it in front of everyone.

Teams submitted 60-second recorded demos by 7:45 PM. Judges shortlisted a top 15; live stage time was limited, so not every shortlisted team presented to the room.

Grand prize

$3,000 in credits

$1,000 in Subconscious credits
$2,000 in Baseten platform credits

Submit your project

How you win

Completeness. Does it actually work?
Usefulness. Does it solve the challenge?
Creativity. How far out of the box did you think?
Showmanship. How clear was your story and demo?

Demo requirements

Only reviewed component is a demo (record via Loom at loom.com).
Top teams may be asked to present live if time allows.
Clearly explain the trigger, the tooling, the logic, and the outcomes.