Build AI tools to support small businesses
Kick off Seattle AI Week with a social impact hackathon sponsored by Anthropic and organized by your Seattle City Ambassador Adam Burgh (Founder of We Build With AI).
The Claude Impact Lab Hackathon is a one-day build sprint, sponsored by Anthropic in collaboration with the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA). Teams of three or five spend the day building apps, workflows, and playbooks that help small businesses put AI to work. Everything built is open-sourced on GitHub and available for small business to implement!
Who this is for
Every team combines three kinds of people:
A small business owner or executive who brings a real problem
Experienced professionals (3+ years full-time), at least one technical
A current student or recent grad
You don't need to be a developer to participate, but all teams will have at least one expert in agentic coding and multi-person GitHub repos.
What you get
$100 in Claude API credits for every participant
A working project on your GitHub, built with your team
Winning team: Claude Max 20x for one month ($200 value per person), tickets to the #SeattleAIWeek AI Summit courtesy of WTIA, and a one year WTIA membership
How it works
Teams form at the happy hour the evening before, or we match you into one when you arrive on Sunday
About seven hours of build time. Nothing pre-built, so every team starts level
Submissions are a repo link plus a demo recording
Two rounds of judging: preliminary round followed by finalists presenting on stage
Admission
Registration is an application, not first-come. After you complete your registration, look out for an email from Luma to your registered email with a link to a short survey. Completing it improves your chances and helps us build balanced teams.
Team formation happy hour
Saturday, October 24, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Admitted participants will receive a separate Luma invite.
Optional, but highly encouraged. Drinks and light snacks. Meet the other p