Code while we cruise.
Building, bowling, beer, sunset cruise. $50K credits and a DGX Spark for the winner.
Countdown · submissions close June 14, 5:00 PM PT
Schedule
Countdown to June 14.
Forty builders. One day on the bay.
The hackathon is mostly remote. The boat day is the celebration — and the finals.
- 01Now → June 14
Build remotely
Counting down to June 14. Daily developer support online and in person. Sponsor credits and APIs available from day one.
- 02Anytime → June 14
Post on X & LinkedIn
Post your build on X or LinkedIn and tag us. AI judges review every submission. Want a deeper read? Schedule a live demo with human judges any time before the 14th.
- 03June 13
Finalists announced
Finalists named the night before. Twenty-four hours to polish your pitch and pack a jacket for the bay.
- 04June 14
Boat day
Bay crossing, a full day of hacking, an open kayak race on the water, sunset cruise, dinner at a waterfront restaurant, demos, judging, after-party on the yacht.
Finalist perks
Make the finals, win the boat day.
Only the best of the best earn the trip. Six experience perks on the house, plus the build stack (that one's available to every builder from day one). Win the whole thing and you walk the plank.
Sunset cruise
Two hours on the bay aboard an 89-foot yacht. The calmest networking time you will ever have.
Free bowling
Bowling lanes are part of the takeover. Strikes between commits, frame counters by the pizza.
Amazing food
Real meals all day — lunch at HQ, dinner at a waterfront restaurant. No pizza fatigue.
Coffee on tap
Tickets you can redeem any time you need to walk and think. Locally roasted, ten minutes from the dock.
Kayak race
Open-water sprint between the dock and the yacht's mooring. Builders, judges, sponsors — anyone can paddle. Winning team takes a bonus prize.
After-party on the yacht
Boat stays docked. Top deck, hot tub running, sunset still in your eyes — and someone always brings a bottle.
And the build stack
- Nebius Token Factory keys through the June 14 deadline
- Nebius GPU credits for inference & deploy
- OpenClaw runtime ready to install
- Composio + Tavily API access for the day
Developer Support
Stuck? We're online every day until June 14.
Daily developer support — online and in person — through June 14, plus always-on help in the sponsor Discords. Drop in, ask anything, ship faster.
Developer advocates
Full-stack help: getting the SDKs running, code review, debugging your agent loop end-to-end.
Solution architects
Architecture sanity-check: how to wire compute, agent tools, and search for what you're actually trying to build.
Field engineers
When something's broken at the edge. They live in the issue tracker so you don't have to.
Get unblocked
Daily through June 14 — online plus in person across SF, plus the sponsor Discords for any-hour blockers.
The boat
Meet the yacht.
80 feet of motor yacht docked at the marina. Five staterooms, six heads, hot tub on the top deck, and a main salon big enough to host the cruise crowd.
- 80 ft
- Length
- 20 ft
- Beam
- 5
- Staterooms
- 1979
- Built · Long Beach
Sponsors & organizers
Build something real.
Each sponsor is an organizer — their teams are on the boat, in the room with builders, and judging at the end. Bring an idea, leave with credits and a working agent.
Compute & Token Factory
AI cloud built for builders. GPU instances, Token Factory inference, and Nebius Serverless deploys. Every team gets credits and Token Factory keys ready to go.
Agent tools & integrations
Connect your agent — or any AI — to Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, and 1,000+ more apps through MCP or a direct API. Auth, function schemas, and tool-calling already wired.
Search & web extraction for agents
Real-time search API tuned for LLMs. Clean, ranked, citable results plus structured web extraction — the retrieval layer for any agent that needs to know what just happened on the internet.
Technology stack
Open agent runtime
The open-source framework you build on. Local-first install, ships to Nebius Serverless in one command, and plays nicely with Composio and Tavily out of the box. Bring an agent, leave with something deployed.
The rubric
Five axes. No surprises.
Every judge — AI and human — scores against the same five-axis rubric (v1). The rubric is public so you can build to it.
Working demo
Weight
0–10
Does it actually run end-to-end? Boot, login, the loop, output. Broken demos get 0; smooth flows get 10.
Integration depth
Weight
0–10
How deeply you use the stack — Composio tools, Tavily search, Nebius inference, the OpenClaw runtime. One API call is 2; meaningful integration across services is 8+.
Usefulness
Weight
0–10
Would a real person pay for this? Clear use case, sharp problem, plausible distribution. Toy demos cap around 5; product-shaped builds clear 8.
Code quality
Weight
0–5
Readable, structured, deployable. AI judges read every file. Bonus points for tests, clear README, sane error handling.
Pitch + story
Weight
0–5
Boat day only. Can you explain what it does and why anyone should care in 90 seconds? Specificity beats slogans every time.
Each judge scores only the axes they grade (AI: demo + usefulness + code; sponsors: demo + integration; investors: usefulness + pitch). Their score is normalized to 0–10, then composite = (AI × 0.4) + (Sponsor × 0.4) + (Investor × 0.2). Public leaderboard goes live June 13 with the finalists.
Finals day · June 14
Cruise from South Beach. Hack all day. Demos at dinner.
The boat day is for the finalists. Bay crossing, a full day of heads-down hacking at HQ, final presentations before the sunset cruise, dinner at a waterfront restaurant where winners are announced, after-party on the docked yacht. Times are firm — the boat doesn't wait.
- 9:00 AMDepart by yachtSouth Beach, SF
- 10:30 AMDock + coffee + heads-down hackingHackathon HQ
- 11:00 AMLunch + build sprintHackathon HQ
- 1:00 PMHacking · bowling · arcadeHackathon HQ
- 3:00 PMCoffee breakHackathon HQ
- 3:30 PMKayak race · open to everyoneThe waterfront
- 4:30 PMFinal presentationsHackathon HQ
- 6:00 – 8:00 PMSunset cruise · celebrationOn the bay
- 8:15 PMDinner · winners announcedWaterfront restaurant
- 9:30 PMWinner walks the plankBack at the dock
- LateAfter-party on the yachtDocked yacht
Logistics
Things to know before you board.
How do I apply?
Post something you've built and tag @ship_builders @nebiusai @composio @tavilyai @openclaw. That's the whole application — no essay, no resume.
What's the format?
Solo or teams up to 4. Build remotely with daily developer support, submit your GitHub repo by June 14.
How does scoring work?
AI judges read every repo and pick the finalists by June 14. On June 14 your score blends 40% AI, 40% sponsors, 20% investors — all on the rubric above.
What happens on June 14?
Heads-down hacking at HQ all day. Kayak race, final presentations, sunset cruise, dinner, winner announced — $50K credits and a DGX Spark — after-party on the yacht.
What does "walking the plank" mean?
Exactly what it sounds like. The winner walks the plank off the yacht into the water. Towels and a hot tub on standby.
What if I can't make it to the boat?
Build remotely and skip the boat — submissions still count. Make the cut but can't travel? We'll set up a land route for your final presentation.
What should I bring on June 14?
Laptop, charger, a jacket for the cruise. Power, Wi-Fi, and our own Starlink at HQ. No hardware projects this time.
Drinks?
Self-pay at the venues. BYOB on the boat. After-party drinks on the yacht — sponsors' tab.
Boat day June 14
Counting down to June 14. Forty finalists. One walk off the plank.
Post something you built, tag @ship_builders @nebiusai @composio @tavilyai @openclaw, and we'll see it. Submissions close June 14. Finalists announced June 13. Boat leaves South Beach at 9 AM June 14.