Clocked Build Challenge: Online AI Hackathon ($2,000 in prizes)
Hosted by Neal Conway
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Clocked’s free, three-week online build challenge will run October 21–November 10, 2026, inviting solo developers and teams to create a working app using at least one Clocked LLM API endpoint. Participants will compete for $2,000 in prizes across app-building, security, verification, and community-choice categories, with up to 20,000 free API credits available.
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IMPORTANT: Registering on Luma does not submit your project. Enter through the official challenge page: https://clocked.rezolve.ai/challenge
The Clocked Build Challenge is a free, three-week online hackathon by Clocked (Rezolve.ai, running October 21 to November 10, 2026. Entries close November 10 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time, and winners are announced November 18.
Build a new working app that meaningfully uses at least one Clocked endpoint. Clocked is an LLM API that decides, extracts and fills structured outputs, and it also covers PII protection, prompt-injection detection, script inspection, grounding checks, document comparison and reranking.
Prizes ($2,000 in cash)
- Best Overall App: $600
- - Best Use of Decide / Extract / Fill: $400
- - Best Use of Protect / Guard / Inspect: $400
- - Best Use of Verify / Compare / Rerank: $400
- - People's Choice (LinkedIn): $200
Free credits: a new Clocked account includes 4,000 credits. Redeem the code CLOCKEDHACKATHON for 16,000 more (20,000 total).
Solo builders and teams of any size, any language or stack. You'll need a demo and a public repo. Must be 18+; location and other restrictions apply.
Full rules: https://clocked.rezolve.ai/build-challenge/rules
API docs: https://clocked.rezolve.ai/docs
Questions: clocked@clocked.rezolve.ai
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