about this event
On Saturday, October 10, Dwelly is hosting its first hackathon in central London, with Anthropic, ElevenLabs, General Catalyst, and EQT joining as partners. Twenty teams, chosen from a pool of applicants, will spend a full day building AI agents that can survive real operational chaos.
We're looking for agents that hold up in the parts of business that still run on phone calls, messages, paperwork, and human judgment. Teams will connect their agents to real tools and workflows, handle ambiguity and exceptions, keep a human in the loop where it matters, and show measurable value by the end of the day.
Every team works with a real-world operational problem and a set of synthetic data to build from. You choose your scope, build your agent, and then we test it against that same data, calls, emails, documents, CRM records, maintenance tickets, and compliance cases, to see if it actually holds up. Each team picks a track, takes a case from first contact to a verified outcome, and shows us what they've built.
Tracks — Insurance Claims Processing, Property Management, Banking & Financial Services, Delivery & Logistics.
Award Categories — Best Real-World AI Agent, Best Voice AI Agent, Best Autonomous Operations Agent, Best Exception Handling, People's Choice.
Prizes — A Grand Prize plus category prizes, with a total pool of £20k. Winners also get AI credits, office hours with our partners, a shot at investor demo access, and a place in a public project gallery. The strongest teams may go on to a real pilot with Dwelly.
Team size — Teams of 2–5 people. Don't have a team yet? That's fine — come to the pre-event networking to form one on the day, or apply as a solo participant and we'll help you find teammates.
Registration — Every team member registers individually (not just the lead).
The day — 9:00am: meet and greet; 9:30am: onboarding; 10:00am to 5:00pm: building; 5:00pm to 7:00pm: demos, judges deliberate, winners announced. Food, drinks, and conversation throughout.
We cover everything: food, drinks, tables, seating, power, WiFi, tool tokens, synthetic data, and frameworks. You just build.
Invite only. Places are strictly limited and each application to join is reviewed individually. We hope to see you there!
tracks
Insurance Claims Processing
Build an AI agent that handles insurance claims from first contact to verified outcome.
Property Management
Build an AI agent that handles property management operational workflows.
Banking & Financial Services
Build an AI agent for banking and financial services operations.
Delivery & Logistics
Build an AI agent that manages delivery and logistics operations.
schedule
London AI Hackathon: AI Transformation of Services
9:00am meet and greet; 9:30am onboarding; 10:00am to 5:00pm building; 5:00pm to 7:00pm demos, judges deliberate, winners announced. Food, drinks, and conversation throughout.
◍ Londonprizes
| Place | Prize | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Prize | Part of £20k prize pool | £20,000 |
| Category Prizes | AI credits, office hours with partners, investor demo access, place in public project gallery |