AI hackathons for HR and people teams
Give your team more capability, not another login.
You've watched technical teams get the tools and the budget. Now it's your turn.
Non-technical teams historically haven't had access to technical talent the way engineering has.
What a hackathon is
Your folks sit down together and step away from the day-to-day. You learn how to use AI on the everyday problems already on your desk.
Non-technical teams haven't had access to technical talent the way engineering has. AI changes that. A hackathon is hands-on time building actual software for your own work.
Think of the person who copies a candidate out of the ATS, into a spreadsheet, then into the last place it needs to go. An internal tool can do that handoff. A large software company isn't going to build it. A group, in a room, with support, can try.
What it has looked like
At AC Brands, an operations group spent a few days on their own work. They left more able to see where AI could help, and they had a first version of a support workflow they could keep using.
“I went from knowing very little about how AI tools could be leveraged in my day to day to actively thinking about different automations that could be used to save us time.”
What teams build
A few small, ordinary things a day can produce:
An interview scheduling helper
Paste in three interviewers and a candidate, and it finds the open slots across everyone's calendars so nobody plays email tag for a week.
A pipeline health dashboard
One screen that shows where candidates are stalling and flags any role that has been open too long, so your standup starts with facts instead of guesses.
A req intake form
A short form that makes a hiring manager give recruiters what they actually need before a role opens, so kickoff isn't a guessing game about level, budget, and must-haves.
An onboarding plan generator
A manager picks a role and start date and gets a ready-to-edit 30-60-90 day plan, so your team stops rebuilding one from scratch for every hire.
A “just ask the handbook” search box
Drop in your policy and benefits docs, and anyone can ask a question like “how many PTO days carry over?” and get the answer with a link to the source. The same questions stop landing in one person's inbox.
A survey comment summarizer
Paste in hundreds of open-text engagement survey responses and get them grouped into clear themes with example quotes, so a wall of text becomes a slide you can bring to leadership.